Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children condemned par…
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Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People’s Republic whose hard-edged tact…
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Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg
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China in Ten Words
From one of China’s most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and…
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Waste Tide
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Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle.
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Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
The world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishes.
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Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths: to Britain, a ‘barren rock’ with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial that had at last return…
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Other Rivers: A Chinese Education
An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, chronicling a country in the midst of tumultuous change through the prism of its education system
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
A New York Times Notable Book
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Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.
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The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
An epic history of the Mongols as we have never seen them―not just conquerors but also city builders, diplomats, and supple economic thinkers who constructed one of the most influential empires in his…
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country's last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.
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China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
In China After Mao , award-winning author Frank Dikötter delves into the history of China under the communist party – from the death of Chairman Mao in 1976 up until the moment when Xi Jinping stepped…
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