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Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"A material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history."--New York Times Book Review Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of ...
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The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."—The Boston Globe"Not just a brilliant, well-researched, an...
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a best...
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The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Winner of the 2022 Bancroft Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Cundill History Prize Finalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize How Chinese m...
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A General History of Chinese Art: From the Qin Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties
PaperbackOriginal price $171.99Original price $171.99 - Original price $171.99Original price $171.99Current price $147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /This volume studies the evolution of Chinese art during the Qin and Han Dynasties, The Three Kingdoms, Eastern and Western Jin, and the Northern an...
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribu...
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal — and forgotten — massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capi...
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The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A single volume history of China, offering a look into the past of the global superpower and its significance today.Michael Wood has travelled th...
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The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Yang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.As a majo...
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Art in China / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /China boasts a history of art stretching over 5,000 years and embracing a vast array of forms--objects of jade, lacquer and porcelain, painted sc...
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Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In 1966 twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China’s Cultural Revolution. Disillusion soon followed, then tur...
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China's New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In China's New Red Guards, Jude Blanchette illuminates two trends in contemporary China that point to its revival of Mao Zedong's legacy—a develo...
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Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this so...
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Party of One: The Rise of XI Jinping and China's Superpower Future
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian ...
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Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and politic...
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China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The untold story of China's rise as a global superpower, chronicled through the diplomatic shock troops that connect Beijing to the world. China's ...
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China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The untold story of China's rise as a global superpower, chronicled through the diplomatic shock troops that connect Beijing to the world. China's...
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The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic and Hong Kong
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /An epic history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. Essential reading for anyone wishing to deal with China or to...
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Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the un...
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Righteous Revolutionaries: Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Righteous Revolutionaries illustrates how states appeal to popular morality--shared understandings of right and wrong--to forge new group identitie...
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China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom
HardcoverOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /An expert's take on how a coup in China could launch a transition to democracy. This short book predicts--contrary to the prevailing consensus--th...
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Grand Gallop: Art and Culture of the Horse (English/Traditional Chinese)
PaperbackOriginal price $54.95Original price $54.95 - Original price $54.95Original price $54.95Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Featuring striking full-color images and new research, this publication from the Hong Kong Palace Museum celebrates some of the most important work...
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The Silk Road: A New History with Documents / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /The Silk Road is iconic in world history; but what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty...
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Beyond the House of the False Lama: Travels with Monks, Nomads, and Outlaws
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Beyond the House of the Lama, now in paperback, traces Crane's adventures as a writer, wanderer, and anarchic but still failing student of Zen. It ...
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