Tombstone:
The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
by Yang Jisheng
Hardcover from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Published: 2012-10-30
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Ancient
China and Its Enemies : The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History
by Nicola Di Cosmo
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Black Horse Odyssey
by David Harris
David Harris has discovered the remains of a Roman city in the heart
of the Gobi desert. His interest was aroused by Horace's Odes, and by the
papers of Professor Homer Hasenpflug Dubs, Professor of Chinese at Oxford
University, relating to the city. Harris set out from Australia to search
for Li-jien, a city built by the Romans in China 1300 years before Marco
Polo entered Cathay. Harris was alone and an amateur; he neither spoke
the language nor understood the Chinese way of doing things; furthermore,
he had precious little money. The Chinese bureaucracy instinctively mistrusted
him both as a western messenger claiming special knowledge of Chinese history
and as one who wished to enter a closed military zone. Every step on the
road to Li-jien surprised David Harris. It led him to priceless friends,
bizarre acquaintances, a woman he loves, a massacre of innocents, and the
site that has been declared a national monument.
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by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Kwang-Ching Liu
To compress 8,000 years of a civilization's life into a single volume
is a daunting task, but University of Illinois historian Patricia Ebrey
does the job with authority and considerable flair. Writing with an eye
to explaining recurring themes in Chinese history, she discusses ideas
of order and statecraft, resource allocation and use, imperialism and population
growth. Along the way she makes interesting asides, noting, among other
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because they did not want the ethnic Chinese to make weapons, and she gives
stimulating overviews of such matters as the manufacture of silk, hardwood
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by Boli Zhang, et al
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by Gavin Menzies
Book Description: The incredible true story of the discovery
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findings rewrite history.
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its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long
and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's
loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was "to proceed all the way to the
end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas"
and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last
more than two years and circle the globe.
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China in political and economic chaos. The great ships, now considered
frivolous, were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their
journeys were destroyed. Lost in China's long, self-imposed isolation that
followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy
years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan.
Also concealed were how the Chinese colonized America before the Europeans
and transplanted to America, Australia, New Zealand and South America the
principal economic crops that have fed and clothed the world.
Now, in a landmark historical journey, Gavin Menzies, who spent fifteen
years tracing the astonishing voyages of the Chinese fleet, shares the
remarkable account of his discoveries and the incontrovertible evidence
to support them. His compelling narrative pulls togetherancient maps, precise
navigational knowledge, astronomy and the surviving accounts of Chinese
explorers and the later European navigators to prove that the Chinese had
also discovered Antarctica, reached Australia three hundred and fifty years
before Cook and solved the problem of longitude three hundred years ahead
of the Europeans. 1421 describes the artifacts and inscribed stones left
behind by the emperor's fleet, the evidence of wrecked junks along its
route -- discovered in locations ranging from the middle of the Mississippi
River to tributaries of the Amazon -- and the ornate votive offerings left
by the Chinese sailors wherever they landed, in honor of Shao Lin, goddess
of the sea.
1421: The Year China Discovered America is the story of a remarkable
journey of discovery that rewrites our understanding of history. Our knowledge
of world exploration as it has been commonly accepted for centuries must
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and ultimately famine--but some of those policies are still in force. Shapiro
observes that Mao Zedong cannot be held entirely accountable for the destruction
of China's land, water, and air; he had, after all, many willing deputies.
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impossible--and even today, Shapiro writes in her impressive study of Mao's
war on the environment, his actions have proved difficult to undo. "Until
China confronts its uneasy Maoist legacy," the author concludes, "it may
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Experience in China, 1911-45 in 1972. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell,
the military attache to China in 1935-39 and commander of United States
forces and allied chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942-44, to explore
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War II, when China's Nationalist government faced attack from Japanese
invaders and Communist insurgents. Her story is an account of both American
relations with China and the experiences of one of our men on the ground.
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who allowed her to perform, in the words of The National Review, "one of
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a man with a fascinating epic story." Amazon.com
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Published to predictable international controversy, this sensational
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vividly details for the first time what previously had only been surmised.
Zhang Liang, the pseudonym for the high-ranking Chinese official who leaked
the documents, has revived the memory less to tell the truth than in a
bid to advance political reform in China, which stalled as a result of
Tiananmen Square. ... The Tiananmen Papers affords a wide audience the
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enthralling and explosive as a fictional thriller, allowing a rare snapshot
of Chinese Communist Party factionalism in action. --David Vincent,
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Wild
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