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Buddhist Art and Architecture
• Robert Fisher
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
1993 •
PAPER
• 216 PAGES
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, $19.95) |
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Chinese Art
• Mary Tregear
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
1997 •
PAPER
• 216 PAGES
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. Part of the "World of Art" series, it is illustrated throughout.
(CHN153, $19.95) |
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The Chinese Kitchen
• Eileen Yin-Fei Lo
FOOD •
1999 •
HARD COVER
• 452 PAGES
An authoritative and delightful book about food and cultural practices in a very food-oriented culture. "Have you eaten yet?" the Chinese traditionally ask each other when they meet by chance in the street, and here Eileen Yin-Fei Lo has written a cookbook which doubles as an introduction to China itself. It's a compendium not only of recipes (of which there are hundreds, all authentic, all clearly explained), but also of lessons in Chinese history, folkloric tales, and reminiscences of the author's childhood in Guangdong province, where she learned to cook at her grandmother's side. With chapters on Chinese tea and how to stock a Chinese pantry, plus a recipe for the 28-ingredient feast dish known as "Buddha Jump over the Wall", this is a book -- in English! -- that any Chinese cook would want.
(CHN134, $39.95) |
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Chinese Rugs: A Buyer's Guide
• Lee Allane
GUIDEBOOK •
1994 •
PAPER
• 144 PAGES
A guide to the history, techniques and variety of carpets produced throughout China, including typical motifs and materials. It features a practical guide to price and quality for the prospective buyer.
(CHN30, $15.95) |
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Coming to Terms With the Nation, Ethnic Classification in Modern China
• Thomas Mullaney
HISTORY •
2010 •
HARD COVER
• 246 PAGES
In this groundbreaking history, Mullaney explains the 1954 Ethnic Classification project that decided which minority communities in China would and would not be recognized by the state. He uses recently declassified sources as well as oral accounts and places the project in a global context to illuminate connections between ethnic categorization and identity formation in Communist China.
(CHN635, $60.00) |
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Inside China
• Jonathan Spence
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2007 •
HARD COVER
• 272 PAGES
The diverse landscapes and peoples of China as seen through the lenses of photographers past (Henri Cartier-Bresson, Li Zhensheng, Marc Riboud) and present (Mark Leong, Edward Burtynsky, Sebastio Salgado). Jonathan Spence, Minxin Pei and other modern experts offer essays on the history and future of the country.
(CHN444, $50.00) |
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The Last Panda
• George Schaller
NATURAL HISTORY •
1993 •
PAPER
• 291 PAGES
The great naturalist George Schaller spent almost five years in the wild in Sichuan province 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 in the wild. With 16 color plates.
(CHN24, $17.50) |
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Oracle Bones
• Peter Hessler
HISTORY •
2007 •
PAPER
• 512 PAGES
Peter Hessler (River Town) captures the confounding pace of change in these tales of travel and conversation in contemporary China. The Beijing correspondent for the New Yorker with a depth of knowledge and love of the place, Hessler draws on his familiarity with the country, linguistic ability and his many friends for this penetrating report from the field. Hessler also writes for National Geographic.
(CHN316, $15.99) |
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Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper, A Sweet-sour Memoir of Eating in China
• Fuschia Dunlop
FOOD •
2009 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
Dunlop, a well-known British food writer and expert on Sichuanese cuisine, writes with verve and flavor about her eating experiences in China. She boldly tries delicacies such as snake stir-fry and ox's throat and reflects on the differences between Western and Chinese food attitudes.
(CHN509, $24.95) |
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The Mekong, Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future
• Milton Osborne
HISTORY •
2001 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
A cultural history of the great river from prehistory to European exploration, colonial tensions and modern challenges. It's an engaging introduction to the history of Southeast Asia. Osborne has also written an account of the 19th-century search for the source of the Mekong (SEA29).
(SEA28, $16.00) |
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China, A New History
• John Fairbank
• Merle Goldman
HISTORY •
2005 •
PAPER
• 546 PAGES
An awesomely detailed 2,000-year history of China, revised, with a new chapter by Merle Goldman. Second edition. After setting out his historical biases in a lengthy introduction, Fairbank takes us chapter-by-chapter from Paleolithic China up to Tiananmen Square in 430 pages. His approach is expansive, taking into account the huge diversity of terrain and peoples within what we now call modern China. Fairbank ponders at length the great advances in China circa 1000-1500 -- and of China's failure to fall in line with the industrial revolution that catapulted the West into prominence. This is an opinionated, absorbing standard history.
(CHN11, $26.50) |
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World Religions: Eastern Traditions
• Willard G. Oxtoby
RELIGION •
2010 •
PAPER
• 515 PAGES
A clear and insightful introduction to Eastern religions by a team of scholars. It's a handsomely produced concise overview of Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist, and East Asian traditions, as rewarding for the general reader as the student. This second edition features additional suggested reading, photographs, glossary and thought-provoking review questions.
(ASA07, $84.95) |
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The Wisdom of the Buddha
• Jean Boisselier
RELIGION •
1994 •
PAPER
• 191 PAGES
A pocket-size primer of Buddhism, this book is an illustrated history of the sixth-century Indian prince and his quest for enlightenment. With 207 illustrations, 160 in full color.
(IDA55, $12.95) |
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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, $16.99) |
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Photographic Guide to Birds of the Himalayas
• Bikram Grewal
FIELD GUIDE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 144 PAGES
A pocket guide to 250 birds found from the foothills up to high elevations ranging from the Hindu Kush and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh in the Eastern Himalayas. With brief descriptive information, maps and 260 full-color illustrations.
(HML31, $15.95) |
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