 | China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $4.89 Very popular appreciation of the renaissance of the Middle Kingdon--not a "new" power, simply newly emergent.
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 | 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.75 See also 1491 (America before Columbus).
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 | China: Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise by Susan L. Shirk
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $9.05 Cautionary note. People rebel not when they are ruthlessly oppressed, but when they glimpse the possible and are then deprived of that hope.
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 | The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.92 The Japanese have a great deal to atone for, as do the Americans--a little known fact is that China did NOT sign the treaty giving up all its rights to both reclaim treasures, including cultural treasures, stolen by Japan and then confiscated by America, nor to reparations for enslavement of Chinese.
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 | Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $7.80 Mao was an original.
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 | Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World (A New Republic Book) by Joshua Kurlantzick
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $6.25 Very worthy. Free Chinese lessons, paying for African headqaurters buildings (no extra charge for the pre-installed electronic listening devices), a trade offensive, cultural centers that make the US centers look like shacks.
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 | Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
Buy new: $22.36 / Used from: $4.22 Now why can't we do something similar with Iran?
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 | The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Cambridge Illustrated Histories) by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Buy new: $33.29 / Used from: $17.52 Top of the line.
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 | Chinese Business Etiquette: A Guide to Protocol, Manners, and Culture in the People's Republic of China (A Revised and Updated Edition of "Dealing with the Chinese") by Scott D. Seligman
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $2.75 Useful and even essential.
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 | China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World by Ted C. Fishman
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.39 Alarmist but if we simply stop subsidizing Wal-Mart, a lot of the "threat" goes away.
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 | One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China (Wall Street Journal Book) by James McGregor
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $1.03 See Poverty for C. K. Prahalad's views. We cannot treat the Chinese as customers for disposable wasteful US goods. We must help them create their own sustainable markets.
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 | The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama by Thomas Laird
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $2.75 Tibet is the one element that China is genociding and destroying when it should be treasured as a source of peace essential to Chinese-Indian co-existence.
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 | China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know About the Emerging Superpower (Institute International Econom) by C. Fred Bergsten
Buy new: $14.55 / Used from: $0.14 Serious stuff.
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 | Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, 2nd Ed
Buy new: $19.75 / Used from: $4.39 Background.
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