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Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World by Joshua Kurlantzick

Hardcover and paperback

  • ISBN-13: 9780300117035
  • Sales Rank: 70120
  • Pub. Date: May 2007

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. And though much has been written of China s rise, a crucial aspect of this ... More

How to Negotiate Anything with Anyone Anywhere Around the World by Frank L. Acuff

Paperback

  • ISBN-13: 9780814474051
  • Sales Rank: 570303
  • Pub. Date: February 2006

"Acuff's knowledge of local business practices worldwide and his familiarity with many different cultures, customers, and national psychologies is impressive and will be ... More

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Stilwell and the American Experience in China,1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman,

Paperback - not in print - used copies available

  • ISBN-13: 9780802138521
  • Sales Rank: 74922
  • Pub. Date: October 2001

Joseph Stilwell, military attache to China from 1935 to 1939 and commander of U.S. forces and Allied Chief of Staff to Chiang Kai-shek from 1942 to 1944, was a man who loved ... More

Looking At The Sun : The Rise Of The New East Asian Economic And Political System by James M. Fallows, Paperback - Reprinted Edition

  • ISBN-13: 9780679761624
  • Sales Rank: 701078
  • Pub. Date: June 1995

In a timely, even prophetic, portrait of Asia's rise and the magnitude of its challenge to the West, Fallows demolishes the myth that Japan is a capitalist country built on ... More

Books by James A. Michener - History the easy way

I personally read the below Michener novels and found them addictive in their storytelling while providing accurate and highly fascinating information and at the same time examining the underlying forces. I wish I had the time to read more, although I have read some twice.

Centennial, Poland, The Covenant, Caravans, Hawaii, Chesapeake, Caribbean, The Novel, Tales of the South Pacific