 | The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 by Diana Preston
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.24 The Manchus faded and they needed something to do with their hands
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 | Sun Yat Sen and the Awakening of China by James Cantilie
Buy new: $27.50 / Used from: $14.86 Sun Yat Sen, the Father of Modern China
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 | Chiang Kai-Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost by Jonathan Fenby
Buy used from: $2.42 A War Lord with imagination
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 | China's Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March (Cambridge Modern China Series) by Andrew Scobell
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $5.88 Mao had the other imagination in China
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 | The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) by Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka
Buy new: $52.00 / Used from: $266.88 The Japanese saw everyone else doing it
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 | The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-41;: From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor by Frank Dorn
Buy used from: $649.99 In hindsight this was the turning point in history for Imperial Japan
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 | China's Trial by Fire: The Shanghai War of 1932 by Donald Allan Jordan
Buy new: $70.00 / Used from: $140.08 The beginning of the Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
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| Japan and Britain in Shanghai,1925-31 (St. Antony's) by Harumi Goto-Shibata
Buy new: $115.00 / Used from: $50.00 Western empires and Japan were drawn like flies to a carcass to China during this chaos period
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 | Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 by Parks M. Coble
Buy new: $65.00 / Used from: $7.68 Some Chinese decided to collaborate. Major wrong decision
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| People on our side by Edgar Snow
Buy used from: $0.01 When we were allied with the Koumintang, the CCCP and Mao.. rationale. A good read.
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 | Thunder Out of China by Theodore H. White
Buy new: $14.85 / Used from: $6.64 A lot of Americans who knew a lot about China were arguing on which side we should take
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 | Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $3.95 Vinegar Joe had a lot of frustrations in China
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 | Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949 by Lucien Bianco
Buy new: $18.85 / Used from: $2.40 The inevitable happened
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 | Disaster in Korea: The Chinese Confront Macarthur (Texas a&M University Military History Series, No 11) by Roy Edgar Appleman
Buy new: $32.54 / Used from: $9.99 Disaster for everyone involved
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| East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950 (Texas a & M University Military History Series) by Roy Edgar Appleman
Buy used from: $14.36 The US was still spoiled by WWII successes... almost lost this war before it began
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 | Fighting on the Brink: Defense of the Pusan Perimeter by Uzal W. Ent
Buy used from: $110.12 Between the devil and the deep blue sea - the Pusan Perimeter
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| Hell or high water; MacArthur's landing at Inchon by Walter J. Sheldon
Buy used from: $5.00 Encirclement - relief for the Pusan trap
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 | Battle at the 38th Parallel: Surviving the Peace Talks at Panmunjom by Joseph E. Gonsalves
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $10.78 Panmunjom talks went on forever - finally the fighting stopped.
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| Between Assimilation and Independence: The Taiwanese Encounter Nationalist China, 1945-1950 by Steven Phillips
Buy new: $63.00 / Used from: $52.97 It took China a while to bite the bullet and accept that Formosa, Matsu, Tiawan wouldn't crumble
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 | Red Star over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism by Edgar Snow
Buy new: $11.22 / Used from: $4.20 Edgar Snow's on the scenes assessments at the time
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 | The Execution of Mayor Yin, and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Chinese Literature in Translation) by Jo-Hsi Ch'En
Buy used from: $0.01 China's major shot at entering the atrocities arena
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 | The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $5.98 When the dust of a century settles
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| Kowtow! After Tianamen Square: A Plea on Behalf of Hong Kong (Chatto Counterblasts, No. 6) by William Shawcross
Buy used from: $1.99 Most expected a lot worse when the UK abandoned Hong Kong
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 | Tears of the Lotus: Accounts of Tibetan Resistance to the Chinese Invasion, 1950-1962 by Roger E. McCarthy
Buy new: $49.95 / Used from: $92.55 Another forgotten war.... the tragedy of Tibet
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 | War at the Top of the World : The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet by Eric Margolis
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