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Protracted Contest: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Twentieth Century Best Price: $32.87 Ever since the two ancient nations of India and China established modern states in the mid-20th...	Swallowing Clouds Best Price: $123.10 Some time ago, a scholar entered a his favorite bookstore. The owner asked if he could help...	Black Tigers: A Grammar of Chinese Rubbings Best Price: $24.57 Since at least the early sixth century C.E., ink rubbings of stone, metal, clay tiles, and wood...	The Mongol Empire Best Price: $370.29	Character Text for Intermediate Chinese (Yale Language Series) Best Price: $29.50 This text is a parallel character version of "Intermediate Chinese."



Chinese Civilization and Bureaucracy (Phoenix Books) CHINESE CIVILIZATION AND BUREAUCRACY : Variations on a Theme. By Etienne Balazs. Translated by...	Archaeology of Ancient China Best Price: $92.86	Shang Civilization Best Price: $108.48 Although dry, scholarly, and 'chunky', SS is a very impressive piece of work regardless...	Exile in Mid-Qing China: Banishment to Xinjiang, 1758-1820 (Yale Historical Publications) Best Price: $65.00 Pls. be informed that the name "Xinjiang" was created in 1876 after the...	Mi Fu: Style and the Art of Calligraphy in Northern Song China Best Price: $23.83 This is a fabulous book that makes a difficult and exotic subject perfectly understandable. Mi...



The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United States Best Price: $0.15 It really doesn't take a genius to see that Ross Terrill is ultra-anti Communist. He...	Beyond the Stone Arches: An American Missionary Doctor in China, 1892-1932 Best Price: $15.50 "Beyond the Stone Arches" is the gripping story of a pioneer missionary doctor...	"Eastern Magnificence and European Ingenuity": Clocks of Late Imperial China Best Price: $51.13 The period from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries was one of complex change...	China: A History of the Laws, Manners and Customs of the People (Dover Books on Literature and Drama) Best Price: $11.22 This reprint of an original 1878 edition written by John Henry Gray and originally published by...	Modern Chinese: A Basic Course by the Faculty of Peking University/3 Records and Manual Best Price: $8.49

Forbidden City (New Horizons) Best Price: $12.27 Even though this book may not be as grand as many other books published in regards to the...	Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition) If you are limited to a traveler's "501 Useful Chinese Phrases," or are...	The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth Century Ch'ing China Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and...	China Eyes Japan What influence does the history of Japanese aggression in China have on Chinese images of and...	Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China Best Price: $19.77 This delightfully accessible book on an inaccessible topic provides an appetizing read. ...

The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (Contemporary Asia in the World) Best Price: $16.90 Covers the historical and cultural context as much as the political context. There's some ...	America's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York Best Price: $16.94 In a stunning repudiation of the Democratic machine, John V. Lindsay (1921-2000) captured the...	Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia (Contemporary Asia in the World) Best Price: $13.00 The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched...	China: The Land and the People	The Chinese Empire Illustrated

Two Kinds of Truth: Stories and Reportage from China Best Price: $15.57 The most distinguished Chinese journalist of the past fifty years, Liu Binyan has earned the...	Rhetoric of Revolt: Ho Chi Minh's Discourse for Revolution Best Price: $28.50 The success of Vietnam's August Revolution of 1945 can be attributed in part to Ho Chi...	Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850 Best Price: $30.00	Changing Lives of Refugee Hmong Women Best Price: $12.50 "In an ethnographic study of recent Hmong immigrant families in Seattle, Donnelly examines...	Cosmopolitan Capitalists: Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the End of the Twentieth Century Best Price: $3.98 At midnight on June 30, 1997, Hong Kong became part of the People's Republic of China. The...

Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 (Philip E.Lilienthal Books) Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners,...	Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book) Best Price: $72.49 the book discuss the evolution of chair, and then studies the different type of furniture such...	Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.- China Relations, 1989-2000 (A Philip E. Lilienthal book) Best Price: $8.75 Lampton writes from a perspective unencombered by the black and white thinking that often...	Early Daoist Scriptures (Daoist Classics , No 1) Best Price: $22.88 I have sat through 2 lectures of Prof. Bokenkamp and found that his knowledge of Eastern thought...	Women and Confucian Cultures Best Price: $25.20 Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and...

Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism (Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies) Best Price: $21.51 As a Zen priest who is also an academic, I am frequently frustrated both by scholarly books on...	Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes) Best Price: $65.77 The concept of hygiene is one that has seen a remarkable amount of change in the last two...	Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion Best Price: $27.69 In "Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies Eric Reinders," a professor of Religion at Emory...	The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage Best Price: $17.49 As a student of history and law I found this book to be incredibly enlightening as well as...	Understanding Inequality and Poverty in China: Methods and Applications (Studies in Development Economics and Policy) Best Price: $109.97 The ongoing campaign of ?western development? launched in 1999 and the recent Chinese government...

The World of Kung Shang-Jen (Studies in Oriental Culture) Best Price: $46.50	The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Volume 2 Best Price: $30.97 Professor MacFarquhar presents an extremely thorough and readable account of elite politics in...	The Endless War: Vietnam's Struggle for Independence Best Price: $44.99 -- New York Times Book Review	China Confidential Best Price: $30.00 Having served in the State Dept. in Shanghai from 1947 thru 1950 and in Taiwan for 15 years and...	Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol. 1 Best Price: $25.00 This book gets the majority of its bulk from direct translations of actual Chinese texts, and as...

The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History Best Price: $50.00 An excellent quick synopsis of modern China. Gives an historical overview, biographies of the...	The Dragon in the Land of Snows Best Price: $5.44 This is the first serious attempt to examine the history of Sino-Tibetan relations from 1949 to...	Media, Communication, Culture Best Price: $15.00 Explores fascinating, challenging and modern concepts and examples that academic and nonacademic...	Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China Best Price: $37.42 Palmer's brilliant retelling and analysis of modern Chi Kung history deserves the applause...	Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 (Philip E.Lilienthal Books) Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners,...

Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book) Best Price: $72.49 the book discuss the evolution of chair, and then studies the different type of furniture such...	Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.- China Relations, 1989-2000 (A Philip E. Lilienthal book) Best Price: $8.75 Lampton writes from a perspective unencombered by the black and white thinking that often...	Early Daoist Scriptures (Daoist Classics , No 1) Best Price: $22.88 I have sat through 2 lectures of Prof. Bokenkamp and found that his knowledge of Eastern thought...	Women and Confucian Cultures Best Price: $25.20 Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and...	Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism (Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies) Best Price: $21.51 As a Zen priest who is also an academic, I am frequently frustrated both by scholarly books on...

Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes) Best Price: $65.77 The concept of hygiene is one that has seen a remarkable amount of change in the last two...	Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion Best Price: $27.69 In "Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies Eric Reinders," a professor of Religion at Emory...	The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage Best Price: $17.49 As a student of history and law I found this book to be incredibly enlightening as well as...	If I Had a Thousand Lives (Hudson Taylor & China's Open Century) book 3 Best Price: $15.56 Mr. Broomhall drew on a vast repository of information to begin his biography covering 6 or 7...	Things Chinese

Revolutionary Immortality (Norton Library) Best Price: $12.98	God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan Best Price: $5.50 This book is about the pivotal event in Chinese History between 200BC and 1920 and laid the...	China's Political Economy in Modern Times: Changes and Economic Consequences, 1800-2000 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) Best Price: $113.09 This book makes an important contribution to the study of changes in China?s institutions and...	The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century (Asian Security Studies) Best Price: $33.00 The Chinese Army Today is a comprehensive study of the Chinese military, examining its ground...	The Vietnam Reader Since the end of the Vietnam War, histories, films, novels, and poetry have sought to come to...

China and Democracy: Reconsidering the Prospects for a Democratic China Best Price: $39.68 This timely collection brings together many well-known scholars to systematically explore...	Classical Gardens of China: History and Design Techniques Best Price: $29.00	Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic Best Price: $1.86 The author of this book is a writer and the wife of an American Ambassador to China from...	Basic Community Cases Best Price: $69.50 European Community law has expanded significantly since the 1987 publication of the...	China Quarterly, The

Chinese Foreign Policy in Transition Best Price: $8.98 The purpose of this anthology is to deepen our understanding of the sources, substance, and...	The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City: The City in Ancient China Best Price: $34.19 These two volumes elucidate the manner in which there emerged, on the North China plain,...	Lhasa, the Open City: Journey to Tibet The author was allowed to visit Tibet for two months in 1975. In her preface she thanks the...	Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China Best Price: $29.97 Laura Hostetler here shows how Qing China (1636-1911) used cartography and ethnography to pursue...	Village and Bureaucracy in Southern Sung China Best Price: $26.00 In imperial China, workers drawn from the local populace performed many of the basic functions...

Critical Discourse Analysis in Historiography: The Case of Hong Kong's Evolving Political Identity Best Price: $90.88 This book shows how the study of the evolving discourse employed during a political process...	India, China and Globalization: The Emerging Superpowers and the Future of Economic Development Best Price: $96.46 This book explores the expansive economic experiences of India and China and charts the...	Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World Best Price: $54.30 "That Truth which has the Face of a Lie", (p.116), this is John Larner's theme as...	Art and China's Revolution (Asia Society) Best Price: $37.86 CHINA: population over 1.3 billion (yep thats with a B), a global economic powerhouse. But can...	Food Security and Economic Reform: The Challenges Facing China's Grain Marketing System (Studies on the Chinese Economy) Grain marketing reform in China has been relatively slow. It has not escaped the forces for...

The History of China: (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations) Best Price: $12.94 If you wanna know about China and its evolution as society, this is the right book for you..	China Restored: The Middle Kingdom Looks to 2020 and Beyond Best Price: $44.95 In China Restored: The Middle Kingdom Looks to 2020 and Beyond , Eric C. Anderson challenges...	Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival Best Price: $0.99 In October 1934, 30 brave Chinese women left their respective homes to join the Chinese...	The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong This book is one of the best books about the history and political development of HK. It not...	Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June Best Price: $0.99 Mark Nenadov's review mentions that all other reviews are either very good or very bad, but...

Korea: The Search for Sovereignty	Korean War (Twentieth Century Wars S.) This volume provides an overview of the origins, nature and aftermath of the war that was fought...	The Rise of Modern China Best Price: $60.82 This is the definitive work by Prof. C.Y. Hsu of the University of Californai, Santa Barbara. ...	China: Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise Best Price: $11.94 Susan Shirk gives her readers some useful tools to better assess the future behavior of a...	Ordinary Mind as the Way: The Hongzhou School and the Growth of Chan Buddhism Best Price: $72.83 Most varieties of Chan and Zen Buddhism around today trace their roots back to Mazu Daoyi and...

Asian Merchants and Businessmen in the Indian Ocean and the China Sea This book brings together specialist knowledge on the many important trading and entrepreneurial...	A Dictionary and Grammar of the Malayan Language: 2 volumes (Oxford in Asia historical reprints)	The Government and Politics of Hong Kong Now in its fourth edition, this standard reference sets the machinery of Hong Kong's...	Macartney at Kashgar: New Light on British, Chinese, and Russian Activities in Sinkiang, 1890-1918 Best Price: $358.38 Sir George Macartney spent 28 years around the turn of the century as British representative in...	Bridging the Strait: Taiwan, China, and the Prospects for Reunification (Studies on Contemporary Taiwan) Best Price: $44.00 The gradual rise of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party has helped to strengthen and...

China Remembers "China Remembers", a collection of individual eyewitness accounts from a wide...	The Works of George Farquhar: Volume II Best Price: $273.00 George Farquhar (1678-1707) was perhaps the best, and certainly the most popular, playwright to...

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