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Sort by:     Date Added     SKU     Product Name     Price     Pages:   1 2   See details Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing SKU: BAELEM Traveling through the US, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China, Ian Buruma tells the personal stories of Chinese rebels who dare to stand up to their rulers. From the exiles of Tiananmen to the hidden Christians in rural China, he brings alive the human dimension to.... Market price: $16.95 Our price: $5.98, save 64%; In stock  See details »  See details Call of Yanan Story of the Indian Medican Mission to China 1933-1943 SKU: CAYAST Some of the most historic events in Modern Chinese history are told firsthand by foreign observers who recorded and often participated in them. These eyewitness accounts are reprints of original titles covering events from 19th century to the late 20th century. Market price: $28.95 Our price: $3.00, save 89%; In stock  See details »  See details China and the Legacy of Deng Xiaoping SKU: CHLEDE China and the Legacy of Deng Xiaoping documents a turning point in the Chinese communist revolution that elevates Deng to a role equal to that of Mao. Dr. Marti explores post-Tiananmen domestic political wrangling and offers the first documentation of Deng's efforts to link all the major.... Market price: $19.95 Our price: $5.98, save 70%; In stock  See details »  See details China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21St Century's First Great Epidemic SKU: CHSYTR In riveting and dramatic fashion, Greenfeld takes readers to the front lines of the SARS crisis and raises disturbing questions about when--and how--the world will face the next deadly (and inevitable) viral mutation. Market price: $25.95 Our price: $5.98, save 76%; In stock  See details »  See details China's Dilemma: the Taiwan Issue SKU: CHDITA The status of Taiwan has been one of the most complex and politically loaded issues facing China since the end of the Cold War. Ever since Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan's president, made his historic visit to the United States in 1995, the issue of Taiwan-Chinese relations has been at the forefront of.... Market price: $26.95 Our price: $4.98, save 81%; In stock  See details »  See details China: Ten Great Years: Statistics of the Economic & Cultural Achievements of the People's Republic of China SKU: CHTEGR Reprint of the 1960 Foreign Languages Press English compilation of the State Statistical Bureau's comprehensive charts and statistics chronicling the growth of the PRC in its first ten years, 1949-1959. An invaluable reference aid. Market price: $25.00 Our price: $4.98, save 80%; In stock  See details »  See details Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era SKU: CHFAPOMA How have the momentous policy shifts that followed the death of Mao Zedong changed families in China? What are the effects of the decollectivization of agriculture, the encouragement of limited private enterprise, and the world's strictest birth-control policy? Eleven sociologists and.... Market price: $39.95 Our price: $2.98, save 92%; Temporarily out of stock  See details »  See details Col. C.L. Chennault and Flying Tigers SKU: CHFLTI Historical account of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), better known as the “Flying Tigers”, and its maverick commander, Claire Chennault, helping China in the war against Japan. Includes a section on successful efforts in the 1990’s to locate wreckage of aircraft downed fifty years earlier.... Market price: $39.95 Our price: $17.00, save 57%; In stock  See details »  See details The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947 SKU: DRLASN This history of modern Tibet, based on unpublished primary sources and written by a Western-educated Tibetan author, overturns the image of an isolated Shangri-la removed from broader international developments. Tsering Shakya provides a detailed explanation of behind-the-scenes political.... Market price: $40.50 Our price: $7.98, save 80%; In stock  See details »  See details The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China and the Japanese Occupation SKU: FAHOKO On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years. The Japanese occupation was a turning point in the slow historical process by which the British were to be expelled from the colony and from four centuries of influence in.... Market price: $22.50 Our price: $5.98, save 73%; In stock  See details »  See details Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos SKU: FESTCH “With passion, candor and restraint, Feather in the Storm tell's a young girl's story of growing up in a violent, revolution-battered China. It reveals the terrible suffering of its people, some of whom perished and many of whom survived. This rich, unique, heartbreaking narrative is about.... Market price: $26.00 Our price: $5.98, save 77%; In stock  See details »  See details The First Chinese Democracy: Political Life in the Republic of China on Taiwan SKU: FICHDE The political transformation of Taiwan from an authoritarian regime into a democracy is one of the great political sagas of the 20th century. Defeated on the China mainland, the Kuomintang established a new polity on Taiwan that allowed for four remarkable patterns of political development..... Market price: $55.00 Our price: $4.98, save 90%; In stock  See details »  See details Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood SKU: GOBOME At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet. His father was posted there in 1952, and this memoir is his telling of that youth, a time when he had access to the corners of a colony normally closed to a “Gweilo,” a “pale fellow” like him. His experiences.... Market price: $25.95 Our price: $5.98, save 76%; In stock  See details »  See details The Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China SKU: GOGEAM At the turn of the 20th century, women represented over half of the American foreign mission force, settling in "heathen" China to preach the lessons of Christian domesticity. Historian Jane Hunter "writes better than most novelists, and has a topic more demanding and rewarding than the subjects.... Market price: $25.00 Our price: $4.98, save 80%; In stock  See details »  See details Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in A Chinese Millennial Kingdom SKU: GRPERE Great Perfection tells the story of the Ba people, and of the Li family in particular. Engaging the most recent scholarship in Western, Chinese, and Japanese languages (including archaeological and ethnic publications), the study begins in the mists of prehistory, traces the early history of the.... Market price: $39.00 Our price: $12.98, save 66%; In stock  See details »  See details Hemingway on the China Front: His WWII Spy Mission with Martha Gellhorn SKU: HECHFR Although Hemingway is famous for his forays through Africa ("Snows of Kilimanjaro") and Europe ("For Whom the Bell Tolls"), little has been previously known of his 1941 trip to Asia with war correspondent Martha Gellhorn. Enlisted as a spy, the celebrated author and Gellhorn, his third wife,.... Market price: $17.95 Our price: $4.98, save 72%; In stock  See details »  See details Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842-1913 SKU: HOKOCH This historical study traces unrest and social transformation in Hong Kong and explores how merchants, the intelligentsia and laborers played important roles in China's social and political movements from the mid-19th century until the first years of the Chinese Republic. Market price: $28.50 Our price: $4.98, save 82%; In stock  See details »  See details The Hong Kong Visitor's Book: A Historical Who's Who SKU: HOKOVI Over the years, the eclectic East and West influences of Hong Kong has turned it into a colony of unprecedented excitement. From legendary poet Han Yu, President Ulysses S. Grant, authors Rudyard Kipling and George Bernard Shaw to pop singer Madonna, this book details a range of exciting people.... Our price: $12.95; In stock  See details »  See details The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth SKU: LOMATR Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March. In 1934, the fledgling Communist Party and its armies of 200,000 were forced out of their bases by Chiang Kai-shek and his National troops. Walking thousands of miles over mountains, grassland and swamps, they.... Market price: $26.00 Our price: $5.98, save 77%; Temporarily out of stock  See details »  See details The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin SKU: MAWHCH Offering a fascinating inside view of Chinese history, society, economics, politics, and international relations, Jiang's story is the story of modern China itself--70 tumultuous years of deprivation, revolution, social disruptions, and economic resurgence. Market price: $35.00 Our price: $9.98, save 71%; In stock  See details »

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