Skip to main content
Search Button
Estados Unidos Tienda Kobo Tarjetas de regalo Ayuda

Kobo Rakuten

Wishlist

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...


“larry engelmann”

1 - 12 de 12 resultados para “larry engelmann”
Skip side bar filters

  • Feather in the Storm

    A Childhood Lost in Chaos

    de Emily Wu, Larry Engelmann ...
    Emily Wu’s account of her childhood under Mao opens on her third birthday, as she meets her father for the first time in a concentration camp. A well-known academic, her father had been designated an “ultra-rightist” and class enemy. As a result, Wu’s family would be torn apart and subjected to unending humiliation and abuse. Wu recounts this hidden holocaust in which millions of children and ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

La gente que leyó esto también disfrutó

  • The Party

    The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

    de Richard McGregor ...
    "A masterful depiction of the party today. . . . McGregor illuminates the most important of the contradictions and paradoxes. . . . An entertaining and insightful portrait of China's secretive rulers." —The Economist"Few outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives, rivalries, and fears of the Chinese Communist leadership. But we all know much more than before, thanks to Richard ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Tragedy of Liberation

    A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957

    de Frank Dikötter ...
    A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China, by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize–winning Mao's Great Famine.“The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of liberation and the revolution that followed is not one of peace, liberty, and justice. It is first and foremost a story of calculated ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Mao Zedong

    A Life

    de Jonathan D. Spence ...
    “Spence draws upon his extensive knowledge of Chinese politics and culture to create an illuminating picture of Mao. . . . Superb.” (Chicago Tribune)From humble origins in the provinces, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country torn apart by years of weak leadership, colonialism, and war. This sharply drawn and insightful account brings to life this modern-day ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Souls of China

    The Return of Religion After Mao

    de Ian Johnson ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a revelatory portrait of religion in China today—its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China’s future.The Souls of China tells the story of one of the world’s great spiritual revivals. Following a century of violent anti-religious campaigns, China is now filled with new temples, ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Red Star over China

    The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism

    de Edgar Snow ...
    "A historical classic" that brings Mao Tse-tung, the Long March, and the Chinese revolution to vivid life ( Foreign Affairs).Journalist Edgar Snow was the first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936—and out of his up-close experience came this historical account, one of the most important books about the remarkable events that would shape not only the future of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Naked Communist

    de W. Cleon Skousen ...
    This book is designed to bring the far-flung facts about Communism into a single volume. It contains a distillation of more than one hundred books and treatises—many of them written by Communist authors. It attempts to present the Communist in his true native elements, stripped of propaganda and pretense. Hence, the title, The Naked Communist. A panoramic study of Communism might easily degenerate ... Leer más

    $6.95 USD

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World

    A Concise History

    de Rebecca E. Karl, Rey Chow, Michael Dutton, Harry Harootunian, Rosalind C. Morris ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong’s life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader’s personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a dynamic narrative of the Chinese revolution. She situates Mao and the revolution in a global setting informed by imperialism, decolonization, and ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Confessions

    An Innocent Life in Communist China

    de Kang Zhengguo ...
    Traducido por Susan Wilf ...
    "A mesmerizing read…A literary work of high distinction.” —William Grimes, New York TimesThis “gripping and poignant memoir” (New York Times Book Review) draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of “Liberation” in 1949 through the post-Mao era. The son of a professional family, Kang Zhengguo is a free spirit, drawn to literature. In Mao’s China, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Man Who Stayed Behind

    de Sidney Rittenberg, Amanda Bennett ...
    The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed China and remained there until the late 1970s. Even with access to China’s highest leaders as an American communist, however, he ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Deng Xiaoping

    A Revolutionary Life

    de Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine ...
    Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China's post-Mao reforms. Abandoning the Maoist socio-economic policies he had long fervently supported, he set in motion ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD