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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $60, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCHN533)		  
Time Out Shanghai  •  Time Out
GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 310 PAGES
An up-to-date guide on what to do and where to go by the people who publish Time Out Magazine. (CHN309, $19.95)		   Time Out Shanghai
Shanghai, The Rise and Fall of the Decadent City 1842-1949  •  Stella Dong
HISTORY •  2001 •  PAPER  • 318 PAGES
An entertaining, well researched history of the personalities, backroom shenanigans, drug-dealing, prostitution of what was once "the most pleasure-mad, rapacious, corrupt, strife-ridden, licentious, squalid and decadent city in the world." (CHN128, $15.99)		   Shanghai, The Rise and Fall of the Decadent City 1842-1949
Understanding China  •  John Bryan Starr
HISTORY •  2010 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES
Yale professor John Bryan Starr brings us up to date in this just published third edition (the last one was ten years old) of his succinct and refreshingly forthright best-selling guide to China's economy, history and politics. With all the frothing over the role of China in the world, this is the essential primer. (CHN196, $17.95)		   Understanding China
Shanghai Map  •  Periplus Maps
MAP
A map of Shanghai, at a scale of 1:15,000. Main streets shown in both English and Chinese (good for directing taxis!). Two Sides. 20x28 inches. (CHN90, $8.95)		   Shanghai Map



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Eyewitness Guide Beijing and Shanghai  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This superb guide features color photography, excellent maps and a neighborhood-by-neighborhood overview of each city. (CHN385, $23.00)
 		  
Fodor's Shanghai's 25 Best  •  Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This shirt-pocket guide, with an excellent map of the city, includes a choice selection of attractions, shops and restaurants, ideal for a short visit. (CHN60, $11.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet Mandarin Phrasebook  •  Hua-Yuan L. Mowry  •  Justin Ben-Adam Rudelson   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy phrasebook for basic Mandarin, focusing on pronunciation, grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (CHN72, $8.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet Shanghai  •  Bradley Mayhew   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide to Shanghai featuring maps and detailed information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. With a few color photographs and excellent travel information. (CHN91, $21.99)
 		  
Wallpaper City Guide Shanghai  •  Wallpaper Magazine   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A stylish, thin (it fits in your back pocket) city guide compiled by the design magazine Wallpaper's local reporters. Well-organized, with chapter tabs, many photographs and of-the-moment recommendations. (CHN361, $9.95)
 		  
The Chinese Kitchen  •  Eileen Yin-Fei Lo   • FOOD  •  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)
 		  
A Traveller's History of China  •  Stephen G. Haw   • HISTORY  •  An admirably brief, lively history of China from early origins to today, remarkably clear and necessarily condensed. With a historical gazetteer, chronology and list of dynasties. (CHN43, $14.95)
 		  
Bund Shanghai, China Faces West  •  Peter Hibbard   • HISTORY  •  Hibbard focuses on the vibrant 1920s and 1930s in this social history and guide to the the exquisite Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Art Deco Cathay Hotel and other landmarks. (CHN704, $24.95)
 		  
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, $26.50)
 		  
Life and Death in Shanghai  •  Nien Cheng   • HISTORY  •  A plainly told account of the horrors of the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai, from an author who was a six-year political prisoner. (CHN42, $17.95)
 		  
Shanghai Modern, The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945  •  Leo Ou-Fan Lee   • HISTORY  •  A scholarly look at Chinese urban culture in pre-war Shanghai. (CHN64, $34.00)
 		  
The Search for Modern China  •  Jonathan Spence   • HISTORY  •  A sweeping history of China including events until 1999, geared fo the general reader. With maps, charts and black-and-white photographs. (CHN98, $59.65)
 		  
Search for Ancient China  •  Corinne Debaine-Francfort   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  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)
 		  
Shanghai, Art of the City  •  Michael Knight  •  Dany Chan   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Drawing from oil paintings, deco furniture, rugs, posters, fashion, movie clips and contemporary installations, this book documents the growth of Shanghai through its dynamic visual culture. Issued in conjunction with the 2010 Shanghai World Expo and an accompanying exhibition in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. (CHN610, $49.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
China Road  •  Rob Gifford   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  NPR's Gifford writes with warmth and affection of his encounters with truckers, small farmers and regular folk along fabled Route 312 from Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan. (CHN433, $17.00)
 		  
Mao Zedong  •  Jonathan Spence   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Yale Sinologist, writer and historian Spence tracks the life of the Chinese ruler from his provincial upbringing through his powerful rule. (CHN66, $14.00)
 		  
Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China  •  Jung Chang   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAVORITE  •  In this 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. (CHN04, $16.99)
 		  
Death of a Red Heroine  •  Qui Xiaolong   • MYSTERY  •  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)
 		  
Farewell Shanghai  •  Angel Wagenstein   • LITERATURE  •  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)
 		  
Flashman and the Dragon  •  George MacDonald Fraser   • LITERATURE  •  The eighth entry in Fraser's popular series of 19th-century adventures starring Harry Flashman, the womanizing rogue and international troublemaker, set in 1860s China. In this installment, our reluctant hero is hoodwinked into joining the Teiping Rebellion, participates in the Seige of Nanking and ends up as a plaything of the Dowager Empress at the Summer Palace. (CHN116, $15.00)
 		  
Shanghai Girls  •  Lisa See   • LITERATURE  •  From the author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love comes this stunning novel about two sisters who leave glamorous, shady Shanghai across China to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles. (CHN561, $15.00)
 		  
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai  •  Wang Anyi  •  Michael Berry   • LITERATURE  •  Evocatively set in post-World War II Shanghai, this novel follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao over four tumultuous decades. A girl born of the longtong -- Shanghai's crowded, working-class neighborhoods -- Wang sees fame as Miss Shanghai, indulges in the decadent pleasures of the pre-liberation city and emerges as an icon of Old Shanghai. (CHN570, $19.95)
 		  
Empire of the Sun  •  Steven Spielberg    •  Spielberg's gripping coming-of-age drama, based on Ballard's novel, illuminates Shanghai during the Japanese occupation. (CHN586, $14.97)
 		  
Farewell My Concubine  •  Kaige Chen    •  The moving story of a fifty-year friendship between two men who meet as children in the Peking Opera. (CHN226, $14.99)
 		  
 
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