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1421: The Year China Discovered America 1421: The Year China Discovered America
by Gavin Menzies

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On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. When... (read more)

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Wild Swans Three Daughters of China Wild Swans Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang

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Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an... (read more)

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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester

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A truly fascinating book. Winchester captures the mood of China during the chaos of WWII and shows just how enormous an endeavor Joseph Needham undertook in writing his scientific history "for an audience already highly prejudiced against China and the... (read more)

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Red Azalea (06 Edition) Red Azalea (06 Edition)
by Anchee Min

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Red Azalea is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read,... (read more)

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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang

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The forces of history and the exceptional talents of this young writer combine to produce a work of nonfiction with the breadth and drama of the richest, most memorable fiction classics. Wild Swans is a landmark book, with the intimacy of memoir and the... (read more)

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Iron & Silk (Vintage Departures) Iron & Silk (Vintage Departures)
by Mark Salzman

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Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.... (read more)

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Son of the Revolution Son of the Revolution
by Heng Liang

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An autobiography of a young Chinese man whose childhood and adolescence were spent in Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution.... (read more)

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China Road: a Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power (07 Edition) China Road: a Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power (07 Edition)
by Rob Gifford

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Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The... (read more)

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The House of Lim: A Study of a Chinese Family The House of Lim: A Study of a Chinese Family
by Margery Wolf

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An account of the many aspects of village life in China.... (read more)

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Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
by Adeline Yen Mah

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Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield... (read more)

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Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World
by Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu

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This lyrical evocation of girlhood in a remote Himalayan village where women truly rule is now in paperback. In the remote Himalayas, on the shores of Lake Lugu, there is a place the Chinese call "the Country of Daughters." This is the home of the... (read more)

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Mao: The Unknown Story Mao: The Unknown Story
by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

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Including previously unreleased details of Mao's relationship with Stalin, this astonishing look at the father of Communist China is engrossing as well as horrifying — truly an eye-opener. Recommended by Josephine, Powells.com... (read more)

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The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
by Michael Meyer

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A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes. Soon we will be able to say about old Beijing that what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders... (read more)

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China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
by Nicholas D Kristof

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The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower by two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters. An insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China, China Wakes is an exemplary work... (read more)

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The Rape of Nanking The Rape of Nanking
by Iris Chang

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In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered -- a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki... (read more)

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Shanghai Diary 2ND Edition a Young Girls Journey Shanghai Diary 2ND Edition a Young Girls Journey
by Ursula Bacon

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By the late 1930s, Europe sat on the brink of a world war. As the holocaust approached, many Jewish families in Germany fled to one of the only open port available to them: Shanghai. Once called "the armpit of the world," Shanghai ultimately served as... (read more)

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Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China
by Sterling Seagrave

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The author of The Soong Dynasty gives us our most vivid and reliable biography yet of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, remembered through the exaggeration and falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the... (read more)

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Streetlife China (Cambridge Modern China Series) Streetlife China (Cambridge Modern China Series)
by Michael Dutton

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An extraordinary collection of ???snapshots??? of contemporary Chinese life in translation with commentary.... (read more)

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Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now
by Jan Wong

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Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a... (read more)

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The Return of the God of Wealth: The Transition to a Market Economy in Urban China The Return of the God of Wealth: The Transition to a Market Economy in Urban China
by Charlotte Ikels

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“Ikels’ purpose is to ‘introduce the reader to contemporary urban life,’ but her study’s depth of material and analysis—based on 15 years of research—is far richer than this simple statement suggests... (read more)

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