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Allen, Charles.  The search for Shangri-la:  A journey into Tibetan history.  Boston: Abacus, Little, Brown & Company, 2001.

Amsden, Alice H.  The Rise of "The Rest":  Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies.  Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Armstrong, David E.  Alcohol and Altered States in Ancestor Veneration Rituals of Zhou Dynasty China and Iron Age Palestine:  A New Approach to Ancestor Riruals.  Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998.

Asia's Giants:  Comparing China and India.  (eds. Friedman, Edward; Gilley, Bruce). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Bai, Limin.  Shaping the Ideal Child:  Children and Their Primers in Late Imperial China.  Hong Kong: Chinese University Press: 2005.

Barber, E. J. W.  The mummies of Urumchi.  New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.

Bedeski, Robert E.  Human security and the Chinese state:  historical transformations and the modern quest for sovereignty.  New York, NY: Routledge, 2007.

Berkshire Publishing.  Berkshire encyclopedia of China:  modern and historic views of the world's newest and oldest global power.  Great Barrington, Massachusetts: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2009.

Bian, Morris L.  The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China:  The Dynamics of Institutional Change.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Bickley, Gillian.  Hong Kong invaded:  A ninety-seven nightmare.  Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2001.

Bin, Liu.  Atlas of China.  Beijing: China Cartographic Publishing House, 1999.

Boog, Horst.  Germany and the Second World War:  The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5.  Voume 7. Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt [Research Institute for Military History]. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Bourguignon, Fran?ois.  The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America.  Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Braester, Yomi.  Witness against history:  literature, film, and public discourse in twentieth-century China.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Bretschneider, Emil Vasilievich.  History of European Botanical Discoveries in China.  Reference Library of Asian Studies. Vols. 1 and 2. (Reprint of 1898 edition published by the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences). Bristol: Ganesha Publishing, 2002.

The British invasion of Tibet:  Colonel Younghusband, 1904.  (ed. Coates, Tim). Uncovered Editions Series. London: Stationery Office Books, 2001.

Brook, Timothy.  Collaboration:  Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Brown, Robin.  Marco Polo:  The Incredible Journey.  (forwd. Catto, Jeremy). Stroud, England: 1991; Wolfeboro Falls, NH: Sutton Publishing, 2005.

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Chan, Alfred L.  Mao's crusade:  Politics and policy implementation in China's Great Leap Forward.  Studies on Contemporary China. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Chan, Anita.  China's workers under assault:  Exploitation and abuse in a globalizing economy.  Asia & the Pacific Series. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe Incorporated, 2001.

Chang, Jung.  Wild swans:  three daughters of China.  New York: Touchstone, 2003.

Chang, Nam Fung  Yes Prime Manipulator -  How a Chinese Translation of British Humour Came into Being.  Hong Kong: Chinese University Press: 2005.

Mencian hermeneutics:  A history of interpretations in China.  Piscataway: Transaction Publishers, 2001.

Chen, Zongsheng and Zhou, Yunbo.  Income Distribution During System Reform and Economic Development in China.  Commack, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2005.

Chetham, Deirdre.  Before the deluge:  The vanshing world of the Upper Yangtze River.  New York: Palgrave Publishers, Limited, 2001.

Cheung, Tai Ming.  China's entrepreneurial army.  Studies on Contemporary China. New York: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2000.

Chiang, Yung-chen.  Social engineering and the social sciences in China, 1919-1949.  Modern China Series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

China Today  An Encyclopedia of Life in the People's Republic.  (ed. Luo, Jing; assoc. ed. Chen, Aimin; Song, Shunfeng; Guo, Baogang; Ouyang, Ronghua). Two Volumes. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.

China under Jiang Zemin.  (ed. Tien, Hung-mao). Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000.

Chinese and Indian Diasporas:  Comparative Perspectives.  (ed. Wong, Siu-lun). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004.

The Chinese human rights reader:  Documents and Commentary, 1900-2000.  Armonk: M. E. Sharpe Incorporated, 2001.

Chinese law and legal theory.  (ed. Keller, Perry). International Library of Essays in Law & Legal Theory, Second Series. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, Limited, 2001.

Ching, Frank.  China:  the truth about its human rights record.  London: Ebury Press, 2008.

Clark, Hazel.  The Cheongsam.  Images of Asia Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Clark, Paul.  Reinventing China:  A Generation and Its Films.  Hong Kong: Chinese University Press: 2005.

Clements, Jonathan.  Mao Zedong.  London: Haus Publishing, 2005.

Coblin, W. South.  A Handbook of 'Phags-Pa Chinese.  Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2006.

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell:  Uncertain Roads to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-1922.  (ed. Rempel, Richard A.). Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 15. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Cooper, Eugene.  Adventures in Chinese Bureaucracy:  A Meta-Anthropological Saga.  Huntington: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2000.

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Dillon, Michael.  China's Hui Community:  Migration, Settlement, and Sects.  Richmond: Curzon Press Limited, 1998.

Dorogi, Thomas Laszlo.  Tainted perceptions:  Liberal-democracy and American popular images of China.  Lanham: University Press of America, 2001.

Dress, sex and text in Chinese culture.  (ed. Finnane, Antonia). Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute, 1999.

Drompp, Michael R.  Tang China and the Collapse of the Uighur Empire:  A Documentary History.  Leiden; Boston; Bedfordshire: Brill, 2005.

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Elliott, Mark C.  The Manchu way:  The eight banners and ethnic identity in late imperial China.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Ellis, Henry.  Journal of the Proceeding of the Late Embassy to China 1818.  CD-ROM. Hillsville, Va: Golden Age Publishing, LLC, 2002.

Encyclopedia of China.  Farmington Hills: Gale Group (Charles Scribner's Sons), 2005.

Encyclopedia of Chinese-American Relations.  (ed. Song, Yuwu). Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2005.

Estes, Richard J.  Social Development in Hong Kong:  The Unfinished Agenda.  Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Faure, David.  Colonialism and the Hong Kong Mentality.  Centre of Asian Studies, HKU. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004.

Feldman, Martha.  The Courtesan's Arts:  Cross-Cultural Perspectives.  Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Fewsmith, Joseph.  China since Tiananmen:  The politics of transition.  Modern China Series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Freese, Barbara.  Coal:  a human history.  New York: Penguin Books, 2008.

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Gender and Chinese archaeology.  (eds. Linduff, Katheryn M. & Sun, Yan). Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004.

Gillespie, William.  The Land of Sinim:  Or China and Chinese Missions.  (Originally published 1854. Also on Google Books.). Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2007.

Gottschang, Thomas R.; Lary, Diana.  Swallows and settlers:  The great migration from north China to Manchuria.  Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, No.87. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, 2001.

Governing China's multiethnic frontiers.  (ed. Rassabi, Morris). Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004.

Greenhalgh, Susan; Winckler, Edwin A.  Governing China's Population:  From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.

Guldin, Gregory Eliyo.  What's a peasant to do?:  Village becoming town in southern China.  Boulder: Westview Press, 2001.

Gunn, Edward M.  Rendering the Regional:  Local Language in Contemporary Chinese Media  Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2005.

Gutmann, Ethan.  Losing the New China:  A Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal.  New York: Encounter Books, 2005.

Gutmann, Ethan.  Losing the new China:  a story of American commerce, desire, and betrayal.  1st edition. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2004.

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Harrell, Stevan.  Ways of being ethnic in southwest China.  Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.

Haw, Stephen.  Marco Polo in China:  A Venetian in the Realm of Khubilal Khan.  London, New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.

Hayot, Eric.  Sinographies:  writing China.  Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

Historical truth, historical criticism and ideology:  Chinese historiography and historical culture from a new comparative perspective.  (eds. Schmidt-Glintzer, Helwig; Mittag, Achim & Rusen, Jorn.). Leiden: Boston: Brill, 2005.

Hong, Junhao.  The Internationalization of Television in China:  The Evolution of Ideology, Society and Media since the Reform.  Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998.

Huang, H. T.  Science and civilisation in China:  Biology and biological technology: Pt. 5: Fermentations and food science.  Science & Civilisation in China Series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Huang, Philip C.  Chinese civil justice, past and present.  Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.

Huang, Ray.  Broadening the Horizons of Chinese History:  Discourses, Syntheses and Comparisons.  Armonk: M. E. Sharpe Incorporated, 1999.

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Iredale, Robyn R.; Bilik, Naran; Sung, Wang; Guo, Fei; Hoyle, Caroline.  Contemporary minority migration, education and ethnicity in China.  Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, Incorporated, 2001.

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Jager, Ulf.  The new old mummies from Eastern Central Asia:  ancestors of the Tocharian Knights depicted on the Buddhist wallpaintings of Kucha and Turfan?  Sino-Platonic Papers, No. 84. Philadelphia: Dept. of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1998.

Japan's wartime medical atrocities:  comparative inquiries in science, history, and ethics.  (ed. Nie, Jing-Bao and others). London; New York: Routledge, 2010.

Johnson, Graham E.; Peterson, Glen D.  Historical dictionary of Guangzhou (Canton) and Guangdong.  Historical Dictionaries of Cities of the World Series, No. 6. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1999.

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Keith, Ron.  New Crime in China:  Public Order and Human Rights.  London: Routledge, 2005.

Kerr, Douglas.  Critical Zone 3:  A Forum of Chinese and Western Knowledge.  Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009.

The Kissinger transcripts:  The top secret talks with Beijing and Moscow: A National Security Archive documents reader.  (ed. Burr, William). New York: New Press, 1999.

Knapp, Keith N.  Selfless Offspring:  Filial Children and Social Order in Medieval China.  Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2005.

Knight, John; Song, Lina.  The rural-urban divide:  Economic disparities and interactions in China.  Studies on Contemporary China. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Kong, Chu Yiu.  Triads As Business.  New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.

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Laird, Tom.  Into Tibet:  The CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhas.  New York: Grove Atlantic, 2002.

Levenson, Joseph R..  Confucian China and Its Modern Fate:  A Trilogy.  New York: ACLS Humanities (American Council of Learned Societies), 2008.

Liao, Yiwu.  The corpse walker:  real life stories, China from the bottom up.  New York: Pantheon, 2008.

Liu, Xiaohong.  Chinese ambassadors:  The rise of diplomatic professionalism since 1949.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.

Lloyd, G. E. R.  Ancient worlds, modern reflections:  philosophical perspectives on Greek and Chinese science and culture.  Oxford: Clarendon Press; Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Lopez, Donald S. Jr.  The Madman's Middle Way:  Reflections on Reality of a Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel.  Buddhism and Modernity Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Lovell, Julia.  The Politics of Cultural Capital:  China's Quest for a Nobel Prize.  Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2006.

Lutze, Thomas D..  China's inevitable revolution:  rethinking America's loss to the Communists.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Mackerras, Colin.  The new Cambridge handbook of contemporary China.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Mackerras, Colin.  Sinophiles and Sinophobes:  Western Views of China.  Literary Anthologies of Asia Series. New York: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2000.

Mallory, J. P.; Mair, Victor H.  The Tarim mummies:  Ancient China and the mysteries of the earliest peoples from the west.  New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000.

Meisner, Maurice.  Mao's China and After:  A Histroy of the People's Republic.  3rd Edition. New York: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1999.

Menzel, C.  Litchi and Longan:  Botany, Cultivation and Uses.  Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Mou, Sherry J.  Gentlemen's prescriptions for women's lives:  a thousand years of biographies of Chinese women.  Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2004.

Mungello, David E..  The great encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800.  Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.

Munro, Donald J.  A Chinese Ethics for the New Century.  Hong Kong: Chinese University Press: 2005.

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Ng, On Cho and Wang, Qingjia.  Mirroring the Past:  The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005.

Northeast Asia's difficult past:  essays in collective memory.  (eds. Schwartz, Barry; Kim, Mikyoung). (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies). Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Nyberg, Albert; Rozelle, Scott.  Accelerating China's Rural Transformation.  Washington: World Bank, Office of the Publisher, 1999.

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Origins and Development of the Traditional Chinese Roof.  Studies in Architecture, Vol. 5. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.

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Pagani, Catherine.  "Eastern magnificence and European ingenuity":  Clocks of late imperial China.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Pei, Minxin.  China's Trapped Transition:  The Limits of Developmental Autocracy.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Puett, Michael J.  The ambivalence of creation:  Debates concerning innovation and artific in early China.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Race Panic and the Memory of Migration.  (eds. Morris, Meaghan; de Bary, Brett). Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation, Vol. 2. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2001.

Rhetoric and the discourses of power in court culture:  China, Europe, and Japan.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.

Roberts, J. A. G.  The Complete History of China.  Stroud, England: 1991; Wolfeboro Falls, NH: Sutton Publishing, Limited, 2003.

Rojewski, Jay W.; Rojewski, Jacy L.  Intercountry adoption from China:  Examining cultural-heritage and other post-adoption issues.  Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated, 2001.

Rowe, William T.  Crimson rain:  seven centuries of violence in a Chinese county.  Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007.

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Schoppa, Keith.  Song full of tears:  nine centuries of Chinese life around Xiang Lake.  Boulder: Oxford: Westview, 2002.

Schrecker, John E.  The Chinese revolution in historical perspective.  2nd edition. New York: Praeger, 2004.

The search for modern China:  A documentary collection.  (ed. Cheng, Pei-kai). New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.

Shih, Chih-yu.  Collective democracy:  Political and legal reform in China.  Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1999.

Shin'ichi, Yamamuro.  Manchuria under Japanese Dominion.  (trans. Fogel, Joshua A.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Smith, Arthur H.  Village life in China:  A study in sociology.  China Library. London: Kegan Paul International Limited, 2001.

Spence, Jonathan D.  Treason by the book.  New York: Viking, 2001.

State and economy in Republican China:  A handbook for scholars.  (ed. Kirby, William C.). East Asian Monographs Series, Vol. 193. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Statecraft and classical learning:  the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian history.  (eds. Elman, Benjamin A. , Kern, Martin). Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010.

Sutter, Robert.  Historical Dictionary of United States-China Relations.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.

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Tanner, Murray Scott.  Politics of lawmaking in post-Mao China:  Institutions, processes and democratic prospects.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Tapp, Nicholas.  The Hmong of China:  Context, agency, and the imaginary.  Sinica Leidensia Series, Vol. 51. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, Incorporated, 2001.

Thuno, Mette.  Beyond Chinatown:  New Chinese Migration and the Global Expansion of China.  Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2006.

Tschang, Yinpo.  Chaos in heaven:  on the calendars of preclassical China.  Philadelphia,\: Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, 2004.

Tuck, Patrick J. N.  Britain and the China Trade 1635-1842.  10 Volume Set. New York: Routledge, 1999.

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Visser, Robin.  Cities Surround the Countryside:  Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China.  Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.

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Wan, Ming.  Human rights in Chinese foreign relations:  Defining and defending national interests.  Studies in Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

Wheatley, Paul.  The origins and character of the Chinese city:  The City in Ancient China  Volume 1. Edison, NJ: Aldine Transaction, 2008.

Wheatley, Paul.  The origins and character of the Chinese city:  The Chinese City in Comparative Perspective.  Volume 2. Edison, NJ: Aldine Transaction, 2008.

Wright, Teresa.  The perils of protest:  State repression and student activism in China and Taiwan.  Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001.

Wyatt, Don J.  The Blacks of premodern China.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.

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Xiang Biao.  Transcending Boundaries:  Zhejiangcun: the Story of a Migrant Village in Beijing.  (trans. Weldon, Jim). Leiden; Boston; Bedfordshire: Brill, 2005.

Xiong, Victor Cunrui.  Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty:  His Life, Times, and Legacy.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005.

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Yahuda, Michael B.  The international politics of the Asia-Pacific.  2nd and revised edition. London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.

Yamamoto, Masahiro.  The rape of Nanking:  Separating fact from fiction.  Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated, 2000.

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Zelin, Madeleine.  The Merchants of Zigong:  Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China.  Studies of the East Asian Institute. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

Zheng, Zhenman.  Family lineage organization and social change in Ming and Qing Fujian.  Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001.


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