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  • Wealth and Power

    China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century

    Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful period of dynastic decline, intellectual upheaval, foreign occupation, civil war, and revolution, manage ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Agents of Subversion

    The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China

    Agents of Subversion reconstructs the remarkable story of a botched mission into Manchuria, showing how it fit into a wider CIA campaign against Communist China and highlighting the intensity—and futility—of clandestine operations to overthrow Mao.In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on a remote Pacific island ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Agents of Subversion

    The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China

    by John Delury ...
    Narrated by Lee Goettl ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 12 min

    In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on a remote Pacific island, the agent belonged to an obscure anti-communist group known as the Third Force based out of Hong Kong. The exfiltration would fail disastrously, and one of the Americans on the mission, a recent Yale graduate named John T. Downey, ended up a ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • On China

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  • Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

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  • The Korean War

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    by Bruce Cumings ...
    Series Book 33 - Modern Library Chronicles
    A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED.For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, ... Read more

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    The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia

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