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The Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory of Chinese History

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

The Anarchy

Wild Swans

From the Ruins of Empire

Tombstone

Kathmandu

Inglorious Empire

China in Ten Words

Destiny Disrupted

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