History -- Asia from I Cannot Live Without Books

A Forse So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 by Kevin Peraino THERE IS A RED "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. In the opening months of 1949, U.S. President Harry S. Truman found himself faced with a looming diplomatic catastrophe -- " perhaps the greatest that this country has ever suffered," as the journalist Walter Lippmann… Read more about this item

The New Koreans: The Story of a Nation by Michael Breen Just a few decades ago, the South Koreans were ain impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they moved from the fields to Silicon Valley, driven by anger at the rival North, which invaded them, and defiance of their history to rise from backwardness to advanced-nation status. They accomplished this through… Read more about this item