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	Fodor's Exploring China  •  Christopher Knowles GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES This excellent series has done it again with a stylish guidebook laced with maps and color photos that brings to life old and contemporary China. With separate sections on suggested places to visit, recommended walks, practical information including travel facts, the basics of communications, climate, money, electricity, photography, and transportation, descriptions of restaurants and hotels, ratings of sights, a language guide with Chinese phrases and numbers, a chronology of dynasties and historic events, even a small section on traditional arts and crafts, and chapters on the Silk Road, Beijing, and Xi'an, this is a complete and handy reference for any trip to China. (CHN25, $22.00)
	Search for Ancient China  •  Corinne Debaine-Francfort ARCHAEOLOGY •  1999 •  PAPER  • 160 PAGES • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE With information on everything from jewelry to emperors' tombs, this pocketsize, illustrated encyclopedia covers a wide scope of discoveries in China from prehistory to the dazzling 400-year Han empire. The concise text is complemented by 150 illustrations, most in color.The book includes sections on the Great Wall, terracotta warriors (not discovered in Xi'an until 1974!) and other well known monuments. (CHN69, $12.95)
	Understanding China, A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Politics  •  John Bryan Starr HISTORY •  2001 •  PAPER  • 356 PAGES John Bryan Starr, a professor of history and former director of the China Association, brings his classroom experience to this admirably brief, clearheaded introduction to contemporary China. Revised edition. (CHN196, $16.00)
	Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China  •  Jung Chang BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2003 •  PAPER  • 524 PAGES • FAVORITE A 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 through her family's story, which includes arrest during the Cultural Revolution, exile to the Sichuan wilderness and coming to terms with the bewildering state of China today. It's quite a tale, wonderfully told without a trace of rancor or bitterness. Living in London since 1978, Chang visits her mother back in China every year. You can imagine Chang with notebook in hand back in the family apartment absorbed in the stories of her much-loved mother. The book opens with the statement, "At the age of 15 my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general. It was 1929 and China was in chaos." (CHN04, $16.00)
	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)

	Culture Smart! China: A Quick Guide to Customs and Etiquette  •  Kathy Flower   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Learn about the customs, etiquette and culture of China with this handy, compact guide. (CHN434, $9.95)
	Eyewitness Guide Beijing and Shanghai  •   Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This superbly illustrated guide covers the top attractions in two of China's most fascinating cities. (CHN385, $23.00)
	Fodor's Shanghai's 25 Best  •   Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This shirt-pocket guide, with an excellent map of the city, includes a choice selection of attractions, shops and restaurants. (CHN60, $11.95)
	Lonely Planet Mandarin Phrasebook  •  Hua-Yuan L. Mowry  •  Justin Ben-Adam Rudelson   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy phrasebook for Mandarin basics. This guide focuses on pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (CHN72, $8.99)
	Odyssey Guide Xi'an, Shaanxi & the Terracotta Army  •  Kevin Bishop   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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)
	The Chinese Kitchen  •  Eileen Yin-Fei Lo   • FOOD  •  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)
	Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City  •  Lillian Li  •  Alison Dray-Novey  •  Haili Kong   • HISTORY  •  This engaging history chronicles Beijing's transformation from Kublai Khan's seat of power to an international modern metropolis. (CHN409, $18.95)
	China  •  Paula Regan   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A lavish overview of China and its people, this marvelously produced compilation features stunning double-page photographs of mountains, plains, rivers and forests, an excellent illustrated timeline, archival illustrations and cultural highlights. (CHN453, $40.00)
	China, A New History  •  John Fairbank  •  Merle Goldman   • HISTORY  •  A sweeping history of China from the Paleolithic to Tiananmen, revised with a new chapter by Merle Goldman. A standard for history buffs. (CHN11, $22.50)
	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, $16.00)
	Oracle Bones, A Journey Between China's Past and Present  •  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, $15.95)
	Shanghai, The Rise and Fall of the Decadent City 1842-1949  •  Stella Dong   • HISTORY  •  A riveting portrait of "the most pleasure-mad, rapacious, corrupt, strife-ridden, licentious, squalid and decadent city in the world." (CHN128, $15.00)
	The Cambridge Illustrated History of China  •  Patricia Buckley Ebrey   • HISTORY  •  A concise, handsomely illustrated survey of Chinese history. Organized chronologically, this book marches confidently through 8,000 years of Chinese civilization, balancing social issues with politics and culture. (CHN79, $39.99)
	The Forbidden City, Center of Imperial China  •  Gilles Beguin  •  Dominique Morel   • HISTORY  •  This slim volume is packed with maps, archival photographs and illustrations. With a useful chronology and a carefully chosen selection of writings over the ages, it's an indispensable guide to the Forbidden City and the history of imperial China. (CHN32, $12.95)
	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, much of it was built in the 1600s) with fresh insight and wit. (CHN308, $15.00)
	The Terra Cotta Army, China's First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation  •  John Man   • HISTORY  •  Man recounts the 1974 discovery of the 8,000 terra cotta soldiers two farmers, and uses the legend, lore and fact about Emperor Qin's Tomb to speculate about the mysterious emperor himself. (CHN518, $26.00)
	Terra Cotta Warriors, Guardians of China's First Emperor  •  Jane Portal   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  The stunning photographs in this companion to the traveling exhibition give a sense of the monument's scope and grandeur. (CHN519, $14.95)
	The Great Wall Revisited, From the Jade Gate to Old Dragon's Head  •  William Lindesay   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Lindesay juxtaposes modern color photographs with archival material in this visually arresting portrait of the wall and its watchtowers, fortified checkpoints, granaries, gates and ramparts. (CHN532, $39.95)
	China's First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors  •  Frances Wood   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • NEW  •  Wood's astute biography -- enlivened with woodcuts, engravings, poetry and recipes from the period -- is a rich introduction to Emperor Qin Shihuangdi (258-210 BC) and his times. (CHN492, $24.95)
	Mao Zedong  •  Jonathan Spence   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A biographical account of Mao Zedong by the Yale Sinologist, writer and historian, tracking the life of the Chinese ruler from his provincial upbringing through his powerful reign. (CHN66, $14.00)
	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, $14.95)
	The River at the Center of the World  •  Simon Winchester   • EXPLORATION • FAVORITE  •  Winchester writes about the character of Yangtze, and the people and places along its banks, with an easy grace in this remarkable portrait of the great river that is at the symbolic and literal heart of China. (CHN31, $16.00)
	China, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Kirk Denton   • ANTHOLOGY • NEW  •  An introduction both to China's finest modern writers and its diverse cultures, concerns and landscapes, this collection takes the reader from Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong to the mountains and streams of West Hunan, the silk-worm raising country of Zhejiang and the high plateau of western Sichuan. (CHN520, $14.95)
	Binu and the Great Wall, The Myth of Meng  •  Su Tong   • LITERATURE  •  Tong renders anew one of China's oldest myths, the tale of a girl whose tears flood the great wall. A best-seller in China, this journey of magic and misfortune provides insight into the foundation of a culture. (CHN494, $24.00)
	Death of a Red Heroine  •  Qui Xiaolong   • MYSTERY  •  Marvelously evocative of Shanghai, and tremendously informative about China's transition towards a market economy in the 1990s, this award-winning debut of Inspector Chen of the Shanghai police is also a page-turner. Winner of several mystery awards. (CHN374, $14.00)
	Empress Orchid  •  Anchee Min   • LITERATURE  •  In this novel of the glorious, decadent last days of 19th-Century Imperial China, Min (Red Azalea, Becoming Madame Mao) combines her tale of a young girl from the provinces who marries an emperor -- and then improbably becomes the Last Empress -- with a lovingly re-created portrait of life in the Forbidden City. (CHN267, $14.00)
	The Good Earth  •  Pearl Buck   • LITERATURE  •  The modern classic that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1931. Drawing heavily on Buck's personal experience as a young newlywed in rural China, it is the plainly told story of a poor farmer and his stalwart wife. (CHN15, $15.00)
	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, $14.95)

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