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Silk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became ...
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The definitive story of a top Chinese politician's ill-fated quest to reform the Communist Party.
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An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs
The three millennia up to the establishment of the ...
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The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history
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The gripping story of Taiwan, from the flood myths of ancient legend to its 'Asian Tiger' economic miracle - and the looming threat of invasion by ...
An epic history of how the so-called 'barbarians of the steppes' shaped the modern world.
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A true masterpiece of narrative history and the definitive story of the revolution that ignited the end of colonialism worldwide
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The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five ...
The incredible story of China's greatest archaeological treasure - the Terracotta Army - revised and updated for 2018.
The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest ...
A dazzling new history of the Indian subcontinent and its diverse peoples in global context from antiquity to today
Much of world history is Indian ...
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'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama
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