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China Now | READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Chinese Lessons, Five Classmates and the Story of the New China • John Pomfret BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2007 • PAPER • 336 PAGES Beijing bureau chief for The Washington Post from 1998-2003 and with decades of experience in China, Pomfret has reported on extraordinary events from Tianamen Square to SARS. In this book, Pomfret chronicles the lives of five of his classmates from Nanjing University, where he was an exchange student in 1981. It's a dramatic account of tumultuous change in contemporary China. (CHN382, $16.99)
China Shakes the World • James Kynge HISTORY • 2007 • PAPER • 270 PAGES A journalist in Asia for two decades and fluent in Mandarin, Kynge brings experience and perspective to this very readable, enlightening report on the transformation of contemporary China. (CHN353, $14.95)
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)
Dragon Rising, An Inside Look at China Today • Jasper Becker CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 2007 • PAPER • 264 PAGES Asia scholar Jasper Becker examines the pertinent questions and issues facing modern China and its relationship to the global economy. Profusely illustrated with striking color photography. (CHN365, $18.95)
The State of China Atlas • Robert Benewick • Stephanie Donald REFERENCE • 2009 • PAPER • 128 PAGES A survey of social, political and economic indicators, boldy presented in colorful maps. It's a visual synopsis of change in China. (CHN68, $19.95)
Culture Smart! China • Kathy Flower GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • PAPER • 168 PAGES Learn about the local customs, etiquette and culture of China with this handy, compact guide. (CHN434, $9.95)
Central China Map • MapLink 2006 • MAP This full, color foldup map, with a detailed index on the reverse, shows the most visited sites in China -- from Beijing and Shanghai to Chendu, Chongqing and the Three Gorges to Xi'an and Lanzhou -- at a scale of 1:2,000.000. It's almost twice as detailed as our best map of all of China. (CHN431, $9.95)

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As China Goes, So Goes the World, How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything • Karl Gerth • REFERENCE • Gerth shows the growing impact of Chinese consumer choices on the world economy. (CHN667, $16.00)
Eyewitness Guide Beijing and Shanghai • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • This superb guide features color photography, excellent maps and a neighborhood-by-neighborhood overview of each city. (CHN385, $23.00)
Eyewitness Guide China • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • This hefty illustrated guide to sites, attractions and places throughout China features excellent maps and hundreds of color photographs and site diagrams. (CHN242, $30.00)
Lonely Planet Mandarin Phrasebook • Hua-Yuan L. Mowry • Justin Ben-Adam Rudelson • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A handy phrasebook for basic Mandarin, focusing on pronunciation, grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (CHN72, $8.99)
National Geographic Atlas of China • National Geographic Society • REFERENCE • A portrait of China as seen in 300 maps, including traditional cartography, ten detailed city plans, satellite imagery and scores of thematic maps and charts. (CHN445, $21.95)
Pocket China Atlas, Maps and Facts at Your Fingertips • Stephanie Hemelryk Donald • REFERENCE • With 25 full-color topical maps, clear graphics and an informative, readable text, this volume charts the profound changes within China and traces their implications for the world at large. (CHN485, $15.95)
A Million Truths, A Decade in China • Linda Jakobson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A Finnish reporter's portrait of China in the 1990s, an observant and sensitive account of peasants, professionals, officials and scholars adjusting to life in an emerging economic powerhouse. (CHN373, $17.95)
About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship With China • James Mann • HISTORY • A history and analysis of Chinese-American relations. (CHN111, $17.95)
China in Ten Words • Yu Hua • HISTORY • "Like ten pairs of eyes -- to scrutinize the current China under ten different angles," Yu Hua traces the transformation of life in China since the Cultural Revolution though key words. (CHN680, $25.95)
China in the 21st Century, What Everyone Needs to Know • Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Wasserstrom puts China's policies, industrialization and international relations in the context of its history and culture in this concise, illuminating introduction. (CHN587, $16.95)
China the Balance Sheet, What the World Needs to Know about the Emerging Superpower • Bates Gill • C. Fred Bergsten • HISTORY • A fact-filled, academic report on Chinese colossus by teams at the Centre for Strategic International Studies and the Institute for International Economics, both think tanks on international economic policy in Washington D.C. (CHN354, $13.95)
China Wakes, The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power • Nicholas Kristoff • Sheryl WuDunn • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The authors journeyed from Tibet to Tiananmen, reporting in depth on contemporary China and its cultural dissidents. An engrossing portrait of a nation struggling to hold onto tradition while modernizing its economy. (CHN33, $16.95)
China's Rise in Historical Perspective • Brant Womack • HISTORY • Leading experts contribute to this engaing primer on the politics and economy of contemporary China. (CHN703, $29.95)
China, Inc. How the Rise of the Next Superpower Changes America and the World • Ted C. Fishman • HISTORY • An economist and former commodities trader, Ted Fishman draws on statistics, case studies and interviews in this lively economic history and guide to understanding China's spectacular economic growth and future prospects. (CHN305, $17.00)
Civilization, The West and the Rest • Niall Ferguson • HISTORY • The Harvard historian argues that six key concepts -- competition, science, the rule of law, consumerism, modern medicine, and the work ethic -- have contributed to the rise of the West. (WLD230, $35.00)
Day of Empire, How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall • Amy Chua • HISTORY • Chua looks to the histories of Persia, Rome, China, the Mongols, the Dutch, the British, and the United States, arguing that pluralism and tolerance contributes to the making of a super power. (CHN702, $16.95)
Legacies, A Chinese Mosaic • Betty Bao Lord • HISTORY • A memoir of contemporary China, interweaving a family tale with interviews and testimony. (CHN84, $19.00)
Modern China, The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present • Johnathan Fenby • HISTORY • Jonathan Fenby tells the turbulent story of modern China with personality and a journalist's eye for historical panorama. (CHN542, $34.95)
On China • Henry Kissinger • HISTORY • Kissinger examines how China has approached diplomacy, strategy and negotiation throughout its history, and reflects on the consequences for the global balance of power in the 21st century. (CHN683, $18.00)
Oracle Bones • Peter Hessler • HISTORY • 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)
Popular China, Unoffical Culture in a Globalizing Society • Paul G. Pickowicz • Richard P. Madsen • Perry Link • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A reader on manifestations of popular culture in contemporary China, including chapters by both Chinese and western contributors. (CHN259, $34.95)
Postcards from Tomorrow Square • James Fallows • HISTORY • 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)
Red Capitalism • Carl E. Walter • HISTORY • Walter illuminates the fragile financial foundation of China's extraordinary rise in this insder's view of the the banking system. (CHN694, $29.95)
Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space • Wu Hung • HISTORY • Author Hung witnessed firsthand the the reinvention of Beijing since the Communist revolution. Focusing on Tiananmen Square, Hung chronicles its evolution from an ancient Imperial site to a political public space, and its shift from an official socialist monument to a place for protestors and demonstrators. (CHN415, $35.00)
Shanghai Modern, The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945 • Leo Ou-Fan Lee • HISTORY • A scholarly look at Chinese urban culture in pre-war Shanghai. (CHN64, $34.00)
Shower • Zhang Yang • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • In this film by Zhang, a succesful Shenzhen businessman reluctantly returns to his childhood home in Beijing when he hears his father has died. When he discovers that his father is in fact alive, he is forced to reexamine his relationships with his father and brother and the decisions that have kept him away from home for so long. (CHN326, $29.95)
The Changing Face of China, From Mao to Market • John Gittings • HISTORY • A lively history of China from 1949 to the present by a journalist and China expert. Gittings was East Asia corespondent for The Guardian from 1983-2003. (CHN307, $19.95)
The Gate of Heavenly Peace, The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980 • Jonathan Spence • HISTORY • Jonathan Spence, a prolific scholar of Chinese history at Yale, delivers a portrait of Chinese revolution, combining straightforward political history with an intriguing selection of materials by poets, artists and intellectuals. (CHN195, $18.00)
The Great Wall, China Against the World, 1000 BC - 2000 AD • Julia Lovell • HISTORY • The Who, Why and Wherefore of the Great Wall, this marvelous history demolishes myths (no, the wall is not a continuous structure of great antiquity, as much of it was built in the 1600s) with fresh insight and wit. (CHN308, $15.00)
The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds • David M. Lampton • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Clear, comprehensive, and well-balanced, this assessment takes the measure of what is arguably the most important geopolitical development in today's world: the growth of China's power. (CHN541, $26.95)
Tide Players, The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China • Jianying Zha • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A Beijinger raised during the Cultural Revolution, who studied in South Carolina in the 1980s and demonstrated in Tiananmen Square, Jianying Zha understands both worlds intimately. In these portraits of six remarkable individuals, she tracks the lives and stories of six remarkable individuals, including the rags-to-riches tale of an unlikely real estate couple, a publishing maverick and business tycoon along with writers and dissidents, including her brother, jailed for nine years as a founder of the China Democracy Party. (CHN665, $24.95)
Tracking Bodhidharma, A Journey to the Heart of Chinese Culture • Andy Ferguson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Ferguson's evocative journey on the trail of Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism, takes him deep into the heart of Chinese culture old and new. (CHN707, $26.00)
Understanding China • John Bryan Starr • HISTORY • The Yale professor brings us up to date in this third edition of his succinct and refreshingly forthright best-selling guide to China's economy, history and politics. (CHN196, $17.95)
Will the Boat Sink the Water?, The Life of China's Peasants • Chen Guidi • Wu Chuntao • HISTORY • The husband and wide journalists demonstrate the devastating impact of the revolution on ordinary Chinese, showing too of the dark side of Chine's recent rocketing economic growth. Banned in China (where it has sold millions of copies on the black market). (CHN489, $15.95)
New China, New Art • Richard Vine • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Richard Vine, a leading authority on new Chinese art, provides a in a medium-by-medium critical survey of 80 contemporary artists. (CHN687, $60.00)
Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana • Stephanie Elizondo Griest • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The offbeat memoirs of a Texan who spent four years as a volunteer in Moscow, a propaganda officer in Beijing, and a belly dancer in Havana. (RUS242, $14.95)
Confessions, An Innocent Life in Communist China • Zhengguo Kang • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Kang, now a professor at Yale, writes with verve and immediacy in this remarkable memoir of coming of age in Mao's China. (CHN500, $15.95)
Looking for Chengdu, A Woman's Adventure in China • Hill Gates • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Anthropologist Hill Gates sets off on a series of excursions through the inland province of Sichuan. Gates is especially curious to learn how the economic boom has effected the women of Sichuan, which was the birthplace of Chinese economic reforms in the 1970s. (CHN74, $26.95)
Lost on Planet China • J. Maarten Troost • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Lost on Planet China finds the irrepressible J. Maarten Troost dodging deadly drivers in Shanghai; eating Yak in Tibet; deciphering restaurant menus (offering local favorites such as Cattle Penis with Garlic); and visiting with Chairman Mao (still dead, very orange). He's not just funny, he's a guide to mixed-up modern China. (CHN496, $14.95)
Mr. China's Son, A Villager's Life • He Liyi • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Written with warmth, humor and an admirable lack of bitterness, this autobiography by a villager from Yunnan is a poignant glimpse into the rural experience in China over 50 years, including the Japanese invasion, Communist revolution, and time in reeducation camps. (CHN399, $40.00)
Mr. China, A Memoir • Tim Clissold • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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)
Red Azalea • Anchee Min • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Born in 1957 (and a leader of the Little Red Guards in Shanghai as a youngster), Min writes with powerful simplicity of coming-of-age under Mao (including a stint at Red Fire Farm). (CHN273, $15.00)
Red Dust, A Path Through China • Ma Jian • Flora Drew • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An astounding memoir by an urban poet, painter and writer on the road to Tibet. A vagabond, rebel and Buddhist, Jian abandons his Beijing life for a 3-year southwestern journey through Tibet, Burma and Guizhou Province. (CHN150, $16.00)
Socialism Is Great!, A Worker's Memoir of the New China • Lijia Zhang • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A student who joined the Tiananmen Square protest, Lijia Zhang traces her coming of age in Nanjing in the 1980s in this spirited memoir. (CHN501, $15.00)
The Last Days of Old Beijing, Tales from the New City • Michael Meyer • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Meyer's lovely memoir of the hutong (ancient lane), where he taught school, captures the rhythms, traditions and spirit of the alleyways, gardens and courtyard houses of Beijing's traditional neighborhoods south of Tiananmen. (CHN493, $16.00)
Wuhu Diary, On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China • Emily Prager • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An account of a two-month trip to China in 2001. (CHN210, $13.00)
Beijing Coma • Ma Jian • LITERATURE • In this remarkable novel former Tiananmen Square protester Dai Wei awakens after a decade, learning that his mother had sold one of his kidneys to finance his care, and that the China he knew has undergone radical change. (CHN502, $18.00)
Foreign Babes in Beijing, Behind the Scenes of a New China • Rachel DeWoskin • LITERATURE • DeWoskin entertainingly illuminates Chinese versus Western perceptions in this enlightening memoir of her experiences in Beijing (where she landed a role in a soap opera of the title). (CHN478, $13.95)
Streetlife China • Michael Dutton • ANTHOLOGY • A scholarly collection of essays about the realities of living in modern-day China, by a variety of contributors. (CHN222, $36.00)
The Beijing of Possibilites • Jonathan Tel • LITERATURE • Combining elements of the surreal with carefully observed details of present-day Beijing, Tel's entertaining short stories offer a rich portrait of the city and the tensions between its history and present. (CHN556, $14.95)
Waiting • Ha Jin • LITERATURE • A spare, haunting story of a military doctor who tries for 18 years to divorce his peasant wife so he can marry a more sophisticated nurse at his hospital. Greatly evocative of quotidian life in China during the Cultural Revolution and after. (CHN80, $15.00)

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