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The United States and China offers the first comprehensive synthesis of the history of U.S.-Chinese relations from initial contact to...

This overview of Chinese politics, economy, and society by a respected international scholar provides a thoughtful synthesis and brilliant analysis...

In the 1980s, China faced the monumental task of creating, from scratch, internationally competitive companies. This challenge was especially daunting...

Presented here are nine tales from the celebrated Ming dynasty Sanyan collection of vernacular stories compiled and edited by Feng...

This engaging book highlights 49 prevalent myths about China’s past, present, and future and weighs their truth or fiction. Leading...

This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver...

This book seeks to explore wide-ranging studies of international relations theory, Sinology, Asian security, and Chinese foreign policy. It targets...

This thoroughly researched study provides an invaluable account of Hong Kong's political evolution from its founding as a British colony...

This pioneering study explores the role of working-class militias as vanguard and guardian of the Chinese Revolution. The book begins...

In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the intriguing case of Manchukuo_the Japanese puppet state in northeast China...

A gripping account of China’s failed attempt at social engineering and its pervasive effects on the Chinese people Author: Fong, Mei Publisher:...

Long before Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope en route to India, the peoples of Africa, the...

Now in an updated paperback edition, Why Taiwan Matters offers a comprehensive but compact introduction to a country that exercises...

The Reluctant Combatant offers proof that Japanese political leaders were reluctant to engage China in a full-scale conflict during the...

This essential, richly researched book provides the first comprehensive history of India-China interactions in the broader contexts of Asian and...

Postcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast...

In the period between the Sino-Japanese War in the mid-1890s and the end of World War I, the United States,...

In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an attempt...

Within a few short months in 1997, Asian economies that had been considered not only healthy but "miraculous" suddenly fell...

An urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stability Since Marco Polo, the...