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China Baby Love: An Australian Grandmother's life-changing mission to help ...

Jane Hutcheon - Biography & Autobiography - 2017 - 162 pages
How one woman turned her life upside down to help those who needed it most - half a world away. Every orphan comes with a story. Every journalist has a story that stays with ...
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Lazy Man in China

Helene Chung Martin, John Winton Martin - China - 2004 - 252 pages
Lazy Man in China is a witty, perceptive, self-deprecating take on China, drawn from letters written by John Martin to family, friends and colleagues, edited and updated by his ...
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The Chinese

Jasper Becker - China - 2000 - 488 pages
Journalist Becker crisscrossed the country of China for more than 20 years in order to get to the heart of the Chinese people. From powerful businessmen to illiterate peasants ...
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Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

John Pomfret - History - 2006 - 343 pages
"As a twenty-two-year-old exchange student at Nanjing University in 1981, John Pomfret was one of the first American students to be admitted to China after the Communist ...
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Dragon Rising: An Inside Look at China Today

Jasper Becker - China - 2006 - 362 pages
Jasper Becker's book, "The Chinese," was hailed as the best single-volume introduction to this enormous, inscrutable society. Vividly illustrated with photographs that capture ...
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Jan Wong's China: Reports From A Not-So-Foreign Correspondent

Jan Wong - Social Science - 2011 - 354 pages
As the fiftieth anniversary of the People's Republic of China approaches on October 1, 1999, Jan Wong reflects on her body of work as a foreign correspondent there. Despite the ...
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Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China today, how it got there and why it has to change

Jonathan Fenby - Social Science - 2013 - 432 pages
This is a comprehensively updated account of where China stands today, covering the generational change in the leadership completed in March 2013, the Bo Xilai scandal and the ...
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A Season in Red: My great leap forward into the new China

Kirsty Needham - Travel - 2006 - 284 pages
When journalist Kristy Needham heads to Beijing to work at a Chinese newspaper as a “foreign expert,” she has studied the language and the history but has no idea what life in ...
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Blessings from Beijing: Inside China's Soft-Power War on Tibet

Greg C. Bruno - Political Science - 2018 - 242 pages
As we approach the sixtieth anniversary of China’s 1959 invasion of Tibet—and the subsequent creation of the Tibetan exile community—the question of the diaspora’s survival ...
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