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China's Military in Transition is the most comprehensive study of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) ever published. Drawing upon a broad range of documentary sources and interviews, many of the world's leading specialists on the Chinese military...

Chinese Empresses highlights the stories of Chinese imperial women and how male authorities attempted to curb their power. It disputes the notion that Chinese empresses were simply hapless or powerless victims of the male-dominated political system. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438497686Author Constance A. CookFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888843213Author Ibrahim JalalFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Earnshaw Books LtdPublisher Earnshaw Books LtdWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647488857Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013294945Author Michal LubinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644390153Author Herbert GilesFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888769148Author Frank Kingdon-WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Earnshaw Books LtdPublisher Earnshaw Books LtdWeight(grams) 209g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888769117Author Pierre LotiFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Earnshaw Books LtdPublisher Earnshaw Books LtdWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142000410Author Jonathan D. SpenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 258gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In this never-before-seen account, Henry F. Pringle, a Chinese citizen of British parentage, describes the Japanese occupation of Shanghai from a survivor's perspective. From the engine room of Imperial Japanese terror-Bridge House Prison-to the prison...

This volume looks at the secular state in the context of contemporary Asia and investigates whether there existed before modernity antecedents to the condition of secularity, understood as the differentiation of the sphere of the religious from other...

Dennis Unkovic's much-needed message punctures the myth of China's inexorable ascent: Because China is a Leninist party-state it is dangerous-and doomed to inefficiencies and irrationalities that will sap its vigor.- George F. Will, syndicated...

Modern Erasures is an ambitious and innovative study of the acts of epistemic violence behind China's transformation from a semicolonized republic to a Communist state over the twentieth century. Pierre Fuller charts the pedigree of Maoist thought and...

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'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama 'A splendid journey through eighty years of Chinese history ... Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a guide to China as a reader could ever hope to find' Barbara Demick...

A fresh eyewitness account of the Japanese invasion of mid-China in 1937-1938, these letters by an American missionary in Hangzhou provide a vividly detailed, first-hand account of the spread of war from Shanghai across the Yangzi valley and the...

This lively and engaging text offers a panorama of modern Chinese history through compelling biographies of the famous and obscure. Spanning five hundred years, they include a Ming dynasty medical pioneer, a Qing dynasty courtesan, a nineteenth-century...

Despite its increasingly secure place in the world, the People's Republic of China remains dissatisfied with its global status. Its growing material power has simultaneously led to both greater influence and unsettling questions about its international...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647486334Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604441062Author Herbert GilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 222g

Foreign adventurers have been tramping around China for centuries, and this book presents some of the best of the stories from the dozens of travel memoirs published, particularly in the golden era of the late nineteenth century. These accounts, abridged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390215126Author William Alexander Parsons MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 363g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967160017Author Annemarie LaurenzFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Personal Growth HackersPublisher Personal Growth HackersWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789875195Author Ku Hung-MingFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 150g

In this book, Jing Luo provides a comprehensive and insightful introduction to Chinese life and culture. Designed for use as a college text, Luo's examination combines traditional culture, contemporary culture, and communicative protocols in daily life...

Ralph Smith was a highly respected historian who, at the time of his death in December 2000, had nearly completed a manuscript chronicling changes in the East Asia region since 1943. This fascinating work, completed and edited by Chad Mitcham, one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927077252Author Der LingFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Soul Care PublishingPublisher Soul Care PublishingWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888422203Author Norwood F. AllmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Earnshaw Books LimitedPublisher Earnshaw Books Limited

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The culmination of D. E. Mungello's forty years of study on Sino-Western history, this book provides a compelling and nuanced history of Roman Catholicism in modern China. As the author vividly shows, when China declined into a two-century cycle of...

This distinctive and enlightening book explores the invention and development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the profound question of how Chinese have traditionally expressed individuality. Western stereotypes portray a culture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887341613Author Jia Ming WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Mingmandarin.comPublisher Mingmandarin.comWeight(grams) 263g

This groundbreaking book analyzes marriage and family reform in twentieth-century China. Lisa Tran's examination of changes in the perception of concubinage explores the subtle, yet very meaningful, shifts in the construction of monogamy in contemporary...