China's Silk Road

China's Silk Road | READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Odyssey Guide The Silk Road, Xi'an to Kashgar • Judy Bonavia GUIDEBOOK • 2008 • PAPER • 352 PAGES A comprehensive guide to China's Silk Road with color photographs, excellent maps and much historical information. This handy book includes separate essays on the history and culture of the area, excerpts from the literature, a brief Chinese phrasebook, and a province-by-province description of points of interest. (CAS13, $24.95)
Search for Ancient China • Corinne Debaine-Francfort ARCHAEOLOGY • 1999 • PAPER • 160 PAGES 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, $15.95)
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road • Peter Hopkirk HISTORY • 1984 • PAPER • 252 PAGES Hopkirk tackles the history of the Chinese Silk Road in his inimitable style, especially the exploits of Sven Hedin and five other archaeological raiders of the early years of the 20th century. Accurate, vividly written and great fun. (CAS22, $24.95)
Life Along the Silk Road • Susan Whitfield BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2001 • PAPER • 253 PAGES With insight, scholarship and dramatic flair, Susan Whitfield recounts the lives of ten individuals on the ancient Silk Road. Spanning the eighth to tenth centuries, she draws on surviving manuscripts and firsthand accounts in this vivid, entertaining portrait of everyday life in China and Central Asia. Whitfield is director of the International Dunhuang Project. (CAS44, $24.95)
Along the Silk Road • Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2002 • PAPER • 144 PAGES A nicely illustrated collection of essays on the art, culture and music of the Silk Road with contributions by art historian ten Grotenhuis (who edited the volume), Yo-Yo Ma and others associated with the Silk Road Project. Additional contributors include musicologist Theodore Levin, textile-expert Elizabeth Barber, and photographer Kenro Izu. Volume 6 in the Asian Art & Culture series published in conjunction with the Silk Road Project and the Freer Gallery of Art. (CAS78, $24.95)
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. (CHN06, $11.95)

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China North Map • Nelles • A detailed travel map of North China, at a scale of 1:1,750,000. (CHN40, $13.95)
Northwest China Map • MapLink • This bird's-eye map takes in the region from Dunhuang west across the Taklamakan to Almaty, Bishkek and the Pamirs. With shaded relief, archaeological sites, roads, tracks and paths, railroads and trade routes. (CHN202, $9.95)
The Ancient Silk Road, An Illustrated Map • Odyssey Maps • Three large annotated color maps, dozens of photographs and expert commentary illustrate sites across the Silk Road from China across Central Asia, the Middle East and Asia Minor. (ASA58, $14.95)
Chinese Rugs: A Buyer's Guide • Lee Allane • GUIDEBOOK • A guide to the history, techniques and variety of carpets produced throughout China, featuring a helpful buyer's guide. (CHN30, $15.95)
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, ideal for a short visit. (CHN60, $11.99)
The Silk Roads, A Route and Planning Guide • Paul Wilson • GUIDEBOOK • A compact, practical guide to the network of ancient trade routes extending from Turkey and the Mideast across Central Asia to China. (CAS21, $24.95)
A History of Inner Asia • Svat Soucek • HISTORY • A dense, informative survey of the changing fortunes of people in the region, with chapters on Arab conquest and Chinese expansion, Mongols, Samanids, Timurids, Uzbeks, and other kingdoms and people in the region, including the 17th-19th century development of the trading cities. With 13 maps and dynastic charts. (CAS51, $39.99)
Buddhism in China: A Historical Survey • Kenneth Ch'en • RELIGION • A well organized, scholarly history of the development of Mahayana Buddhism in China, originally published in 1964. (CHN151, $57.50)
Oasis Identities, Uyghur Nationalism Along China's Silk Road • Justin Jon Rudelson • HISTORY • A survey of Uyghur identity based on the author's fieldwork in Turpan. (CAS92, $29.50)
Odyssey Guide Xinjiang • Jeremy Tredinnick • HISTORY • COMING IN JULY • This beautifully, authoritative illustrated guide covers with authority the archaeological and cultural riches, Silk Road legacy and fascination of China's enormous Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (CHN508, $29.95)
Religions of the Silk Road • Richard C. Foltz • RELIGION • A scholarly survey of cultural traditions, and especially religions, along the trade routes through China and Central Asia from antiquity to the 15th century. (CAS52, $27.00)
Silk Road: Monks, Warriors & Merchants on the Silk Road • Luce Boulnois • Helen Loveday • HISTORY • COMING IN JULY • A history and guide to the Silk Road, organized chronologically and featuring a nice selection of contemporary photographs. (CAS111, $27.95)
Silk, Scents, and Spice, Retracing the World's Great Trade Routes • John Lawton • HISTORY • COMING IN • A history and account of adventures on the ancient routes between Arabia, Asia and the West in quest of silk, spice and incense. (GEN335, $24.95)
The Great Game • Peter Hopkirk • HISTORY • FAVORITE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great struggle for European supremacy in Central Asia takes us over the high mountain passes and through the scorching deserts and caravan towns of the Silk Road, capturing the glamour, intrigue, treachery and adventure of the time. (CAS09, $18.00)
The Silk Road, Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia • Frances Wood • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Wood draws on hundreds of archival photographs, manuscripts and paintings from the British Library in telling this lively story of the art, culture and history of diverse trade routes. With chapters on jade and silk, trade during the Han Dynasty, Dunhuang, the Great Game, explorers and the Silk Road today. (ASA36, $28.95)
Wild West China, The Taming of Xinjiang • Christian Tyler • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A journalist and frequent visitor to China, Tyler covers the history, culture and modern tensions between the Muslim Uighurs and Beijing in this incisive portrait of the region. (CHN231, $28.95)
Conquering the Desert of Death, Across the Taklamakan • Charles Blackmore • Peter Hopkirk • EXPLORATION • Blackmore's vivid account of tenacity and courage is all the better for its matter of fact detail and generous credit to the Uyghur camel handlers who made it possible. (CAS68, $16.95)
Islamic Arts • Jonathan Bloom • Sheila Blair • ART & ARCHITECTURE • With color photographs, maps and site plans, throughout this survey of 1,000 years of Islamic architecture, design and decoration is a wonderfully illuminating, stimulating introduction tot he subject for anyone with an interest in art. (ISL01, $29.95)
Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond • Kenneth Nebenzahl • ART & ARCHITECTURE • This visually stunning collection of 80 rare illuminated manuscripts, early modern masterpieces and archival maps traces two millennia of exploration across Asia. (CAS113, $29.95)
The Arts of China • Michael Sullivan • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A lively survey of Chinese visual arts and culture through the ages, thoroughly illustrated and accessible. With a new chapter on the 20th century and beyond, this fifth edition covers bronzes, ceramics, painting and architecture from the Neolithic to now. (CHN16, $39.95)
The Caves of Dunhuang • Fan Jinshi • ART & ARCHITECTURE • This richly illustrated survey presents the ancient murals, silks, manuscripts and other treasures within the 50 extraordinary cave temples of Mogao, used as a monastery for a millennium. With 350 color photographs. (CHN534, $70.00)
The Desert Road to Turkestan • Owen Lattimore • EXPLORATION • COMING IN • Originally published in 1927. Lattimore recounts his daredevil journey by camel caravan through the high steppes of China's unknown Gobi. (CAS14, $18.00)
The Mummies of Urumchi • Elizabeth Wayland Barber • ARCHAEOLOGY • An overview of the culture of ancient people of the Silk Road based on the extraordinarily well preserved Caucasoid mummies unearthed in Urumchi in the Tarim Basin of Central Asia. (CAS34, $19.95)
The Tarim Mummies, Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West • J.P. Mallory • Victor H. Mair • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A magnificently illustrated account of the Tarim mummies -- Bronze Age inhabitants of the Taklamakan Desert along the Silk Road. (CAS58, $36.40)
Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting • Richard Barnhart • Yang Xin • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An oversize, nicely illustrated survey of Chinese art traditions with contributions by leading specialists and 300 well chosen color illustrations. (CHN152, $55.00)
Chasing the Monk's Shadow • Mishi Saran • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Traveling in the footsteps of 7th-century Buddhist monk Xuanzang, Mishi Saran explores the historical, cultural and religious legacies of the Silk Road in China, Central Asia and India. (CHN372, $26.95)
From Heaven Lake, Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet • Vikram Seth • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An unconventional, award-winning travelogue of a 1981 trip to India from China via the Himalayas by the marvelous Indian novelist Vikram Seth. (HML19, $15.00)
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World • Jack Weatherford • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Weatherford, who has lived and studied in Mongolia, interweaves his own travels and field work on the Central Asian steppes, much of it on horseback, with a lively portrait of Genghis Khan and the world of the medieval Mongols. The Mongols introduced not only mayhem, but also paper, printing, gunpowder, the compass and trousers to their far-flung empire. (CAS106, $15.00)
In Xanadu, A Quest • William Dalrymple • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An intrepid traveler and entertaining writer, Dalrymple offers an anecdotal history of the people and places he encounters en route on this epic journey in the footsteps of Marco Polo across Central Asia to China. (CAS50, $18.95)
Khubilai Khan, His Life and Times • Morris Rossabi • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • This fascinating, scholarly portrait of the culture and politics of 13th-century Asia examines Khubilai Khan's rise to power, the submission of Korea and the attempted invasion of Japan. (CAS10, $24.95)
News from Tartary • Peter Fleming • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Fleming's rousing account of a 3,500-mile jaunt from Peking to Sinkiang and on to India, a classic of imperial British wit and style. (CAS46, $18.95)
Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road • Stuart Stevens • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An entertaining account of hard travel from Beijing to Kashgar, following the route of Peter Fleming and his classic News From Tartary. (CAS77, $13.00)
Riding the Iron Rooster • Paul Theroux • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A wry account an utterly exhausting, exasperating travels, mostly by rail, throughout China for an entire year. Theroux gets himself to every corner of the huge country and includes memorable passages on his experiences in Mongolia, Xinjiang, Manchuria and Tibet (where his journey ended). (CHN133, $15.95)
Sir Aurel Stein, Archaeological Explorer • Jeanette Mirsky • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Mirsky captures the excitement, derring-do, fortunes and controversy surrounding Stein's discovery of tombs, temples and monasteries and other ancient treasures of the Silk Road. (CAS61, $22.50)
The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane • Beatrice Forbes Manz • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A portrait of the great nomadic conqueror who rose to power in 1370 on the ruins of the Mongol Empire and led campaigns from Moscow to Delhi. (CAS11, $29.99)
The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang • Sally Wriggins • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A nicely illustrated account of an extraordinary, 16-year trek from Xi'an to India by way of Central Asia in search of the origins of Buddhism by Xuan-Zang, the famous 7th-century Chinese monk. (ASA31, $25.00)
The Travels of Marco Polo • Marco Polo • Ronald Lantham • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • The memories of a 13th-century journey to China along the Silk Road, among the most famous travel accounts ever. Describing exotic plants, birds, precious gems, silks, and spices with a merchant's eye, this superb geographer recounts his 20 years of travel. (CAS05, $15.00)
Ultimate Journey, Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment • Richard Bernstein • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • In this journey of self-discovery, Bernstein travels across Central Asia from China to India, loosely in the footsteps of the seventh-century Buddhist monk Hsuan Tang. An engaging, informative account of travels. (CAS64, $14.00)
Younghusband, The Last Great Imperial Adventurer • Patrick French • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The riveting biography of Sir Francis Younghusband, a key player in Britain's scramble for power in Central Asia, thrown out of the Pamirs by the Russia in 1891, who among his many imperial adventures discovered the source of the Indus. (TBT75, $26.95)
Monkey, A Journey to the West • David Kherdian • LITERATURE • The 16th-century Chinese epic of adventure and pilgrimage, brilliantly retold by David Kheridan. It's the wild tale of the encounters of the rogue-trickster Monkey and his Buddhist companion Tripitaka on the Silk Road. (ASA32, $16.95)
A Field Guide to the Birds of China • John MacKinnon • Karen Phillipps • FIELD GUIDE • A comprehensive field guide to the birds of China, featuring 128 color plates illustrating 1,300 species of birds. Contains introductory chapters on the history of ornithology in China, biogeography, and conservation. (CHN85, $124.00)

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