The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China
ISBN13: 9780674031463Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all ... Read More
A Grey Moon Over China
Product DescriptionArmy engineer Eduardo Torres is caught up in the world’s raging oil wars when he stumbles onto the plans for a quantum-energy battery. This remarkable device could slow civilization’s inevitable descent into environmental disaster, but Torres has other plans. ... Read More
Governing China: From Revolution to Reform
Product DescriptionGoverning China: From Revolution to Reform, the leading text for courses on Chinese politics has been thoroughly revised and updated. The new Second Edition includes discussions of: The consumer revolution that has brought China's major urban areas ... Read More
The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China Of Ancient China
ISBN13: 9780465003044Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionFinally available in paperback, Ralph D. Sawyer's incomparable study of ancient Chinese warfare. One of the most profound studies of warfare ever written, The Seven Military Classics of ... Read More
The Arts of China, Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded
ISBN13: 9780520255692Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionFor the fifth edition of his internationally renowned The Arts of China, Michael Sullivan has thoroughly revised and expanded every chapter of this classic history of Chinese art from the ... Read More
China into Africa: Trade, Aid, and Influence
ISBN13: 9780815775614Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionAfrica has long attracted China. We can date their first certain involvement from the fourteenth century, but East African city-states may have been trading with southern China even earlier. In ... Read More
Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
ISBN13: 9780385482325Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionA Canadian of Chinese descent recounts her sojourn in Communist China beginning in 1972, during which her strong faith in Maoist ideology gave way to sympathy ... Read More
The Lost Daughters of China: Adopted Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past
ISBN13: 9781585426768Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionIn 1997 journalist Karin Evans walked into an orphanage in southern China and met her new daughter, a beautiful one-year-old baby girl. In this fateful moment Evans became part of ... Read More
China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty
ISBN13: 9780674033061Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time ... Read More
Rueful Death: A China Bayles Mystery
ISBN13: 9780425159415Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionDuring a supposedly relaxing retreat at a Texas convent, herbalist China Bayles and her friend Maggie, an ex-nun, investigate the seemingly accidental death of the Mother ... Read More
When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433
Product DescriptionA hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire's finest porcelains, lacquerware and silk ... Read More
The Beijing Consensus: How China’s Authoritarian Model Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century
Product DescriptionBeijing presents a clear and gathering threat to Washington—but not for the reasons you think. China’s challenge to the West stems from its transformative brand of capitalism and an entirely different conception of the international community.Taking us on a ... Read More
Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China
ISBN13: 9780307456243Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description“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 ... Read More
The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
Product Description The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire–a millennium and a half in the making–was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan ... Read More
Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China
ISBN13: 9780698113886Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description"A misty dreamlike air. A worthwhile addition to picture-book collections."-- Booklist. A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award Winner. An ALA Notable Children's Book. A School Library Journal Best Book of ... Read More
Lavender Lies: A China Bayles Mystery
ISBN13: 9780425177006Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionTexas herbalist China Bayles must put her upcoming nuptials on the back burner when a murder investigation entangles her friends and neighbors. Lavender Lies: A China Bayles Mystery ... Read More
Accepting Authoritarianism: State-Society Relations in China’s Reform Era
Product DescriptionWhy hasn't the emergence of capitalism led China's citizenry to press for liberal democratic change? This book argues that China's combination of state-led development, late industrialization, and socialist legacies have affected popular perceptions of socioeconomic mobility, economic dependence on ... Read More
Dragon Rising: An Inside Look At China Today
Product DescriptionNo nation on Earth is as newsworthy as 21st-century China—and no book could be timelier than Dragon Rising, as world attention focuses on China's all-out effort to present itself as a modern world power and on the 2008 Beijing ... Read More
Nightshade: China Bayles #16
ISBN13: 9780425227039Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionChina’s still reeling from her father’s death and has no interest in her halfbrother Miles’s investigation. But when fate forces her to get involved, China realizes it’s time to bring ... Read More
Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution
Product DescriptionMost people cannot remember when their childhood ended. I, on the other hand, have a crystal-clear memory of that moment. It happened at night in the summer of 1966, when my elementary school headmaster hanged himself.Moying Li is twelve ... Read More
China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing’s Expansion in Africa
ISBN13: 9781568584263Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionChina has now taken Great Britain’s place as Africa’s third largest business partner. Where others only see chaos, the Chinese see opportunities. With no colonial past and no political preconditions, ... Read More
China Underground
ISBN13: 9781593762230Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionAt the beginning of the 21st century, it is hard to imagine a place more exciting than China. Westerners hear much about China’s role as the next “global superpower,” but ... Read More
The China Dream: The Quest for the Last Great Untapped Market on Earth
Product DescriptionIn The China Dream, acclaimed business journalist Joe Studwell takes to task the predictions that China will become an economic juggernaut on the world stage in the twenty-first century -- and instead foresees an economic crisis. ... Read More
Chinese Business Etiquette: A Guide to Protocol, Manners, and Culture in the People’s Republic of China
ISBN13: 9780446673877Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionEast-West business is booming as thousands of people flock to China. The author, with 25 years of experience dealing with the Chinese, provides up-to-date advice on how to succeed, avoid ... Read More
Iron Council
ISBN13: 9780345458421Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionFollowing Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Miéville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries ... Read More
