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1	Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China more books like this by Jung Chang $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist An international bestseller with over three million copies in print, this is the story of three generations, mostly of women, in a Chinese family. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter more books like this by Adeline Yen Mah, Adeline Yen Mah $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist The author's Westernized Chinese family in Shanghai was wealthy but dysfunctional. In this painful memoir, she writes about the cruelty she endured and her eventual emigration to the U.S., where she became a doctor. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The search for modern China more books like this by Jonathan D. Spence $6.64 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Over 400 years of Chinese history--from the Ming dynasty to Mao--are recalled in Spence's narrative history. see all copies from $2.06! new only from $15.95! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Iron & silk more books like this by Mark Salzman $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist This entertaining memoir, a quietly persuasive classic of its kind, is about the journey of a young martial arts-obsessed American to China, where he teaches English to Chinese medical students and studies with a kung fu master. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The memory palace of Matteo Ricci more books like this by Mr. Jonathan D Spence $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Matteo Ricci was a Jesuit priest who went to China in 1577 and who wrote a book on memory in Chinese for the Ming court. Historian Jonathan Spence uses Ricci's memory book, and four images, to convey the history of European-Ming dynasty relations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.69! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Cambridge illustrated history of China. more books like this by Patricia Buckley Ebrey $17.50 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist More populous than any other country on earth, China also occupies a unique place in our modern world for the continuity of its history and culture. In this sumptuously illustrated single-volume history, noted historian Patricia Ebrey traces the origins of Chinese culture from prehistoric times to the present. She follows its development from ... see all copies from $10.52! new only from $22.50! \| first editions
7	When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne 1405-1433 more books like this by Louise Levathes $6.69 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist A hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire's finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the edge of the world's 'four corners.' It was a time of exploration and conquest, but it ended in ... see all copies from $4.71! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook more books like this by Patricia Buckley Ebrey (Editor) $3.49 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $3.49! new only from $11.17! \| SVS
9	China: A New History, more books like this by John King Fairbank $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Bringing to bear 60 years of research, travel, and teaching, Fairbank weaves a detailed history that reaches from China's neolithic days to its troubled present. He depicts a country ever-changing and yet constant in its effort to achieve a cohesive identity, an enormous and enormously complex nation perpetually balancing between the imperatives ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Life and Death in Shanghai more books like this by Nien Cheng $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist This is a first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. All attempts to make her confess to the charges of being a British spy failed; all efforts to indoctrinate her were ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China more books like this by Philip P Pan $1.99 (new hardcover, see detail) add to wishlist A moving story of a nation in transition, this work offers a startling perspective on China and its remarkable transformation, challenging conventional wisdom about the political apathy of the Chinese people and the notion that prosperity leads automatically to freedom. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Rape of Nanking more books like this by Iris Chang $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist In December 1937, in what was then the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking (Nanjing) and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenceless city, but systematically raped, tortured and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.37! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Death of Woman Wang more books like this by Mr. Jonathan D Spence $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist These accounts of everyday peasant life in China's Shantung province are told against the background of history--the fall of the Ming dynasty and the arrival of invaders--and are drawn from a variety of historical and literary sources. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.44! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Colors of the Mountain more books like this by Da Chen $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist The author of this memoir was born at the height of China's Cultural Revolution, and his landowning and educated family bore the brunt of the Revolution's cruelty. Growing up in a family that was despised for its former status, the author sought escape through education and found it, eventually graduating from Columbia Law School and settling down ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	China, Its History and Culture more books like this by W Scott Morton $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist This work presents a concise and thorough history of one of the world's most powerful nations. This brilliantly lucid and concise study traces China's history and culture from Neolithic times to the present, working into an integrated and authoritative narrative that covers centuries of politics, warfare and government, science and technology, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.78! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Ancient China more books like this by Arthur Cotterell, DK Publishing $1.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Enthralling subjects and stunning photographs continue to make Eyewitness Books the best nonfiction series for kids today. These books are "filled with extraordinary illustrations and written and designed with imagination and care"--New York Times Book Review. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| SVS
17 view cover	Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China more books like this by John Pomfret $2.50 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist "A highly personal, honest, funny and well-informed account of China's hyperactive effort to forget its past and reinvent its future."--"The New York Times Book Review""" As one the first American students admitted to China after the communist revolution, John Pomfret was exposed to a country still emerging from the twin tragedies of the Great ... see all copies from $2.36! new only from $3.43! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Seven years in Tibet more books like this by Heinrich Harrer $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist The author became the Dalai Lama's tutor when he was imprisoned in an Indian internment camp by the British after World War II was declared, then escaped and made his way over the frozen Himalayas to Lhasa. This is the story of his stay in Tibet, from 1939 to 1950 when the Chinese invaded. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan more books like this by Mr. Jonathan D Spence $2.40 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist The rise and fall of the Taiping "Heavenly Kingdom" in mid 19th-century China was one of the most violent events in human history. Led by Hong Xiuquan, a religious visionary and failed civil servant, the Taipang Rebellion cost at least 2 million lives. Hong had a dream in which he ascended into heaven and met his "elder brother" Jesus Christ. He ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Reorient: Global Economy in the Asian Age more books like this by Andre Gunder Frank $19.45 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Andre Gunder Frank asks us to re-orient our views away from Eurocentrism - to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on its head the world according to Marx, Weber, and other theorists, including Polanyi, Rostow, ... see all copies from $18.95! new only from $21.49! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Travels of Marco Polo more books like this by Marco Polo $3.49 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Chronicling the 13th-century world of Venice, his birthplace, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the foreign peoples he meets as he travels by foot, horse and boat. This edition is illustrated with 32 woodcut images that were created for the classic 1926 publication. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The rape of Nanking : the forgotten holocaust of World War II more books like this by Iris Chang $1.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist The first English-language history ever written about the Japanese army's 1937 conquest of China's capital and the massacre of its inhabitants. Chang, a freelance journalist, describes the circumstances under which the Japanese killed a quarter of a million Chinese (nearly all of them civilian noncombatants) during the first few months of their ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.12! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline more books like this by Ray Huang $10.00 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00! new only from $16.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation more books like this by Xinran Xue, Xinran Xinran $5.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist "China Witness" is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and perhaps the last time - the vast changes that have overtaken China's people over a century. The book is at once a journey by the author through time and ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $17.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Search for Modern China: A Documentary History more books like this by Pei-Kai Cheng (Editor), Michael Lestz (Editor), Mr. Jonathan D Spence $18.00 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist This collection of primary source documents--many translated into English for the first time and available only in this book--gather proclamations, treaties, laws, and other public acts with pieces reflecting everyday life, family, social networks, and culture. see all copies from $9.00! new only from $20.94! \| first editions \| SVS

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