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Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana
• Stephanie Elizondo Griest
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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)
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
• Sijie Dai
• Ina Rilke
• LITERATURE
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A charming, unexpectedly witty, tale of two teenage boys in China sent off to the countryside during Mao's Cultural Revolution.
(CHN159, $11.95)
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Buddhist Art and Architecture
• Robert Fisher
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A wide-ranging, illustrated survey of Buddhist art, architecture and iconography in the excellent World of Art series. It includes examples from throughout Asia.
(ASA30, $18.95)
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The Buddhist Handbook
• John Snelling
• RELIGION
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Subtitled, "The Complete Guide to Buddhist Schools, Teaching, Practice and History, " this even-handed book is a concise primer covering the history, philosophical foundation and practice of Buddhism.
(ASA08, $16.95)
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Chasing the Panda
• Michael Kiefer
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The spellbinding tale of an unlikely duo and their successful expedition to Wolong in 1936 to recover a panda bear.
(CHN166, $24.95)
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China Map
• International Travel Maps
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A fine, double-sided, shaded-relief map of China, at a very good scale of 1:3,800,000, indexed with an inset map of central Beijing.
(CHN06, $11.95)
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The China Reader, The Reform Era
• Orville Schell
• David Shambaugh
• HISTORY
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A comprehensive and well-researched sourcebook on China over the last 25 years.
(CHN224, $17.95)
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Chinese Art
• Mary Tregear
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A quick, but surprisingly thorough survey of Chinese art, including calligraphy and painting, sculpture and ceramics, as well as garden design, architecture, and various crafts.
(CHN153, $18.95)
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The Chinese Kitchen
• Eileen Yin-Fei Lo
• FOOD
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An authoritative compendium of Chinese recipes and information about food-oriented cultural practices. Eileen Yin-Fei Lo has written a cookbook that doubles as an introduction to China itself.
(CHN134, $39.95)
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Chinese Rugs: A Buyer's Guide
• Lee Allane
• GUIDEBOOK
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A guide to the history, techniques and variety of carpets produced throughout China, featuring a helpful buyer's guide.
(CHN30, $15.95)
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Dragon Lady, The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China
• Sterling Seagrave
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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(CHN229, $18.95)
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Empress Orchid
• Anchee Min
• LITERATURE
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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)
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Farewell My Concubine
• Kaige Chen
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The moving story of a fifty-year friendship between two men who meet as children in the Peking Opera.
(CHN226, $14.99)
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Fodor's Exploring China
• Christopher Knowles
• GUIDEBOOK
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This excellent guidebook, featuring maps and color photos, brings old and new China to life, with sections on places to visit, a useful language guide and practical information for getting around.
(CHN25, $22.00)
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Giant Pandas In The Wild, Saving an Endangered Species
• Lu Zhi
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A portrait of the giant panda, its habitat in China and international conservation efforts. Includes excellent color photographs by George Schaller and text chronicling the lives of 20 individual pandas.
(CHN173, $35.00)
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God Lives in St. Petersburg, and Other Stories
• Tom Bissell
• LITERATURE
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Six fast-paced tales set in Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and the Aral Sea by the author of Chasing the Sea.
(CAS117, $13.95)
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The Golden Days
• Cao Xueqin
• David Hawkes
• LITERATURE
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The classic enchanting love story set in 18th-century China which follows the Jia family and the magical stone at the center of the tale.
(CHN223, $16.00)
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In Exile from the Land of Snows, The Dalai Lama and Tibet Since the Chinese Occupation
• John Avedon
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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The lives of the Tibetan people at home and in exile since the Chinese takeover in 1950. Avedon (who accompanied the Dalai Lama on his first American tour) interviewed over 100 people in Dharamsala and Tibet for this now classic book.
(TBT04, $16.95)
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Inside China
• National Geographic Society
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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The editors at National Geographic pair a breathtaking selection of historic and contemporary photographs with essays by six experts for this visually striking portrait of China.
(CHN444, $50.00)
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Knopf Mapguide Shanghai
• Knopf Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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Full-color foldout maps make this guidebook a handy and practical way to find information on where to go and what to do in the city.
(CHN283, $9.95)
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The Last Emperor
• Bernardo Bertolucci
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Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning rendition of the true story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last emperor of China's Ching Dynasty.
(CHN225, $14.98)
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The Last Panda
• George Schaller
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Naturalist George Schaller spent almost 5 years in the wild studying the panda in the 1980s. This book is both his description of the great panda in nature, and an eloquent plea for how to save the species.
(CHN24, $15.00)
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Look What Came From China!
• Miles Harvey
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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An illustrated guide to China, its products and inventions, for children ages 4-8.
(CHN155, $6.95)
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Mantles of Merit: Chin Textiles from Myanmar, India and Bangladesh
• David Fraser
• Barbara Fraser
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An abundantly illustrated study of the textiles of the Chin peoples of southern and eastern Asia. With more than 600 color illustrations.
(ASA46, $60.00)
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Mao, The Unknown Story
• Jung Chang
• John Halliday
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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In this extraordinary biography Chang (Wild Swans) and her historian husband reveal Mao as a brutal, power-hungry monster with close ties to Joseph Stalin.
(CHN301, $18.95)
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Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture
• Sarah Handler
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A beautifully illustrated overview of Ming furniture and its architectural setting.
(CHN318, $50.00)
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National Geographic Atlas of China
• National Geographic Society
• REFERENCE
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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, $26.00)
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National Geographic Traveler China
• Damian Harper
• GUIDEBOOK
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A generously illustrated guide to China with the usual National Geographic attention to maps and photographs. With a 50-page appendix of practical travel information.
(CHN163, $27.95)
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Odyssey Guide Guizhou Province
• Gina Corrigan
• GUIDEBOOK
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An in-depth guide to the history, culture and peoples of the subtropical Guizhou province in Southwest China, covering the textile arts and costume, jewelry, music and festivals in detail. With photographs and maps.
(CHN321, $23.95)
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Odyssey Guide Three Gorges of the Yangtze River
• Raynor Shaw
• GUIDEBOOK
• NEW
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Compact, illustrated and up-to-date, this excellent guide focuses on the 120-mile-long Three Gorges section of the Yangtzi, including Chongsing, Yichang, Wuhan. With 12 color maps and diagrams.
(CHN368, $21.95)
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Oracle Bones, A Journey Between China's Past and Present
• Peter Hessler
• HISTORY
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In this fine portrait of tumult and tradition, Hessler (River Town) finds clues to modern China's realites in the personal stories of peasants, scholars, day laborers and activists.
(CHN316, $15.95)
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Passions of the Cut Sleeve, The Male Homosexual Tradition in China
• Bret Hinsch
• LITERATURE
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A well-written, scholarly survey of the traditions of same-sex male love in Chinese literature.
(CHN167, $21.95)
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Pimsleur Quick & Simple Chinese (Cantonese)
• Pimsleur Language Method
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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An audio CD with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Cantonese, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations.
(CHN279, $19.95)
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Pimsleur Quick & Simple Chinese (Mandarin)
• Pimsleur Language Method
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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Four audio CDs with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Mandarin, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations.
(CHN280, $19.95)
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Religions of China, The World as a Living System
• David L. Overmyer
• RELIGION
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A brief primer on the religions of China.
(CHN154, $11.50)
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Religions of Tibet in Practice
• Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
• RELIGION
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A collection of 36 essays and translated texts by scholars of Tibetan Buddhism, including selections on prayers, pilgrimages, death and ritual.
(TBT16, $37.95)
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The Retreat of the Elephants, An Environmental History of China
• Mark Elvin
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A thorough examination of the damage that has been done to China's environment through war, modernization and new farming developments.
(CHN221, $22.00)
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Sky Burial, An Epic Love Story of Tibet
• Xinran
• LITERATURE
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In 1958, notified that her young husband, a doctor in the Chinese army has been killed in action in Tibet, Shu Wen joins the army, determined to go to Tibet to uncover the truth, only to find herself alone in Tibet, embarking on a thirty-year nomadic odyssey that brings her back to a new China, transformed by the Cultural Revolution.
(CHN282, $18.95)
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Streetlife China
• Michael Dutton
• ANTHOLOGY
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A scholarly collection of essays about the realities of living in modern-day China, by a variety of contributors.
(CHN222, $31.99)
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Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China
• Arthur Waley
• RELIGION
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An elegantly written, classic introduction to traditional Chinese philosophy.
(CHN164, $17.95)
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Liberation from Understanding the In Between
• Robert Thurman
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A key text as presented by Robert Thurman for a western audience. This is the Tibetan guidebook to dying or "the between," written in the 8th or 9th century by Padma Sambhava.
(TBT06, $18.00)
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To Live
• Yimou Zhang
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Zhang Yimou's moving film follows one family from the 1940s through the 1960s in China.
(CHN227, $19.98)
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Travelers' Tales China
• James O'Reilly
• Larry Habegger
• Sean O'Reilly
• ANTHOLOGY
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This eclectic compendium reveals China's history and culture as told by its mostly modern travelers. Contributors include Peter Hessler, Mark Salzman, Gretel Ehrlich and Ji-Li Jiang.
(CHN217, $18.95)
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The Travels of Marco Polo
• Marco Polo
• Ronald Lantham
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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, $13.95)
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Waiting
• Ha Jin
• LITERATURE
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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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Wild West China, The Taming of Xinjiang
• Christian Tyler
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A portrait of the changing face of the Xinjiang region in northwest China.
(CHN231, $27.95)
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A Woman's Asia
• Marybeth Bond
• ANTHOLOGY
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These thirty-five personal, often hilarious accounts of women's adventures from China to Sri Lanka to Turkey to Bhutan, not only illuminating the everyday, oft-overlooked cultural practices of Asia, but also giving a glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of the female traveller.
(ASA49, $17.95)
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Yangtze
• Philip Wilkinson
• NATURAL HISTORY
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(CHN320, $40.00)
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Yangzi River Map
• Richard Perry Hayman
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A full-color, comprehensive map of the Yangzi River and Three Gorges for the traveler, at a scale of 1:1,000,000. Features 10 maps, color photos, and shows the river from the Himalayas to the East China Sea.
(CHN177, $14.95)
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