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South of the Clouds, Tales from Yunnan

by Lucien Miller

• ANTHOLOGY
• 1997
• PAPER
• 342 PAGES

Featuring memorable tales from throughout the Yunnan Province, this book showcases 54 wonderfully insightful and entertaining stories. (CHN45, $32.95)

Leaving Mother Lake

by Yang Erche Namu | Christine Mathieu

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2004
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

In this entrancing memoir, Chinese singing sensation Namu recounts her coming-of-age among the matriarchal Mosuo people in Southwest China near the Chinese-Tibetan border. (CHN270, $14.99)

Odyssey Guide Yunnan

by Jim Goodman

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2009
• PAPER
• 624 PAGES

This comprehensive introduction to the history, culture and attractions of the Yunnan Province features 200 color photographs and 29 maps. (CHN44, $29.95)

China South Map

by Nelles

• 2005
• MAP

A detailed travel map of Southern China, from Taiwan to Hong Kong and the Yunnan Province, at a 1:1,500,000 scale. (CHN27, $13.95)

 

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Bradt Guide Yunnan Province

by Martin Walters | Stephen Mansfield

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2007
• PAPER
• 288 PAGES

A compact guide to geography, cultures and nature of Yunnan, with sketch maps, photographs and practical information. (CHN73, $23.95)

Shangri-la: A Practical Guide to the Himalayan Dream

by Michael Buckley

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2008
• PAPER
• 191 PAGES
• NEW

With marvelous chapters on James Hilton's book and the many meanings and myths surrounding Shangri-La, Buckley's practical guide covers the contenders for this mythical Himalayan paradise in Southwest China, Tibet, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan. With many maps and color photographs. (HML84, $25.99)

The Rough Guide to Southwest China

by Rough Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER
• 440 PAGES

This comprehensive travel guide in the British series covers the cities, traditional communities and travel in Yunnan and the region, including Sichuan, Chongqinng, Guizhou ad Guangxi. (CHN701, $25.99)

Beyond the Great Wall

by Jeffrey Alford | Naomi Duguid

• FOOD
• 2008
• HARD COVER
• 376 PAGES

The globe-trotting duo weave tales of travel with contemporary politics, commentary, carefully documented recipes and stunning photographs for this sumptuous overview of the food and culture of Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Yunnan and other far-off regions of ethnically diverse China. (CHN475, $40.00)

Essential Tibetan Buddhism

by Robert Thurman

• RELIGION
• 1996
• PAPER
• 317 PAGES

The foremost Western scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, Thurman has chosen well from that tradition's sacred literature and helpfully includes suggested further reading, explanatory notes and a directory of sacred sites. (TBT15, $14.99)

Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China

by Stevan Harrell

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2001
• PAPER
• 334 PAGES

This is a compendium of scholarly articles about the Yi people. (CHN169, $29.95)

The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China

by Erik Mueggler

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2001
• PAPER
• 361 PAGES

A groundbreaking ethnography of the Yi, 7 million of whom live in China's Yunnan province. It's also an illuminating study of the wages of communism on China's minority peoples. (CHN168, $28.95)

Understanding China

by John Bryan Starr

• HISTORY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 400 PAGES

The Yale professor brings us up to date in this third edition of his succinct and refreshingly forthright best-selling guide to China's economy, history and politics. (CHN196, $17.95)

Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China

by Stevan Harrell

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2002
• PAPER
• 370 PAGES

A scholarly ethnography of the peoples of Southwest China, including the Nuosu (Yi), Prmi, Naze, and Han. With detailed case studies. (CHN271, $24.95)

Yunnan, China's Most Beautiful Province

by Ann Helen Unger | Walter Unger

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2002
• HARD COVER
• 260 PAGES
• COMING IN MARCH

This photographic essay includes 335 color photographs and accompanying essays on the land, people, religions, agriculture and future of a region on the brink of modernization. Yunnan -- situated on the edges of southern China, the Tibetan plateau and the jungles of Southeast Asia -- is China's most culturally and geographically diverse province. (CHN235, $50.00)

The Arts of China

by Michael Sullivan

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 2008
• PAPER
• 352 PAGES

A lively survey of Chinese visual arts and culture through the ages, thoroughly illustrated and accessible. With a new chapter on the 20th century and beyond, this fifth edition covers bronzes, ceramics, painting and architecture from the Neolithic to now. (CHN16, $39.95)

Chinese Lessons, Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

by John Pomfret

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2007
• PAPER
• 336 PAGES

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, $16.99)

Mr. China's Son, A Villager's Life

by He Liyi

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2002
• PAPER
• 336 PAGES

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, $40.00)

Tea Horse Road, China's Ancient Trade Road to Tibet

by Michael Freeman

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2011
• HARD COVER
• 340 PAGES

Starting in tea forests in the mountains of southern Yunnan, through Tibet and into India, this lavishily illustrated account documents the rich cultural practices and biological diversity of the communities along the Tea Horse Road. (CHN699, $65.00)

The River at the Center of the World

by Simon Winchester

• EXPLORATION
• 2004
• PAPER
• 410 PAGES
• FAVORITE

Winchester writes about the character of Yangtze and people and places along its banks with easy grace in this absorbing portrait of the great river flowing through the heart of China. (CHN31, $16.00)

The River's Tale, A Year on the Mekong

by Edward Gargan

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2003
• PAPER
• 352 PAGES

A personal, probing chronicle of a 3,000 mile journey on the river from its source in China through Tibet, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. (SEA33, $15.95)

In the Land of the Blue Poppies

by Frank Kingdon-Ward | Tom Christopher | Jamaica Kincaid

• ANTHOLOGY
• 2003
• PAPER
• 242 PAGES

Expert Tom Christopher presents excerpts from intrepid Kingdon-Ward's fascinating accounts of plant-hunting adventures in Tibet, Burma and the Himalayas in the early 20th century. (ASA35, $19.00)

Lost Horizon, A Novel

by James Hilton

• LITERATURE
• 2004
• PAPER
• 241 PAGES

First published in 1933, this novel (and subsequent movie) introduced the world to the Himalayan paradise of Shangri-La, which a group of Americans and Englishmen discover after a plane crash. (HML73, $12.99)

The Remote Country of Women

by Bai Hua

• LITERATURE
• 1994
• PAPER
• 376 PAGES

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)

The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien

by David Hinton

• LITERATURE
• 1993
• PAPER
• 92 PAGES

A portrait of the mountains and landscapes of peasant China and the pleasures of rural life by the great poet. (CHN315, $11.00)

The Explorer's Garden, Rare and Unusual Perennials

by Daniel Hinkley | Roy Lancaster

• NATURAL HISTORY
• 2009
• PAPER
• 380 PAGES

Remarkable finds in the Himalayas, Yunnan and other exotic locations around the world. (NAT28, $24.95)

Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River

by R. Edward Grumbine

• SCIENCE
• 2011
• PAPER
• 236 PAGES

Trekking across Yunnan over a five year period, Ed Grumbine visits with fellow conservationists, villagers and policy makers in this wide-ranging report from the field on the complex issues surrounding China's plans to build 13 dams on the China's last wild river. Yunnan's three parallel rivers, the Yangzi, Mekong and Nujiang (Angry River in Mandarin) flow through a protected area twice the size of Yellowstone. (CHN708, $21.95)

Birds of Southeast Asia

by Craig Robson

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2005
• PAPER
• 304 PAGES

This authoritative, masterfully illustrated guide, featuring 140 color plates covering 1,270 species throughout the region, also includes Malaysia, Burma, Borneo and Indonesia. (SEA49, $35.00)

Chinese Wildlife

by Martin Walters

• FIELD GUIDE
• 2008
• PAPER
• 208 PAGES

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)

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