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by Rana Mitter  Publisher Comments China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese "economic miracle." It is a country of contradictions and transitions: a... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (New - Mass Market) check for used and sale copies 
by Aung San Suu Kyi Publisher Comments "The dialogues [in The Voice of Hope] express Aung San Suu Kyi's humor, erudition, wisdom and accessibility, and demonstrate why she has become a world spiritual leader."-The New York Times Book Review "Reading this book, one can well understand why... (read more) Your Price $18.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Christopher Robbins Publisher Comments A funny and revealing travelogue of Kazakhstan, a country rich with wild tulips, oil, nomads who hunt with golden eagles, and a disappearing landlocked sea. Closed to foreigners under Tsar and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the... (read more) Your Price $24.00 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Mark Leonard Publisher Comments We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai need to be redrawn every two weeks. We know that China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backwardness into modernity in just... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your Price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by John Krich Synopsis Shanghai the legendary Pearl of the East, architectural powerhouse, and home to the World Expo 2010 continues to fascinate people from around the globe. Photographer Justin Guariglia, whose work has appeared in National Geographic and Smithsonian... (read more) Your Price $24.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Kenneth Pyle Publisher Comments Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Japan is quietly, stealthily awakening. As Japan prepares to become a major player in the strategic struggles... (read more) Your Price $19.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Paul Clark Publisher Comments A groundbreaking study of cultural life during a turbulent and formative decade in contemporary China, this book seeks to explode several myths about the Cultural Revolution (officially 1966-1976). Through national and local examination of the full range... (read more) Your Price $22.75 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Lijia Zhang Publisher Comments A spirited memoir by a former Chinese factory worker who grew up in Nanjing, participated in the Tiananmen Square protest, and ended up an international journalist. Lijia Zhang worked as a teenager in a factory producing missiles designed to reach North... (read more) Your Price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Nicholas B Dirks Publisher Comments Many have told of the East India Companyandrsquo;s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one... (read more) Your Price $19.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
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by David Lampton Publisher Comments Clear, comprehensive, and well-balanced, this unique assessment takes the measure of what is arguably the most important geopolitical change in today's world: the growth of China's power. In the only book on the subject to be based on extensive... (read more) Your Price $21.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Leo Ou Fan Lee Publisher Comments Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Leo Ou-fan Lee offers an insiderandrsquo;s view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so... (read more) Your Price $29.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Yiwu Liao Publisher Comments The Corpse Walker is a compilation of twenty-seven extraordinary oral histories that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. Liao Yiwu (one of the best-known writers in China because he is also... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your Price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Daniel A Bell Publisher Comments What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In... (read more) Your Price $22.00 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Anne-marie Blondeau Publisher Comments The land of Tibet--its people, culture, and religion--has long been both an object of contention and a source of fascination. Since 1959, Tibet has also been at the center of controversy when China's peaceful liberation of the land of snows led to the... (read more) Your Price $24.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Grant Hayter-Menzies Publisher Comments Imperial Masquerade is the first biography of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing cross-cultural personalities. Daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, educated like a boy in the Confucian classics, a baptized... (read more) Your Price $34.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
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