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These 5 items are available for $88, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCHN379)

Bradt Guide Yunnan Province  •  Martin Walters  •  Stephen Mansfield GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES A compact, practical guide to Yunnan for the traveler with detailed sketch maps, a few color photographs and excellent information on where to go and what to do. (CHN73, $23.95)
Leaving Mother Lake, A Girlhood at the Edge of the World  •  Yang Erche Namu  •  Christine Mathieu BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2004 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES In this entrancing memoir, Namu, a Chinese pop sensation, recounts her childhood on the shores of Lake Lugu in remote Yunnan. Her culture, the Mosuo, is matrilineal, where women have unusual freedom and power. Namu recounts too the tension between traditions and her own escape from her mother's home and village life in search of a career in music. Cowritten with anthropologist Christine Mathieu. (CHN270, $14.99)
South of the Clouds, Tales from Yunnan  •  Lucien Miller ANTHOLOGY •  1997 •  PAPER  • 342 PAGES Featuring memorable tales from throughout the Yunnan Province, this book showcases 54 wonderfully insightful and entertaining stories. The collection also includes an overview of the places and people of Yunnan. It is an excellent introduction to the province. (CHN45, $30.00)
Essential Tibetan Buddhism  •  Robert Thurman RELIGION •  1996 •  PAPER  • 317 PAGES A collection of recently translated texts by the foremost Western scholar of Tibetan Buddhism. Thurman has chosen well from the vibrant sacred literature of Tibet, and helpfully includes suggested further reading, explanatory notes and a directory of sacred sites. (TBT15, $14.95)
Southern China Map  •  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, $10.95)

Lonely Planet SouthWest China  •  Thomas Huhti  •  Bradley Mayhew   • GUIDEBOOK  •  In its hallmark style, this practical guide to Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi and Guizhou features maps, an overview of culture, history and nature and nuts-and-bolts travel information. (CHN71, $24.99)
Odyssey Guide Yunnan  •  Jim Goodman   • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN JUNE  •  This comprehensive introduction to the history, culture and attractions of the Yunnan Province features 200 color photographs nad 29 maps. (CHN44, $29.95)
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper, A Sweet-sour Memoir of Eating in China  •  Fuschia Dunlop   • FOOD  •  Dunlop writes with verve and flavor on her eating adventures in China -- including the time she tried snake stir-fry -- and includes recipes in this entertaining cultural portrait. (CHN509, $24.95)
China, A New History  •  John Fairbank  •  Merle Goldman   • HISTORY  •  A sweeping history of China from the Paleolithic to Tiananmen, revised with a new chapter by Merle Goldman. A standard for history buffs. (CHN11, $21.00)
Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China  •  Stevan Harrell   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This is a compendium of scholarly articles about the Yi people. (CHN169, $24.95)
The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China  •  Erik Mueggler   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  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, $25.95)
The Mekong, Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future  •  Milton Osborne   • HISTORY  •  A cultural history of the great river from prehistory to European exploration, colonial tensions and modern challenges. It's an engaging introduction to the history of Southeast Asia. (SEA28, $16.00)
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)
Understanding China, A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Politics  •  John Bryan Starr   • HISTORY  •  A professor of history and former director of the China Association, John Bryan Starr brings his experience in the classroom to this admirably brief, clearheaded introduction to contemporary China. (CHN196, $16.00)
Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China  •  Stevan Harrell   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A scholarly ethnography of the peoples of Southwest China, including the Nuosu (Yi), Prmi, Naze, and Han. With detailed case studies. (CHN271, $22.50)
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, $62.95)
Yunnan, China's Most Beautiful Provence  •  Ann Helen Unger  •  Walter Unger   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A photographic tribute to the diversity, natural beauty and culture of Yunnan. (CHN235, $50.00)
Sketches of Yunnan  •  Bao Yuan-Kai   • MUSIC  •  Orchestral works on themes of Chinese folk songs. (CHN401, $13.98)
The Arts of China  •  Michael Sullivan   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A comprehensive survey of Chinese visual arts and culture through the ages. It's a lively overview, thoroughly illustrated and accessible. It covers bronzes, ceramics, painting and architecture, from the Neolithic to the modern. (CHN16, $41.95)
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, $37.00)
The River's Tale, A Year on the Mekong  •  Edward Gargan   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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, $14.95)
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China  •  Jung Chang   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAVORITE  •  A riveting tale of three generations spanning the end of Old China, Mao's regime and the Japanese occupation. Chang chronicles the enormous changes in China since 1929 through her family's story, one that includes arrest during the Cultural Revolution, exile to the Sichuan wilderness and the bewildering state of China today. (CHN04, $16.00)
In the Land of the Blue Poppies, The Collected Plant Hunting Writings of Frank Kingdon-Ward  •  Frank Kingdon-Ward  •  Tom Christopher  •  Jamaica Kincaid   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Tom Christopher experts 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  •  James Hilton   • LITERATURE  •  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, $12.95)
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)
The Explorer's Garden, Rare and Unusual Perennials  •  Daniel Hinkley  •  Roy Lancaster   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Remarkable finds in the Himalayas, Yunnan and other exotic locations around the world. (NAT28, $39.95)
A Field Guide to the Birds of China  •  John MacKinnon  •  Karen Phillipps   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive field guide to the birds of China, featuring 128 color plates illustrating 1300 species of birds. Contains introductory chapters on the history of ornithology in China, biogeography, and conservation. (CHN85, $116.25)
Chinese Wildlife, A Visitor's Guide  •  Martin Walters   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact introduction to birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, and plants found from the Tibetan plateau to the deserts, tropical forests, and mountains. Featuring a very good selection of 200 large color photographs. (CHN440, $26.99)
Photographic Guide to Birds of the Himalayas  •  B. Grewal   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A pocket guide to 250 birds found from the foothills up to high elevations ranging from the Hindu Kush and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh in the Eastern Himalayas. With brief descriptive information, maps and 260 full-color illustrations. (HML31, $15.95)