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  • Subject is exactly "China"

The Year of the Fortune Cookie

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"The third chapter book sequel to The Year of the Book and The Year of the Baby, eleven-year-old Anna takes a trip to China and learns more about herself and her Chinese heritage."
"This book focuses on the life on a Chinese family living in America…

Position: 148 (353 views)

Revolution is not a Dinner Party

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This book has won the 2008 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Juvenile Books).

Position: 163 (345 views)

Secrets of the Terra-Cotta Soldier

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"In this action-packed adventure and coming-of-age story that finely weaves fact and fiction, thirteen-year-old Ming lives in a small village in Maoist China in the 1970s. His father is convinced that Emperor Qin's tomb—and the life-size terra-cotta…

Position: 185 (334 views)

A southern Chinese city through the eyes of a British missionary: Preliminary analysis of the text of a historical travelogue

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Walks in the City of Canton is a book written by John Henry Gray of Christ's College, Cambridge who came to China and stayed as a missionary for many years, and it was published in 1875. This project did a preliminary analysis of the text of this…

Position: 63 (394 views)

A Thread of Sky

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This book has won the 2010 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Fiction).

Position: 181 (335 views)

A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

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This book has won the 2013 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Non-Fiction).

Position: 334 (297 views)

Contemporary Chinese Art

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"In this first systematic introduction to the topic, art historian and critic Wu Hung provides a much-needed narrative of the development of Chinese art across all media from the 1970s to the 2000s, a timespan characterized by radical social,…

Position: 224 (325 views)

Decoded

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"In his gripping debut novel, Mai Jia reveals the mysterious world of Unit 701, a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code breaking. Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is…

Position: 278 (313 views)