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The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty

Shih-shan Henry Tsai - History - 1996 - 306 pages
This book is the first on Chinese eunuchs in English and presents a comprehensive picture of the role that they played in the Ming dynasty, 1368-1644. Extracted from a wide ...
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The Chinese Experience in America

Shih-shan Henry Tsai - Chinese Americans - 1986 - 248 pages
How have the Chinese fared in America? What motivated them to come here in the nineteenth century? How were they received by native Americans? These are some of the questions ...
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Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West ...

Shih-Shan Henry Tsai - Business & Economics - 2014 - 280 pages
For centuries the island of Taiwan, 100 miles off the Asian mainland, has been a crossroads for traders and settlers, pirates and military schemers from around the world ...
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Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West

Shih-Shan Henry Tsai - Business & Economics - 2014 - 281 pages
For centuries the island of Taiwan, 100 miles off the Asian mainland, has been a crossroads for traders and settlers, pirates and military schemers from around the world ...
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Ming China, 1368–1644: A Concise History of a Resilient Empire

John W. Dardess - History - 2011 - 172 pages
This engaging, deeply informed book provides the first concise history of one of China's most important eras. Leading scholar John W. Dardess offers a thematically organized ...
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Zheng He: China’s Greatest Explorer, Mariner, and Navigator

Corona Brezina - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2016 - 112 pages
Zheng He was the commander of a vast Chinese fleet known as the treasure fleet. In the early fifteenth century, he led the fleet on seven journeys throughout the South China ...
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Not Just Victims: Conversations with Cambodian Community Leaders in the ...

Audrey U. Kim - History - 2003 - 338 pages
Not Just Victims contains twelve oral histories based on conversations with Cambodian community leaders in eight American cities -- Long Beach, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C ...
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The Japanese in Latin America

Daniel M. Masterson - History - 2004 - 372 pages
Japanese migration to Latin America began in the late nineteenth century, and today the continent is home to 1.5 million persons of Japanese descent. Combining detailed ...
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