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9781845116491 | Tauris Parke Paperbacks, August 19, 2008, cover price $21.00

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The great city of Peking, capital of China from the 9th century, and given its form for five hundred years by the Ming Dynasty, was for a millennium one of the most extraordinary places on earth. This book presents the history of this great city, and through it aims to provide a summary history of China.

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9780713999983 | Gardners Books, June 5, 2008, cover price $39.20 | About this edition: The great city of Peking, capital of China from the 9th century, and given its form for five hundred years by the Ming Dynasty, was for a millennium one of the most extraordinary places on earth.

A Beijing-based foreign correspondent offers an introspective analysis of modern-day China that encompasses a study of where it stands today, where it is going, and its influence as it evolves into a global economic force, critically assessing its changing economic, diplomatic, political, and military strategies and their global implications. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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9780792261933 | Natl Geographic Society, October 17, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A Beijing-based correspondent offers an analysis of modern-day China that encompasses a study of where it stands today, where it is going, and its influence as it evolves into a global economic force, assessing its changing economic, diplomatic, political, and military strategies and their global implications.

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9781426201165 | Reprint edition (Natl Geographic Society, November 6, 2007), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A Beijing-based foreign correspondent offers an introspective analysis of modern-day China that encompasses a study of where it stands today, where it is going, and its influence as it evolves into a global economic force, critically assessing its changing economic, diplomatic, political, and military strategies and their global implications.

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An inside study of North Korea exposes the dangers this highly volatile country continues to pose to the world order, and the internal chaos, blind faith, rampant corruption, and terrifying cruelty of its rulers.

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9780195170443 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 23, 2005, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: An inside study of North Korea exposes the dangers this highly volatile country continues to pose to the world order, and the internal chaos, blind faith, rampant corruption, and terrifying cruelty of its rulers.

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9780195308914 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 9, 2006, cover price $18.95

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A journalist and longtime China insider offers a portrait of modern China, introducing regions of the country not often seen or discussed by Westerners and capturing the real-life stories of the Chinese people. (view table of contents)

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9780684844121 | Free Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A journalist and longtime China insider offers a portrait of modern China, introducing regions of the country not often seen or discussed by Westerners and capturing the real-life stories of the Chinese people.

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9780195149401 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 25, 2002, cover price $24.99

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Exposes the horrible result of Mao's attempted utopian engineering in China between 1958 and 1962, uncovering a bloody trail of terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder

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9780684834573 | Free Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Combining years of interviews, extensive research, and painstaking detective work, a journalist exposes the horrible result of Mao Zedong's attempted utopian engineering in China between 1958 and 1962, uncovering a bloody trail of terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder

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9780805056686 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1998), cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Exposes the horrible result of Mao's attempted utopian engineering in China between 1958 and 1962, uncovering a bloody trail of terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder

Product Description: The author travels from Peking, across the centre of Asia to Leningrad, encountering a host of characters who enable him to piece together Mongolia's turbulent history. He uncovers the unique cultural heritage of a country hidden from the West until only recently...read more

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9780340556658 | Lubrecht & Cramer Ltd, June 1, 1995, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The author travels from Peking, across the centre of Asia to Leningrad, encountering a host of characters who enable him to piece together Mongolia's turbulent history.

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