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Xi Jinping has emerged as China's most powerful leader since Deng Xiaoping. In this collection, leading scholars from the United...

With the fate of East Asia hanging in the balance, one Mongolian woman manipulated her lovers, sons and grandsons through...

You Don’t Know China takes a wrecking ball to misconceptions old and new. Each of the twenty-two chapters debunks a...

Through compelling biographies of a wide range of historical figures, this engaging text presents a panorama of modern Chinese history...

This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century. How,...

Taiwan was an international prize sought by British, American, French, and Japanese adventurers along the South China coast in the...

How can the poor and weak 'work' a political system to their advantage? Drawing mainly on interviews and surveys in...

When Mao Zedong proclaimed The People’s Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years...

In ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the...

I>The A to Z of Taiwan (Republic of China) offers insight into Taiwan's situation through a chronology, an introduction, appendixes,...

This collection offers fresh perspectives on Sino-Western cultural relations, with particular regard to the experience of Christianity in China. The...

Agricultural Development in China explains how China's farm economy historically responded to the demands of a rising population. Dwight H....

First published in 1964These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to...

Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a...

The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the...

#1 best-selling guide to Shanghai* Lonely Planet Shanghai is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Hong Kong is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date...

Suiseki made its earliest Western debut in the 1960s, traveling as sidekicks of immensely popular Japanese bonsai trees. By the...

As China gains power - economically, politically, and militarily - and interaction between the Chinese and people outside China increases, it becomes more...

This collection of annotated oral histories records the personal stories of twenty Chinese women who lived in the wartime capital...