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  • The Five "Confucian" Classics

    by Mr. Michael Nylan ...
    The Five Classics associated with Confucius formed the core curriculum in the education of Chinese literati throughout most of the imperial period. In this book Michael Nylan offers a sweeping assessment of these ancient texts and shows how their influence spread across East Asia.Nylan begins by tracing the formation of the Five Classics canon in the pre-Han and Han periods, 206 B.C.A.D. 220, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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    Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market

    by Jim Rogers ...
    If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China. Now the one and only Jim Rogers shows how any investor can get in on the ground floor of “the greatest economic boom since England’s Industrial Revolution.”In this indispensable new book, one of the world’s most successful investors, Jim Rogers, brings his unerring investment acumen to bear on this ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Polarity Therapy

    by Joana Ananji ...
    Once energy is unbalanced, barricaded or fixed due to tension or additional factors, pain and disease develop. Obstructions commonly manifest in sequence from the subtle to the dense layers of the field. Polarity Therapy tries to discover the blockages and free energy to go to normal flow patterns, and to uphold the energy field in an open, flexible condition. ... Read more

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  • The Killing Wind

    A Chinese County's Descent into Madness during the Cultural Revolution

    by Tan Hecheng, Stacy Mosher, Guo Jian ...
    Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4,000 "class enemies"--including young children and the elderly--were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China's Hunan province. The killings spread to surrounding counties, resulting in a combined death toll of more than 9,000. Commonly known as the Daoxian massacre, the killings were one of many acts of so-called mass dictatorship and armed factional ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Deng Xiaoping

    A Revolutionary Life

    by Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine ...
    Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China's post-Mao reforms. Abandoning the Maoist socio-economic policies he had long fervently supported, he set in motion ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Oriental fortune Telling

    by Jinnmei Shimano ...
    Oriental Fortune Telling brings to the Western reader a novel way of using cards, dice, coins, and "subconscious" numbers to arrive at modern interpretations of a fortune telling school that has existed in Asia for more than three thousand years.It is a "complete" book in that it gives the reader a brief history of Ti, describes several methods of arriving at the right "key," and finally, uses the ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Shanghai and Nanjing 1937

    Massacre on the Yangtze

    by Benjamin Lai ...
    Series Book 309 - Campaign
    A detailed account of the bloody capture of Shanghai and Nanjing by Japan in the early days of World War II in the East.From 1931, China and Japan had been embroiled in a number of small-scale conflicts that had seen vast swathes of territory being occupied by the Japanese. On 7 July 1937, the Japanese engineered the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which led to the fall of Beijing and Tianjin and the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • China on Film

    A Century of Exploration, Confrontation, and Controversy

    by Paul G. Pickowicz ...
    Leading scholar Paul G. Pickowicz traces the dynamic history of Chinese filmmaking and discusses its course of development from the early days to the present. Moving decade by decade, he explores such key themes as the ever-shifting definitions of modern marriage in 1920s silent features, East-West cultural conflict in the movies of the 1930s, the strong appeal of the powerful melodramatic mode of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • CHINA

    by SIR HENRY ARTHUR BLAKE ...
    CONTENTS CHAPTER I Description of China; Her Early History; Tartar Garrisons; Chinese Soldiers; Family Life; Power of Parents; Foot-Binding                          CHAPTER II Marriage Customs; Ancestral Halls; Official Hierarchy; Competitive Examinations; Taxation; Punishments; Torture; Story of Circumstantial Evidence   CHAPTER III Gradations of Chinese Society; Agricul... ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Chinese History and Culture

    Seventeenth Century Through Twentieth Century, Volume 2

    by Ying-shih Yü ...
    Series series Masters of Chinese Studies
    The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers. Spanning two thousand years of social, intellectual, and political change, the essays in these volumes ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • China's Transition to Modernity

    The New Classical Vision of Dai Zhen

    by Minghui Hu ...
    The figure of Dai Zhen (1724�1777) looms large in modern Chinese intellectual history. Dai was a mathematical astronomer and influential polymath who, along with like-minded scholars, sought to balance understandings of science, technology, and history within the framework of classical Chinese writings. Exploring ideas in fields as broad-ranging as astronomy, geography, governance, phonology, and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Harmonious World and China's New Foreign Policy

    by Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Sheng Ding, Kai He, Dennis V. Hickey, Han Lheem, Wei Liang, Lilly Kelan Lu, Jing Men, Zhongqi Pan, James Reilly0, Jianwei Wang1 ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    'Harmonious World' and China's New Foreign Policy consists of essays by China specialists on the Chinese government's characterization of foreign policy as a 'harmonious world.' The essays deal with such topics as 'harmonious world' and China's new diplomacy, China's multilateral diplomacy after the Cold War, China's changing image of and engagement with the world order, China's energy security ... Read more

    $47.79 USD