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  • Mapping Shangrila

    Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

    by Ralph A. Litzinger ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805023In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila—a place that previously had existed only in fiction—had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been the sites of numerous state projects of tourism ... Read more

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  • Ghost Protocol

    Development and Displacement in Global China

    Edited by Carlos Rojas, Ralph A. Litzinger ...
    Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present. This volume's contributors see contemporary China as haunted by the promises of capitalism, the institutional legacy of the Maoist regime, and the spirit of Marxist resistance. China's development does not result from historical imperatives or deliberate economic strategies, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • United

    Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good

    by Cory Booker ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • United States Senator Cory Booker, hailed as “one of the key figures for justice and forthrightness in America today” (HuffPost), makes an impassioned case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future.Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford University on a football scholarship, accepted a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother

    Stories of Loss and Love

    by Xinran ...
    Following her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. Her searing stories of mothers who have been driven to abandon their daughters or give them up for adoption is a masterful and significant work of literary reportage and oral history.Xinran has gained entrance to the most pained, secret ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Eve's Bite

    Seductive, Deceptive & Dangerous: The Trojan Horse ideologies poisoning our country and destroying the West

    by Ian Wishart ...
    Imagine if one day, a la The Truman Show, you woke up to find that everything you believed was the result of a careful manipulation of your life by someone else? What if much of what you believed was a lie?Well, for you, that day has arrived. In an age dominated by 'Spin', you're about to discover that the best spin campaigns of all are the ones you never knew about.In the most politically ... Read more

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  • The Gate of Heavenly Peace

    The Chinese and Their Revolution

    by Jonathan D. Spence ...
    “A milestone in Western studies of China.” (John K. Fairbank)In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants—the writers, historians, philosophers, and insurrectionists who shaped and were shaped by the turbulent events of the twentieth century. By skillfully combining ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Womens Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience (Illustrated Edition)

    by L.P. Brockett & Mary C. Vaughan ...
    Womens Work in the Civil War: a Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience is an expansive history of the female heroines of the Civil War. The biographies of famous women such as Dorothea Dix, Barbara Frietchie, and more are collected in this massive tome. Over a dozen illustrations and photographs of the women are included, as well as a table of contents for easier navigation. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Bitter Revolution : China's struggle with the modern world

    China's Struggle with the Modern World

    by Rana Mitter ...
    Series series Making of the Modern World
    China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Return to Dragon Mountain

    Memories of a Late Ming Man

    by Jonathan D. Spence ...
    “Splendid . . . One could not imagine a better subject than Zhan Dai for Spence.” (The New Republic)Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence vividly brings to life seventeenth-century China through this biography of Zhang Dai, recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of the Ming dynasty. Born in 1597, Zhang Dai was forty-seven when the Ming dynasty, after more than two hundred ... Read more

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  • The Great Famine in China, 1958-1962: A Documentary History

    by Xun Zhou ...
    Beginning soon after the implementation of the policies of the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961, when the drive to collectivize and industrialize undermined the livelihoods of the vast majority of peasant workers, China's Great Famine was the worst famine in human history. In addition to claiming more than 45 million lives, it also led to the destruction of agriculture, industry, trade, and every ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Understanding Inequality

    The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

    by Barbara A. Arrighi, Judi Addelston, Derrick Bell, Karen Blumenthal, Judith Butler, Jane Jerome Camhi, William J. Chamblis, Marc Cooper, Sally Ann Davies-Netzley, Simone de Beauvoir, G William Domhoff, Susan J. Douglas, Wright Dziech, Susan Estrich, Lawrence Otis Graham, Billie Michelle Fine, Judith Lorber, Arturo Madrid, Julia Marusza, Fatema Mernissi, John Stuart Mill, Timothy Nonn, Katha Pollitt, Mary F. Rogers, Kathleen Rowe, Leslie Marmon Silko, Laureen Snider, Haya Stier, Deborah Tannen, Marta Tienda, Stephen Worchel, Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Walda Katz-Fishman, Michael Kimmel, Charles Lemert, Diane Reay, Edward H. Thompson,Jr., Lois Weis ...
    As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Growing Up Chicana/o

    by Bill Adler, A Lopez, Tiffany A. Lopez ...

    $7.99 USD