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	1421, The Year China Discovered America • Gavin Menzies • HISTORY • The controversial story of China's early discovery of America. (CHN216, $15.95)
	About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship With China • James Mann • HISTORY • A history and analysis of Chinese-American relations. (CHN111, $16.95)
	After Tamerlane, The Global History of Empire Since 1405 • John Darwin • HISTORY • (WLD134, $34.95)
	All the Tea in China • Kyril Bonfiglioli • MYSTERY • Another in the series of deliciously entertaining novels starring fictional art dealer Charlie Mortdecai (CHN480, $23.95)
	The Analects of Confucius • D. C. Lao • Confucius • RELIGION • A popular and acclaimed modern translation of the writing of Confucius, an essential introduction to the man and his thoughts. Includes explanatory notes. (CHN123, $12.00)
	Anthology of Chinese Literature, Volume I: From the Earliest Times to the Fourteenth Century • Cyril Birch • Donald Keene • ANTHOLOGY • A banquet of love stories, operatic plays, drinking poems and other traditional Chinese writing up to the Ming Dynasty. (CHN388, $15.95)
	Anthology of Chinese Literature, Volume II: From the 14th Century to the Present Day • Cyril Birch • ANTHOLOGY • 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)
	Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana • Stephanie Elizondo Griest • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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)
	The Asia Book • China Williams • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Covering every country in Asia and the Middle East, this swoon-worthy collection offers pages of full-color photographs and profiles, shedding light on the peoples and cultures of each nation. (ASA64, $40.00)
	Asian Games, The Art of Contest • Irving Finkel • Colin Mackenzie • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A catalogue for an exhibtiion at New York's Asia Society, this book showcases 2,000 years worth of art, objects and equipment depicting and used in games throughout Asia. (CHN317, $45.00)
	Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture • Sarah Handler • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A stunningly illustrated survey of hardwood furniture in China from its earliest origins in the Shang dynasty (c. 1500 to c. 1050 B.C.) to the present. (CHN319, $75.00)
	Authentic Confucius, A Life of Thought and Politics • Annping Chin • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Yale historian Annping Chin's original and engaging brief portrait of Confucius, his teachings and legacy reveals what is known about the man, his encounters in the rough-and-tumble of politics, and quest to live a joyful and authentic life. (CHN436, $14.95)
	Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress • Sijie Dai • Ina Rilke • LITERATURE • A charming, unexpectedly witty, tale of two teenage boys in China sent off to the countryside during Mao's Cultural Revolution. (CHN159, $13.00)
	Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress • Xun Zhou • 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)
	Becoming Madame Mao • Anchee Min • LITERATURE • Min (Red Azalea) follows the arc of the life the woman who would become Madame Mao in powerful strokes in this fine example of historical fiction. (CHN304, $13.95)
	Beijing Coma • Ma Jian • LITERATURE • In this remarkable novel former Tiananmen Square protester Dai Wei awakens after a decade, learning that his mother had sold one of his kidneys to finance his care, and that the China he knew has undergone radical change. (CHN502, $18.00)
	Beijing Map • Borch Maps • This laminated, folded map of Beijing, with a blowup of the city center at a scale of 1:24,000, notes 2008 Olympic venues. With detailed inset maps of the Beijing Metro, tops sights, key attractions, an index and Chinese characters for key place names. (CHN199, $8.95)
	Berlitz Mandarin Chinese Phrase Book & CD • Berlitz Multimedia • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A 224-page phrase book and audio CD, this handy language primer focuses on food, people, fun and the basic phrases for getting around in another language. Compatible with iPod and MPS devices, this bestselling series is geared for travelers. (CHN455, $14.95)
	Between Mecca and Beijing, Modernization and Consumption Among Urban Chinese Muslims • Maris Boyd Gillette • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An academic study of the minority Muslim population of Xi'an. (CHN180, $24.95)
	Beyond the Stone Arches, An American Missionary Doctor in China, 1892-1932 • Edward Bliss, Jr. • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • An account of a missionary doctor in China. (CHN95, $24.95)
	Big Dragon, The Future of China • Daniel Burstein • Arne de Keijzer • HISTORY • An overview of China's culture, economy, and opportunities for the future. (CHN208, $26.95)
	Binu and the Great Wall, The Myth of Meng • Su Tong • LITERATURE • Tong renders anew one of China's oldest myths, the tale of a girl whose tears flood the great wall. A best-seller in China, this journey of magic and misfortune provides insight into the foundation of a culture. (CHN494, $24.00)
	Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain Around the World • John Carswell • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A richly illustrated survey of the developent and evolution of influential Chinese porcelain. (CAS95, $65.00)
	Bones of the Master, A Journey to Secret Mongolia • George Crane • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An odd, captivating biography of a 75-year-old Zen monk who escaped Inner Mongolia in the wake of China's Great Leap Forward in 1959, and the tale of his unlikely journey back to China with the author. (CHN96, $17.00)
	Born Red, A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution • Yuan Gao • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The memoir of a young man, the son of a government official, who joins the Cultural Revolution against the wishes of his family. (CHN255, $29.95)
	Bradt Guide The Great Wall of China • Thammy Evans • GUIDEBOOK • Practical, reliable and up-to-date, this Bradt guide covers Beijing and northern China in companionable detail. (CHN351, $22.95)
	Bridge of Birds • Barry Hughart • LITERATURE • A novel of whimsy and fantasy set in ancient China. (CHN117, $7.50)
	Brothers, A Novel • Da Chen • LITERATURE • Two brothers, one illegitimate and the other the acknowledged son of a powerful general, take opposite sides in China's Cultural Revolution. (CHN383, $25.00)
	Buddha • Karen Armstrong • RELIGION • A concise, thought-provoking biography of the Buddha in the Penguin Lives series, written by one of the foremost experts on world religions. (REL09, $14.00)
	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, $52.00)
	Buddhism in Chinese History • Arthur F Wright • RELIGION • A brief overview of the transformation of the culture of pre-modern China by Buddhism and the legacy of Buddhism in modern China, originally presented as a series of six lectures in 1959. (CHN131, $20.95)
	Buddhism: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places • Malcolm David Eckel • RELIGION • A concise introduction to the theology and social practice of Buddhism. Eckel, a professor of East Asian religion, includes short primary sources to present Buddhism in its own words. (CHN248, $17.95)
	Buddhist Art and Architecture • Robert Fisher • ART & ARCHITECTURE • 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)
	A Case of Two Cities • Qiu Xiaolong • MYSTERY • 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., where he pursues a wealthy capitalist immigrant. (CHN396, $13.95)
	Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An) • Robert Van Gulik • MYSTERY • Van Gulilk's translation of 18th-century Chinese detective stories. This is the book that launched the Dutch diplomat and scholar's Judge Dee detective series, drawn from Chinese traditions. (CHN300, $8.95)
	Celestial Realm, the Yellow Mountains of China • Wang Wusheng • NATURAL HISTORY • A photographic celebration of the mist-shrouded granite peaks of the Yellow Mountains celebrated by Chinese landscape painters. (CHN371, $55.00)
	Central China Map • Nelles • A map in the regional series by Nelles from Shanghai west across China, at a scale of 1:1,500,000. (CHN65, $10.95)
	The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Winds • Jonathan Spence • HISTORY • 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, $16.95)
	The Changing Face of China, From Mao to Market • John Gittings • HISTORY • A lively history of China from 1949 to the present by a journalist and China expert. Gittings was East Asia corespondent for The Guardian from 1983-2003. (CHN307, $19.95)
	Odyssey Guide Three Gorges of the Yangtze River • Raynor Shaw • Judy Bonavia • GUIDEBOOK • Compact, illustrated and up-to-date, this detailed guide focuses on the 120-mile-long Three Gorges section of the Yangtzi, including Chongqing, Yichang and Wuhan. (CHN368, $22.95)
	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)
	Chasing the Panda • Michael Kiefer • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • The spellbinding tale of an unlikely duo and their successful expedition to Wolong in 1936 to recover a panda bear. (CHN166, $24.95)
	China and the Forbidden City • Tom Priestley • HISTORY • This Peabody-award winning film explores the history, art and architecture of the imperial city. (CHN419, $19.95)
	China Candid, The People on the People's Republic • Sang Ye • HISTORY • Journalist Sang Ye (China Lives) brings together interviews with 26 citizens from all over the country for this people's history of modern China. (CHN347, $24.95)
	China Map • International Travel Maps • 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)
	China Map • Geocart • 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)
	China Men • Maxine Hong Kingston • LITERATURE • A novel of three generations of Chinese men adjusting to life in a America. (CHN118, $15.95)
	China North Map • Nelles • A detailed travel map of North China, at a scale of 1:1,750,000. (CHN40, $10.95)
	China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids and Bestsellers are Transforming a Culture • Jianying Zha • HISTORY • A history of contemporary China as seen through its pop culture. Zha, who now lives in the U.S., is an entertaining and insightful commentator on how television, pulp novels and other recent innovations are impacting traditional Chinese culture and society. (CHN277, $13.00)
	The China Reader, The Reform Era • Orville Schell • David Shambaugh • HISTORY • A comprehensive and well-researched sourcebook on China over the last 25 years. (CHN224, $17.95)
	China Revealed • Ba Pao • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A portfolio of images by the Hong Kong-based photographer. (CHN422, $60.00)
	China Road • Rob Gifford • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • NPR's Gifford writes with warmth and affection of his encounters with truckers, small farmers and regular folk along fabled Route 312 from Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan. (CHN433, $17.00)
	China South Map • Nelles • 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)
	China Survival Guide, How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps • Larry Herzberg • GUIDEBOOK • A humorous and helpful guide that addresses all the travails of being a foreign tourist in China. (CHN428, $9.95)
	China the Balance Sheet, What the World Needs to Know about the Emerging Superpower • Bates Gill • C. Fred Bergsten • HISTORY • A fact-filled, academic report on Chinese colossus by teams at the Centre for Strategic International Studies and the Institute for International Economics, both think tanks on international economic policy in Washington D.C. (CHN354, $13.95)
	China to 1850, A Short History • Charles O. Hucker • HISTORY • A history of China from the beginning to the Opium Wars. (CHN341, $16.95)
	China Wakes, The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power • Nicholas Kristoff • Sheryl WuDunn • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 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)
	China Wall Map • National Geographic • A wall map of China from the cartographers at National Geographic. (CHN197, $14.99)
	China's New Cultural Scene, A Handbook of Changes • Marie Claire Huot • HISTORY • 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, $23.95)
	China, Inc. How the Rise of the Next Superpower Changes America and the World (Audio Version) • Ted C. Fishman • HISTORY • An audio version of a bestselling economic history of China over the last 30 years and lively guide to understanding China's spectacular economic growth and future prospects. Fishman draws on statistics, case studies, and interviews to document the rapid transformation from economic backwater to industrial behemoth. Read by Alan Sklar. (CHN377, $39.99)
	China, Its History and Culture • W. Scott Morton • HISTORY • 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, $19.95)
	China, The Panda Adventure • Robert M. Young • NATURAL HISTORY • A dramatization of the true-life travels and travails of Ruth Harkness and her 1936 journey. The film, originally presented in IMAX theatres, is a visually stunning introduction to the giant panda, its history, conservation and habitats. (CHN302, $9.98)
	The Chinese • Jasper Becker • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An insightful, up-to-date account of the contradictions, diversity and potential in contemporary Chinese society and economy, by a veteran journalist and astute observer. (CHN97, $24.99)
	Chinese (Mandarin), Start Speaking Today! • Educational Services Corporation • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • 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, $24.95)
	The Chinese Alchemist • Lyn Hamilton • MYSTERY • Antiques dealer Lara McClintoch stumbles into a dangerous realm of murder and intrigue in Beijing in this 10th -- and last -- installment of Lyn Hamilton's pleasurable archaeological mysteries. She weaves into the cozy tale much about Chinese history and art. (CHN384, $7.99)
	Chinese Architecture: A Pictorial History • Liang Ssu-ch'eng • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A pictorial introduction to temples, timber-frames, pagodas, bridges, terraces and gateways of China, from pre-Buddhist times to the 20th century. With 152 halftones and 94 diagrams. (CHN394, $26.95)
	Chinese Art • Mary Tregear • ART & ARCHITECTURE • 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)
	The Chinese Bell Murders • Robert Van Gulik • MYSTERY • The first in a series of historical mysteries, featuring a Tang-era Chinese magistrate, rich in details of court and daily life in ancient China. (CHN286, $13.99)
	Chinese Buddhist Art • Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky • HISTORY • A very short overview of Chinese Buddhist art with 24 black-and-white and 24 color illustrations in the Oxford University Press Images of Asia series. (CHN252, $24.95)
	Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era • Deborah Davis • Stevan Harrell • HISTORY • A collection of scholarly essays on contemporary Chinese family structures. (CHN203, $37.95)
	Chinese Feasts & Festivals, A Cookbook • S.C. Moey • FOOD • Recipes, illustrations and accompanying text about Chinese culture, traditions and celebrations. (CHN367, $31.95)
	The Chinese Garden: History, Art and Architecture • Maggie Keswick • NATURAL HISTORY • An oversized illustrated survey of Chinese gardens, updated and expanded in this third edition by Alison Hardie. First published 25 years ago, the book is a classic survey of the symbolism, meaning and beauty of Chinese gardens. (CHN198, $39.95)
	The Chinese Gold Murders • Robert Van Gulik • MYSTERY • These historical mysteries, featuring a Tang-era Chinese magistrate, are taken from the tradition of Chinese detective novels. Apart from the pleasure of the elaborate plots, the books are rich in details of court and daily life in ancient China. (CHN289, $13.99)
	The Chinese Have a Word for It, The Complete Guide to Chinese Thought and Culture • Boye Lafayette De Mente • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide to Chinese culture and history through a study of over 300 words and phrases. (CHN185, $17.95)
	The Chinese Lake Murders • Robert Van Gulik • MYSTERY • These historical mysteries, featuring a Tang-era Chinese magistrate, are taken from the tradition of Chinese suspense novels. Apart from the pleasure of the elaborate plots, the books are rich in details of court and daily life in ancient China. (CHN288, $12.95)
	Chinese Lessons, Five Classmates and the Story of the New China • John Pomfret • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Pomfret chronicles the lives and fates of his classmates from the University of Nanjing, where he was an exchange student in 1981, in this dramatic account of tumultuous change. (CHN382, $16.00)
	Chinese Lullabies • Beijing Angelic Choir • MUSIC • A soothing collection of lullabies from all over China, performed by the Beijing Angelic Choir. (CHN420, $13.98)
	The Chinese Maze Murders • Robert Van Gulik • MYSTERY • Judge Dee solves three interwoven mysteries (all involving the governor's garden maze) in this installment. (CHN295, $11.00)
	The Chinese Nail Murders • Robert Van Gulik • MYSTERY • These historical mysteries, featuring a Tang-era Chinese magistrate, follow the tradition of ancient Chinese suspense novels. Apart from the pleasure of the elaborate plots, the books are rich in details of court and daily life in ancient China. (CHN292, $12.99)
	Chinese Poetry, An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres • Wai-Lim Yip • LITERATURE • (CHN174, $26.95)
	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)
	Chinese Wildlife, A Visitor's Guide • Martin Walters • FIELD GUIDE • This compact introduction to birds, mammals, reptiles, insects and plants found from the Tibetan plateau to the deserts, tropical forests, and mountains includes 200 color photographs. (CHN440, $26.99)
	Chinese, A Language Map • Kristinek Kershul • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers. (CHN284, $7.95)
	Communism, A History • Richard Pipes • HISTORY • A short, fiercely critical history of communism from the ideas of Karl Marx to the end of the 20th century. (GEN367, $13.95)
	Cries in the Drizzle • Yu Hua • LITERATURE • This powerful novel from one of China's great modern writers depicts rural family life in Maoist China, and the trials and troubles of a middle child. (CHN447, $13.95)
	Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon • Chow Yun Fat • In this martial arts fantasy, epic battles and sweeping romance unfold in Imperial China. Featuring Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi. Run time of 120 minutes. (CHN329, $14.94)
	Culture Shock! China • Iris Wong Po-Yee • Kevin Sinclair • GUIDEBOOK • This guide is a lively introduction to modern Chinese culture and manners. (CHN204, $15.95)
	Culture, Power and the State, Rural North China, 1900-1942 • Prasenjit Duara • HISTORY • A scholarly politcal and cultural history of North China from the last days of the Qing Dynasty to the Second World War. (CHN423, $27.95)
	A Cup of Light • Nicole Mones • MYSTERY • (CHN404, $14.00)
	A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman • Lao Toai-Taoi Ning • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • An inspiring account of a lively and driven woman. Born in 1867 and never formally educated, Ning met with one hardship after another as she struggled to support her children without much help from her opium-addicted husband. (CHN274, $22.95)
	Daughter of the River, An Autobiography • Hong Ying • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Ying traces the arc of her life from struggles during the Great Famine through Tiananmen Square in this inspiring tale of coming of age in Chongqing on the banks of the Yangtze. (CHN240, $14.00)
	Death of a Red Heroine • Qui Xiaolong • MYSTERY • Marvelously evocative of Shanghai, and tremendously informative about China's transition towards a market economy in the 1990s, this award-winning debut of Inspector Chen of the Shanghai police is also a page-turner. Winner of several mystery awards. (CHN374, $14.00)
	The Death of Woman Wang • Jonathan Spence • LITERATURE • 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)
	Did Marco Polo Go to China? • Frances Wood • EXPLORATION • A critical look at the manuscripts and evidence regarding this most famous journey. (CAS28, $36.00)
	Dim Sum, A Pocket Guide • Kit Shan Li • FOOD • Yum! Yum! This handy little book, including a primer on ingredients, etiquette and ordering, illustrates 48 dishes. With a photo, notes, Chinese and English names for each plate. (CHN413, $8.95)
	Dragon Bones • Lisa See • MYSTERY • (CHN405, $14.95)
	Dragon Lady, The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China • Sterling Seagrave • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • (CHN229, $19.95)
	Dragon Rising, An Inside Look at China Today • Jasper Becker • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Asia scholar Jasper Becker examines the pertinent questions and issues facing modern China and its relationship to the global economy. (CHN365, $18.95)
	Dream of the Red Chamber • Chi-Chen Wang • Tsao Hsueh-Chin • LITERATURE • An ill-fated affair between two doomed lovers is the basis for China's most loved novel. Written in the 18th-century, the stunning story is a wonderful introduction to China. (CHN192, $14.95)
	Emperor of China, Self-Portrait of K'Ang-His • Jonathan Spence • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • (CHN358, $14.95)
	The Emperor's Pearl • Robert Van Gulik • MYSTERY • In this installment the time is 699 A.D. The place is Poo-yang, where Judge Dee must investigate two deaths -- the heart failure of a rower in the annual boat race and a murder committed in a deserted country estate. (CHN296, $12.00)
	Eurasian Crossroads, A History of Xinjiang • James A. Millward • HISTORY • Millward's engaging survey of Xinjiang's rich environmental, cultural and ethno-political heritage will appeal travelers, students and anyone eager to learn about this strategic crossroads at the center of Asia. (CHN469, $45.00)
	Eyewitness Guide China • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A hefty guide to sites, attractions and places throughout China featuring excellent maps and hundreds of full color photographs and site diagrams (CHN242, $30.00)
	Eyewitness Top 10 Beijing • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions in Beijing. (CHN427, $14.00)
	Farewell My Concubine • Kaige Chen • The moving story of a fifty-year friendship between two men who meet as children in the Peking Opera. (CHN226, $14.99)
	Feather in the Storm, A Childhood Lost in Chaos • Emily Wu • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Wu's unsentimental account of coming of age during the devastation, chaos and horror of Mao's Cultural Revolution. (CHN381, $26.00)
	Five T'ang Poets • David Young • LITERATURE • A collection of T-ang poetry. (CHN157, $15.95)
	Flashman and the Dragon • George MacDonald Fraser • LITERATURE • The eighth entry in Fraser's popular series of 19th-century adventures starring Harry Flashman, the womanizing rogue and international troublemaker, set in 1860s China. In this installment, our reluctant hero is hoodwinked into joining the Teiping Rebellion, participates in the Seige of Nanking and ends up as a plaything of the Dowager Empress at the Summer Palace. (CHN116, $15.00)
	Flower Hunters • John Gribbin • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A lively omnibus biography of 11 mostly British, largely Victorian botanist-adventurers and their far-flung exploits, including Linneaus, Joseph Banks, Marianne North, Richard Spruce and Joseph Dalton Hooker. (NAT141, $19.95)
	Fodor's Beijing • Emmanuelle Morgen • Deborah Kaufman • GUIDEBOOK • A practical, frequently revised guide to Beijing and Shanghai featuring hundreds of annotated listings of where to eat, stay and shop. (CHN253, $18.95)
	Fodor's China • Marg Kelly • GUIDEBOOK • This practical guide, from the popular series, is saturated with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining. (CHN460, $25.99)
	Fodor's China • David Allan • GUIDEBOOK • A practical, frequently revised guide to China featuring hundreds of annotated listings of where to eat, stay and shop. (CHN314, $25.99)
	Fodor's Hong Kong's 25 Best • Fodor's • GUIDEBOOK • A handy shirt-pocket guide and map. (HKG09, $11.99)
	Fodor's See It China • Cathy Hatley • A practical guide in the popular series, saturated with tons of color photos and valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining. (CHN487, $24.99)
	Forbidden City, The Great Within • Caroline Courtauld • May Holdsworth • Hu Chui • Jonathan Spence • HISTORY • This richly illustrated blend of history, anecdote, biographical sketches and stunning images evokes daily life in the Bejing's imperial city. (CHN450, $24.95)
	A Fortune-Teller Told Me, Earthbound Travels in the Far East • Tizanio Terzani • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A peripatetic journalist sets off to Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Mongolia, China, Japan and other far-flung destinations in this warm, anecdotal account. (SEA35, $16.00)
	Four Sisters of Hofei • Annping Chin • HISTORY • Yale historian Chin draws on family papers, diaries and interviews for this history of the Chang family from the turmoil of the Taiping Rebellion in the 1860s through the whole twentieth century of political and intellectual upheaval as seen through the family's eyes. (CHN435, $15.00)
	Fried Eggs With Chopsticks • Polly Evans • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Subtitled "One Woman's Hilarious Adventures Into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own," this is an offbeat account of travels in China. (CHN362, $14.00)
	From Emperor to Citizen • Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the twelfth emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the last to rule China. (CHN398, $27.50)
	From the Chinese Kitchen: A Step by Step Culinary Adventure • Jamilah Mohd Hassan • Yeo Puay Khoon • Illydea Seulaseri Ishak • FOOD • Part of the Feast of Flavors series, this book is a handy introduction to Chinese cuisine. (CHN414, $16.95)
	Frommer's Beijing • Frommer's • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide in the popular series, strong on where to eat, sleep and shop. (CHN346, $16.99)
	Frommer's China • Peter Neville-Hadley • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive, practical guide in the popular series, focusing on attractions, restaurants and accommodations. An excellent planning tool, it also features useful language and menu guides. (CHN207, $24.99)
	Frommer's Shanghai • J.D. Brown • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide in the popular series, strong on where to eat, sleep and shop. (CHN220, $17.99)
	Frommer's Suzy Gershman's Born to Shop Hong Kong, Shanghai & Beijing, The Ultimate Guide for Travelers Who Love To Shop • Suzy Gershman • GUIDEBOOK • A guide to shopping for designer labels, jade, porcelin and more. (CHN397, $15.99)
	Frontiers of Heaven, A Journey to the End of China • Stanley Stewart • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A British journalist with wanderlust and a way with the pen, Stewart recounts his rough journey halfway across Asia from Shanghai to Xinjiang along the Great Wall. A Thomas Cook Travel Book of the Year. (CHN237, $14.95)
	Fruitful Sites, Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China • Craig Clunas • HISTORY • A study of Ming Era (1450-1650) gardens in the Jiangnan Valley of the Yangtze, especially in wealthy Suzhou and to a lesser extent in Hangzhou. With 48 illustrations. (CHN175, $26.95)
	Gardens in China • Peter Valder • NATURAL HISTORY • A gorgeous book featuring over 500 color photographs of Chinese gardens in 11 provinces. (CHN176, $59.95)
	The Gate of Heavenly Peace, The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980 • Jonathan Spence • HISTORY • Jonathan Spence, a prolific scholar of Chinese history at Yale, delivers a portrait of Chinese revolution, combining straightforward political history with an intriguing selection of materials by poets, artists and intellectuals. (CHN195, $18.00)
	The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention • Robert Temple • Joseph Needham • HISTORY • 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)
	The Ginger Tree • Oswald Wynd • LITERATURE • The bittersweet tale of an innocent young Scots woman in Asia, rich in the details of life in Japan and China before WWII. (JPN125, $12.99)
	The Girl Who Played Go • Shan Sa • Adriana Hunter • LITERATURE • In this accomplished novel set in a Manchurian city in the war-torn 1930s, two young people -- one of each side of the conflict -- fall in love. (CHN214, $14.95)
	God Lives in St. Petersburg, and Other Stories • Tom Bissell • LITERATURE • Six fast-paced tales set in Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and the Aral Sea by the author of Chasing the Sea. (CAS117, $13.95)
	God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan • Jonathan Spence • HISTORY • (CHN178, $17.95)
	The Golden Days • Cao Xueqin • David Hawkes • LITERATURE • 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, $17.00)
	Good Luck Life, The Essential Guide To Chinese American Celebrations And Culture • Rosemary Gong • GUIDEBOOK • A collection of notes and guide to Chinese culture, festivals and traditions, covering food, drink, weddings, and funerals. (CHN333, $14.99)
	The Good Women of China, Hidden Voices • Xinran Xue • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An oral history of women in modern China, using a popular radio call-in show as a source. (CHN256, $15.00)
	Governing China, From Revolution Through Reform • Kenneth Lieberthal • HISTORY • A scholarly political history of China. (CHN112, $28.50)
	The Great Railway Bazaar, By Train through Asia • Paul Theroux • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Theroux's vintage 1970s journeys across Asia by Train, displaying all his talent for portraiture, ego and the dismissive aside. It's great fun. He takes every two-bit train he can find from London across Europe, Turkey and the Middle East, India, Japan and China, returning home via the Trans-Siberian Express. (ASA40, $14.95)
	The Great Wall • Elizabeth Mann • HISTORY • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12) • A concise history of the Great Wall told in story format, from the "Wonders of the World" series. With colorful illustrations by Alan Witschonke. (CHN332, $9.95)
	The Great Wall of China 221 BC-1644 AD • Stephen Turnbull • HISTORY • Turnbull charts the history, purpose and technical challenges of this most famous fortification in absorbing detail in this handy, illustrated guide. (CHN390, $18.95)
	The Great Wall of China from History to Myth • Arthur Waldron • HISTORY • A scholary history of the famous defensive wall. (CHN130, $34.99)
	The Great Wall, China Against the World, 1000 BC - 2000 AD • Julia Lovell • HISTORY • The Who, Why and Wherefore of the Great Wall, this marvelous history demolishes myths (no, the wall is not a continuous structure of great antiquity, as much of it was built in the 1600s) with fresh insight and wit. (CHN308, $15.00)
	The Great Wall, From Beginning to End • Michael Yamashita • William Lindesay • HISTORY • Lindesay's informative text accompanies 160 photographs by Yamashita, who spent a year photographing along the 4,000-mile expanse. (CHN451, $29.95)
	A Guide to Chinese Literature • Wilt Idema • Lloyd L. Haft • LITERATURE • A scholarly survey of Chinese literary traditions over the last 3,000 years, organized into five major time periods. Intended for classroom use. (CHN313, $26.00)
	A Guide to the Mammals of China • Andrew T. Smith • GUIDEBOOK • The definitive, comprehensive, up-to-date guide to China's 556 species of mammals, 10% of the world's total. With 83 color plates and 572 maps. (CHN484, $60.00)
	The Haunted Monastery • Robert Van Gulik • MYSTERY • With its fascinating detours into Tao and Confucian thought, this brilliant short novel has it all -- a terrific setting in a remote mountain monastery, young women in trouble, a nasty murderer and a genuine hero in Judge Dee. (CHN297, $12.00)
	Hero • Zhang Yimou • 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)
	The High Road to China • Kate Teltscher • HISTORY • A history of the first British mission to Tibet and the Panchen Lama's state visit to China in the 18th century. Teltscher makes extensive use of a fascintating journal kept by one young British envoy. (CHN386, $26.00)
	A History of Chinese Civilization • Jacques Gernet • HISTORY • An informed and scholarly cultural history of China from ancient times, updated for this second edition. Translated from the French by Translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman. (CHN211, $43.00)
	Hong Kong Map • Nelles • A detailed, colorful folded map of Hong Kong, scale 1:22,500. (HKG15, $10.95)
	Hungry Ghosts, Mao's Secret Famine • Jasper Becker • HISTORY • The definitive work on the devastating famine that overtook China in the 1950s and 1960s. (CHN99, $20.00)
	I Love Dollars • Zhu Wen • LITERATURE • (CHN470, $14.00)
	Imperial Capitals of China • Arthur Cotterell • LITERATURE • Cotterell shows us the rich array of characters, political and ideological tensions and technological genius which defined the imperial cities of China. (CHN479, $27.95)
	The Importance of Living • Lin Yutang • RELIGION • A philosophical treatise on living the good life. (CHN121, $16.99)
	In the Naga's Wake, The First Man to Navigate the Mekong, from Tibet to the South China Sea • Mick O'Shea • HISTORY • Upon first seeing its unforgiving rapids, 20-year-old traveler Mick O'Shea began dreaming of a solo expedition down the Mekong River, from its source in Tibet to the South China Sea. (SEA57, $16.95)
	In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture • Geremie R. Barme • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Examination of Chinese culture, both "official" and "unofficial." (CHN88, $32.50)
	The Inner Chapters • Chuang Tzu • A. C. Graham • LITERATURE • The oldest pieces of Taoist writing, by one of its greatest philosophers, Chuang Tzu. From the fourth-century B. C. (CHN244, $14.95)
	Inside China • National Geographic • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 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)
	Insight Guide China • Manfred Morganstern • GUIDEBOOK • This lavishly-illustrate guide includes essays on the history, politics and culture of China with hundreds of color photographs, providing a concise, informative introduction to the country. (CHN05, $24.95)
	Insight Guide Shanghai • Insight Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A nicely illustrated guide to Shanghai with excellent maps and hundreds of illustrations. (CHN219, $23.95)
	Insight Guide Southern China & Hong Kong • Insight Guides • GUIDEBOOK • This lavishly illustrated Insight guide includes excellent color maps and thoughtful short essays on history, culture and attractions. (CHN482, $23.95)
	Insight Pocket Guide Beijing • Insight Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A convenient practical guide to Beijing. (CHN26, $13.95)
	Into the Teeth of the Tiger • Donald S. Lopez Jr. • HISTORY • The memoirs of a World War II pilot in Asia. (ASA39, $17.95)
	Iron and Silk • Mark Salzman • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 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, $15.00)
	The Island of Seven Cities, Where The Chinese Settled When They Discovered America • Paul Chiasson • ARCHAEOLOGY • Chiasson's account of his remarkable discovery of a ancient road in Cape Breton, which he argues was part of a large Chinese colony in the New World. (CHN380, $25.95)
	Judge Dee at Work, Eight Chinese Detective Stories • Robert Van Gulik • MYSTERY • A collection of eight cases from the long career of the magistrate, originally published in 1967. (CHN299, $12.00)
	K: The Art of Love • Hong Ying • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A story of the true-life love affair between Virginia Woolf's nephew Julian Bell and famed Chinese woman writer Ling Shuhua in 1930s Beijing. (CHN260, $14.95)
	The Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things, An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas • Gary Geddes • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • (CHN406, $24.95)
	The Kitchen God's Wife • Amy Tan • LITERATURE • (CHN357, $13.95)
	Knopf Mapguide Shanghai • Knopf Guides • GUIDEBOOK • 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)
	Knopf Mapguide, Hong Kong • Knopf Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps. (HKG30, $9.95)
	Kowloon Tong, A Novel of Hong Kong • Paul Theroux • LITERATURE • 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)
	The Lacquer Screen • Robert Van Gulik • MYSTERY • In this installment, Judge Dee investigates a series of suspicious events surrounding a magistrate's eerily prophetic tapestry. (CHN298, $12.00)
	Last Chance to See • Douglas Adams • Mark Carwardine • NATURAL HISTORY • A whirlwind visit to remote habitats around the world by two entertaining traveling companions. (CON04, $14.95)
	The Last Emperor • Bernardo Bertolucci • 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)
	The Last Empress • Anchee Min • LITERATURE • The sequel to Min's best-selling Empress Orchid, The Last Empress chronicles the second half of the life of Tzu Hsi during her tumultuous leadership of late 19th century China, a period plagued by foreign conflicts and domestic unrest. (CHN403, $25.00)
	The Last Panda • George Schaller • NATURAL HISTORY • Naturalist George Schaller spent almost five 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)
	Lee Krasner • John J. Ewel • Robert Hobbs • B. H. Friedman • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Mr. Hobbs examines the work of renowned Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner, wife of Jackson Pollock. With 48 color and 67 black-and-white images of her art. (NYS36, $49.50)
	Lee Krasner • John J. Ewel • Robert Hobbs • B. H. Friedman • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Mr. Hobbs examines the work of renowned Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner, wife of Jackson Pollock. With 48 color and 67 black-and-white images of her art. (NYS36, $49.50)
	Legacies, A Chinese Mosaic • Betty Bao Lord • HISTORY • A memoir of contemporary China, interweaving a family tale with interviews and testimony. (CHN84, $19.00)
	Letters to Henrietta • Lisa Chubbuck • Isabella Bird • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • This extremely enjoyable collection of letters back home capture the verve and spirit of the globe-trotting spinster from the Isle of Mull. (WLD39, $22.95)
	Liquid Jade, The Story of Tea from Wast to West • Beatrice Hohenegger • HISTORY • Barbara Hohenegger takes in the tumultuous history of tea and the tea trade, a 5,000-year journey from Japan and China to the British Empire and beyond, in this captivating history. (ASA54, $25.95)
	Living With China • Ezra F. Vogel • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A scholarly examination of the major policy issues facing US engagement with China. (CHN160, $18.00)
	Lonely Planet Beijing • Damian Harper • GUIDEBOOK • 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, $19.99)
	Lonely Planet Best of Beijing • Ellis Quinn • GUIDEBOOK • A pocket guide in the popular series. (CHN355, $11.99)
	Lonely Planet Best of Shanghai • Damian Harper • GUIDEBOOK • A slim guide to the city, featuring plenty of information on what to do and where to go. (CHN426, $11.99)
	Lonely Planet Cantonese Phrasebook • Kam Y. Lau • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A palm-sized handy guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (HKG19, $8.99)
	Lonely Planet China • Lonely Planet • GUIDEBOOK • An excellent practical guide to China, geared for independent travelers. (CHN39, $31.99)
	Lonely Planet Hong Kong & Macau City Guide • Nicko Goncharoff • Damian Harper • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide to Hong Kong. (HKG14, $21.99)
	Lonely Planet Shanghai • Bradley Mayhew • GUIDEBOOK • 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, $21.99)
	Lonely Planet Taiwan • Andrew Bender • GUIDEBOOK • A travel guide to Taipei and Taiwan noteworthy for its attention to practical detail on food, accommodations and excursions. (CHN67, $25.99)
	The Long March, The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth • Sun Shuyun • HISTORY • 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, $16.00)
	Looking for Chengdu, A Woman's Adventure in China • Hill Gates • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 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, $24.95)
	The Lost Camels of Tartary • John Hare • EXPLORATION • A vivid account of three expeditions on the trail of the migrating Bactrian camel through the deserts of Xinjiang and Mongolia. The author includes vivid portraits of the people he encounters along the way. (CAS67, $14.99)
	Lost in Translation • Nicole Mones • LITERATURE • Deflty interweaving acinetn hiostory, travel and a modern love story, this novel traces the journey of discovery of an American translator in Beijing, Alice Mannegan, who joins professor Lin Shiyang on a far-flung archaeological expedition. (CHN499, $15.00)
	Lost on Planet China • J. Maarten Troost • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Lost on Planet China finds the irrespressible J. Maarten Troost dodging deadly drivers in Shanghai; eating Yak in Tibet; deciphering restaurant menus (offering local favor-ites such as Cattle Penis with Garlic); and visiting with Chairman Mao (still dead, very orange). He's not just funny, he's a guide to mixed-up modern China. (CHN496, $14.95)
	Love in a Fallen City • Eileen Chang • Karen S. Kingsbury • LITERATURE • A major 20th-century Chinese writer, little known in the U.S. (these sparkling translations will go far to change that), Chang wrote these four fascinating novellas and two glittering stories in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in the 1940s. Her work is a revelation, poised tellingly between Confucian tradition and Western modernity. (CHN387, $14.95)
	A Loyal Character Dancer • Qiu Xiaolong • MYSTERY • An important witness has disappeared and Inspector Chen Cao, the ambitious son of a father who imbued him with Confucian precepts, must tread warily as he strives to be a good cop, a good man and also a loyal Party member in this second installment. (CHN412, $14.00)
	Lust, Caution • Eileen Chang • LITERATURE • An espionage thriller set against the backdrop of World War II Shanghai by a master of the short story. (CHN438, $9.00)
	Making China Policy, Lessons from the Bush and Clinton Administrations • Ramo Myers • HISTORY • An evaluation of U.S. foreign policy toward China and Taiwan during the twelve years of the Bush and Clinton administrations. (CHN336, $39.95)
	Making Out in Chinese • Ray Daniels • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A phoenetic (and funny) guide to getting along in Chinese. (CHN206, $8.95)
	Man's Fate • Andre Malraux • LITERATURE • A suspenseful, psychologically complex novel set during the early days of the Chinese revolution. (CHN188, $14.95)
	Mantles of Merit: Chin Textiles from Myanmar, India and Bangladesh • David Fraser • Barbara Fraser • ART & ARCHITECTURE • 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)
	Mao's China and After, A History of the People's Republic • Maurice Meisner • HISTORY • A vivid, comprehensive history of China since the Communists came into power in 1949. (CHN165, $36.95)
	Mao's Last Revolution • Roderick MacFarquhar • Michael Schoenhals • HISTORY • Mao's 1966 Cultural Revolution, the politics, policies and devastating impact on the Chinese people. (CHN378, $35.00)
	Mao, The Unknown Story • Jung Chang • John Halliday • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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, $19.95)
	Mao: A Biography • Ross Terrill • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A no-holds-barred biography of the Chinese leader. (CHN51, $33.95)
	Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World • John Larner • EXPLORATION • A scholarly, insightful study of the impact of the venetian merchant-explorer's impact on European ideas and knowledge of the world. (EXP22, $21.00)
	The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci • Jonathan Spence • HISTORY • A "portrait of the age," revealing fascinating connections between Eastern and Western history and thought via a life of Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1616), an early Catholic missionary in China. (CHN262, $16.00)
	Miao Textiles from China • Gina Corrigan • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A short, illustrated introduction to the textiles of the Miao peoples of the Guizhou Province in southwestern China. Gina Corrigan provides social context and analysis of techniques. (CHN322, $24.95)
	A Million Truths, A Decade in China • Linda Jakobson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A Finnish reporter's portrait of China in the 1990s, an observant and sensitive account of peasants, professionals, officials and scholars adjusting to life in an emerging economic powerhouse. (CHN373, $17.95)
	Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture • Sarah Handler • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A beautifully illustrated overview of Ming furniture and its architectural setting. (CHN318, $50.00)
	Modern Marvels, The Great Wall of China • The History Channel • HISTORY • This documentary from the History Channel explores the story of China's Great Wall, one of the most impressive building feats of ancient history. (CHN418, $24.95)
	The Monkey & the Monk • Cheng'en Wu • LITERATURE • The abridged version of Anthony Yu's masterful translation of The Journey to the West. (CHN402, $20.00)
	The Monkey and the Tiger, Two Chinese Detective Stories • Robert Hans Van Gulik • MYSTERY • These historical mysteries, featuring a Tang-era Chinese magistrate, are taken from the tradition of Chinese detective novels. Apart from the pleasure of the elaborate plots, the books are rich in details of court and daily life in ancient China. (CHN290, $12.00)
	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, $14.95)
	Mountain of Fame, Portraits in Chinese History • John Wills • HISTORY • 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, $29.95)
	Mr. China's Son, A Villager's Life • He Liyi • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Written with warmth, humor and an admirable lack of bitterness, this autobiography by a villager from Yunnan is a poignant glimpse into the rural experience in China over 50 years, including the Japanese invasion, Communist revolution, and time in reeducation camps. (CHN399, $38.00)
	Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha • Dorothy Gilman • MYSTERY • Grandma Pollifax, the CIA agent, is at it again, hot on the trail of jewel thieves, drug dealers and murderers in the city of Hong Kong. Part of the popular series, this mystery is great fun. (HKG17, $6.99)
	Murder in Canton • Robert Hans Van Gulik • MYSTERY • These historical mysteries, featuring a Tang-era Chinese magistrate, follow the tradition of ancient Chinese detective novels. Apart from the pleasure of the elaborate plots, the books are rich in details of court and daily life in ancient China. (CHN291, $13.00)
	My Life As Emperor • Su Tong • LITERATURE • (CHN417, $13.95)
	National Geographic Atlas of China • National Geographic Society • REFERENCE • 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, $21.95)
	National Geographic Beijing • Paul Mooney • REFERENCE • This guide to Beijing, published in National Geographic's attractive visual style, features hundreds of photographs, full color maps, and good information on history, art, culture and travel. (CHN486, $22.95)
	National Geographic China • Damian Harper • GUIDEBOOK • 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)
	National Geographic Shanghai • Andrew Forbes • GUIDEBOOK • The history, nature, culture and attractions of Shanghai, thoroughly illustrated in dependable National Geographic style. (CHN443, $22.95)
	National Geographic Taiwan • Phil Macdonald • GUIDEBOOK • A traveler's guide to the history, nature, culture, and attractions of Taiwan, thoroughly illustrated in dependable National Geographic style. (CHN446, $22.95)
	Nature: Pandas: Pandas of the Sleeping Dragon, The Panda Baby • Nature • NATURAL HISTORY • A double-feature from the award-winning Nature series: Pandas of the Sleeping Dragon narrated by George Page and filmed in the bamboo forests of Wolong; and The Panda Baby, the story of the San Diego Zoo panda cub. (CHN263, $19.99)
	Necklace and Calabash • Robert Van Gulik • MYSTERY • In this novel, Van Gulik's penultimate tale, set in a river town in his home district of Poo-yang, Judge Dee's vacation is interrupted by murder. (CHN293, $12.00)
	The New Chinese Empire • Ross Terrill • HISTORY • (CHN400, $19.95)
	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)
	Noble House • James Clavell • LITERATURE • Another Clavell novel set in Asia, this one finds Russian, Chinese and English businessmen and intelligence agents caught up in a struggle to control the largest trading house in 1960s Hong Kong. (HKG16, $18.00)
	Northeastern China Map • Nelles • A double-sided map of the northeastern portion of the country at a 1:1.5 scale. (CHN172, $10.95)
	Northwest China Map • MapLink • This birds-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)
	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 Beijing & Shanghai • Bill Mooney • GUIDEBOOK • Jammed with photographs, maps and great information on culture and history, this colorful guide introduces the two cities with style. (CHN228, $24.95)
	Odyssey Guide China • Charis Chan • Peter Neville • GUIDEBOOK • A handsomely illustrated compact guide, strong on culture and history. With 15 regional and local maps, hundreds of photographs -- and all 31 World Heritage Sites in China. (CHN87, $19.95)
	Odyssey Guide Guizhou Province • Gina Corrigan • GUIDEBOOK • 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)
	One Man's Bible • Gao Xingjian • LITERATURE • (CHN359, $13.95)
	The Open Empire, A History of China to 1600 • Valerie Hansen • HISTORY • This account of premodern China depicts the empire as heterogenous, vibrant, and open to the outside world. (CHN138, $55.40)
	Original Tao: Inward Training and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism • Harold D. Roth • LITERATURE • Harold D. Roth, professor of East Asian studies at Brown, reinterprets the origins of Taoism through a fourth-century B.C. text. (CHN245, $26.50)
	The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Volume 1: The Contradictions among the People 1956-1957 • Roderick MacFarquhar • HISTORY • China's Cultural Revolution from 1956 to 1966. (CHN115, $33.50)
	Pandas • Heather Angel • NATURAL HISTORY • A series of gorgeous color photographs of pandas, mostly concerned with the Giant Pandas of Wolong and with a section on the red panda. Includes some information on natural history. (CHN137, $17.95)
	Passions of the Cut Sleeve, The Male Homosexual Tradition in China • Bret Hinsch • LITERATURE • A well-written, scholarly survey of the traditions of same-sex male love in Chinese literature. (CHN167, $24.95)
	Peacock Cries, At the Three Gorges • Hong Ying • LITERATURE • A political drama set against the backdrop of the Three Gorges Dam project in China. (CHN350, $14.95)
	Peking Story, The Last Days of Old China • David Kidd • John Lanchester • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A wry tribute to lost way of life and time in Beijing. Kidd writes with humor and sweet nostalgia of the privileged and eccentric Lu family in the years around the 1948 Communist Revolution. (CHN264, $14.00)
	Peony in Love • Lisa See • LITERATURE • Set in 17th century China, See's fifth novel offers a vivid portrayal of women's roles in the Ming and Qing dynasties through the eyes of fifteen-year old Peony. The sheltered daughter of a wealthy family, Peony is inspired in her struggle against tradition by the lyrics of an epic opera, The Peony Pavilion. (CHN410, $14.00)
	The Phantom of the Temple, A Judge Dee Mystery • Robert Hans Van Gulik • MYSTERY • Three murders and stolen gold are tied together by one sinister plot in this creepy entry in the always-entertaining Jude Dee series. (CHN439, $13.00)
	Pimsleur Quick & Simple Chinese (Cantonese) • Pimsleur Language Method • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • 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)
	Pimsleur Quick & Simple Chinese (Mandarin) • Pimsleur Language Method • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • 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)
	Pocket China Atlas, Maps and Facts at Your Fingertips • Stephanie Hemelryk Donald • EXPLORATION • (CHN485, $10.95)
	Poems of the Late T'ang • A. C. Graham • LITERATURE • Graham's slim anthology of late T'ang dynasty poetry exhibits the experimental style and emotional intensity which characterized the era. (CHN497, $14.95)
	Poets and Murder • Robert Van Gulik • MYSTERY • In this satisyingly complex tale set in the imperial academy, Judge Dee puzzles over a double-murder of a young student and a dancer. Orginally published in 1968, this is the last ofd Van Gulik's many books based on the life of a ancient Chinese magistrate. (CHN294, $12.00)
	Popular China, Unoffical Culture in a Globalizing Society • Paul G. Pickowicz • Richard P. Madsen • Perry Link • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A reader on manifestations of popular culture in contemporary China, including chapters by both Chinese and western contributors. (CHN259, $34.95)
	Precious Records, Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century • Susan Mann • HISTORY • Respected scholar Mann seeks to given voice to the underrepresented women of Qing China. (CHN139, $27.95)
	The Private Life of Chairman Mao, The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician • Dr. Li Zhisui • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 22 years in the life of Mao Tse Tung (and communist China), as seen through the eyes of his doctor. (CHN100, $22.95)
	The Promise of the Revolution • Daniel B. Wright • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Subtitled "Stories of Fulfillment and Struggle in China's Hinterland," this book depicts the hardships and few economic triumphs of the people of Guizhou, a severely impoverished region of China. (CHN258, $29.95)
	Raise the Red Lantern, Three Novellas • Michael S. Duke • Su Tong • LITERATURE • Set in 1930s, these three dark works explore the provincial underworld in pre-communist China. (CHN193, $14.00)
	The Rape of Nanking, The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II • Iris Chang • HISTORY • Chang's account of the 1937 massacre of an estimated 250,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese is related with honesty and interspersed with shocking statistics. (CHN272, $16.00)
	Red Azalea • Anchee Min • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Born in 1957 (and a leader of the Little Red Guards in Shanghai as a youngster), Min writes with powerful simplicity of coming-of-age under Mao (including a stint at Red Fire Farm). (CHN273, $14.00)
	Red China Blues, My Long March from Mao to Now • Jan Wong • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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)
	Red Dust, A Path Through China • Ma Jian • Flora Drew • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An astounding memoir by an urban poet, painter and writer on the road to Tibet. A vagabond, rebel, and Buddhist, Jian abandons his Beijing life for a 3-year southwestern journey through Tibet, Burma and Guizhou Province. (CHN150, $16.00)
	Red Mandarin Dress • Qiu Xiaolong • MYSTERY • The turbulence and corruption of 1990s Shanghai provides the evocative backdrop to this fifth terrific Inspector Chen novel, in which the unflappable detective is on the trail of a serial killer who leaves bodies in public places, dressed in red. (CHN458, $13.95)
	The Red Pavilion • Robert Van Gulik • MYSTERY • These historical mysteries, featuring a Tang-era Chinese magistrate, are taken from the tradition of Chinese suspense novels. Apart from the pleasure of the elaborate plots, the books are rich in details of court and daily life in ancient China. (CHN287, $12.00)
	Red Star Over China • Edgar R. Snow • HISTORY • A classic history of communism in China. (CHN201, $16.50)
	Religions of China in Practice • Donald S. Lopez Jr. • RELIGION • Confucionism, Daoism and Buddhism, and how they overlap and interact with each other. (CHN127, $39.50)
	Religions of China, The World as a Living System • David L. Overmyer • RELIGION • A brief primer on the religions of China. (CHN154, $11.50)
	Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space • Wu Hung • HISTORY • Author Hung witnessed firsthand the the reinvention of Beijing since the Communist revolution. Focusing on Tiananmen Square, Hung chronicles its evolution from an ancient Imperial site to a political public space, and its shift from an official socialist monument to a place for protestors and demonstrators. (CHN415, $35.00)
	The Remote Country of Women • Bai Hua • LITERATURE • Bai Hua alternates the tale of a young Mosuo girl in China's mountainous southwest with that of a political prisoner during the Cultural revolution in this absorbing novel. (CHN310, $24.00)
	Rescuing History from the Nation, Questioning Narratives of Modern China • Prasenjit Duara • HISTORY • Through a series of historical case studies, Duara deftly challenges the linear model of nationalist, postcolonial history. (CHN424, $24.00)
	The Retreat of the Elephants, An Environmental History of China • Mark Elvin • NATURAL HISTORY • A thorough examination of the damage that has been done to China's environment through war, modernization and new farming developments. (CHN221, $24.00)
	Return to Dragon Mountain • Jonathan D. Spence • LITERATURE • Spence offers a compelling literary-biographic study of Zhang Dai, one of the finest historians and essayists of China's Ming dynasty, chronicling his life from his birth in 1597 to the Manchu invasion of 1644, when Dai's family lost their fortunes. (CHN430, $16.00)
	Return to the Middle Kingdom, One Family, Three Revolutions, and the Birth of Modern China • Yuan-tsun Chen • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • In the spirit of Wild Swans, Yuan-Tsung Chen has crafted a political history of modern China through the story of three generations of revolutionaries. (CHN449, $27.99)
	Rice • Howard Goldblatt • Su Tong • LITERATURE • A twisted yet intriguing tale of 1930s provincial China. (CHN194, $14.00)
	Riding the Iron Rooster, By Train Through China • Paul Theroux • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Theroux's wry account of utterly exhausting, exasperating travels, mostly by rail, throughout China for an entire year. He gets himself to every corner of the huge country, including memorable passages on his experiences in Mongolia, Xinjiang, Manchuria and Tibet (where his journey ended). (CHN133, $15.95)
	The Rise of Modern China • Immanuel C.Y. Hsu • HISTORY • A comprehensive history of China from the 17th century through the present. (CHN62, $69.95)
	The River at the Center of the World • Simon Winchester • EXPLORATION • FAVORITE • 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)
	The River Dragon Has Come!: The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People • Dai Qing • Philip Williams • John G. Thibodeau • Ming Yi • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Damn the dam, edited by the director of research at Probe International and the founder of the International Rivers Network. (CHN61, $29.95)
	River Town, Two Years on the Yangtze • Peter Hessler • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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 submerged with the completion of the Three Gorges dam. (CHN125, $14.99)
	Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Volume I • Lo Kuan-Chung • C.H. Brewitt-Taylor • LITERATURE • The 14th-century epic of the collapse of the Han Dynasty. (CHN212, $27.95)
	Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Volume II • Lo Kuan-Chung • C.H. Brewitt-Taylor • LITERATURE • Volume II of the epic tale of the collapse of the Han Dynasty. (CHN213, $35.95)
	Rough Guide Beijing • Rough Guide • GUIDEBOOK • A compact, practical guide to the city. (CHN234, $27.50)
	Rough Guide China • Simon Lewis • David Leffman • GUIDEBOOK • A no-nonsense, opinionated travel guide in the British series aimed at independent-minded travelers. (CHN78, $27.99)
	Rough Guide Mandarin Chinese Phrasebook • Rough Guide • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • This palm-sized phrasebook, organized disctionary-style A-Z, includes sections on grammar, menui items and drinks. (CHN149, $6.99)
	Rough Guide Music China • Various Artists • MUSIC • A carefully chosen sampling of the diverse sounds of China, from the renowned ancient music of the qin to Cantonese opera to punk rock. (CHN376, $14.95)
	Rough Guide Shanghai • Simon Lewis • GUIDEBOOK • A compact, practical guide to the city, jammed with maps, site plans, suggested sightseeing and recommended restaurants and hotels. (CHN488, $27.50)
	Rough Guides China 25 Ultimate Experiences • Rough Guides • GUIDEBOOK • Subtitled Make the Most of Your Time on Earth, these colorful pocket guides, 25 in all, published in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Rough Guides, celebrate remarkable, not-to-be-missed things to do and places to go, certain to inspire. (CHN425, $5.99)
	Rough Guides World Food 25 Ultimate Experiences • Rough Guides • GUIDEBOOK • Subtitled Make the Most of Your Time on Earth, these colorful pocket guides, 25 in all, published in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Rough Guides, celebrate remarkable, not-to-be-missed things to do and places to go, certain to inspire. (WLD103, $5.99)
	The Sand Pebbles • Richard McKenna • LITERATURE • A reprint of the now-classic novel, which revolves around mate Jake Holman and life aboard U.S. Navy gunboat on the Yangtze River in the early 20th century. (CHN147, $24.95)
	The Search for Modern China • Jonathan Spence • HISTORY • 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)
	The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien • David Hinton • LITERATURE • A portrait of the mountains and landscapes of peasant China and the pleasures of rural life by the great poet. (CHN315, $11.00)
	Selected Stories of Lu Hsun • Hsun Lu • William Lyell • LITERATURE • A collection of 18 stories by an important modern Chinese writers (1881-1936). (CHN122, $15.95)
	Serve the People, A Stir-fried Journey Through China • Jen Lin-liu • FOOD • Lin-Liu gives a memorable and mouthwatering cook's tour of today's China, making her way from cooking student to noodle-stall and dumpling-house apprentice to intern at a chic Shanghai restaurant. (CHN483, $13.95)
	The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World • Chris Scarre • ARCHAEOLOGY • A comprehensive, illustrated overview of the great monuments of the ancient world and how they were built. (GEN92, $40.00)
	The Sextants of Beijing, Global Currents in Chinese History • Joanna Waley-Cohen • HISTORY • (CHN356, $17.95)
	Shadow Magic • Ann Hu • In Bejing in 1902, a young Chinese photographer's friendship with a newly arrived Englishman complicates his relationship with his family. Despite their cultural conflicts, the two are united by their exciting work with the newest technology: motion pictures. Run time of 115 minutes. (CHN325, $29.95)
	Shadow of the Bear, Travels in Their Vanishing Country • Brian Payton • NATURAL HISTORY • (NAT100, $25.95)
	Shanghai Map • Periplus Maps • 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)
	Shanghai Modern, The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945 • Leo Ou-Fan Lee • HISTORY • A scholarly look at Chinese urban culture in pre-war Shanghai. (CHN64, $33.00)
	Shenzhen, A Travelogue from China • Guy Delisle • LITERATURE • DeLisle captures the Alice-in-Wonderland quality of capitalist-communist China with wit and jazzy shaded-pencil snapshots in this graphic novel/travelogue of his time in South China. (CHN379, $19.95)
	The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 1 • Joseph Needham • Colin A. Ronan • HISTORY • The first entry in a multi-volume history of science and engineering in China. (CHN120, $68.00)
	Shower • Zhang Yang • In this film by Zhang, a succesful Shenzhen businessman reluctantly returns to his childhood home in Beijing when he hears his father has died. When he discovers that his father is in fact alive, he is forced to reexamine his relationships with his father and brother and the decisions that have kept him away from home for so long. (CHN326, $29.95)
	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 Silk Roads, A Route and Planning Guide • Paul Wilson • Dominic Streatfield-James • GUIDEBOOK • 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)
	A Single Pebble • John Hersey • LITERATURE • 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)
	Six Records of a Floating Life • Shen Fu • Leonard Pratt • Chiang Su-Hui • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • First published in 1809, Shen Fu's recounting of his life during the Ching dynasty in China gives a candid look at the social customs and cultural traditions of that era, and doubles as a tender love story. (CHN275, $14.00)
	Sky Burial, An Epic Love Story of Tibet • Xinran • LITERATURE • Xinran turns the tale of a young Chinese woman's lifelong search for her husband in Tibet, based on an 1994 interview, into a powerful, gut-wrenching tale, evoking the customs, traditions and challenges of contemporary Tibet. (CHN282, $13.95)
	The Small Woman • Alan Burgess • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A biography of the missionary Gladys Aylward. (CHN77, $35.95)
	Snow Flower and the Secret Fan • Lisa See • LITERATURE • Set in 19th-century Hunan, Lisa See's bestselling novel follows the friendship and fate of two Chinese women over 80 years. (CHN393, $18.00)
	Song and Silence, Ethnic Revival on China's Southwest Borders • Sara L. M. Davis • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A revealing overview of the Tai Lue (Dai) and how this increasingly vulnerable minority is keeping their culture alive in the Himalayan foothills of Southern Yunnan. (CHN311, $26.50)
	The Soong Dynasty • Sterling Seagrave • HISTORY • The epic story of one the most powerful and influential families in 20th-century China. (CHN114, $18.00)
	Soul Mountain • Gao Xingjian • LITERATURE • This meditative novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Chinese dissident is Xingian's most personal work, set during the horrors of the Cultural Revolution. (CHN345, $15.99)
	South of the Clouds, Exploring the Hidden Realms of China • Seth Faison • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Faison covers people, events, discoveries and experiences from his first visit to China as a student in 1984 to the Tiananmen Square massacre and his time as NY Times bureau chief in Shanghai in this candid memoir. (CHN241, $25.95)
	South of the Clouds, Tales from Yunnan • Lucien Miller • ANTHOLOGY • Featuring memorable tales from throughout the Yunnan Province, this book showcases 54 wonderfully insightful and entertaining stories. (CHN45, $30.00)
	Spring Moon, A Novel of China • Bette Bao Lord • LITERATURE • A big, multi-generational saga of late 19th and 20th century China. (CHN187, $7.99)
	The State of China Atlas • Robert Benewick • Stephanie Donald • REFERENCE • A bold visual survey of political, economic and social change in China. (CHN68, $19.95)
	Streetlife China • Michael Dutton • ANTHOLOGY • A scholarly collection of essays about the realities of living in modern-day China, by a variety of contributors. (CHN222, $32.99)
	Sustainable Energy in China, The Closing Window of Opportunity • Noureddine Berrah • HISTORY • (CHN454, $45.00)
	T'Ang China, The Rise of the East in World History • Samuel Adrian M. Adshead • HISTORY • A history of the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages. (CHN432, $37.00)
	Taiwan Map • ITMB • A full color travelers map of Taiwan at a scale of 1:386,000. (TWN03, $12.95)
	Taiwan, A New History • Murray A. Rubinstein • HISTORY • This scholarly history of Taiwan by diverse contributors covers the economy, culture, politics and development of Taiwan from ancient time to modern nation. (TWN01, $42.95)
	The Talented Women of the Zhang Family • Susan Mann • HISTORY • (CHN461, $24.95)
	Tales of a Chinese Grandmother • Malthe Hasselriis • Frances Carpenter • LITERATURE • An illustrated, old-fashioned book of folk tales, originally published in 1937. (CHN156, $8.95)
	Tales of the Dead: Ancient China • Stewart Ross • HISTORY • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12) • (CHN323, $14.99)
	Tao Te Ching • D. C. Lao • • RELIGION • Fourth-century B. C. classic by the Taoist poet Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching has been translated more than any other work, and D. C. Lao's stark, lyrical poetry renders both the complexity and simplicity of the original thought. (CHN243, $9.00)
	The Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of China • William Lindesay • HISTORY • Lindesay augments colorful illustrations and photographs with detailed captions in this concise, visual overview of the extraordinary tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi, First Emperor of China. (CHN126, $12.95)
	Three Kingdoms, A Historical Novel • Lo Kuan Chung • Moss Roberts • ANTHOLOGY • 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)
	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)
	Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China • Arthur Waley • RELIGION • An elegantly written, classic introduction to traditional Chinese philosophy. (CHN164, $18.95)
	Thunder from the East, Portrait of a Rising Asia • Nicholas Kristoff • Sheryl WuDunn • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A study of the changing face of Asia's economic situation and its effects on the continent's culture. (ASA24, $15.95)
	Thunder Out of China • Theodore H. White • Annalee Jacoby • Harrison Salisbury • HISTORY • A classic account of the Chinese Revolution. (CHN113, $16.50)
	Time Out Shanghai • Time Out • GUIDEBOOK • An up-to-date guide on what to do and where to go by the people who publish Time Out Magazine. (CHN309, $19.95)
	To Live • Yimou Zhang • Zhang Yimou's moving film follows one family from the 1940s through the 1960s in China. (CHN227, $19.98)
	To Live • Yu Hua • LITERATURE • Yu Hua's moving novel tells the story of an impoverished couple who become dedicated Communists during the reign of Mao Zedong and witness the devastating effects of the Cultural Revolution. The book has been adapted into an acclaimed motion picture by director Zhang Yimou. (CHN408, $14.00)
	To the Edge of the Sky • Anhua Gao • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The autobiography of a Chinese woman whose hopes and health were wrecked by the Cultural Revolution. (CHN190, $27.95)
	To the Storm, The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman • Yue Daiyun • Carolyn Wakeman • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The heartrending tale of a professor of literature at Beijing University, accused of being a right-wing supporter in 1957 and relocated to a rural peasant commune in order to "correct" her political views. (CHN254, $24.95)
	Travelers' Tales China • James O'Reilly • Larry Habegger • Sean O'Reilly • ANTHOLOGY • 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)
	Travelers' Tales Hong Kong • Travelers' Tales • ANTHOLOGY • OUT OF PRINT • 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)
	A Traveller's History of China • Stephen G. Haw • HISTORY • 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)
	Travels in the East • Donald Richie • Stephen Mansfield • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 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)
	Travels with Myself and Another, A Memoir • Martha Gellhorn • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • In Gellhorn's collection of unforgettable journeys, first published in 1979, the incisive writer often traveled with Ernest Hemingway, the "another" of the title, who was her husband at the time. (TVL25, $15.95)
	The Treasures of Beijing • Mario Sabattini • GUIDEBOOK • (CHN391, $45.00)
	Understanding China, Center Stage of the Fourth Power • Yanan Ju • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A volume in the Suny Series in International Management. (CHN337, $18.95)
	Visiting China's Past, a Guide to Sites and Resources • Robert L. Thorp • GUIDEBOOK • This informative guide covers archaeological discoveries of the last century, including UNESCO World Heritage sites. (CHN421, $24.95)
	Wallpaper City Guide Shanghai • Wallpaper Magazine • GUIDEBOOK • 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)
	When Red is Black • Qiu Xiaolong • MYSTERY • Chen's vacation is interrupted by dirty dealing and murder in this third installment of Qui's popular series, which is steeped in the atmosphere and culture of modern Shanghai. (CHN411, $13.00)
	Where Shanghai Cityguide • Where Magazine • GUIDEBOOK • A sturdy pocket guide to top city sights, helpfully keyed to overview maps and featuring a detailed downtown PopOut map. (CHN442, $9.95)
	Wild China • John MacKinnon • Nigel Hicks • NATURAL HISTORY • A beautiful oversize book of photographs featuring Chinese wildlife and natural history. This informative, up-to-date survey of the wildlife of China also features excellent maps and detailed explanatory text. (CHN19, $39.95)
	Wild Grass, Three Portraits of Change in Modern China • Ian Johnson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Three portraits of ordinary citizens' grassroots movements in the face of the Chinese party's resistance to change. (CHN215, $14.95)
	Wild West China, The Taming of Xinjiang • Christian Tyler • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A portrait of the changing face of the Xinjiang region in northwest China. (CHN231, $27.95)
	Will the Boat Sink the Water?, The Life of China's Peasants • Chen Guidi • Wu Chuntao • HISTORY • 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)
	The Wisdom of the Buddha • Jean Boisselier • RELIGION • 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)
	Wolf Totem • Jiang Rong • LITERATURE • Defiant, unyielding, feared, hunted and revered, the great Mongolian wolf is the heart and center of Jiang Rong's epic tale of a young man from Beijing and his surprising encounters on the Mongolian steppe. A stirring epic, allegory and elegy for a vanished way of life, the novel won the first Man Asia Prize. (CHN471, $15.00)
	A Woman Soldier's Own Story • Xie Bingying • Barry Brissman • Lily Chia • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The first English translation of feminist, nationalist and polemicist Xie Bingying's autobiography. Her intensely political memoir reveals the desperate mood in China during the decades leading up to the revolution. (CHN158, $34.50)
	A Woman's Asia • Marybeth Bond • ANTHOLOGY • 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)
	World Religions: Eastern Traditions • Willard G. Oxtoby • RELIGION • 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, $67.95)
	Wuhu Diary, On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China • Emily Prager • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An account of a two-month trip to China in 2001. (CHN210, $13.00)
	Yangtze • Philip Wilkinson • NATURAL HISTORY • An lluminating portrait of one of the wortld's great rivers, (CHN320, $40.00)
	Yangtze Remembered, The River Beneath the Lake • Linda Butler • Simon Winchester • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Photographer Linda Butler's photographic essay about the Yangtze valley before and after the 2003 flooding of the Three Gorges Dam. (CHN218, $70.00)
	Yangzi River Map • Richard Perry Hayman • 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)
	A Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy • Sara Bongiorni • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Bongiorni chronicles with humor and insight her family's year-long boycott of Chinese products, an experiment that requires remarkable creativity, and exposes the realities of China's entrenched status in the global economy. (CHN491, $24.95)
	The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi • Lin Chi • Burton Watson • LITERATURE • An important philosopher of Ch'an Buddhism and a forefather of Zen Buddhism, Lin-Chi's recorded sayings from the ninth century are translated here in English for the first time. (CHN246, $27.00)
	Zheng He, Tracing the Epic Voyages of China's Greatest Explorer • Michael Yamashita • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Ancient Chinese prints and color photographs trace Ming explorer Zheng He's seven journeys that took him to the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, as far as Kenya. Zheng He is reputed to have reached the Americas 70 years before Columbus. (CHN395, $39.95)

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