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China Witness
Voices from a Silent Generation
Written by Xinran
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $28.95
China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history.
Xinran, the acclaimed author of The Good Women of China and Sky Burial, traveled across China in 2005 and 2006, seeking out the nation’s grandparents and great-grandparents... Read more >
Voices from a Silent Generation
Written by Xinran
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $28.95
China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history.
Xinran, the acclaimed author of The Good Women of China and Sky Burial, traveled across China in 2005 and 2006, seeking out the nation’s grandparents and great-grandparents... Read more >
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China Witness
Voices from a Silent Generation
Written by Xinran
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $28.95
China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history.
Xinran, the acclaimed author of The Good Women of China and Sky Burial, traveled across China in 2005 and 2006, seeking out the nation’s grandparents and great-grandparents... Read more >
Voices from a Silent Generation
Written by Xinran
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $28.95
China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history.
Xinran, the acclaimed author of The Good Women of China and Sky Burial, traveled across China in 2005 and 2006, seeking out the nation’s grandparents and great-grandparents... Read more >
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Feather in the Storm
A Childhood Lost in Chaos
Written by Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
“It is my hope that this memoir may serve as a reminder and a memorial to all of the children who were lost in the Chaos,” Emily Wu writes at the beginning of Feather in the Storm.
Told from a child’s and young girl’s point of view, Wu’s spellbinding account–which spans... Read more >
A Childhood Lost in Chaos
Written by Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
“It is my hope that this memoir may serve as a reminder and a memorial to all of the children who were lost in the Chaos,” Emily Wu writes at the beginning of Feather in the Storm.
Told from a child’s and young girl’s point of view, Wu’s spellbinding account–which spans... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Postcards from Tomorrow Square
Reports from China
Written by James Fallows
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $14.95
“Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider... Read more >
Reports from China
Written by James Fallows
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $14.95
“Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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A Bull in China
Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market
Written by Jim Rogers
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $16.00
If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China. According to the one and only Jim Rogers, who’s been tracking the Chinese economy since he first went to China in 1984, any investor can get in on the ground floor of “the greatest economic boom... Read more >
Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market
Written by Jim Rogers
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $16.00
If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China. According to the one and only Jim Rogers, who’s been tracking the Chinese economy since he first went to China in 1984, any investor can get in on the ground floor of “the greatest economic boom... Read more >
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Postcards from Tomorrow Square
Reports from China
Written by James Fallows
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $14.95
“Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider... Read more >
Reports from China
Written by James Fallows
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $14.95
“Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider... Read more >
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eBook.
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Terra Cotta Warriors
Guardians of China's First Emperor
Written by Jane Portal
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $14.95
Often described as the eighth Wonder of the World, the massive, underground army made from fired clay evokes both awe and curiosity. Who was this powerful Emperor of the Qin Dynasty who needed these warriors to guard him in the afterlife? How were nearly 8,000 figures made on such a vast... Read more >
Guardians of China's First Emperor
Written by Jane Portal
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $14.95
Often described as the eighth Wonder of the World, the massive, underground army made from fired clay evokes both awe and curiosity. Who was this powerful Emperor of the Qin Dynasty who needed these warriors to guard him in the afterlife? How were nearly 8,000 figures made on such a vast... Read more >
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The Long March
The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
Written by Sun Shuyun
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $16.00
In The Long March, Sun Shuyun uncovers the true story behind the mythic march of Mao's soldiers across China, exposing the famine, disease, and desertion behind the legend.
In 1934, in the midst of civil war, the Communist party and its 200,000 soldiers were forced from their bases by Chiang Kai-shek and... Read more >
The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
Written by Sun Shuyun
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $16.00
In The Long March, Sun Shuyun uncovers the true story behind the mythic march of Mao's soldiers across China, exposing the famine, disease, and desertion behind the legend.
In 1934, in the midst of civil war, the Communist party and its 200,000 soldiers were forced from their bases by Chiang Kai-shek and... Read more >
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eBook.
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Nixon and Mao
The Week That Changed the World
Written by Margaret MacMillan
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $17.00
With the publication of her landmark bestseller Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan was praised as “a superb writer who can bring history to life” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Now she brings her extraordinary gifts to one of the most important subjects today–the relationship between the United States and China–and one of the most... Read more >
The Week That Changed the World
Written by Margaret MacMillan
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $17.00
With the publication of her landmark bestseller Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan was praised as “a superb writer who can bring history to life” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Now she brings her extraordinary gifts to one of the most important subjects today–the relationship between the United States and China–and one of the most... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Feather in the Storm
A Childhood Lost in Chaos
Written by Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
Emily Wu’s account of her childhood under Mao opens on her third birthday, as she meets her father for the first time in a concentration camp. A well-known academic, her father had been designated an “ultra-rightist” and class enemy. As a result, Wu’s family would be torn apart and subjected to... Read more >
A Childhood Lost in Chaos
Written by Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
Emily Wu’s account of her childhood under Mao opens on her third birthday, as she meets her father for the first time in a concentration camp. A well-known academic, her father had been designated an “ultra-rightist” and class enemy. As a result, Wu’s family would be torn apart and subjected to... Read more >
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eBook.
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Recon Scout
Written by Fred H. Salter
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $6.99
HE LIVED ON THE ABYSS OF DEATH
AS A RECON SCOUT IN WORLD WAR II.
From Africa’s Sahara Desert, where he met Churchill, to the plains of Tunisia, where he served under Patton, Fred Salter executed daring nightly solo missions, risking his life to gather the vital intelligence the U.S. Army desperately needed... Read more >
Written by Fred H. Salter
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $6.99
HE LIVED ON THE ABYSS OF DEATH
AS A RECON SCOUT IN WORLD WAR II.
From Africa’s Sahara Desert, where he met Churchill, to the plains of Tunisia, where he served under Patton, Fred Salter executed daring nightly solo missions, risking his life to gather the vital intelligence the U.S. Army desperately needed... Read more >
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Wild Grass
Three Stories of Change in Modern China
Written by Ian Johnson
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Ian Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his reporting on China for the Wall Street Journal, has found the small pockets of resistance that dot the vast landscape of Chinese society and may become the initial fissures that will someday bring down the seemingly indestructible façade of the Communist Party. In... Read more >
Three Stories of Change in Modern China
Written by Ian Johnson
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Ian Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his reporting on China for the Wall Street Journal, has found the small pockets of resistance that dot the vast landscape of Chinese society and may become the initial fissures that will someday bring down the seemingly indestructible façade of the Communist Party. In... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Wuhu Diary
On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China
Written by Emily Prager
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in her first three days of life. Her birth mother had left a... Read more >
On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China
Written by Emily Prager
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in her first three days of life. Her birth mother had left a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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A Bull in China
Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market
Written by Jim Rogers
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $26.95
If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China. Now the one and only Jim Rogers shows how any investor can get in on the ground floor of “the greatest economic boom since England’s Industrial Revolution.”
In this indispensable new book, one of the world’s most... Read more >
Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market
Written by Jim Rogers
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $26.95
If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China. Now the one and only Jim Rogers shows how any investor can get in on the ground floor of “the greatest economic boom since England’s Industrial Revolution.”
In this indispensable new book, one of the world’s most... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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A Bull in China
Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market
Written by Jim Rogers
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $16.00
If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China. Now the one and only Jim Rogers shows how any investor can get in on the ground floor of “the greatest economic boom since England’s Industrial Revolution.”
In this indispensable new book, one of the world’s most... Read more >
Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market
Written by Jim Rogers
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $16.00
If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China. Now the one and only Jim Rogers shows how any investor can get in on the ground floor of “the greatest economic boom since England’s Industrial Revolution.”
In this indispensable new book, one of the world’s most... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Inside China
Written by National Geographic
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $50.00
China's emergence as an economic and cultural giant reigns as a key international story of our time. In an unprecedented visual tour de force, National Geographic chronicles this astonishing ascent through some of the most eye-opening, evocative, and extraordinary pictures ever recorded of the enigmatic nation, past and present.
Exotic China... Read more >
Written by National Geographic
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $50.00
China's emergence as an economic and cultural giant reigns as a key international story of our time. In an unprecedented visual tour de force, National Geographic chronicles this astonishing ascent through some of the most eye-opening, evocative, and extraordinary pictures ever recorded of the enigmatic nation, past and present.
Exotic China... Read more >
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Nixon and Mao
The Week That Changed the World
Written by Margaret MacMillan
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $17.00
With the publication of her landmark bestseller Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan was praised as “a superb writer who can bring history to life” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Now she brings her extraordinary gifts to one of the most important subjects today–the relationship between the United States and China–and one of the most... Read more >
The Week That Changed the World
Written by Margaret MacMillan
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $17.00
With the publication of her landmark bestseller Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan was praised as “a superb writer who can bring history to life” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Now she brings her extraordinary gifts to one of the most important subjects today–the relationship between the United States and China–and one of the most... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Mao
The Unknown Story
Written by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
Format: Trade Paperback, 864 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $19.95
The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before — and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him. It... Read more >
The Unknown Story
Written by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
Format: Trade Paperback, 864 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $19.95
The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before — and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him. It... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download.
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Dragon Rising
An Inside Look at China Today
Written by Jasper Becker
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $35.00
Jasper Becker's book, The Chinese, was hailed as the best single-volume introduction to this enormous, inscrutable society. The Washington Post said, "He has been everywhere and asked every question," describing his conclusions as "right in both details and analysis." Since then, China's role in world affairs has only grown greater.
No... Read more >
An Inside Look at China Today
Written by Jasper Becker
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $35.00
Jasper Becker's book, The Chinese, was hailed as the best single-volume introduction to this enormous, inscrutable society. The Washington Post said, "He has been everywhere and asked every question," describing his conclusions as "right in both details and analysis." Since then, China's role in world affairs has only grown greater.
No... Read more >
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Shanghai Girl Gets All Dressed Up
Written by Beverley Jackson
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2005
Price: $29.95
It was within the sensual, cinematic setting of 1930s Shanghai that traditional Chinese fashion changed forever. Call them cheongsam, qi pao, or Suzy Wong dresses—the high-collared, body-clinging, slit-to-the-thigh gowns evolved in a world of dramatic change, where Chinese citizens mingled with foreigners from such cosmopolitan cities as Tokyo, London, New York... Read more >
Written by Beverley Jackson
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2005
Price: $29.95
It was within the sensual, cinematic setting of 1930s Shanghai that traditional Chinese fashion changed forever. Call them cheongsam, qi pao, or Suzy Wong dresses—the high-collared, body-clinging, slit-to-the-thigh gowns evolved in a world of dramatic change, where Chinese citizens mingled with foreigners from such cosmopolitan cities as Tokyo, London, New York... Read more >
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Wild Grass
Three Stories of Change in Modern China
Written by Ian Johnson
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize—winning journalist Ian Johnson tells the stories of three ordinary Chinese citizens moved to extraordinary acts of courage: a peasant legal clerk who filed a class-action suit on behalf of overtaxed farmers, a young architect who defended the rights of dispossessed homeowners, and a bereaved woman who... Read more >
Three Stories of Change in Modern China
Written by Ian Johnson
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize—winning journalist Ian Johnson tells the stories of three ordinary Chinese citizens moved to extraordinary acts of courage: a peasant legal clerk who filed a class-action suit on behalf of overtaxed farmers, a young architect who defended the rights of dispossessed homeowners, and a bereaved woman who... Read more >
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eBook.
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Tao of Mao
Little Red Journal
Written by Potter Style
Format: Non-traditional book, 128 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2005
Price: $8.00
The perfect portable companion, this little red journal is sprinkled with thought-provoking quotes from the Chairman. Small enough to fit in your pocket and light enough to carry with you always, this is the ideal journal for all political thinkers.
128 pages (lined), 4 1⁄16 x 5 1⁄8 inches, with an... Read more >
Little Red Journal
Written by Potter Style
Format: Non-traditional book, 128 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2005
Price: $8.00
The perfect portable companion, this little red journal is sprinkled with thought-provoking quotes from the Chairman. Small enough to fit in your pocket and light enough to carry with you always, this is the ideal journal for all political thinkers.
128 pages (lined), 4 1⁄16 x 5 1⁄8 inches, with an... Read more >
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China's New Rulers
The Secret Files; Second, Revised Edition
Written by Bruce Gilley and Andrew Nathan
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2003
Price: $16.95
At the Chinese Communist Party's 16th Congress in November 2002, a group of new leaders took over the world's most populous country. Their accession as the "Fourth Generation" of rulers of the People's Republic--following the generations of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Zemin--signaled the end of a long, complex struggle... Read more >
The Secret Files; Second, Revised Edition
Written by Bruce Gilley and Andrew Nathan
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2003
Price: $16.95
At the Chinese Communist Party's 16th Congress in November 2002, a group of new leaders took over the world's most populous country. Their accession as the "Fourth Generation" of rulers of the People's Republic--following the generations of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Zemin--signaled the end of a long, complex struggle... Read more >
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Bad Elements
Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing
Written by Ian Buruma
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $15.00
Who speaks for China? Is it the old men of the politbureau or an activist like Wei Jingshsheng, who spent eighteen years in prison for writing a democratic manifesto? Is China’s future to be found amid the boisterous sleaze of an electoral campaign in Taiwan or in the maneuvers by which... Read more >
Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing
Written by Ian Buruma
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $15.00
Who speaks for China? Is it the old men of the politbureau or an activist like Wei Jingshsheng, who spent eighteen years in prison for writing a democratic manifesto? Is China’s future to be found amid the boisterous sleaze of an electoral campaign in Taiwan or in the maneuvers by which... Read more >
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Bad Elements
Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing
Written by Ian Buruma
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $15.00
“Strange things happen when Chinese dynasties near their end. Dams break, earthquakes hit, clouds appear in the shape of weird beasts, rain falls in odd colors, and insects infest the countryside. These are the ill omens of moral turpitude and political collapse. While greed and cynicism poison the society from within... Read more >
Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing
Written by Ian Buruma
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $15.00
“Strange things happen when Chinese dynasties near their end. Dams break, earthquakes hit, clouds appear in the shape of weird beasts, rain falls in odd colors, and insects infest the countryside. These are the ill omens of moral turpitude and political collapse. While greed and cynicism poison the society from within... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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