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Pages: 321
Authors: Maxine Hong Kingston
Categories: Fiction
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The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endur
The Man Who Loved China
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Simon Winchester
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-17 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times Book R
The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Joseph Needham
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1978 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This fifth volume abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is concerned with the staggering civil engineering feats made in early and medieval China.
The Search for Modern China
Language: en
Pages: 1054
Authors: Jonathan D. Spence
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. The Search for Modern China offers
Shenzhen
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Pages: 154
Authors: Guy Delisle
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels
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Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle’s observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences