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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/W83989. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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These 5 items are available
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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCHN496) |
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Fodor's Exploring China
• Christopher Knowles
GUIDEBOOK •
2007 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
This excellent guidebook, featuring maps and color photos, brings old and new China to life, with sections on places to visit, a useful language guide and practical information.
(CHN25, $22.00) |
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China Road
• Rob Gifford
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 368 PAGES
On the road from from Shanghai west to the Gobi and China's distant border with Kazakhstan, Gifford writes with warmth and affection of his many encounters along fabled Route 312 with fellow travelers, truckers, whores and ordinary folk.
(CHN433, $17.00) |
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The Great Wall, From Beginning to End
• Michael Yamashita
• William Lindesay
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2007 •
HARD COVER
• 192 PAGES
Lindesay's informative text accompanies 160 photographs by Yamashita, who spent a year photographing along the 4,000-mile expanse for National Geographic. A conservationist, guide and advocate for the wall, William Lindsay (wildwall.com) and his wife live just in an old farmhouse below an unrestored section of the great monument.
(CHN451, $29.95) |
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Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China
• Jung Chang
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2003 •
PAPER
• 524 PAGES
• 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, which includes arrest during the Cultural Revolution, exile to the Sichuan wilderness and coming to terms with the bewildering state of China today. It's quite a tale, wonderfully told without a trace of rancor or bitterness. Living in London since 1978, Chang visits her mother back in China every year. You can imagine Chang with notebook in hand back in the family apartment absorbed in the stories of her much-loved mother. The book opens with the statement, "At the age of 15 my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general. It was 1929 and China was in chaos."
(CHN04, $16.99) |
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Central China Map
• MapLink
2006 •
MAP
This full, color foldup map, with a detailed index on the reverse, shows the most visited sites in China -- from Beijing and Shanghai to Chendu, Chongqing and the Three Gorges to Xi'an and Lanzhou -- at a scale of 1:2,000.000. It's almost twice as detailed as our best map of all of China.
(CHN431, $9.95) |
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Also Recommended
Beijing Map
• Borch Maps
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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)
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Culture Smart! China
• Kathy Flower
• GUIDEBOOK
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Take along this handy guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(CHN434, $9.95)
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The Chinese Kitchen
• Eileen Yin-Fei Lo
• FOOD
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An authoritative compendium of Chinese recipes and food-oriented cultural practices. Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's cookbook doubles as an introduction to China itself.
(CHN134, $39.95)
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China Shakes the World
• James Kynge
• HISTORY
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China Bureau Chief for the Financial Times, Beijing-based Kynge brings experience and perspective to this very readable, enlightening report on the transformation of China today.
(CHN353, $14.95)
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Oracle Bones
• Peter Hessler
• HISTORY
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In this fine portrait of tumult and tradition, Hessler (River Town) finds clues to modern China's realities in the personal stories of peasants, scholars, day laborers and activists.
(CHN316, $15.99)
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Postcards from Tomorrow Square
• James Fallows
• HISTORY
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Ranging from politics to society and business, these richly observed, candid essays capture the complexity, tumult and promise of modern China. A correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, where these essays first appeared, Fallows moved with his wife to China in 2006.
(CHN559, $15.00)
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The Great Wall, China Against the World, 1000 BC - 2000 AD
• Julia Lovell
• HISTORY
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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)
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The Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of China
• William Lindesay
• HISTORY
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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)
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Understanding China
• John Bryan Starr
• HISTORY
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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)
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Search for Ancient China
• Corinne Debaine-Francfort
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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With information on everything from jewelry to emperors' tombs, the Great Wall and the dazzling 400-year Han empire, this shirt-pocket survey of discovery features 150 illustrations.
(CHN69, $15.95)
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The Arts of China
• Michael Sullivan
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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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)
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A Comrade Lost and Found, A Beijing Story
• Jan Wong
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• NEW
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Jan Wong (Red China Blues) returns to Beijing, with her husband and reluctant teenage sons in tow, on a mission to find a classmate she wronged decades ago at Beijing University.
(CHN547, $14.95)
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Country Driving
• Peter Hessler
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Opening with an eventful 7,000-mile road trip across northern China, Peter Hessler (River Town, Oracle Bones) shows the absurdity, humor and hope of China in this latest portrait of a nation catapulted into the modern world.
(CHN600, $15.99)
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Mao Zedong
• Jonathan Spence
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Yale Sinologist, writer and historian Spence tracks the life of the Chinese ruler from his provincial upbringing through his powerful rule.
(CHN66, $14.00)
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Mr. China's Son, A Villager's Life
• He Liyi
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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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Mr. China, A Memoir
• Tim Clissold
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An excellent portrait of contemporary China. Clissold writes with humor and insight in this entertaining account of his encounters with the Chinese and the Chinese way of doing business.
(CHN306, $14.99)
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The Last Days of Old Beijing, Tales from the New City
• Michael Meyer
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Meyer's lovely memoir of the hutong (ancient lane), where he taught school, captures the rhythms, traditions and spirit of the alleyways, gardens and courtyard houses of Beijing's traditional neighborhoods south of Tiananmen.
(CHN493, $16.00)
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The River at the Center of the World
• Simon Winchester
• EXPLORATION
• FAVORITE
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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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China, A Traveler's Literary Companion
• Kirk Denton
• ANTHOLOGY
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An introduction both to China's finest modern writers and its diverse cultures, concerns and landscapes, organized geographically.
(CHN520, $14.95)
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Death of a Red Heroine
• Qui Xiaolong
• MYSTERY
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Marvelously evocative of Shanghai and tremendously informative about China's transition towards a market economy in the 1990s, Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police must find the murderer of a National Model Worker in this award-winning debut. The series continues with A Loyal Character Dancer (CHN412),
(CHN374, $14.95)
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Empress Orchid
• Anchee Min
• LITERATURE
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In this novel of the glorious, decadent last days of 19th-Century Imperial China, Min (Red Azalea, Becoming Madame Mao) combines her tale of a young girl from the provinces who marries an emperor -- and then improbably becomes the Last Empress -- with a lovingly re-created portrait of life in the Forbidden City.
(CHN267, $14.00)
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Farewell Shanghai
• Angel Wagenstein
• LITERATURE
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Wagenstein's novel chronicles the flight of four refugees from Nazi Germany to Shanghai, where they are immersed into both the glamour and devastating poverty of the city.
(CHN516, $13.95)
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The Last Chinese Chef
• Nicole Mones
• LITERATURE
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Mones' delectable third novel pairs a fast-paced romantic plot with insight into the meaning and preparation of classical Chinese dishes.
(CHN498, $13.95)
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Chinese Wildlife
• Martin Walters
• FIELD GUIDE
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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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