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COUNTRY WALKERS
China: Beijing, Xi'an & Southern Provinces
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Eyewitness Guide China
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 672 PAGES
A hefty, richly illustrated guide to sites, attractions and places throughout China. With excellent maps and hundreds of full color photographs and site diagrams. A 50-page appendix covers where to stay, eat, draink and shop. The guide covers all China from Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong to Sichuan, Yunnan, Zinjiang and Tibet.
(CHN242, $30.00) |
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Understanding China
• John Bryan Starr
HISTORY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 400 PAGES
Yale professor John Bryan Starr brings us up to date in this just published third edition (the last one was ten years old) of his succinct and refreshingly forthright best-selling guide to China's economy, history and politics. With all the frothing over the role of China in the world, this is the essential primer.
(CHN196, $17.95) |
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China, A Photographic Journey Through the Middle Kingdom
• Gu Guo
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2010 •
HARD COVER
• 243 PAGES
The miniature version of the massive and stunning photographic volume contains 243 color photos including 12 panoramic gatefolds depicting China's scenery, monuments, landmarks and lesser-known locales. Extended captions provide introductions and historical background for each of the 44 places featured.
(CHN627, $17.50) |
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China Road
• Rob Gifford
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 368 PAGES
On the road from from Shanghai west to the Gobi and China's distant border with Kazakhstan, Gifford writes with warmth and affection of his many encounters along fabled Route 312 with fellow travelers, truckers, whores and ordinary folk.
(CHN433, $17.00) |
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China Adventure Map
• National Geographic
2011 •
MAP
A double-sided, full-color map of China, at a useful scale of 1:4,375,000, which shows roads and cities. Printed on tear- and water-reistant paper. Two Sides. 39x27 inches.
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Also Recommended
Culture Smart! China
• Kathy Flower
• GUIDEBOOK
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Take along this handy guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(CHN434, $9.95)
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Eyewitness Top 10 Beijing
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions in Beijing.
(CHN427, $14.00)
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Lonely Planet Mandarin Phrasebook
• Hua-Yuan L. Mowry
• Justin Ben-Adam Rudelson
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A handy phrasebook for basic Mandarin, focusing on pronunciation, grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler.
(CHN72, $8.99)
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Odyssey Guide Xi'an, Shaanxi & the Terracotta Army
• Kevin Bishop
• GUIDEBOOK
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With color photographs, insightful essays on culture and history, site plans and places of interest in and around China's ancient capital.
(CHN34, $24.95)
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Walking
• Henry David Thoreau
• REFERENCE
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Slip this pocket edition of Thoreau's meditations on the spiritual benefits of this most civilized form of travel in your daypack for inspiration.
(WLK04, $9.99)
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The Chinese Kitchen
• Eileen Yin-Fei Lo
• FOOD
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An authoritative compendium of Chinese recipes and food-oriented cultural practices. Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's cookbook doubles as an introduction to China itself.
(CHN134, $39.95)
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A Traveller's History of China
• Stephen G. Haw
• HISTORY
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An admirably brief, lively history of China from early origins to today, remarkably clear and necessarily condensed. With a historical gazetteer, chronology and list of dynasties.
(CHN43, $14.95)
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Oracle Bones
• Peter Hessler
• HISTORY
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In this fine portrait of tumult and tradition, Hessler (River Town) finds clues to modern China's realities in the personal stories of peasants, scholars, day laborers and activists.
(CHN316, $15.99)
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Postcards from Tomorrow Square
• James Fallows
• HISTORY
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Ranging from politics to society and business, these richly observed, candid essays capture the complexity, tumult and promise of modern China. A correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, where these essays first appeared, Fallows moved with his wife to China in 2006.
(CHN559, $15.00)
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The Forbidden City
• Geremie R. Barme
• Mary Beard
• HISTORY
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A compact, elegant volume in Harvard's excellent Wonders of the World series, this pocket history illuminates the culture, mystique, architecture and politics of imperial Beijing. Fittingly, the book opens with Mao's symbolic address from the Gate of Heavenly Peace.
(CHN468, $14.95)
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The Great Wall, From Beginning to End
• Michael Yamashita
• William Lindesay
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Lindesay's informative text accompanies 160 photographs by Yamashita, who spent a year photographing along the 4,000-mile expanse.
(CHN451, $29.95)
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Country Driving
• Peter Hessler
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Opening with an eventful 7,000-mile road trip across northern China, Peter Hessler (River Town, Oracle Bones) shows the absurdity, humor and hope of China in this latest portrait of a nation catapulted into the modern world.
(CHN600, $15.99)
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Mao Zedong
• Jonathan Spence
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Yale Sinologist, writer and historian Spence tracks the life of the Chinese ruler from his provincial upbringing through his powerful rule.
(CHN66, $14.00)
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Mr. China, A Memoir
• Tim Clissold
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An excellent portrait of contemporary China. Clissold writes with humor and insight in this entertaining account of his encounters with the Chinese and the Chinese way of doing business.
(CHN306, $14.99)
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Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China
• Jung Chang
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• FAVORITE
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In this riveting tale of three generations spanning the end of Old China, Mao's regime and the Japanese occupation, Chang chronicles the enormous changes in China since 1929.
(CHN04, $16.99)
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China, A Traveler's Literary Companion
• Kirk Denton
• ANTHOLOGY
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An introduction both to China's finest modern writers and its diverse cultures, concerns and landscapes, organized geographically.
(CHN520, $14.95)
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Death of a Red Heroine
• Xiaolong Qui
• MYSTERY
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Marvelously evocative of Shanghai and tremendously informative about China's transition towards a market economy in the 1990s, Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police must find the murderer of a National Model Worker in this award-winning debut. The series continues with A Loyal Character Dancer (CHN412).
(CHN374, $14.95)
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