Books by Bruce A. Elleman

Now in a fully updated edition, this accessible text provides a balanced history of modern China in a global context. The authors focus especially on China's culture, warfare, and immediate neighbors and provide a unique comparative approach to bridge the cultural divide separating Chinese history from Western readers trying to understand it.

This book integrates a number of multinational, multiregional, and historical cases of piracy, maritime crime, and seaborne terrorism.

In this book, Elleman surveys the situation that has led to the current tensions between China and Taiwan. Simply written and cogently argued, it is the ideal source for military personnel, diplomats, and scholars and student of the modern Far East.

A survey of Chinese warfare, both internal and international, from the opium wars of the 1840s through to the end of Vietnam.