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From That Cheerful Puff Of Smoke Known As Casper To The Hunkiest Potter Living Or Dead, Sam Wheat, There Is Probably No More Iconic Entity In Supernatural H...

now Available In Two Volumes, This Accessible, Yet Rigorous, Introduction To The Political, Social, And Cultural History Of China Provides A Balanced And T...

The Author Tells Of Her Solitary Confinement And Torture As A Wealthy Chinese Woman During The Cultural Revolution. The Wind Of Revolution -- Witch-hunt -- ...

Learn about the history and culture surrounding Chinese embroidery and learn to embroider yourself with this easy-to-follow and beautifully illustrated gui...

Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more t...

Named by Bill Gates as one of his Top 5 Books of the YearAn Economist Best Book of the YearIn the 1980s and 1990s many in the West came to believe in the m...

Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals, alive in memory as a scourge, hero, military genius and demi-god. To Muslims, Russians and westerners, he is a ...

A history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in mid-nineteenth-century China profiles a period of extreme violence, during which a massive uprising, led by rel...

Asia's History Has Been Shaped By Her Waters. In Unruly Waters, Historian Sunil Amrith Reimagines Asia's History Through The Stories Of Its Rains, Rivers, C...

a Remarkable Achievement...vivid...fluent, Graceful.... A Publishing Event.—boston Globe new York Times monumental.... History That Is Always Lively, Alway...

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer—and one o...

Archaeology of East Asia constitutes an introduction to social and political development from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times. It takes...

Prologue: The Boxer Catastrophe -- An Old World Dies; A New One Is Born -- The Slide Into Chaos -- Forming A New Culture: The May Fourth Movement -- Which W...

In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories ...

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Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before--and with virtually everyone outsid...

A Narrative Account Of The Relationship Between The U.s. And China From The Revolutionary War To The Present Day. Our Relationship With China Remains One Of...

This book is the first major reassessment of ancient Chinese religion to appear in recent years. It provides a historical investigation of broadly shared r...