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Anthology of Chinese Literature, Volume II: From the 14th Century to the Present Day
• Cyril Birch
• ANTHOLOGY
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An excellent collection of representative verse, song, stories, essays and excerpts from classic novels, a sampling of Chinese writing over the last 700 years.
(CHN14, $16.50)
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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, $12.95)
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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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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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China Wakes, The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
• Nicholas Kristoff
• Sheryl WuDunn
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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)
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China, Its History and Culture
• W. Scott Morton
• HISTORY
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A concise survey of Chinese history, people and culture from the Neolithic to present times. Morton weaves together politics, culture and history, and includes selections from literature and arts, anecdotes and illustrations.
(CHN22, $18.95)
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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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Chinese, A Language Map
• Kristinek Kershul
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers.
(CHN284, $7.95)
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The Death of Woman Wang
• Jonathan Spence
• LITERATURE
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The turbulent saga about a runaway wife who is murdered by her husband, set in 17th century China and written by one of the foremost western scholars on China.
(CHN58, $14.00)
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Did Marco Polo Go to China?
• Frances Wood
• EXPLORATION
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A critical look at the manuscripts and evidence regarding this most famous journey.
(CAS28, $35.00)
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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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East Asia, Tradition and Transformation
• John Fairbank
• Edwin O. Reischauer
• Albert M. Craig
• HISTORY
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A sprawling history of China and Japan, covering ancient through modern times.
(ASA18, $171.96)
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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 Beijing's 25 Best
• Fodors
• GUIDEBOOK
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This slim book includes a separate full-color map of the center of Beijing, along with a handy 96-page shirt-pocket guide with essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing.
(CHN48, $11.95)
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Fodor's Hong Kong's 25 Best
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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A shirt-pocket guide and map.
(HKG09, $11.95)
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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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The Good Earth
• Pearl Buck
• LITERATURE
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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)
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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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Insight Guide China
• Manfred Morganstern
• GUIDEBOOK
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In its hallmark style, this Insight Guide combines short essays on the history, politics and culture of China with hundreds of color photographs. It's a short whirlwind introduction to the country.
(CHN05, $24.95)
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Insight Pocket Guide Beijing
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A convenient practical guide to Beijing.
(CHN26, $13.95)
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Iron and Silk
• Mark Salzman
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Salzman gets himself to Changsha in the mid-1980s on the pretext of teaching English to Chinese doctors. His real mission, however, is to become a kung fu master. In this wonderfully readable travelogue he conveys a sense of contemporary life.
(CHN52, $13.95)
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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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Kowloon Tong, A Novel of Hong Kong
• Paul Theroux
• LITERATURE
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With its strong sense of place and contemporary setting in Hong Kong at a time of transition, this fast-paced novel is an illuminating and imaginative look at the city.
(HKG12, $13.95)
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Last Chance to See
• Douglas Adams
• Mark Carwardine
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A whirlwind visit to remote habitats around the world by two entertaining traveling companions.
(CON04, $14.95)
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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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Leaving Mother Lake, A Girlhood at the Edge of the World
• Yang Erche Namu
• Christine Mathieu
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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In this entrancing memoir, Chinese singing sensation Namu recounts her coming-of-age among the matriarchal Mosuo people in Southwest China near the Chinese-Tibetan border.
(CHN270, $14.99)
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Life and Death in Shanghai
• Nien Cheng
• HISTORY
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A plainly told account of the horrors that took place during the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai, from an author who was a six-year political prisoner.
(CHN42, $16.00)
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Lonely Planet Beijing
• Damian Harper
• GUIDEBOOK
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This practical guide to Beijing features maps, an overview of culture, history and nature, and a good deal of nuts-and-bolts information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. There's even a section on the locally spoken dialect of Mandarin.
(CHN47, $18.99)
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Lonely Planet Beijing
• Damian Harper
• GUIDEBOOK
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This practical guide to Beijing features maps, an overview of culture, history and nature, and a good deal of nuts-and-bolts information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. There's even a section on the locally spoken dialect of Mandarin.
(CHN47, $18.99)
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Lonely Planet China
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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An excellent practical guide to China, geared for independent travelers.
(CHN39, $31.99)
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Lonely Planet Taiwan
• Andrew Bender
• GUIDEBOOK
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A travel guide to Taipei and Taiwan noteworthy for its attention to practical detail on food, accommodations and excursions.
(CHN67, $25.99)
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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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Looking for Chengdu, A Woman's Adventure in China
• Hill Gates
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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, $23.95)
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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 Zedong
• Jonathan Spence
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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)
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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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Mao: A Biography
• Ross Terrill
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A no-holds-barred biography of the Chinese leader.
(CHN51, $31.95)
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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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Mountain of Fame, Portraits in Chinese History
• John Wills
• HISTORY
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An intriguing, novel approach to Chinese history. Instead of marching through the dynasties, Wells illuminates themes and continuities within Chinese tradition through 20 representative personalities.
(CHN10, $26.95)
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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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A Naturalist and Other Beasts, Tales from a Life in the Field
• George B. Schaller
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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In this absorbing memoir the eminent zoologist writes with authority and affection of his many field expeditions over a long career in conservation, including his time among the mountain gorillas in Rwanda, snow leopards in Nepal and his groundbreaking work on giant pandas in Sichuan.
(NAT119, $24.95)
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Northern China Map
• Nelles
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A detailed travel map of North China, at a scale of 1:1,500,000.
(CHN40, $10.95)
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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 detailed guide focuses on the 120-mile-long Three Gorges section of the Yangtzi, including Chongsing, Yichang and Wuhan. With 12 color maps and diagrams.
(CHN368, $21.95)
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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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Red China Blues, My Long March from Mao to Now
• Jan Wong
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Jan Wong tells of her experiences in the "hermetically sealed bubble of Maoism" as one of two westerners to attend Beijing University, then offers a first-hand account of recent reforms in China.
(CHN37, $15.95)
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Red Poppies
• Alai
• Howard Goldblatt
• Sylvia Li-Chun Lin
• LITERATURE
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This family saga unfolds in the 1930s among the warlords of eastern Tibet.
(TBT61, $14.00)
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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, $24.00)
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The Rise of Modern China
• Immanuel C.Y. Hsu
• HISTORY
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A comprehensive history of China from the 17th century through the present.
(CHN62, $69.95)
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The River at the Center of the World
• Simon Winchester
• EXPLORATION
• FAVORITE
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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)
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River Town, Two Years on the Yangtze
• Peter Hessler
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An intelligent personal account of life as a Peace Corps volunteer in Fuling, a provincial city where foreigners are a curiosity. Fuling is located on the Yangtze in Sichuan, which will be partially drowned with the completion of the Three Gorges dam.
(CHN125, $14.95)
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The Search for Modern China
• Jonathan Spence
• HISTORY
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A sweeping history of China including events until 1989, geared for an undergraduate audience. With maps, charts and black-and-white photographs.
(CHN98, $29.95)
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Shanghai Modern, The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945
• Leo Ou-Fan Lee
• HISTORY
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A scholarly look at Chinese urban culture in pre-war Shanghai.
(CHN64, $31.00)
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The Silk Roads, A Route and Planning Guide
• Paul Wilson
• Dominic Streatfield-James
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact, practical guide to the network of ancient trade routes extending from Turkey and the Mideast across Central Asia to China.
(CAS21, $22.95)
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A Single Pebble
• John Hersey
• LITERATURE
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A haunting novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winner. Hersey writes, with deceptive simplicity, of an American engineer looking for a dam site on the Yangtze. Think Hemingway on the Yangtze.
(CHN03, $12.95)
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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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South of the Clouds, Tales from Yunnan
• Lucien Miller
• ANTHOLOGY
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Featuring memorable tales from throughout the Yunnan Province, this book showcases 54 wonderfully insightful and entertaining stories.
(CHN45, $30.00)
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Southern China Map
• Nelles
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A detailed travel map of Southern China, from Taiwan to Hong Kong and the Yunnan Province, at a 1:1,500,000 scale.
(CHN27, $10.95)
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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, $32.99)
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Three Kingdoms, A Historical Novel
• Lo Kuan Chung
• Moss Roberts
• ANTHOLOGY
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First published in the 14th-century, this epic saga is a compilation of fact and fiction based on ancient storytelling traditions. It's a fantastic tale of heroes and villains, monsters and wizards, fighting for the control of China during the last days of the Han Dynasty (150 AD).
(CHN57, $25.95)
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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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Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn, The Destruction Of Wildlife For Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Richard Ellis
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Ellis exposes the environmental havoc unleashed by the commercial globalization of traditional Chinese medicines in this eye-opening account.
(CHN457, $26.95)
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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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To the Edge of the Sky
• Anhua Gao
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The autobiography of a Chinese woman whose hopes and health were wrecked by the Cultural Revolution.
(CHN190, $27.95)
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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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Travelers' Tales Hong Kong
• Travelers' Tales
• ANTHOLOGY
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A diverse collection of excellent stories and essays. The selection includes Jan Morris, Simon Winchester, and other greats. It's a highly readable introduction to the cultural heritage, politics and people of Hong Kong.
(HKG08, $17.95)
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A Traveller's History of China
• Stephen G. Haw
• HISTORY
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An admirably brief, lively history of China from early origins to today, remarkably clear and necessarily condensed. With a historical gazetteer, chronology and list of dynasties.
(CHN43, $14.95)
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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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Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China
• Stevan Harrell
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A scholarly ethnography of the peoples of Southwest China, including the Nuosu (Yi), Prmi, Naze, and Han. With detailed case studies.
(CHN271, $22.50)
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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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The Wisdom of the Buddha
• Jean Boisselier
• RELIGION
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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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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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World Religions: Eastern Traditions
• Willard G. Oxtoby
• RELIGION
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A clear and insightful introduction to Eastern religions by a team of scholars, covering Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist and East Asian traditions. Scholarly, but still rewarding for the general reader.
(ASA07, $64.95)
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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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