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 The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: Perceptions, Power, and PrimacyBest Price: $28.32 S.C.M. Paine does an admirable job at writing a very enjoyable history of one of the most... |  Gladys Aylward: For the Children of China (Heroes of the Faith)Best Price: $2.97 Anyone who has seen "Inn of the Sixth Happiness" could not help but wonder at the... |  Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China (Studies on China)Best Price: $48.00 Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes... |  Media, Market, and Democracy in China: Between the Party Line and the Bottom Line (History of Communication)Best Price: $19.00 |  Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 1: Introductory OrientationsBest Price: $177.38 Almost impossible to comprehend the supreme genius and the mind of Joseph Needham. His concepts... |
 The United States and China, 4th Revised and Enlarged Edition (American Foreign Policy Library)Best Price: $17.70 In an era where America is the last remaining superpower, it is sometimes easy to feel that... |  Everyday Life In Early Imperial China: During the Han Period 202 BC-AD 220Best Price: $8.90 Michael Loewe's "Everyday Life In Early Imperial China" was first published in 1968.... |  The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BCBest Price: $157.80 This volume is everything the 15 volume series the Cambridge History of China ought to be, and... |  The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, and ReligionBest Price: $29.50 The book, "The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture and Religion," by Xin Xu is a... |  Patterns & Practice in Chinese MedicineBest Price: $43.93 This book is a MUST HAVE for any acupuncturist. Very detailed with explanations and... |
 Heritage of Chinese Civilization, The (2nd Edition)Best Price: $34.68 For Introduction to Chinese History and Introduction to East Asia courses. A clear and... |  The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A SourcebookBest Price: $54.00 This book is a must-have for teachers. It gives a comprehensive history of mathematics that... |  ChinoiserieBest Price: $24.72 The Far East has inspired Western fashion, interior design and film in recent years: think ... |  Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese HistoryBest Price: $17.95 These translations of eighteen classical Chinese texts from the mid-ninth century (Tang dynasty)... |  New Shanghai: The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary CityBest Price: $10.63 Pamela Yatsko's New Shanghai is one of those "must read" books about China. Yatsko did... |
 The Soong SistersBest Price: $13.07 It gave me a glimpse to that period/time in China history. The Soong sisters had something a lot... |  The Tiananmen PapersBest Price: $2.94 This is an important window into the decision-making process of the Communist government in... |  Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China (Harvard Contemporary China Series)Best Price: $22.44 This comprehensive collection edited by Elizabeth Perry and Merle Goldman explores recent trends... |  Asian Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam andBest Price: $4.06 Studs Terkel meets Asian America. The author, affiliated with Queens College at the time the... |  Red-Color News SoldierBest Price: $22.99 I salute to the author who kept all these highly restricted photos in a secret location before... |
 Discovering History in ChinaBest Price: $25.95 The following review is based on the 1984 edition. In "Discovering History in... |  Chinese Folk Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)Best Price: $10.78 I bought this book at an art store with the purpose of finding a tattoo. I did and 5 years... |  Hong Kong - Culture Smart!: a quick guide to customs and etiquette (Culture Smart!)Best Price: $5.27 As someone who is soon to be an expat in Hong Kong, I've really begun researching about the... |  China on Screen: Cinema and Nation (Film and Culture Series)Best Price: $8.26 Chinese film studies experts Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar present China On Screen: Cinema And... |  Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in ChinaBest Price: $28.00 I found this book to be an excellent study of the promise and failure of revolutions,... |
 Tibetan CivilizationBest Price: $17.12 Rolf Alfred Stein (1911-1999) was one of the foremost Tibetologist and Sinologist of... |  Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in ChinaBest Price: $20.00 Chinese entrepreneurs have founded more than thirty million private businesses since Beijing... |  The Flood Myths of Early China (Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)Best Price: $25.95 Explores how the flood myths of early China provided a template for that society's major social... |  Vietnam: A HistoryBest Price: $1.95 For a so-called "complete" history of Vietnam, this book was decidedly lopsided in... |  The Politics of Piracy: Intellectual Property in Contemporary ChinaBest Price: $16.79 In this book, Andrew Mertha examines the impact of external pressure on China's policymaking and... |
 Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion ActBest Price: $26.66 In this well researched monograph, Andrew Gyory seeks to answer one question: Why did the... |  The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth CenturyBest Price: $155.00 For decades students of "The Secret History of the Mongols" (the primary source on the... |  Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics (Harvard East Asian Monographs)Best Price: $43.16 Huizong was an exceptional emperor who lived through momentous times. A man of many talents, he... |  Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion (Politics, History, and Culture)Best Price: $17.98 A great resource for anyone interested in the Chinese American experience or the development of... |  The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture)Best Price: $20.14 At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power.... |
 The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic ReformBest Price: $20.25 This isn't a good book at all, for the views expressed are either out-dated or can be easily... |  The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi TseringBest Price: $24.25 I always innately knew that my culture and people weren't the most democratic one. I wasn't... |  China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Reaktion Books - Envisioning Asia)Best Price: $31.50 Maybe the blurry photos in this book tell the whole story about it. They're not nice, crisp,... |  Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, NationBest Price: $24.95 Based largely on nineteenth and twentieth-century representations of Chinese dress as... |  Silken Threads: A History of Embroidery in China, Korea, Japan, and VietnamBest Price: $37.85 I discovered this book at the library, renewed it several times, and then decided I just had to... |
 One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies: Battle And Tactics Of Chinese WarfareBest Price: $24.50 This book does what it says... it gives you many examples and many explanations of what strategy... |  Customs & Etiquette Of China (Simple Guides)Best Price: $3.24 Great little book. Just what I was looking for to take along with me on a trip to China. |  Character Text for Intermediate Chinese (Yale Language Series)Best Price: $42.00 This text is a parallel character version of "Intermediate Chinese." |  The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese MedicineBest Price: $26.48 This book is brief enough to be used as a handy reference, yet filled with just the right amount... |  Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China after SocialismBest Price: $23.68 But lacking substance and a forcefully argued coherent thesis. Journalistic and useful... |
 The ChineseBest Price: $8.78 Contains many out-dated information For example, the author described that one teacher in... |  The Woman Who Discovered PrintingBest Price: $10.50 I admit I haven't yet read the book, but I wanted to point out that one of the promotional... |  Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into HistoryBest Price: $22.48 Stefan Tanaka examines how late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese historians... |  Connections Across Eurasia: Transportation, Communication, and Cultural Exchange Along the Silk Roads (Explorations in World History)Best Price: $16.40 This first edition text examines the remarkable histories of the societies and peoples who... |  The Pattern of the Chinese PastBest Price: $26.95 Professor Elvin renders Chinese history through an economic perspective instead of using the... |
 Documents on the Rape of Nanking (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)Best Price: $16.00 I would highly recommend this book to anyone who desires to read primary source accounts of the... |  Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of ChinaBest Price: $30.00 This illuminating work examines the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the... |  Khubilai Khan: His Life and TimesBest Price: $15.00 Rossabi dispels the notions that the Mongol horsemen that conquered half the world were... |  70 Essential Chinese Herbal FormulasBest Price: $29.94 Great outline of "essential" Chinese medicinal formulas (combinations) with... |  Chinese Natural Cures: Traditional Methods for Remedies and PreventionBest Price: $23.25 I use this book often. Of course, acupuncture and herbs are very important. However,... |
 A Great Wall: Six Presidents and ChinaBest Price: $4.99 For the casual China reader, this book is a fun read, with lots of entertaining antecdotes. It... |  The Great Wall: China Against the World, 1000 BC - AD 2000Best Price: $6.99 An extraordinarily pedestrian and highly derivative (she even uses a secondary source for a... |  English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century ChinaBest Price: $21.95 Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores... | ||
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