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  • Ground Forces in the Korean War 1950–53 (1)

    The North Korean People’s Army and the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army

    Series Book 560 - Men-at-Arms
    Featuring full-color artwork, this book describes and illustrates the Chinese and North Korean troops who fought US and UN forces in Korea during 1950–53.In June 1950, North Korean forces armed and equipped by the Soviet Union invaded South Korea, forcing back the US and South Korean troops facing them and threatening them with complete defeat. After the US and UN forces mounted a series of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • To Overthrow the World

    The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism

    by Sean McMeekin ...
    From an award-winning historian, a new global history of CommunismWhen the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was not. While Russia may no longer be Communist, Communism and sympathy for Communist ideas have proliferated across the globe.In To Overthrow the World, Sean McMeekin investigates the evolution of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo

    Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan

    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo explores the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts that have been revolutionizing the study of early China. Leading scholars from China and abroad lend their expertise in archaeology, art history, paleography, intellectual history, and many other disciplines to show how these fascinating finds change our understanding of China's past. Organized in ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue

    A Literary Translation of the First Chinese Novel, Wu Yue chunqiu

    Series series SUNY series, Translating China
    A Tale of Two Kingdoms offers a highly readable translation of the earliest surviving novel written in the Chinese language, Wu Yue chunqiu (The Spring and Autumn Annals of the Kingdoms of Wu and Yue). Composed nearly two millennia ago and featuring some of the most famous characters in Chinese literature, this powerful saga of humiliation, violence, and revenge recounts the battles between the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Whirlpool That Produced China

    Stag Hunting on the Central Plain

    by Tingyang Zhao ...
    Translated by Edmund Ryden ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    In The Whirlpool That Produced China, Tingyang Zhao offers a philosophical interpretation of China's historicity, explaining how the expansion of China was not due to the lures of expansionist behavior but to the offerings of the surrounding contenders as they were constantly being pulled into a whirlpool of growth and amalgamation. The peoples surrounding China on all four sides sought to win the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • Affective Betrayal

    Mind, Music, and Embodied Action in Late Qing China

    by Jean Tsui ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Affective Betrayal uses "affect" as an analytical category to explicate the fragility and fragmentation of Chinese political modernity. In so doing, the book uncovers some of the unresolved moral and philosophical obstacles China encountered in the past, as well as the cultural predicament the country faces at present.At the turn of the twentieth century, China's leading reformer Liang Qichao ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Mission to Mao

    US Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II

    Series series Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History
    An innovative history of US intelligence officers on the ground and the first official contacts between the United States and the Chinese Communist PartyFrom 1941 to 1947, the United States planted a liaison mission in the headquarters of Chinese Communist forces behind the lines. Nicknamed the “Dixie Mission,” for its location in “rebel” territory, it was an interagency delegation that included ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Chinese Colonial Entanglements

    Commodities and Traders in the Southern Asia Pacific, 1880–1950

    Series series Asia Pacific Flows
    Chinese Colonial Entanglements takes a new geographical approach to understanding the Chinese diaspora, shining a light on Chinese engagement in labor, trade, and industry in the British colonies of the southern Asia Pacific. Starting from the 1880s, a decade when British colonization was rapidly expanding and establishing new industries and townships, this volume covers the period up to 1950, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires

    A captivating history of civilization that reveals the central role of the horse in culture, commerce, and conquest.No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe; later, their horses enabled new forms of warfare, encouraged long ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Metaphor and Meaning

    Thinking Through Early China with Sarah Allan

    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    In Metaphor and Meaning, scholars from China, the United States, and Europe draw on Sarah Allan's groundbreaking application of conceptual metaphor theory to the study of early Chinese philosophy and material culture. Conceptual metaphor theory treats metaphors not just as linguistic expressions but as fundamental structures of thought that define one's conceptual system and perception of reality. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • At the Edge of Empire

    A Family's Reckoning with China

    by Edward Wong ...
    **“Edward Wong’s exquisite family chronicle achieves a level of humane illumination that only one of America’s finest reporters on China could deliver. In tracing his father’s journey—from Hong Kong to Xinjiang to America—Wong gives us a profound story of modern China itself. Anyone who once was absorbed by the power of Wild Swans will savor this meditation on memory, history, and belonging.” ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Teacher Competence for Early Career Teachers in China

    The Distance between “Ivory Tower” and “Lectern”

    by Xiaojing Yan ...
    Examining the teacher education landscape in China, Xiaojing Yan focuses on how early career teachers (ECTs) build their competence during the initial years of teaching, challenges that come with teacher training and pathways to improve teacher competence.Although there is a growing trend in China to focus on teacher quality and professional development, teacher competence varies across teacher ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Myth and the Making of History

    Narrating Early China with Sarah Allan

    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Myth and the Making of History examines the relationship between myth and history in early China, a topic that has been explored by American paleographer and scholar of ancient China Sarah Allan throughout her career. Allan has worked at a crucial and sensitive intersection, where myth and history collide at the very heart of China's origin story. Her work has created an intellectual space in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Chasing Traces

    History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia

    In the connected highlands of southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos, recalling the past is a highly sensitive act. Among local societies, many may actively avoid recalling the past for fear of endangering themselves and others. Oral traditions and rare archives remain the main avenues to visit the past, but the national revolutionary narrative and the language of heritagization have strongly affected ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Chinese Computer

    A Global History of the Information Age

    The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing.A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet—be input on such a device? In The Chinese Computer, Thomas S. Mullaney sets out to resolve this paradox, and in doing so, discovers that ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Struggle for Taiwan

    A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between

    A concise, definitive history of the precarious relationship among the US, China, and TaiwanAs tensions over Taiwan escalate, the United States and China stand on the brink of a catastrophic war. Resolving the impasse demands we understand how it began. In 1943, the Allies declared that Japanese-held Taiwan would return to China at the conclusion of World War II. The Chinese civil war led to a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Chinese Furniture

    A Guide to Collecting Antiques

    The international market for antique Chinese furniture is booming, and masterpieces from the Ming and Qing dynasties are now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Chinese Furniture is a survey of these collectibles--from the very best hardwood pieces featured to standard softwood specimens still available on the Asian market.This antique furniture book presents an overview of carving styles, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Zhou Enlai

    A Life

    by Jian Chen ...
    The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People’s Republic of China, who protected his country against the excesses of his boss—Chairman Mao.Zhou Enlai spent twenty-seven years as premier of the People’s Republic of China and ten as its foreign minister. He was the architect of the country’s administrative apparatus and its relationship to the world, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Art of War

    by Sun Tzu ...
    “The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”There is a reason why five-star generals and Fortune 500 CEO’s alike have consulted this classic book on the planning and conduct of military operations. Written in China more than 2000 years ago, The Art ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Unlocking the Chinese Gate

    Manifestations of the Space "In-Between" in Early China

    by Galia Dor ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Unlocking the Chinese Gate offers an innovative analysis of gates in early Chinese thought and material culture. Observing gates from various perspectives—including philosophy, architecture, and psychology—and through the conceptual lens of Chinese correlative thinking, Galia Dor conceptualizes the Chinese gate as a membrane-like apparatus that, from the space "in-between," efficaciously manifests ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • 50 Useful Tips On China

    Why do Chinese people do so much voluntary overtime at work? Who is the key mastermind behind traditional marriages, and how come their jokes are funny but yours are not? 50 Useful Tips helps to unravel the many mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. The author, Ralph Jennings, isn't Chinese and while that gives him a certain objectivity, it also inevitably leaves him partly in the dark. He put in his ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • World on the Brink

    How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century

    The leading national security expert who predicted Putin’s intention to invade Ukraine argues that China’s Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan in the coming years—with dire stakes for America and the world if he is not deterredWe are fully in the midst of Cold War II, this time with China. Taiwan is a new West Berlin, a perilous strategic flashpoint where localized events could trigger a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Southern Tour

    Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future

    On a freezing January afternoon in 1992, Deng Xiaoping, China's former paramount leader and now a revered elder statesman, set off on a month long trip around China's south in defence of the reforms he had set in motion to open up China's economy and transform the country into the political and economic powerhouse we know today.In this book Jonathan Chatwin pursues the story of Deng's legendary ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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