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  • Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy over China, 1894–1945

    by Hiroaki Kuromiya ...
    Series series Routledge Open History
    Stalin was a master of deception, disinformation, and camouflage, by means of which he gained supremacy over China and defeated imperialism on Chinese soil. This book examines Stalin’s covert operations in his hunt for supremacy.By the late 1920s Britain had ceded place to Japan as Stalin’s main enemy in Asia. By seducing Japan deeply into China, Stalin successfully turned Japan’s aggression into ... Read more

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  • Genghis Khan: A Life From Beginning to End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    Genghis Khan was the most unlikely of conquerors. An orphan of the Mongolian Steppes, his rise went all but unnoticed by all the great powers around him. His people had been divided and discounted by the Chinese dynasties to his south and completely dismissed by the encroaching Islamic empires to his west.Inside you will read about...✓ Mystery of the Steppes✓ When Warriors Are Made✓ Rites of ... Read more

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  • Pacific

    Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

    by Simon Winchester ...
    One of Library Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2015Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature.As the Mediterranean shaped the classical world, and the Atlantic connected Europe to ... Read more

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  • On China

    by Henry Kissinger ...
    **“Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times“No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of foreign policy over the past 50 years as Henry Kissinger.” —The Financial Times**In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known ... Read more

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  • Self as Method

    Thinking Through China and the World

    by Biao Xiang, Qi Wu ...
    Translated by David Ownby ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversations between Xiang Biao ... Read more

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  • The South China Sea

    The Struggle for Power in Asia

    by Bill Hayton ...
    China’s rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing’s back yard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smoldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpowers grows ever more likely. This important book is the first to make clear sense of the South Sea disputes. Bill Hayton, a journalist with extensive ... Read more

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  • 價崩：氣候危機與大明王朝的終結

    The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China

    by 卜正民 ...
    Translated by 馮奕達 ...
    Series series beyond
    **明朝滅亡不是因為崇禎，甚至也不是因為女真，而是氣候變遷導致的物價崩潰！相似的災難，是否正在21世紀重演？漢學大師卜正民，繼《維梅爾的帽子》後最具野心的嘗試結合歷史、經濟與環境領域，大膽挑戰國家興衰的傳統解釋**　　1644年，明帝國在歷經近三百年的穩定與繁榮後滅亡了。後世許多歷史學家將明朝衰亡歸咎於崇禎能力不足或外患滿人入侵，但實情則更為複雜與意想不到。藉由對明代經濟與社會民生的紮實研究，本書對中國歷史提出了一項全新觀點，探討全球氣候變遷如何導致明朝終結。　　十七世紀中期見證了小冰河期最致命階段，氣溫與雨量驟降，全球經濟陷入崩潰。著名漢學家卜正民根據糧食價格的歷史資料，細緻描繪出大明王朝最後的輝煌與動盪。他探討全球貿易網路逐漸增加的中國白銀進口量，如何影響了明代物價與明帝國的政策，也刻劃了平民老百姓在糧食短缺與饑荒中掙扎的日常生活。直到1640年代初 ... Read more

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  • Dictators and Autocrats

    Securing Power across Global Politics

    Edited by Klaus Larres ...
    In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions.The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more modern ... Read more

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  • Red Azalea

    A Memoir

    by Anchee Min ...
    A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, this is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, Min was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read, write, or love as she pleased, she found a lifeline in a secret love affair with another woman. Miraculously ... Read more

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  • The Hundred-Year Marathon

    China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

    by Michael Pillsbury ...
    One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise – and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world's leading superpower.For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop its scientific and military capabilities, and ... Read more

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  • Brief History of Europe, Japan America and Asia

    The Summaries of All Historical Documentaries, Pamphlet, Journal, Biographies, Letters Autobiographies. Myths and legends

    by Sir Alexandria Noris ...
    Step back in time and discover the secrets of the past with 'The Seduction: A Fascinating Journey Through History'. This comprehensive guide takes you on a journey through the most captivating periods of history, from ancient civilizations to modern times.Explore the rise and fall of empires, the cultural influences that shaped our world, and the events that changed the course of history. From the ... Read more

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  • The Art of War

    by Sun Tzu ...
    The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly known to be the definitive work on military strategy and tactics of its time. It has been the most famous and influential of China's Seven Military Classics, ... Read more

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  • Two Years in the Forbidden City

    by Der Ling ...
    For two years, Der Ling was the favorite lady-in-waiting to the Empress Dowager Cixi in the imperial palace in Beijing. This book provides a unique and surprisingly intimate portrait of the Dragon Lady, who ruled China for 47 years, and brought the country to the brink of destruction. ... Read more

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  • China Illustrated

    Western Views of the Middle Kingdom

    by Arthur Hacker ...
    This beautifully illustrated social history of China highlights various aspects of traditional China as seen through the eyes of foreign visitors and residents from the time of the first trading contacts with China in the mid-sixteenth century to the beginning of World War II.The lives and lifestyles of the fascinating mix of people who came to China, as well as the places they visited and the ... Read more

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  • The Peking Express

    The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China

    by James M Zimmerman ...
    The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express–style adventure, set in China’s republican era.In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John Benjamin Powell bought a first-class ticket for the Peking Express, he pictured an idyllic overnight journey on a brand-new train of unprecedented luxury ... Read more

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  • We Were Dreamers

    An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

    by Simu Liu ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant in a candid celebrity memoir about his battles with cultural stereotypes, his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime.In this honest, inspiring and relatable immigrant story, newly-minted ... Read more

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  • Red Memory

    The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution

    by Tania Branigan ...
    **Winner of the Cundill History PrizeShortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace PrizeShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlisted for the Kirkus Prize in NonfictionShortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural UnderstandingOne of the Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of 2023 • One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 • A Kirkus Reviews Best ... Read more

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  • Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

    A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

    by Tahir Hamut Izgil ...
    Translated by Joshua L. Freeman ...
    **Winner of the Moore Prize for Human Rights WritingWinner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, awarded to the best first book of the yearNamed one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ECONOMIST • TIMEA poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide**One by ... Read more

    PHP475.19

  • Factory Girls

    From Village to City in a Changing China

    by Leslie T. Chang ...
    An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, ... Read more

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  • 8-in-1 Chinese Classics: Art of War; Analects of Confucius; Sayings of Mencius; Shi Ching (Book of Songs); Travels of FaHien; Sorrows of Han; Tao Te Ching; Myths and Legends of China

    by Confucius, Laozi, Mencius ...
    The 8-in-1 CHINESE CLASSICS brings together in one volume some of the greatest Chinese clazzical writings of all time. Here, in full, are:THE ART OF WAR (the full 13 chapters)THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS (the full 20 chapters)THE SAYINGS OF MENCIUS (the full 28 chapters)THE SHI CHING (aka: Shi King or The Book of Songs - the full 4 Parts, 29 'Books')THE TRAVELS OF FA HIEN (40 chapters)THE SORROWS OF ... Read more

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  • Mao's Great Famine

    The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962

    by Frank Dikötter ...
    Winner of the Samuel Johnson PrizeAn unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China."Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in ... Read more

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  • Es gibt keinen Weg zum Frieden, denn Frieden ist der Weg

    by Mahatma Gandhi ...
    »Sei du selbst die Veränderung.« - Dieses Buch enthält alle wichtigen Texte des großen Menschenrechtlers.Mahatma Gandhi setzte sich mit seinen Reden für ein unabhängiges Indien ein. Dies tat er mit einfachen und persönlichen Worten, die bis in die heutige Zeit ihre Gültigkeit haben. Die Texte und Gedanken Gandhis sind nicht abgehoben, sie führen nicht aus der Gesellschaft hinaus, sondern mitten in ... Read more

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  • The Good Women of China

    Hidden Voices

    by Xinran ...
    When Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to “open up” China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show, she barely anticipated the enthusiasm it would quickly generate. Operating within the constraints imposed by ... Read more

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  • Narcotopia

    In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA

    by Patrick Winn ...
    The gripping true story of an indigenous people running the world’s mightiest narco-state—and America’s struggle to thwart them.In Asia’s narcotics-producing heartland, the Wa reign supreme. They dominate the Golden Triangle, a mountainous stretch of Burma between Thailand and China. Their 30,000-strong army, wielding missiles and attack drones, makes Mexican cartels look like street gangs.Wa ... Read more

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