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Taiwan: A Political History / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This is a history that provides excellent background information for understanding the complexities of the current 'Taiwan problem.'. ― Foreign A...
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Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu rethinks the relationship between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. Whereas many...
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Modern Chinese History: Revised and Expanded Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The second edition of Modern Chinese History provides a concise narrative of Chinese history from the period 1644 to the present. Organized aroun...
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Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second ...
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Forbidden Memory: Tibet during the Cultural Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Access the glossary of Tibetan terms.Access the glossary of Chinese and English terms.Access the Index. When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 196...
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Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleChinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 is an essential guide to the first golden age of Chinese cinema. O...
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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /A fascinating history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to ...
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Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Revolutionary Nativism Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of fascist organizations that operated under the umbrella of th...
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Formosa Betrayed
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Formosa Betrayed is a detailed, impassioned account of Chinese Nationalist (KMT) misrule that remains the most important English-language book ev...
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The Ming Dynasty: Its Origins and Evolving Institutions
PaperbackOriginal price $10.00 - Original price $10.00Original price $10.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In the latter half of the fourteenth century, at one end of the Eurasian continent, the stage was not yet set for the emergence of modern nation-...
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Chinese Views of Future Warfare
PaperbackOriginal price $34.50 - Original price $34.50Original price $34.50$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /"Michael Pillsbury's new book ... is must reading for every executive of every Western firm doing business in China, and every Member of Congress...
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A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - Winner of the 2018 Truman Book Award A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to...
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
PaperbackOriginal 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 Lionel Gelber PrizeNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the Year | A Financial Times Book of the Ye...
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Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /This global history as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especi...
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Formosa Betrayed
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Formosa Betrayed is a detailed, impassioned account of Chinese Nationalist (KMT) misrule that remains the most important English-language book ev...
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Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, 2nd Ed / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This updated version of a fantastic account of Chinese culture and civilization provides analysis of notable historical documents, social records...
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Cheng Tzu's Thirteen Treatises on T'ai Chi Ch'uan
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Millions of people worldwide practice t’ai chi, the most popular form of which was codified beginning in the 1960s by Cheng Man Ch’ing. In this s...
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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
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 much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great Famine An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death...
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China and Japan: Facing History
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A Financial Times “Summer Books” Selection“Will become required reading.”—Times Literary Supplement“Elegantly written…with a confidence that come...
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Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527-1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contempo...
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Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton’s Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with Chin...
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China: Debates the Future Security Environment
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Office of Net Assessment, Department of Defense, is attempted to understand the long-term consequences of the rise of China as a major world ...
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The Oxford History of Modern China
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /'excellent' LSE Review of BooksChina is the world's most populous country and newest superpower, whose place on the international stage can only ...
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Marco Polo: The Journey that Changed the World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"I have read everything written on Marco Polo, and John Man's book is, by far, my favorite work on the subject. It's not only an over-due and imp...
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