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The Voice that Remembers

One Woman's Historic Fight to Free Tibet

by Adhe Tapontsang, Joy Blakeslee ...

When Adhe Tapontsang--or Ama (Mother) Adhe, as she is affectionately known--left Tibet in 1987, she was allowed to do so on the condition that she remain silent about her twenty-seven years in Chinese prisons. Yet she made a promise to herself and to the many that did not survive: she would not let the truth about China's occupation go unheard or unchallenged.The Voice That Remembers is an ... Read more

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When Adhe Tapontsang--or Ama (Mother) Adhe, as she is affectionately known--left Tibet in 1987, she was allowed to do so on the condition that she remain silent about her twenty-seven years in Chinese prisons. Yet she made a promise to herself and to the many that did not survive: she would not let the truth about China's occupation go unheard or unchallenged.The Voice That Remembers is an
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Selected Military Writings of Mao Tse-tung

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This is an incredible collection of all of Mao's great military works. This book was originally published by the Foreign Language Press in Peking in 1967. This is all of Mao's military writings from 1928 to 1949. Including such important works as "On Protracted War" and "Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War." These are the source documents from which all of the military thought and ... Read more

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This is an incredible collection of all of Mao's great military works. This book was originally published by the Foreign Language Press in Peking in 1967. This is all of Mao's military writings from 1928 to 1949. Including such important works as "On Protracted War" and "Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War." These are the source documents from which all of the military thought and
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Jesus in Beijing

How Christianity Is Transforming China And Changing the Global Balance of Power

by David Aikman ...

This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant, its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity, and what this change means to the global balance of power. ... Read more

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This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant, its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity, and what this change means to the global balance of power.
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The Phoenix Years

Art, resistance and the making of modern China

by Madeleine O'Dea ...

'Amidst all the chatter about China lies this rock of a book, a magnificent memoir/ history from the very core of modern Chinese society and history. It's a wonderful thing where the essential book and the delightful book are, as in this case, the one thing. Let no one speak of China who has not read The Phoenix Years.' Tom Keneally, author of AustraliansThe Phoenix Years tells the riveting story ... Read more

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'Amidst all the chatter about China lies this rock of a book, a magnificent memoir/ history from the very core of modern Chinese society and history. It's a wonderful thing where the essential book and the delightful book are, as in this case, the one thing. Let no one speak of China who has not read The Phoenix Years.' Tom Keneally, author of AustraliansThe Phoenix Years tells the riveting story
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Run, Run, Run: A Young Boy's Journey through the Cambodian Tragedy

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Cambodia, 1975, Pol Pot succeeds in military vistory and ascends to a four year ablolute dictatorship. After victory, he plunges Cambodia into total isolation and inflicts genocide on 25% of his citizens, a per capita rate exceeding that of any other country in history including Germany. Pol dreams that counterrevolutionary forces will take control, thus ousting him from power. This must be ... Read more

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Cambodia, 1975, Pol Pot succeeds in military vistory and ascends to a four year ablolute dictatorship. After victory, he plunges Cambodia into total isolation and inflicts genocide on 25% of his citizens, a per capita rate exceeding that of any other country in history including Germany. Pol dreams that counterrevolutionary forces will take control, thus ousting him from power. This must be
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A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail

Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598

by Dr. Kenneth M. Swope, Ph.D ...

Series series Campaigns and Commanders Series
The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China, and eventually all of Asia; but Korea’s appeal to China’s Emperor Wanli for assistance triggered a ... Read more

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The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China, and eventually all of Asia; but Korea’s appeal to China’s Emperor Wanli for assistance triggered a
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Exemplary Women of Early China

The Lienü zhuan of Liu Xiang

Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
In early China, was it correct for a woman to disobey her father, contradict her husband, or shape the public policy of a son who ruled over a dynasty or state? According to the Lienü zhuan, or Categorized Biographies of Women, it was not only appropriate but necessary for women to step in with wise counsel when fathers, husbands, or rulers strayed from the path of virtue.Compiled toward the end ... Read more

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In early China, was it correct for a woman to disobey her father, contradict her husband, or shape the public policy of a son who ruled over a dynasty or state? According to the Lienü zhuan, or Categorized Biographies of Women, it was not only appropriate but necessary for women to step in with wise counsel when fathers, husbands, or rulers strayed from the path of virtue.Compiled toward the end
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The Battle for Manchuria and the Fate of China

Siping, 1946

by Harold M. Tanner ...

Series series Twentieth-Century Battles
"A well-organized and excellently researched work" ( H-War) on one of the crucial battles of China's civil war.In 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 ceasefire brokered by the American general, George ... Read more

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"A well-organized and excellently researched work" ( H-War) on one of the crucial battles of China's civil war.In 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 ceasefire brokered by the American general, George
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Opera and the City

The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900

by Andrea Goldman ...

In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values.It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. Her ... Read more

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In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values.It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. Her
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Origins of Chinese Sports

by Lim SK, Fu Chunjiang, Victor Petersen ...

This book will enhance your appreciation of China as a sports mation and champion. Take a journey to rediscover the origins of various sports through Chinese history. ... Read more

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This book will enhance your appreciation of China as a sports mation and champion. Take a journey to rediscover the origins of various sports through Chinese history.
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Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China

Fostering Talent

by Lisa M. Hoffman ...

Series series Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
In the post-Maoist era, China adopted a strategy for investing in the “quality” of its people—through education and training opportunities—that created talented labor. In her significant ethnographic study, Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China, Lisa Hoffman explains why the development of “human capital” is seen as fundamental for economic growth and national progress. She examines these new ... Read more

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In the post-Maoist era, China adopted a strategy for investing in the “quality” of its people—through education and training opportunities—that created talented labor. In her significant ethnographic study, Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China, Lisa Hoffman explains why the development of “human capital” is seen as fundamental for economic growth and national progress. She examines these new
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Chinese Lives

The People Who Made a Civilization

by Victor H. Mair, Sanping Chen, Frances Wood ...

3000 years of Chinese history presented through the lives of ninety-six illustrious participants from all periods and all parts of the countryChina is the most populous country on earth, with the longest history of any modern nation. Here, the full range of Chinese cultural and scientific achievements, as well as its military conquests, wars, rebellions, and political and philosophical movements, ... Read more

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3000 years of Chinese history presented through the lives of ninety-six illustrious participants from all periods and all parts of the countryChina is the most populous country on earth, with the longest history of any modern nation. Here, the full range of Chinese cultural and scientific achievements, as well as its military conquests, wars, rebellions, and political and philosophical movements,
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