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  • Mao, Stalin and the Korean War

    Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s

    by Shen Zhihua ...
    Translated by Neil Silver ...
    Series series Cold War History
    This book examines relations between China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s, and provides an insight into Chinese thinking about the Korean War.This volume is based on a translation of Shen Zihua’s best-selling Chinese-language book, which broke the mainland Chinese taboo on publishing non-heroic accounts of the Korean War.The author combined information detailed in Soviet-era diplomatic ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Subtle Wisdom

    Understanding Suffering, Cultivating Compassion Through Ch'an Buddhism

    by Master Sheng Yen ...
    Master Sheng-yen, a dharma descendant from the founders of Buddhism in China, considers the concepts of suffering, enlightenment, and compassion; provides a glossary of key terms; and briefly recaps the history of Buddhism in China. But he goes beyond these issues to discuss contemporary matters and questions he has encountered in his years of teaching in the United States. Sometimes personal and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • How United States Shot Humanity: Muslims Ruined; Europe Next

    by Ashish Shukla ...
    Most of us are baffled.(a) There is practically no al-Qaeda in Afghanistan then why United States is not leaving the opium rich and strategically vital mountainous country in a hurry.(b) Al-Qaeda never attacks Israel though as champion of Islam you would think the Jewish nation ought to be its first target.(c) United States launched "War on Drugs" in 1971. It heralded "War on Terrorism" in 2001. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After Empire

    The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924

    by Peter Zarrow ...
    From 1885–1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor. These forty years saw the collapse of Confucian political orthodoxy and the struggle among competing definitions of modern citizenship and the state. What made it ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • 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

    $22.29 USD

  • Triangles, Symbols, and Constraints

    The United States, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China, 1963-1969

    by Charles Dobbs ...
    In his five-plus years as president of the United States, Lyndon Johnson witnessed dramatic power struggles within and between the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and the United States of America. New Soviet leaders were determined to build Soviet power and extend Soviet influence. Mao's revolutionary ideology so dominated China that there were few levers to move Sino-American ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The Lithuanians

    A Story of Love and Betrayal

    by Audrey Adams Hill ...
    The Lithuanians is a story of two brothers, Mikael a Roman Catholic priest, and Erik an officer in the Third Reich, and the extraordinary journey to find each other. It is also a love story between Mikael and Sophie a beautiful resistance fighter and Erik and Sara who find love on Half Way Island during the days of World War II and his commitment to find Sara after the war ended.As the war ends ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Legacies of Totalitarian Language in the Discourse Culture of the Post-Totalitarian Era

    The Case of Eastern Europe, Russia, and China

    by Matthew H. Ciscel, Fengyuan Ji, Ekaterina Levintova, Andrejs Plakans, Marek Skovajsa, Norina Solomon, Magda Stroinska, Cosmina Tanasoiu, Rossen Vassilev, Marius Dragomir ...
    This book is unique in its kind. It is the first scholarly work to attempt a comprehensive and fairly detailed look into the lingering legacies of the communist totalitarian modes of thought and expression in the new discourse forms of the post-totalitarian era. The book gives also new and interesting insights into the ways the new, presumably democratically-minded political elites in post ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • History and Popular Memory

    The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis

    by Paul Cohen ...
    When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, the French took comfort in the story of Joan of Arc and her heroic efforts to rid France of foreign occupation. To bring the Joan narrative more into line with current circumstances, however, popular ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Fortune Makers

    The Leaders Creating China's Great Global Companies

    by Michael Useem, Harbir Singh, Liang Neng, Peter Cappelli ...
    Fortune Makers analyzes and brings to light the distinctive practices of business leaders who are the future of the Chinese economy. These leaders oversee not the old state-owned enterprises, but private companies that have had to invent their way forward out of the wreckage of an economy in tatters following the Cultural Revolution.Outside of brand names such as Alibaba and Lenovo, little is ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Russia on the Edge

    Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity

    by Edith W. Clowes ...
    Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphors—whether axes of north vs. south or geopolitical images of center, periphery, and border—have become the signs of a different sense of self and ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Indian Church During The Great Rebellion - An Authentic Narrative

    by Rev. M. A. Sherring ...
    A historical text about a fascinating period in Indian history, written for the keen amateur historian. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus