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	Fodor's Exploring China  •  Christopher Knowles GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES This excellent series has done it again with a stylish guidebook laced with maps and color photos that brings to life old and contemporary China. With separate sections on suggested places to visit, recommended walks, practical information including travel facts, the basics of communications, climate, money, electricity, photography, and transportation, descriptions of restaurants and hotels, ratings of sights, a language guide with Chinese phrases and numbers, a chronology of dynasties and historic events, even a small section on traditional arts and crafts, and chapters on the Silk Road, Beijing, and Xi'an, this is a complete and handy reference for any trip to China. (CHN25, $22.00)
	Understanding China, A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Politics  •  John Bryan Starr HISTORY •  2001 •  PAPER  • 356 PAGES 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. Revised edition. (CHN196, $16.00)
	Search for Ancient China  •  Corinne Debaine-Francfort ARCHAEOLOGY •  1999 •  PAPER  • 160 PAGES With information on everything from jewelry to emperors' tombs, this pocket-size, illustrated encyclopedia covers a wide scope of discoveries in China from prehistory to the dazzling 400-year Han empire. The concise text is complemented by 150 illustrations, most in color.The book includes sections on the Great Wall, terracotta warriors (not discovered in Xi'an until 1974!) and other well known monuments. (CHN69, $12.95)
	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, one that includes arrest during the Cultural Revolution, exile to the Sichuan wilderness and 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, $16.00)
	China Map  •   International Travel Maps 2006 •  MAP A fine, double-sided map of China, at a very good scale of 1:3,800,000, featuring colorful shaded relief, indexed with an inset map of central Beijing. Fifth edition. It also shows parts of Korea, Mongolia, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and Burma. (CHN06, $11.95)

	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, $18.99)
	Odyssey Guide Xi'an, Shaanxi & the Terracotta Army  •  Kevin Bishop   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A convenient, illustrated guide to Xi'an, ancient capital of China. With color photographs, insightful essays on culture and history, and a series of wonderfully chosen literary excerpts. (CHN34, $23.95)
	The Chinese Kitchen  •  Eileen Yin-Fei Lo   • FOOD  •  An authoritative compendium of Chinese recipes and information about food-oriented cultural practices. Eileen Yin-Fei Lo has written a cookbook that doubles as an introduction to China itself. (CHN134, $39.95)
	China  •  Paula Regan   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A lavishly illustrated overview of China and its people, this marvelously produced compilation features stunning double-page photographs of mountains, plains, rivers and forests, an excellent illustrated timeline, archival illustrations and cultural highlights. (CHN453, $40.00)
	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, 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)
	China, Inc. How the Rise of the Next Superpower Changes America and the World  •  Ted C. Fishman   • HISTORY  •  An economist and former commodities trader, Ted Fishman draws on statistics, case studies and interviews in this lively economic history and guide to understanding China's spectacular economic growth and future prospects. (CHN305, $16.00)
	Oracle Bones, A Journey Between China's Past and Present  •  Peter Hessler   • HISTORY • NEW  •  In this fine portrait of tumult and tradition, Hessler (River Town) finds clues to modern China's realites in the personal stories of peasants, scholars, day laborers and activists. (CHN316, $15.95)
	The Forbidden City, Center of Imperial China  •  Gilles Beguin  •  Dominique Morel   • HISTORY  •  This slim volume is packed with maps, archival photographs and illustrations. With a useful chronology and a carefully chosen selection of writings over the ages, it's an indispensable guide to the Forbidden City and the history of imperial China. (CHN32, $12.95)
	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)
	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)
	Mao Zedong  •  Jonathan Spence   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A biographical account of Mao Zedong by the Yale sinologist, writer and historian, tracking the life of the Chinese ruler from his provincial upbringing through his powerful reign. (CHN66, $13.00)
	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, $18.95)
	Mr. China, A Memoir  •  Tim Clissold   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  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, $14.95)
	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)
	Empress Orchid  •  Anchee Min   • LITERATURE  •  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)
	Waiting  •  Ha Jin   • LITERATURE  •  A spare, haunting story of a military doctor who tries for 18 years to divorce his peasant wife so he can marry a more sophisticated nurse at his hospital. Greatly evocative of quotidian life in China during the Cultural Revolution and after. (CHN80, $14.95)
	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)
	A Photographic Guide to the Birds of China  •  John MacKinnon  •  Nigel Hicks   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A slim pocket guide to 252 of the most conspicuous birds of China, featuring color photographs, concise descriptions and range maps. 2nd edition. (CHN29, $15.95)

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