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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $84, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCHN552)		  
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, $32.95)		   South of the Clouds, Tales from Yunnan
Leaving Mother Lake  •  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)		   Leaving Mother Lake
Odyssey Guide Yunnan  •  Jim Goodman
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 624 PAGES
A comprehensive guide to Yunnan in the Odyssey series, this excllent guide covers history, culture and attractions, featuring full-color maps and color photography. With well chosen literary excerpts from Bruce Chatwin, F. Kingdon Ward and others. Wedged between Tibet and the exotic lands of Southeast Asia, Yunnan Province is one of the least known and most beguiling regions of China. A mountainous wonderland, it is home to 24 diverse, colorful ethnic cultures. With a name meaning 'South of the Clouds', Yunnan boasts sparkling blue skies, red earth, and green forests. The picturesque capital of Yunnan, Kunming - 'the City of Eternal Spring'-lies near a serene, mile-high lake. Other natural marvels, such as the haunting Stone Forest and lush tropical Xizhuangbanna, make Yunnan a microcosm of China at its very best. (CHN44, $29.95)		   Odyssey Guide Yunnan
China South 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. With city maps of Hon Kong, Macau and Guilin. Two Sides. 20x40 inches. (CHN27, $13.95)		   China South Map



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Bradt Guide Yunnan Province  •  Martin Walters  •  Stephen Mansfield   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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  •  Michael Buckley   • GUIDEBOOK • 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  •  Rough Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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  •  Jeffrey Alford  •  Naomi Duguid   • FOOD  •  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  •  Robert Thurman   • RELIGION  •  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  •  Stevan Harrell   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  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  •  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, $28.95)
 		  
Understanding China  •  John Bryan Starr   • HISTORY  •  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  •  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, $24.95)
 		  
Yunnan, China's Most Beautiful Province  •  Ann Helen Unger  •  Walter Unger   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 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  •  Michael Sullivan   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  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  •  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, $16.99)
 		  
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, $40.00)
 		  
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The River at the Center of the World  •  Simon Winchester   • EXPLORATION • 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)
 		  
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In the Land of the Blue Poppies  •  Frank Kingdon-Ward  •  Tom Christopher  •  Jamaica Kincaid   • ANTHOLOGY  •  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  •  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, $12.99)
 		  
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)
 		  
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, $24.95)
 		  
Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River  •  R. Edward Grumbine   • SCIENCE  •  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)
 		  
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