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  • Fifty Years in China - The Memoirs of John Leighton Stuart, Missionary and Ambassador

    by John Leighton Stuart ...
    John Leighton Stuart, who was born and brought up in Hangchow, China, where both his father and mother were leading missionaries, tells us that in his boyhood he always had “an aversion for missionary life.” Even after his graduation from Hampden-Sydney College, he still confessed his “lack of enthusiasm for missionary service.” It is difficult to exaggerate the aversion I had developed against ... Read more

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  • Madame Chiang Kai-shek

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    by Laura Tyson Li ...
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  • Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated)

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    by Bruce Cumings ...
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  • The Soong Sisters

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  • Dr. Sun Yat-Sen : his life and achievements

    by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen ...
    One of greatest achievements book is that Dr. Sun Yat-sen was able to find a living synthesis between the ancient and the modern, between the East and the West, and combining them together to make China a modern country. ... Read more

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  • The Three Principles of the People

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    by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen ...
    The Three Principles of the People is a timely work that is still relevant in today's economic times. In this book Dr. Sun Yat-Sen outlines his beliefs and principles for the people.In view of the prominent and influential position which The Three Principles of the People holds in the Chinese Nationalist movement and because of the difficulty involved in making passages for an abridged edition, Mr ... Read more

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  • Chiang Kai-Shek

    An Unauthorized Biography

    by Emily Hahn ...
    An in-depth biography of the towering 20th-century Chinese military and political figure who led the government, first on the mainland and then in exile in Taiwan, from the acclaimed New Yorker correspondent who lived in China when he was head of stateIn 1911, 24-year-old Chiang Kai-shek was an obscure Chinese student completing his military training in Japan, the only country in the Far East with ... Read more

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  • Fanshen

    A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village

    by William Hinton, Fred Magdoff ...
    More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton’s Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China’s revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshan is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the ... Read more

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  • A History of Korea

    by Kyung Moon Hwang ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Essential Histories
    Dynamic and meticulously researched, A History of Korea continues to be one of the leading introductory textbooks on Korean history. Assuming no prior knowledge, Hwang guides readers from early state formation and the dynastic eras to the modern experience in both North and South Korea. Structured around episodic accounts, each chapter begins by discussing a defining moment in Korean history in ... Read more

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  • Notes from China

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    A journalistic tour de force, this wide-ranging collection by the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Stilwell and the American Experience in China is a classic in its own right.During the summer of 1972—a few short months after Nixon’s legendary visit to China—master historian Barbara W. Tuchman made her own trip to that country, spending six weeks in eleven cities and a variety of ... Read more

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