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 The Jungle War: Mavericks, Marauders and Madmen in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War IIBest Price: $6.00 this book is a precursor of the present political landscapes of burma and india. most... |  San Francisco's Chinatown (Images of America)Best Price: $12.44 Having reviewed the Mid-West cousin book "Chinese in Chicago" last year, I enjoyed the... |  Encounters With Qi: Exploring Chinese MedicineBest Price: $8.21 Dr. Eisenberg is one of the poineers of the Integartive medicine in US ( which is a fussion... |  Fire and Ice : The Korean War, 1950-1953Best Price: $11.26 This is an unimaginative handbook of facts about the Korean War. It is not a history of the war. |  China Cross Talk: The American Debate Over China Policy Since Normalization: A ReaderBest Price: $17.98 Simply outstanding. This should be required reading for any student of contemporary US foreign... |
 The Analects of Confucius (Translations from the Asian Classics)Best Price: $13.64 This little book has had a considerable influence over the centuries in China and its cultural... |  China's Tibet?: Autonomy or AssimilationBest Price: $39.96 This year, Tibetan riots became a lightning rod for Chinese nationalism, as seen on the TV news... |  Imperial China 900-1800Best Price: $20.00 This nearly thousand page book successfully manages to summarize imperial Chinese history from... |  China: 3000 Years of Art and LiteratureBest Price: $36.98 A window into a world of extraordinary beauty and mystery, China: A Celebration in Art and... |  If I Were a Kid in Ancient China: Children of the Ancient World (If I Were a Kid in. . .)Best Price: $10.69 The content of this book did not disappoint me. It covers topics such as shopping, clothing,... |
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 The Seventy Wonders of ChinaBest Price: $11.60 Any collection strong in China surveys, from college-level holdings to general-interest public... |  Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in VietnamBest Price: $20.00 I was a Navy Nurse, not Army. Same, same. This was the first book about the Viet Nam experience... |  Washington's China: The National Security World, the Cold War, And the Origins of Globalism (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War) (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)Best Price: $15.51 College-level students of political science and foreign relations will find plenty of background... |  The Great Wall of China 221 BC-1644 AD (Fortress)Best Price: $7.44 The Great Wall of China is the most impressive defensive system the world has ever seen. The... |  The Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of WarBest Price: $13.50 Eddie Fung's curiosity, sense of adventure, and generous spirit in helping others is inspiring! ... |
 Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the MeanBest Price: $8.00 The only problem is that the text may be hard to follow smoothly since small amounts of... |  On the Warrior's Path: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts MythologyBest Price: $4.42 Finally, in Bolelli we have someone who understands the lovers of martial arts and sees a... |  Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (Envisioning Cuba)Best Price: $34.11 Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a very limited population that was... |  China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising PowerBest Price: $3.00 I found this book at a used book sale just two weeks before the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Since... |  Is Taiwan Chinese?: The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities (Interdisciplinary Studies of China, 2)Best Price: $15.99 "The "one China" policy officially supported by the People's Republic of China,... |
 Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet (Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)Best Price: $1.46 Looking at today's newspaper headlines we can now see how the rising demand for food in the... |  China's Brave New World: And Other Tales for Global TimesBest Price: $10.99 Jeff Wasserstrom is among the most engaging of the new generation of U.S. intellectuals who... |  High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of EverestBest Price: $11.25 The funny thing is that people probably eschew this book, thinking it's written in "old... |  Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768Best Price: $20.00 By using his detailed research on the Chinese society of the eighteenth-century, Philip Kuhn... |  Shadows and Wind: A View of Modern VietnamBest Price: $5.04 There are so very many books about Vietnam, I was hesitant when I picked this up, and I expected... |
 In Exile from the Land of Snows: The Definitive Account of the Dalai Lama and Tibet Since the Chinese ConquestBest Price: $7.95 Probably this book has not been read in recent times as much as it was before. The reason is... |  The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)Best Price: $23.89 A decade after the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China established their formidable... |  Business ChineseBest Price: $26.40 This book will help readers develop their competence in advanced Chinese in a business context.... |  77 Dances: Japanese Calligraphy by Poets, Monks, and Scholars 1568-1868Best Price: $29.95 Others have reviewed some of the academic aspects of this finely produced, indeed beautiful,... |  A War Like No Other: The Truth About China's Challenge to AmericaBest Price: $2.57 America's reaction to Tiananmen Square, quick victory in the first Persian Gulf War, and Taiwan... |
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