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After Tamerlane, The Global History of Empire Since 1405
• John Darwin
• HISTORY
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(WLD134, $34.95)
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The Arts of China
• Michael Sullivan
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A comprehensive survey of Chinese visual arts and cul-ture through the ages. It's a lively overview, thoroughly illustrated and accessible, of bronzes, ceramics, painting and architecture, from the Neolithic to the modern era.
(CHN16, $41.95)
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
• Xun Zhou
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In this film by by Xun Zhou (based on the novel), two teenage boys are sent off to the countryside in Mao's Cultural Revolution in 1971.
(CHN327, $26.98)
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Bamboo Shoots After the Rain, Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan
• Ann C. Carver
• Sung-Sheng Y. Chang
• ANTHOLOGY
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An anthology of 14 stories by three generations of Taiwanese women from the 1940s to the 1980s, dealing with issues of sexuality, tradition and politics.
(TWN02, $14.95)
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Big Dragon, The Future of China
• Daniel Burstein
• Arne de Keijzer
• HISTORY
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An overview of China's culture, economy, and opportunities for the future.
(CHN208, $21.95)
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Bradt Guide The Great Wall of China
• Thammy Evans
• GUIDEBOOK
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Practical, reliable and up-to-date, this Bradt guide covers Beijing and northern China in companionable detail.
(CHN351, $22.95)
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A Case of Two Cities, An Inspector Chen Novel
• Qiu Xiaolong
• MYSTERY
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In the fourth installment of the Inspector Chen series, Chen investigates the murder of the head Fujian special case squad. The trail leads him to the U.S., were he pursues a wealthy capitalist immigrant.
(CHN396, $13.95)
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The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Winds
• Jonathan Spence
• HISTORY
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Beginning with the narrative of Marco Polo, Spence uses the accounts of historically important Europeans to illuminate the West's perspective of China over the years.
(CHN276, $15.95)
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China Map
• Geocart
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This folded map shows all of China at a scale of 1:4,000,000 on one side of a 39 X 52 sheet.
(CHN360, $15.95)
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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 Survival Guide, How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps
• Larry Herzberg
• GUIDEBOOK
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A humorous and helpful guide that addresses all the travails of being a foreign tourist in China.
(CHN428, $9.95)
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China Wall Map
• National Geographic
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A wall map of China from the cartographers at National Geographic.
(CHN197, $14.99)
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China's New Cultural Scene, A Handbook of Changes
• Marie Claire Huot
• HISTORY
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A discussion of China's culture in relation to traditional society and the traumatic events of the last fifty years. Huot discusses music from rock to rap, television, theater, and literature. She pays special attention to cinema. Includes an index of artists and works, and a glossary of Chinese words.
(CHN330, $22.95)
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China, Portrait of a Country by 76 Chinese Photographers
• Heung Shing Liu
• HISTORY
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A stunning photographic history of the People's Republic from 1949 to 2008. It documents the nation's triumphs and hardships through the eyes of hundreds of Chinese photographers.
(CHN525, $59.99)
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Chinese (Mandarin), Start Speaking Today!
• Educational Services Corporation
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A 90-minute crash course in Mandarin featured in two compact discs and a phrasebook packaged in a vinyl sleeve. Geared for travelers, the course follows the foreign service method -- which focuses on dialogues and useful sentences instead of individual words.
(CHN92, $21.95)
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Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era
• Deborah Davis
• Stevan Harrell
• HISTORY
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A collection of scholarly essays on contemporary Chinese family structures.
(CHN203, $37.95)
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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 Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature
• Jo Lau
• Howard Goldblatt
• ANTHOLOGY
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The first comprehensive anthology of modern Chinese literature, this tome, with many newly commissioned translations, introduces important authors and literary trends of modern China.
(CHN524, $35.50)
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Culture Shock! China
• Iris Wong Po-Yee
• Kevin Sinclair
• GUIDEBOOK
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This guide is a lively introduction to modern Chinese culture and manners.
(CHN204, $15.95)
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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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Feather in the Storm, A Childhood Lost in Chaos
• Emily Wu
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Wu's unsentimental account of coming of age during the devastation, chaos and horror of Mao's Cultural Revolution.
(CHN381, $26.00)
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Fodor's Beijing and Shanghai
• Emmanuelle Morgen
• Deborah Kaufman
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical, frequently revised guide to Beijing and Shanghai featuring hundreds of annotated listings of where to eat, stay and shop.
(CHN253, $17.95)
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Fodor's China
• David Allan
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical, frequently revised guide to China featuring hundreds of annotated listings of where to eat, stay and shop.
(CHN314, $24.95)
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Frommer's Beijing
• Frommer's
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series, strong on where to eat, sleep and shop.
(CHN346, $16.99)
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Frommer's Shanghai
• J.D. Brown
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series, strong on where to eat, sleep and shop.
(CHN220, $17.99)
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The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention
• Robert Temple
• Joseph Needham
• HISTORY
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The revised, lavishly illustrated edition of Needham's multi-volume, best-selling survey of Chinese innovation over the millennia. Organized thematically, it covers the suspension bridge, wheelbarrow, circadian rhythms, decimal system, seismograph, parachute, gunpowder and rockets.
(CHN82, $29.95)
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Good Luck Life, The Essential Guide To Chinese American Celebrations And Culture
• Rosemary Gong
• GUIDEBOOK
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A collection of notes and guide to Chinese culture, festivals and traditions, covering food, drink, weddings, and funerals.
(CHN333, $14.95)
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The Good Women of China, Hidden Voices
• Xinran Xue
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An oral history of women in modern China, using a popular radio call-in show as a source.
(CHN256, $13.95)
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Governing China, From Revolution Through Reform
• Kenneth Lieberthal
• HISTORY
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A scholarly political history of China.
(CHN112, $28.50)
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Hero
• Zhang Yimou
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Jet Li stars in this visually stunning martial arts masterpiece by the director of Raise the Red Lantern. Set in ancient feudal China, this simple tale is rendered in breathtaking color.
(CHN328, $19.99)
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In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture
• Geremie R. Barme
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Examination of Chinese culture, both "official" and "unofficial."
(CHN88, $31.50)
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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 East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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An illustrated guide to the history, culture and traditions of China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan featuring 250 color photographs and 16 maps.
(ASA27, $24.95)
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Insight Guide Shanghai
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A nicely illustrated guide to Shanghai with excellent maps and hundreds of illustrations.
(CHN219, $23.95)
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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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Knopf Mapguide, Hong Kong
• Knopf Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps.
(HKG30, $9.95)
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Lonely Planet Cantonese Phrasebook
• Kam Y. Lau
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A palm-sized handy guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler.
(HKG19, $8.99)
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Lonely Planet Hong Kong & Macau City Guide
• Nicko Goncharoff
• Damian Harper
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide to Hong Kong.
(HKG14, $19.99)
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Lonely Planet Shanghai
• Bradley Mayhew
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide to Shanghai featuring maps and detailed information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. With a few color photographs and excellent travel information.
(CHN91, $19.99)
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The Long March, The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
• Sun Shuyun
• HISTORY
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Shuyan retraces the epic 1934 journey, re-evaluating communist China's founding stories in light of interviews with witnesses and aging survivors. She lets the veterans themselves tell the dramatic tale of endurance.
(CHN490, $14.95)
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A Loyal Character Dancer
• Qiu Xiaolong
• MYSTERY
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Another compelling, subversive Detecive Chan mystery, steeped in the geography and atmosphere of Shanghai.
(CHN412, $13.00)
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Making China Policy, Lessons from the Bush and Clinton Administrations
• Ramo Myers
• HISTORY
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An evaluation of U.S. foreign policy toward China and Taiwan during the twelve years of the Bush and Clinton administrations.
(CHN336, $37.95)
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Making Out in Chinese
• Ray Daniels
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A phoenetic (and funny) guide to getting along in Chinese.
(CHN206, $8.95)
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Odyssey Guide Beijing & Shanghai
• Bill Mooney
• GUIDEBOOK
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Jammed with photographs, maps and great information on culture and history, this colorful guide introduces the two cities with style.
(CHN228, $24.95)
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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 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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Odyssey Guide Xi'an, Shaanxi & the Terracotta Army
• Kevin Bishop
• GUIDEBOOK
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A convenient, illustrated guide to Xi'an, the ancient capital of China. With color photographs, insightful essays on culture and history, and a series of wonderfully chosen literary excerpts.
(CHN34, $23.95)
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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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China Map
• International Travel Maps
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A double-sided, shaded-relief map of China, at a useful scale of 1:3,800,000, indexed with an inset map of central Beijing.
(CHN06, $11.95)
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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 Mandarin Dress, An Inspector Chen Novel
• Qiu Xiaolong
• MYSTERY
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Qiu's fifth Inspector Chen mystery pits the unflappable detective against a serial killer who clothes his victims in red mandarin dresses and leaves the bodies in public places. As always, the turbulence and corruption of 1990s Shanghai provides an evocative backdrop.
(CHN458, $24.95)
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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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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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Rough Guide Beijing
• Rough Guide
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact, practical guide to the city.
(CHN234, $19.99)
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Rough Guide China
• Simon Lewis
• David Leffman
• GUIDEBOOK
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A no-nonsense, opinionated travel guide in the British series aimed at independent-minded travelers.
(CHN78, $27.99)
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Shanghai Map
• Periplus Maps
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A map of Shanghai, at a scale of 1:15,000. Main streets shown in both English and Chinese (good for directing taxis!).
(CHN90, $8.95)
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Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper, A Sweet-sour Memoir of Eating in China
• Fuschia Dunlop
• FOOD
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Dunlop writes with verve and flavor on her eating adventures in China -- including the time she tried snake stir-fry -- and includes recipes in this entertaining cultural portrait.
(CHN509, $24.95)
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The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang
• Sally Wriggins
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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)
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Sustainable Energy in China, The Closing Window of Opportunity
• Noureddine Berrah
• HISTORY
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(CHN454, $45.00)
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Thunder from the East, Portrait of a Rising Asia
• Nicholas Kristoff
• Sheryl WuDunn
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A study of the changing face of Asia's economic situation and its effects on the continent's culture.
(ASA24, $15.95)
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Thunder Out of China
• Theodore H. White
• Annalee Jacoby
• Harrison Salisbury
• HISTORY
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A classic account of the Chinese Revolution.
(CHN113, $16.50)
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Time Out Shanghai
• Time Out
• GUIDEBOOK
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An up-to-date guide on what to do and where to go by the people who publish Time Out Magazine.
(CHN309, $19.95)
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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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Travels in the East
• Donald Richie
• Stephen Mansfield
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The unmatchable, exuberant Richie (who winningly writes "New countries are like new clothes") muses on Egypt, India, Bhutan, Mongolia, China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Borneo, Thailand, Yap, Korea, and Japan in this kaleidoscope of travel essays.
(ASA63, $14.95)
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The Treasures of Beijing
• Mario Sabattini
• GUIDEBOOK
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(CHN391, $45.00)
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Understanding China, Center Stage of the Fourth Power
• Yanan Ju
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A volume in the Suny Series in International Management.
(CHN337, $18.95)
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Wallpaper City Guide Shanghai
• Wallpaper Magazine
• GUIDEBOOK
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A stylish, thin (it fits in your back pocket) city guide compiled by the design magazine Wallpaper's local reporters. Well-organized, with chapter tabs, many photographs and of-the-moment recommendations.
(CHN361, $8.95)
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When Red is Black
• Qiu Xiaolong
• MYSTERY
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The best-known of Qiu's compelling, subversive tales, steeped in the atmosphere and geography of Shanghai.
(CHN411, $13.00)
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Wild Grass, Three Portraits of Change in Modern China
• Ian Johnson
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Three portraits of ordinary citizens' grassroots movements in the face of the Chinese party's resistance to change.
(CHN215, $14.95)
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Will the Boat Sink the Water?, The Life of China's Peasants
• Chen Guidi
• Wu Chuntao
• HISTORY
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The husband and wide journalists demonstrate the devastating impact of the revolution on ordinary Chinese, showing too of the dark side of Chine's recent rocketing economic growth.
(CHN489, $15.95)
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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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