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Paperback:
9780393920857 | 3 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 26, 2013), cover price $46.90
9780393973723 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $45.45
Hardcover:
9780393027082 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1990, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Covering more than four centuries of Chinese history, this work chronicles the various dynasties, the ideas of reformist Confucian scholars, and China's poets, novelists, artists, students, and leaders
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9780393983630, titled "Search for Modern China" | Pck edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1999), cover price $80.95
9780393973518 | 2 sub edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1999), cover price $62.65
9789990006087 | 2 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1999), cover price $0.02
9780393307801 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1991), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Covering more than four centuries of Chinese history, this work chronicles the various dynasties, the ideas of reformist Confucian scholars, and China's poets, novelists, artists, students, and leaders
9789990082159 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1991, cover price $0.02
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Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786102228 | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $83.95
9780786102211 | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $89.95
Paperback:
9788483832752 | Tusquets Editor, April 15, 2010, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Convertida en un gran agente economico, China desempena desde hace anos un papel decisivo en el orden mundial.
Prebinding:
9781439512746 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $27.00
Hardcover:
9780670063574 | Viking Pr, September 20, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Traces the life and legacy of esteemed Ming historian and essayist Zhang Dai, describing the cultural renaissance and Buddhist reform of his early years, the impact of the Manchu invasion of 1644 on his dynasty, and his four-decade career as a writer.
Paperback:
9780143114451 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 25, 2008), cover price $16.00
Hardcover:
9780300122473 | Yale Univ Pr, April 28, 2007, cover price $45.00
Hardcover:
9780670886692 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This intimate portrait of Mao Zedong, one of the most formidable and elusive rulers in modern history, introduces the essential background about the Chinese leader, including his relations with family, friends, and confidential assistants, as well as hisyouthful writings, poems, letters, and drafts of speeches.
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9780143037729 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 29, 2006), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A renowned expert on Chinese history turns his considerable talent and experience to the life of China's greatest modern leader--the enigmatic, mythologized, often maligned, and still-revered architect of Chinese Communism and the modern Chinese state.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780736649438 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, September 1, 2000), cover price $24.95
Paperback:
9780811215527 | New Directions, February 1, 2004, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In a classic novel set in middle-class Chinese society on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, Fang-Hung-chien obtains a teaching position, using a degree from a fake American university, in a Chinese university--where the pseudo-intellectuals become the butt of the author's satire--and becomes trapped in an absurd and distressing marriage.
Paperback:
9788483108222 | Tusquets Editor, August 1, 2002, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Rare book
Hardcover:
9780670892921 | Viking Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Explores a famous 1728 plot to overthrow the Manchu dynasty in a study of the intrigues, political and legal systems, and key personalities of eighteenth-century China.
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9780142000410 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 2002), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Explores a famous 1728 plot to overthrow the Manchu dynasty in a study of the intrigues, political and legal systems, and key personalities of eighteenth-century China.
Hardcover:
9780393027471 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1998, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Explores the West's views of China over the course of seven centuries, from Marco Polo's depiction to that of Franz Kafka
Paperback:
9780393319897 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1999, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Explores the West's views of China over the course of seven centuries, from Marco Polo's depiction to that of Franz Kafka
Paperback:
9780918954664 | Baylor Univ Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Encapsulating the themes of his 1996 book, God's Chinese Son, Jonathan Spence, in this Edmondson Historical Lecture, interprets the social and political milieu of mid-nineteenth-century China that gave rise to the apocalyptic Taiping Rebellion.
Product Description: THE CHINESE CENTURY is a magnificent and moving photographic chronicle of the past tumultuous century of china's history. It brings together nearly 300 stunning photographs, most of them never before published outside China, and an authoritative and accessible text by Jonathan Spence and Annping Chin...read more
Hardcover:
9780517304266 | Random House Value Pub, May 1, 1998, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: THE CHINESE CENTURY is a magnificent and moving photographic chronicle of the past tumultuous century of china's history.
Hardcover:
9780393038446 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1996, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in mid-nineteenth-century China profiles a period of extreme violence, during which a massive uprising, led by religious visionary Hong Xiuquan, cost some twenty million lives
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9780393315561 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1997), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in mid-nineteenth-century China profiles a period of extreme violence, during which a massive uprising, led by religious visionary Hong Xiuquan, cost some twenty million lives
Hardcover:
9780679449805 | 1st edition (Random House Inc, October 1, 1996), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Chronicles historical events in the lives of rural peasants and the privileged elite from the time of the Qing dynasty to the People's Republic
Hardcover:
9780670468300 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Recounts the activities in China of the late-sixteenth-century Jesuit missionary, Matteo Ricci, and examines the cultural and historical contexts of those activities
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9780140080988, titled "The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci" | Penguin USA, June 1, 1994, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Recounts the activities in China of the late-sixteenth-century Jesuit missionary, Matteo Ricci, and examines the cultural and historical contexts of those activities
Hardcover:
9780393033557 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Essays explore the intricacies of Chinese history and culture, discussing Confucianism, Chinese science, westerners' views of China, food and medicine, and the country's tragic experience with opium
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9780393309942 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1993), cover price $24.95
Hardcover:
9780394571904 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Recounts the extraordinary experiences in early eighteenth-century France of a Chinese peasant taken there by Jesuit priests, imprisoned in an asylum, and finally returned to China.
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9780679725800 | Vintage Books, October 1, 1989, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Recounts the extraordinary experiences in early eighteenth-century France of a Chinese peasant taken there by Jesuit priests, imprisoned in an asylum, and finally returned to China
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9780679720744 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 1988), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Uses public and private documents to produce a portrait of the seventeenth-century emperor
Hardcover:
9780300042771 | 2 sub edition (Yale Univ Pr, June 1, 1988), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Traditional Chinese edition of China scholar and Yale Professor Jonathan Spence's Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang-hsi Emperor: Bondservant and Master.
Paperback:
9780300042788, titled "Ts`ao Yin and the K`ang-hsi Emperor: Bondservant and Master" | 2 edition (Yale Univ Pr, September 10, 1988), cover price $35.00
Hardcover:
9780670292479 | Viking Pr, September 1, 1981, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the history of the Chinese Revolution, focusing on the people and events of modern Chinese history, the writings of modern Chinese authors, the issues facing the People's Republic, and more
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9780140062793, titled "The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980" | Penguin USA, October 1, 1982, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the history of the Chinese Revolution, focusing on the people and events of modern Chinese history, the writings of modern Chinese authors, the issues facing the People's Republic, and more
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9780300026726 | Yale Univ Pr, January 28, 1979, cover price $42.00
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9780140055283 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 1980), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: For more than three hundred years Western teachers, missionaries, doctors, and soldiers tried, unsuccessfully, to change China, which stubbornly retained its culture and traditions
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9780140051216 | Penguin USA, March 1, 1979, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Life in early modern China is depicted in intimate detail in an account, based on county histories, memoirs, and contemporary stories, of events in T'an-ch'eng county during the late years of the seventeenth century
Hardcover:
9780517533772 | Outlet, August 1, 1978, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Collection of early photographs depicting the lives and customs of an ancient people and their exotic, often starkly beautiful, land
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