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The academic schools in pre-Qin period formed a structure and worked as a whole set of thinking tools, which reacted to all aspects of social issues and challenges in the long Chinese history. This is the reason that all Chinese philosophical thou...

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This is a dual biography of Mao Zedong and Stalin. By narrating alternately the stories of Mao Zedong's rise during turbulent years of Chinese history and Stalin's rule of Soviet Union, the author has connected many historical dots between the two...

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As a physicist, the author has particular interests in Chinese literature and history. After retirement, he got enough time to pick up his hobby in liberal arts. Starting from the language culture, then, to history and music. He spent several mont...

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This book reproduces the life of a person belonging to a special generation in China. The generation that grew up simultaneously with the communist country experienced a series of political movements, including the notorious Cultural Revolution. S...

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As one of the intellectuals educated in communist China, the author was lucky to be able to study in the United States. And thus he had an opportunity to compare the difference between the two systems. Gradually he revised his views on dictatorshi...

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"Cheng Nan Jiu Shi" is a collection of stories and memory about the people and ambience at a poor corner in the south part of Beijing around 1950s. The book reproduced the common life of the poor and small people who struggled in the all...

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As one of the intellectuals educated in communist China, the author was lucky to be able to study in the United States. And thus he had an opportunity to compare the difference between the two systems. Gradually he revised his views on dictatorshi...

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The book is a collection of short stories and proses, which reproduce the common life of the poor and small people who struggled in hutong and multi-family courtyards in Beijing during the 1950's. It provides vivid descriptions about the violence ...

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Totally fascinating, this book will be the standard work on the subject' Tom Clancy, author of the Hunt for Red October. In closely guarded rooms in the Pentagon, in think-tanks and colleges throughout the USA and Europe and deep in the heart of t...

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The format and contents of this book are quite simple. There are three parts. Parts I and II consist of letters to the editor by the compiler--published letters in Part I and selected unpublished ones in Part II. The third part is an appendix that...

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World War II Posters is a collection of 245 original posters from WWII related to savings and investment, productivity and invention, service and support, environmentalism and conservation, security and trust, freedom and sacrifice, friends and al...

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This is the Chinese language (Simplified Character) edition of the book "Standoff at Tiananmen," a narrative history of how Chinese students shocked the world with a magnificent movement for democracy and liberty that ended in the tragic...

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When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more t...

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While China is pursuing an official version of "China dream", in the past century Chinese people have had their own "China dreams" which had been actively discussed and some even put into practice. Some were famous scholars, jo...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best effor...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best effor...

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Zhang Xuecheng (1738-1801) was a distinguished historian, writer and philosopher in Qing Dynasty. Zhang's most famous quotation is that ""the Six Classics are all history,"" which means that the canonical texts of Confucianism ...

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