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1	Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China more books like this by Jung Chang 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 $3.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	1421: The Year China Discovered America more books like this by Gavin Menzies add to wishlist Based on 15 years of in-depth research, "1421" traces the voyages of an extraordinary fleet of Chinese ships, whose crews actually charted America 70 years before Columbus. Four 8-page color inserts. 37 maps & diagrams. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Life and Death in Shanghai more books like this by Nien Cheng 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
4	The Web That Has No Weaver more books like this by Ted J Kaptchuk, O.M.D. add to wishlist In this guide to Chinese medicine, an American expert explains the effectiveness of different treatments, such as acupuncture, and provides an introduction to the philosophical outlook that governs such practices. see all copies from $6.60! new only from $15.00! \| SVS
5	Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter more books like this by Adeline Yen Mah, Adeline Yen Mah 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
6	The search for modern China more books like this by Jonathan D. Spence 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 $2.77! new only from $15.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Iron & silk more books like this by Mark Salzman 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
8	The Cambridge illustrated history of China. more books like this by Patricia Buckley Ebrey 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 $11.45! new only from $18.00! \| first editions
9	When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne 1405-1433 more books like this by Louise Levathes 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 $4.15! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Between Heaven and Earth more books like this by Harriet Beinfield, Efrem Korngold, Efrem Korn add to wishlist see all copies from $3.48! new only from $9.81! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook more books like this by Patricia Buckley Ebrey (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! new only from $11.17! \| SVS
12 view cover	The foundations of Chinese medicine a comprehensive text for acupuncturists and herbalists more books like this by Maciocia add to wishlist The aim of the present book is to give a detailed account of the theory of Chinese medicine and acupuncture based on rigorous reference to ancient and modern Chinese books, as well as to explain its application in a Western practice. The theory covered is common to both acupuncture and Chinese herbalism. In addition, it discusses the use of the ... see all copies from $78.82! new only from $109.68! \| SVS
13 view cover	States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China more books like this by Professor Theda Skocpol add to wishlist State structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. From France in the 1790s to Vietnam in the 1970s, social revolutions have been rare but undeniably of enormous importance in modern world history. States and ... see all copies from $11.23! new only from $27.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Rape of Nanking more books like this by Iris Chang 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 $6.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Ancient China more books like this by Arthur Cotterell, DK Publishing 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
16 view cover	Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China more books like this by Philip P Pan 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
17 view cover	The Mongols more books like this by David Morgan add to wishlist The Mongol Empire was the largest continuous land empire known to history, its violent creation the major political event of the thirteenth century world. Yet little is known of the history of Christendom's most formidable and dangerous eastern neighbour. This up-to-date chronicle benefits from new discoveries and a broad range of source material. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.65! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Man Who Stayed Behind more books like this by Sidney Rittenberg add to wishlist Rittenberg tells his own, amazing story of living through one of the most dramatic and turbulent periods in Chinese history. In 1946, a young American marched with the revolutionaries across war-torn China. Over the next 30 years, he remained to fight their battles, keep their secrets, befriend their leaders--and survive 16 years in their prisons. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China more books like this by John Pomfret 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 $2.00! new only from $3.36! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Travels of Marco Polo more books like this by Marco Polo 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
21 view cover	China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power more books like this by Nicholas D Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn add to wishlist "When China wakes, it will shake the world." Napolean Bonaparte once remarked. That moment is now at hand. This work brings to life the people, the politics and the paradoxes of China as never before. It combines reportage with the authors' personal account of how they came to discover the human stories within the world's most populous nation. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Colors of the Mountain more books like this by Da Chen 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
23 view cover	Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution more books like this by Ji-Li Jiang add to wishlist A memoir by Ji-li Jiang who was a 12-year-old girl living in China when Chairman Mao launched the 1966 Cultural Revolution. Ji-li was an excellent student with the promise of a great future, but with the advent of the Cultural Revolution, intelligence was seen as a crime and her family's wealthy background meant that they were persecuted by their ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Seven years in Tibet more books like this by Heinrich Harrer 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
25 view cover	The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China more books like this by Ralph D Sawyer add to wishlist The Seven Military Classics is one of the most profound studies of warfare ever written. Here translated in their entirety for the first time, the seven separate essays in this volume (written between 500 b.c. and a.d. 700) include Sun Tzus famous Art of War. This is the definitive English-language edition of a unique contribution to military ... see all copies from $2.64! new only from $7.67! \| SVS

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