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 Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.)Best Price: $7.98 I enjoyed the book very much because author use his point of view to describe his journey... |  1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the RenaissanceBest Price: $15.60 This guy relies for sources, his " friends of the 1421 website." This sounds really... |  River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.)Best Price: $5.00 Hessler writes candidly about his experiences in China as if he were writing to a friend back... |  The Web That Has No Weaver : Understanding Chinese MedicineBest Price: $12.05 i'm still busy reading the book (final chapters). dr. kaptchuk succeeds in presenting the... |  Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese DaughterBest Price: $2.89 Although there are hundreds of reviews, I had to review this book because it had such an impact... |
 China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for AmericaBest Price: $3.54 Writing this in 2008, May, I have to say that I enjoyed the book, it left me with an idea of... |  The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War IIBest Price: $7.55 Reading this book reminded me about the unsightly tragedies that happened in Korea during the... |  The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai LamaBest Price: $12.00 Pico Iyer's new book subtitled "The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama" takes... |  On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American FamilyBest Price: $8.97 I enjoyed this book very much. Amazing to read about one man's dreams and hard work from 4... |  The Man Who Loved China LP: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle KingdomBest Price: $18.35 Another book well done by Simon Winchester. The large-print version was a joy to read. |
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 The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and InventionBest Price: $17.97 This book is very good to have, especially for Chinese parents with children. Children with... |  China, Portrait of a CountryBest Price: $37.79 The People's Republic seen by Chinese photographers. This book brings together a vast selection... |  China: People Place Culture HistoryBest Price: $26.18 This book has beautiful pictures and good writing. I got one for my 5th grader, and another as... |  Iron and SilkBest Price: $2.20 Sometimes travel books can come across as "looking down" on the locals for their... |  The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and MindsBest Price: $13.95 It's a very interesting book that the author uses a unique argument to discuss current Asian... |
 The Search for Modern ChinaBest Price: $35.00 This is essential reading for both Chinese studies majors and anyone who wants a comprehensive,... |  Colors of the MountainBest Price: $4.99 This book really taught me about what cultural impacts Mao Ze Dong had on the Chinese... |  Red AzaleaBest Price: $7.00 From the start of the book the reader is enveloped with several odd concepts and aspects of... |  China: A New History, Second Enlarged EditionBest Price: $12.00 I bought this book because I was misled by the information displayed on Amazon's web site. This... |  Empire of Lies: The Truth About China in the Twenty-First CenturyBest Price: $11.56 Economic conservatives and neoliberal "spinners" from James Fallows and Reed Hundt... |
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 Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New ChinaBest Price: $8.35 Very easy to read. Great entertaining writing style with lots of very clever anecdotes. On... |  One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in ChinaBest Price: $3.95 One Billion Customers teaches by example. This book contains modern-day stories of foreigners... |  When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433Best Price: $8.25 The brutality of castration and the adventure of seafaring are vividly described in this history... |  A Source Book in Chinese PhilosophyBest Price: $29.50 There are lots of references where to go for additional information and even a nice glossary of... | When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 Best Price: $8.25 The brutality of castration and the adventure of seafaring are vividly described in this history... |
 The Man on Mao's Right: From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life Inside China's Foreign MinistryBest Price: $11.79 For the past 20 years, I've read almost anything I can get my hands on about China. Out of the... |  Bound Feet & Western Dress: A MemoirBest Price: $5.60 This book was so interesting, I think I read it in less than two days. It shows the changes... |  The Private Life of Chairman MaoBest Price: $13.70 A real, in depth account of Mao from the view of his personal physician. I don't think there is... |  China: Its History and Culture (4th Edition)Best Price: $8.95 I agree with another reviewer that China is too big, old and complex for a short book. However,... |  The Great Wall: From Beginning to EndBest Price: $16.90 This book is in fact a logical and photographical study of the Great Chinese Wall (restored... |
 China's Communist Party: Atrophy and AdaptationBest Price: $29.80 Following the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and... |  The Art of WarBest Price: $5.99 Great book, I want to buy the full version. Has good principals to follow. I think our military... |  China's Great Train: Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake TibetBest Price: $10.00 As a recent visitor to China where I took several trains I look for books about this fascinating... | China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation Best Price: $29.80 Following the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and... |  The Illustrated Art of WarBest Price: $12.00 I cannot rave enough about this book. As I'm sure most translators or more authoritative people... |
 Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the PresentBest Price: $7.81 No country on earth has suffered a more bitter history in modern times than China. In the second... |  The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and MotifsBest Price: $40.13 If you're interested in Tibetan Buddhist iconography for whatever reason you can't go wrong with... |  Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to NowBest Price: $6.00 An enthusiastic young activist, Jan Wong left Canada for Beijing in 1972, in hopes of... |  Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008Best Price: $14.97 Already the world has seen the political, economic, and cultural significance of hosting the... |  Beijing's Games: What the Olympics Mean to ChinaBest Price: $22.46 Susan Brownell has approached the topic of the Beijing Olympics with the seriousness which it... |
 Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and PresentBest Price: $3.75 Like Peter Hessler's other book, this is a great book about China. I have lived in and visited... |  Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45Best Price: $4.80 How far will the united States go to support a ruler on the words of others? Stilwell was, first... | |||
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