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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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Wild Swans

By Jung Chang ,

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Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China's Cultural Revolution
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Ten Years of Madness

By Feng Jicai ,

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The Golden Days
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The Golden Days

By Cao Xueqin , David Hawkes (translator) ,

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A Hero Born
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A Hero Born

By Jin Yong , Anna Holmwood (translator) ,

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June Fourth
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June Fourth

By Jeremy Brown ,

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The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
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The World Turned Upside Down

By Yang Jisheng , Stacy Mosher (translator) , Guo Jian (translator)

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Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to XI Jinping
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Making China Modern

By Klaus Mühlhahn ,

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How the Red Sun Rose: The Origin and Development of the Yan'an Rectification Movement, 1930-1945
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How the Red Sun Rose

By Hua Gao , Stacy Mosher (translator) , Guo Jian (translator)

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Mistress of the Empire
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Mistress of the Empire

By Raymond E. Feist , Janny Wurts ,

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Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China
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Inscribed Landscapes

By Richard E. Strassberg ,

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The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai
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The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai

By Bangqing Han ,

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The Sword Dancer
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The Sword Dancer

By Jeannie Lin ,

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The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man's Life in a North China Village, 1857-1942
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The Man Awakened from Dreams

By Henrietta Harrison ,

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Rickshaw Beijing: City People & Politics in the 1920s
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Rickshaw Beijing

By David Strand ,

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History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth
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History in Three Keys

By Paul Cohen ,

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Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928
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Manchus and Han

By Edward J. M. Rhoads ,

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A Tale of Two Melons: Emperor and Subject in Ming China
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A Tale of Two Melons

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The First Emperor: Selections from the Historical Records (Oxford World's Classics)
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The First Emperor

By Sima Qian , Raymond Dawson (translator) ,

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Confucianism in China: An Introduction
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Confucianism in China

By Tony Swain ,

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The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention
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The Genius of China

By Robert Temple ,

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Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi
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Emperor of China

By Jonathan D. Spence ,

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The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
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The Last Embassy

By Tonio Andrade ,

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Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan
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Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan

By Margery Wolf ,

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Escapism
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Escapism

By Yi-Fu Tuan ,

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The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History
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The Yellow River

By Ruth Mostern ,

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Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas
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Raise the Red Lantern

By Su Tong , Michael S. Duke (translator) ,

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Moment in Peking
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Moment in Peking

By Lin Yutang ,

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The Shortest History of China
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The Shortest History of China

By Linda Jaivin ,

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