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The Secret Army: Chiang Kai-shek and the Drug Warlords of the Golden Triangle by Richard Michael Gibson
RRP: $64.35$41.38The incredible story of how Chiang Kai-shek's defeated army came to dominate the Asian drug trade After their defeat in China's civil war, remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's armies took refuge in Burma before being driven into Thailand and Laos. Based on... -
Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right? Olivia Cheung 9789463720298
RRP: $208.65$198.76This book reconstructs the factional-ideological conflicts surrounding socialist transformation and political reform in China that were played out through 'factional model-making', a norm-bound mechanism for elites of the Chinese Communist Party to... -
Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State by Justin M. Jacobs 9780295742649
$61.05Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295806570Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui,... -
Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China's West by Ben Hillman
RRP: $48.75$38.20Despite more than a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China's western borderlands are awash in a wave of ethnic unrest not seen since the 1950s. Through... -
Was Mao Really a Monster?: The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story" by Gregor Benton
RRP: $93.58$81.53Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. The book portrays Mao as a monster - equal to or worse than Hitler and Stalin - and a fool who won power by native cunning and ruled by terror. It received a... -
Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864 by James A. Millward 9781503600621
RRP: $54.58$47.85As analysis of the revenue available to Qing garrisons in Xinjiang reveals, imperial control over the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries depended upon sizeable yearly subsidies from China. In an effort to satisfy criticism of their... -
Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China by Yan Liu
RRP: $48.73$47.07Winner of the 2023 William H. Welch Medal, sponsored by the American Association for the History of MedicineA revealing study of risky cures in classical Chinese pharmacyAt first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China's... -
William Nelson Lovatt in Late Qing China: War, Maritime Customs, and Treaty Ports, 1860-1904 by Wayne Patterson 9781498566469
RRP: $175.50$153.68William Nelson Lovatt in Late Qing China: War, Maritime Customs, and Treaty Ports,1860-1904 looks at the late Qing dynasty through the eyes of a British-American who spent most of his adult life in China in the late nineteenth century, fighting in four... -
The Terra Cotta Army: China's First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation by John Man 9780306818400
$28.22The Terra Cotta Army is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made. Over seven thousand life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the mausoleum of the first emperor of China--and each figure was individually carved. Weaving... -
The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960 by Janet Y. Chen
RRP: $58.50$45.42Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world today. In China, a country with a vast array of regional and local vernaculars, how was this “common language” forged? How did people learn to speak Mandarin? And what does a focus on... -
After the Post-Cold War: The Future of Chinese History by Jinhua Dai
RRP: $40.93$35.82In After the Post-Cold War eminent Chinese cultural critic Dai Jinhua interrogates history, memory, and the future of China as a global economic power in relation to its socialist past, profoundly shaped by the Cold War. Drawing on Marxism,... -
Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World by Gabriel Lafitte
$47.01The mineral-rich mountains of Tibet so far have been largely untouched by China's growing economy. Nor has Beijing been able to settle Tibet with politically reliable peasant Chinese. That is all about to change as China's 12th Five-Year Plan, from 2011... -
Ancient Chinese Warfare by Ralph D. Sawyer 9780465021451
RRP: $74.10$59.32The history of China is a history of warfare. Rarely in its 3,000-year existence has the country not been beset by war, rebellion, or raids. Warfare was a primary source of innovation, social evolution, and material progress in the Legendary Era, Hsia... -
Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier by Professor Melissa Macauley
RRP: $68.25$54.87A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in itChina has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the... -
When the Iron Bird Flies: China's Secret War in Tibet by Jianglin Li
RRP: $54.58$45.63An untold story that reshapes our understanding of Chinese and Tibetan history From 1956 to 1962, devastating military conflicts took place in China's southwestern and northwestern regions. Official record at the time scarcely made mention of the... -
The Battle for Manchuria and the Fate of China: Siping, 1946 by Harold M. Tanner 9780253007230
RRP: $54.58$47.07In the spring of 1946, Communists and Nationalist Chinese were battled for control of Manchuria and supremacy in the civil war. The Nationalist attack on Siping ended with a Communist withdrawal, but further pursuit was halted by a cease-fire brokered by... -
Structures of the Earth: Metageographies of Early Medieval China by D Jonathan Felt
RRP: $111.05$88.90The traditional Chinese notion of itself as the "middle kingdom"-literally the cultural and political center of the world-remains vital to its own self-perceptions and became foundational to Western understandings of China. This worldview was primarily... -
China by Henrietta Harrison 9780340741344
RRP: $116.98$116.24Both Western historians and Chinese nationalists have argued that from early times China had the features of a nation state: a common language, culture, and bureaucracy. This argument is important not only because it affects our understanding of how... -
Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China by Joseph W. Esherick
RRP: $58.50$45.42A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Yan'an is China's "revolutionary holy land," the heart of Mao Zedong's Communist movement from 1937 to 1947. Based on thirty years of archival and documentary... -
Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962: An Oral History by Xun Zhou 9780300184044
$109.12A powerful account of China's Great Famine as told through the voices of those who survived it In 1958, China's revered leader Mao Zedong instituted a program designed to transform his giant nation into a Communist utopia. Called the Great Leap Forward,... -
An Introduction to Daoist Philosophies by Steve Coutinho 9780231143394
RRP: $42.90$33.85Steve Coutinho explores in detail the fundamental concepts of Daoist thought as represented in three early texts: the Laozi, the Zhuangzi, and the Liezi. Readers interested in philosophy yet unfamiliar with Daoism will gain a comprehensive understanding... -
Empire of Style: Silk and Fashion in Tang China by BuYun Chen
$129.79Tang dynasty (618-907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang'an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In... -
How the "Red Star" Rose - Edgar Snow and Early Images of Mao Zedong by Ishikawa Yoshihiro
RRP: $146.25$131.63Until the present day, Mao Zedong's biography has been the subject of an international mountain of commentary in China and elsewhere. Biographies praising Mao and those slandering him are all based on the American journalist Edgar Snow's (1905-1972)... -
The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800 by D. E. Mungello 9781442219762
RRP: $72.15$63.69For the Chinese, the drive toward growing political and economic power is part of an ongoing effort to restore China's past greatness and remove the lingering memories of history's humiliations. This widely praised book explores the 1500-1800 period... -
Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order by Yeling Tan 9781501759635
RRP: $85.80$74.76Set in the aftermath of China's entry into the World Trade Organization, Disaggregating China, Inc. questions the extent to which the liberal internationalist promise of membership has been fulfilled in China. Yeling Tan unpacks the policies that various... -
Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue: An Annotated Translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu by Jianjun He
RRP: $95.55$83.01Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue is the first complete English translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu, a chronicle of two neighboring states during China's Spring and Autumn period. This collection of political history, philosophy, and fictional accounts... -
The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization by Sean Metzger
RRP: $38.98$34.20In The Chinese Atlantic, Sean Metzger charts processes of global circulation across and beyond the Atlantic, exploring how seascapes generate new understandings of Chinese migration, financial networks and artistic production. Moving across film,... -
Guanzi: Political, Economic, and Philosophical Essays from Early China by W. Allyn Rickett
RRP: $120.90$94.03Named for the famous Chinese minister of state, Guan Zhong (d. 645 B.C.), the Guanzi is one of the largest collections of ancient Chinese writings still in existence. With this volume, W. Allyn Rickett completes the first full translation of the Guanzi... -
Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China by Prasenjit Duara
RRP: $54.60$53.41This study offers a systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including a discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial... -
Enemies of Civilization: Attitudes toward Foreigners in Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China by Mu-chou Poo 9780791463642
$56.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791463642Author Mu-chou PooFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Excavating the Afterlife: The Archaeology of Early Chinese Religion by Guolong Lai
RRP: $105.30$92.02In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeological perspective. By examining burial structure, grave goods, and religious documents unearthed from... -
Superpower Interrupted: A Chinese History of the World by Michael Schuman
RRP: $37.03$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541788336Author Michael SchumanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint PublicAffairs,U.S.Publisher PublicAffairs,U.S.Weight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm... -
Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos by Emily Wu 9780307276629
RRP: $37.05$26.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307276629Author Emily WuFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 302gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan
RRP: $50.68$37.09"It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two... -
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI: The Memoirs of Han China, Part IV by Ssu-ma Ch'ien
RRP: $97.50$85.43The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI presents the final nine memoirs of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's history, continuing the series of collective biographies with seven more prosopographies on the ruthless officials, the wandering gallants, the artful favorites,... -
China's Foreign Policy and Practice: A Survey Wenguang Shao 9781032293264
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book is one of the first wide-ranging surveys of China's foreign policy and practice from the 16th century to the present day from a Chinese perspective. A modern history of China's interaction with major powers, it throws new light on the events... -
China and Japan: Facing History by Ezra F Vogel
RRP: $44.75$37.81A Financial Times "Summer Books" Selection"Will become required reading."-Times Literary Supplement"Elegantly written...with a confidence that comes from decades of deep research on the topic, illustrating how influence and power have waxed and waned... -
Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of India-China Relations, 600-1400 by Tansen Sen 9781442254725
RRP: $78.00$72.07Relations between China and India underwent a dramatic transformation from Buddhist-dominated to commerce-centered exchanges in the seventh to fifteenth centuries. The unfolding of this transformation, its causes, and wider ramifications are examined in... -
Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture by Jonathan D. Spence 9780393309942
RRP: $45.83$39.78The spirit of adventure is at the heart of Jonathan Spence's widely acclaimed scholarship on the modern history of China. This vitality, fleshed out with deep research and attired in elegant style, has drawn countless readers to subjects otherwise... -
Modernization and Revolution in China by June Grasso 9781032124896
RRP: $70.18$61.80Extensively revised and fully updated in this sixth edition, this popular textbook conveys the drama of China's struggle to modernize against the backdrop of a proud and difficult history. Featuring a new analysis of the issues facing China's fifth...