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China: Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise
Susan L. Shirk
A clear-eyed and frightening account of what could go wrong as China rises to economic and military superpower status.
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The Search for Modern China, Second Ed.
Jonathan D. Spence
Easily the most lucid, readable, and intelligent account of China's emergence as a modern society from a traditionalist bureaucracy.
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Faith of our Fathers: God in Ancient China
Chan Kei Thong
A fascinating interpretation of China's ancient culture as being on a trajectory in search of morality and the divine.
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Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now
Jan Wong
A moving personal account of a Western Maoist's disillusionment with the totalitarian pretensions of China during and shortly after the Cultural Revolution.
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China: eople Place Culture History
DK Publishing
A useful and beautifully illustrated introduction to ancient and modern China for the non-specialist.
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Our recent coverage of China includes "Aiding China's Shaken Church," "China's Great Leap Forward," "Hungry for Jesus," "Audio Slideshow: Changing China," and more.
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