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Acupuncture: The Ancient Chinese Art of Healing and How It Works Scientificallyby Felix MannISBN 0394717279 (0-394-71727-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Anthology of Chinese Literatureby Donald Keene, Cyril BirchISBN 0394177665 (0-394-17766-5)
Softcover, Grove Press
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The Archaeology of Ancient Chinaby Kwang-Chih ChangISBN 0300037848 (0-300-03784-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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- The Archaeology of Ancient China: ISBN 0300021445 (0-300-02144-5)
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Hardcover, Yale University Press - The Archaeology of Ancient China: ISBN 0300037821 (0-300-03782-1)
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Aristotle in China: Language, Categories and Translationby Robert WardyISBN 0521771188 (0-521-77118-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Authentic Chinese Cut Paper Designsby Carol GraftonISBN 0486257754 (0-486-25775-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Basic English Chinese Chinese English Dictionaryby Mao andISBN 0451168267 (0-451-16826-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Basic English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary: Using Simplified Characters (With an Appendix Containing the Original Complex Characters) Transliterated in Accordance With the New, Official Chineseby Peter M. BergmanISBN 0451092627 (0-451-09262-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Book of Chinese Beliefsby Frena BloomfieldISBN 0345363590 (0-345-36359-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Book of Mormon: A Reader's Editionby Grant HardyISBN 025207341X (0-252-07341-X)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Mormon: A Reader's Edition'Book summary:[via]Regarded as sacred scripture by millions, the Book of Mormon -- first published in 1830 -- is one of the most significant documents in American religious history. This new reader-friendly version reformats the complete, unchanged 1920 text in the manner of modern translations of the Bible, with paragraphs, quotations marks, poetic forms, topical headings, multichapter headings, indention of quoted documents, italicized reworkings of biblical prophecies, and minimized verse numbers. It also features a hypothetical map based on internal references, an essay on Book of Mormon poetry, a full glossary of names, genealogical charts, a basic bibliography of Mormon and non-Mormon scholarship, a chronology of the translation, eyewitness accounts of the gold plates, and information regarding the lost 116 pages and significant changes in the text.The Book of Mormon claims to be the product of three historical interactions: the writings of the original ancient American authors, the editing of the fourth-century prophet Mormon, and the translation of Joseph Smith. The editorial aids and footnotes in this edition integrate all three perspectives and provide readers with a clear guide through this complicated text. New readers will find the story accessible and intelligible; Mormons will gain fresh insights from familiar verses seen in a broader narrative context. This is the first time the Book of Mormon has been published with quotation marks, select variant readings, and the testimonies of women involved in the translation process. It is also the first return to a paragraphed format since versification was added in 1879.More editions of The Book of Mormon: A Reader's Edition:
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The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christby Joseph SmithISBN 038551316X (0-385-51316-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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According to Mormon belief, The Book of Mormon was inscribed on golden plates by generations of prophets, quoted and abridged by the prophet-historian Mormon, and buried in the ground by Mormons son, Moroni. Fourteen centuries later, in 1823, the angel Moroni led Joseph Smith to the plates hidden in a hillside in upstate New York. Smith translated the ancient language into English through divine revelation.
The Book of Mormon narrates the historical, religious, political, and military events that shaped and continue to inform the Churchs teachings. The publication of this edition offers the opportunity to explore one of the largest denominations in America today. [via]More editions of The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ:
Character Text for Beginning Chineseby John De Francis, Chia-yee Yung TengISBN 0300020597 (0-300-02059-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Chineseby Oliver MooreISBN 0520228448 (0-520-22844-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughterby Adeline Yen MahISBN 0440228654 (0-440-22865-4)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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Teens, with their passionate convictions and strong sense of fair play, will be immediately enveloped in the gross injustice of Adeline Yen Mah's story. A complete glossary, historical notes on the state of Chinese society and politics during Yen Mah's childhood, and the legend of the original Chinese Cinderella round out this stirring testimony to the strength of human character and the power of education. (Ages 10 to 15) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Chinese Fairy Talesby Frederick Herman Martens, Yuko GreenISBN 0486401405 (0-486-40140-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Chinese Lattice Designsby Daniel Sheets DyeISBN 0486230961 (0-486-23096-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Classic Food of Chinaby Yan-Kit SoISBN 0333569075 (0-333-56907-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Colloquial Cantoneseby Gregory James, Keith S. T. TongISBN 0415082021 (0-415-08202-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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Colloquial Chinese: A Complete Language Courseby Qian KanISBN 0415113865 (0-415-11386-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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Conversational Chinese for Beginnersby M.H. SwadeshISBN 0486211231 (0-486-21123-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Developing Writing Skills in Chineseby Qian Kan, Boping Yuan, Yuan BopingISBN 0415215846 (0-415-21584-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thoughtby Wolfram EberhardISBN 0415002281 (0-415-00228-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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`An ideal reference book to help one learn and explore further, while simultaneously giving greater insight into many other aspects of Chinese life ... the most authoritative guide to Chinese symbolism available to the general reader today ... a well-researched, informative and entertaining guide to the treasure trove of Chinese symbols.' - South China Morning Post [via]More editions of A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought:
Dictionary of Chinese-Japanese Characters: With Common Abbreviations, Variants, and Numerous Compoundsby Arthur Rose-InnesISBN 0486234673 (0-486-23467-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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A Dictionary of Maqiaoby Han Shaogong, Julia LovellISBN 0385339356 (0-385-33935-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of Maqiao'Book summary:From the daring imagination of one of Chinas greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originalitythe story of a young man displaced to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries, A Dictionary of Maqiao is a novel of bold inventionand a fascinating, comic, deeply moving journey through the dark heart of the Cultural Revolution.
Entries trace the wisdom and absurdities of Maqiao: the petty squabbles, family grudges, poverty, infidelities, fantasies, lunatics, bullies, superstitions, and especially the odd logic in their use of languagewhere the word for beginning is the same as the word for end ; little big brother means older sister; to be scientific means to be lazy; and streetsickness is a disease afflicting villagers visiting urban areas. Filled with colorful charactersfrom a weeping ox to a man so poisonous that snakes die when they bite himA Dictionary of Maqiao is both an important work of Chinese literature and a probing inquiry into the extraordinary power of language. [via] 
The Emperor's Pearlby Robert Van GulikISBN 043482559X (0-434-82559-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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An Encyclopedia of Chinese Food and Cookingby Wonona W. ChangISBN 0517506610 (0-517-50661-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Every Grain of Rice : A Taste of Our Chinese Childhood in Americaby Annabel Low, Ellen Leong BlonderISBN 0609601024 (0-609-60102-4)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Familyby Fei-Kan LiISBN 0385057873 (0-385-05787-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Fifth Chinese Daughterby Jade Snow Wong, Kathryn UhlISBN 0295968265 (0-295-96826-5)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquanby Jonathan D. SpenceISBN 0393315568 (0-393-31556-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandpreISBN 0439064872 (0-439-06487-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Hardcover, Arthur a Levine - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: ISBN 0439203538 (0-439-20353-8)
Hardcover, Scholastic - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: ISBN 0439554896 (0-439-55489-6)
Hardcover, Scholastic - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: ISBN 0439425239 (0-439-42523-9)
Softcover, Scholastic - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: ISBN 060619181X (0-606-19181-X)
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby Joe VauxISBN 0439451930 (0-439-45193-0)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Henry Chung's Hunan Style Chinese Cookbookby Henry Chung, Steven Shore, Tony HissISBN 051753326X (0-517-53326-X)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Henry Chungs Hunan Style Chineby CrownISBN 0517533251 (0-517-53325-1)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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I Ching : Book of Changesby James LeggeISBN 0553260022 (0-553-26002-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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I Ching: The Sacred Books of China The Book of Changesby James LeggeISBN 0486210626 (0-486-21062-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Imperial Womanby Pearl S. BuckISBN 0381980375 (0-381-98037-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imperial Woman'Book summary:Imperial Woman is the fictionalized biography of the last Empress in China, Ci-xi, who began as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing Dynasty until her death in 1908.Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriguing rulers during a time of intense turbulence.Tzu Hsi was born into one of the lowly ranks of the Imperial dynasty. According to custom, she moved to the Forbidden City at the age of seventeen to become one of hundreds of concubines. But her singular beauty and powers of manipulation quickly moved her into the position of Second Consort.Tzu Hsi was feared and hated by many in the court, but adored by the people. The Empress's rise to power (even during her husband's life) parallels the story of China's transition from the ancient to the modern way. [via]
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Intellectual Foundations of Chinaby Frederick W. MoteISBN 039431042X (0-394-31042-X)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Intellectual Foundations of China: [Chung-Kuo Ssu Hsiang Chih Yuan Yuan]by Frederick W. MoteISBN 0394383389 (0-394-38338-9)
Hardcover, Knopf
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An Introduction to Chinese Literatureby Wu-Chi LiuISBN 0313267030 (0-313-26703-0)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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The Jesus Sutras : Rediscovering the Lost Scrolls of Taoist Christianityby Martin PalmerISBN 0345434242 (0-345-43424-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Kai Lung's Golden Hoursby Ernest BramahISBN 0345025741 (0-345-02574-1)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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Katherineby Anchee MinISBN 042515291X (0-425-15291-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Laughing Sutra: A Novelby Mark SalzmanISBN 039457009X (0-394-57009-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Life Along the Silk Roadby Susan WhitfieldISBN 0520232143 (0-520-23214-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Along the Silk Road'Book summary:In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Linking Europe, India, and the Far East, the route passed through many countries and many settlements, from the splendid city of Samarkand to tiny desert hamlets. Susan Whitfield creates a rich and varied portrait of life along the greatest trade route in history in a vivid, lively, and learned account that spans the eighth through the tenth centuries. Recounting the lives of ten individuals who lived at different times during this period, Whitfield draws on contemporary sources and uses firsthand accounts whenever possible to reconstruct the history of the route through the personal experiences of these characters.[via]
Life along the Silk Road brings alive the now ruined and sand-covered desert towns and their inhabitants. Readers encounter an Ulghur nomad from the Gobi Desert accompanying a herd of steppe ponies for sale to the Chinese state; Ah-long, widow of a prosperous merchant, now reduced to poverty and forced to resort to law and charity to survive; and the Chinese princess sent as part of a diplomatic deal to marry a Turkish kaghan. In the process we learn about women's lives, modes of communication, weapons, types of cosmetics, methods of treating altitude sickness in the Tibetan army, and ways that merchants cheated their customers. Throughout the narrative, Whitfield conveys a strong sense of what life was like for ordinary men and women on the Silk Road--everyone from itinerant Buddhist monks, to Zoroastrians and Nestorian Christians seeking converts among the desert settlers, to storytellers, musicians, courtesans, diviners, peddlers, and miracle-workers who offered their wares in the marketplaces and at temple fairs. A work of great scholarship, Life along the Silk Road is at the same time extremely accessible and entertaining. 
Long Is a Dragonby Peggy GoldsteinISBN 0590467344 (0-590-46734-4)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Madhur Jaffrey's World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cookingby Madhur JaffreyISBN 0394748670 (0-394-74867-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammarby Charles N. Li, Sandra A. ThompsonISBN 0520066103 (0-520-06610-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Modern Chinese: A Basic Course by the Faculty of Peking Universityby Pei-Ching Ta Hs”Ueh. Wai Kuo Liu Hs”Ueh ShˆEng Chung-Kuo Y”U WˆEn ChuaISBN 0486227553 (0-486-22755-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Modern Chinese: A Basic Course by the Faculty of Peking University/3 Records and Manualby Pei-Ching Ta Hsueh Wai Kuo Liu Hsueh Sheng Chung-Kuo Yu Wen Chuan Hsiu, Pei-Ching Ta Hs÷Ueh. Wai Kuo Liu Hs÷Ueh ShOEng Chung-Kuo Y÷U WOEn ChuaISBN 0486988325 (0-486-98832-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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New Chinese Vegetarian Cookingby Kenneth H. LoISBN 0394750055 (0-394-75005-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Noodle Makerby Ma Jian, Flora DrewISBN 0312424795 (0-312-42479-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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From the highly acclaimed Ma Jian comes a satirical and powerfully written novel--excerpted in The New Yorker--about the absurdities and cruelties of life in post-Tianamen China.
Two men, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor, meet for dinner every week. During the course of one drunken evening, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln from an art school and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of police officers and Party secretaries while swooning to banned Western music; a heartbroken actress performs a public suicide by stepping into the jaws of a wild tiger, watched nonchalantly by her ex-lover. He is inspired by extraordinary characters, their lives pulled and pummeled by fate and politics, as if they were balls of dough in the hands of an all-powerful noodle maker.
Ma Jian's masterpiece allows us a humorous yet profound glimpse of those struggling to survive under a system that dictates their every move.
Ocean of Wordsby Ha JinISBN 0375702067 (0-375-70206-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Pattern of the Chinese Pastby Mark ElvinISBN 0413286304 (0-413-28630-4)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen
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Potsticker Chronicles: America's Favorite Chinese Recipes A Family Memoirby Stuart Chang BermanISBN 0471250287 (0-471-25028-7)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Red Star over Chinaby Edgar SnowISBN 0553262394 (0-553-26239-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Republic of Wineby Yan MoISBN 024113661X (0-241-13661-X)
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The Rouge of the Northby Ai-Ling Chang, Eileen ChangISBN 0520210875 (0-520-21087-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Saving Fish From Drowningby Amy TanISBN 034546401X (0-345-46401-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Son of the Revolutionby Heng Liang, Judith Shapiro, Jerome A. CohenISBN 039452568X (0-394-52568-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Son of the Revolutionby Judith Shapiro, Liang Heng, Heng LiangISBN 0394722744 (0-394-72274-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Centuryby Theodore Debary, Richard LufranoISBN 0231112718 (0-231-11271-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century'Book summary:For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic writings and historical documents of the Chinese themselves. Now in its second edition, revised and extended through Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin--era China, this classic volume remains unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, and thought in the world's largest nation. Award-winning China scholar Wm. Theodore de Bary -- who edited the first edition in 1960 -- and his coeditor Richard Lufrano have revised and updated the second volume of Sources to reflect the interactions of ideas, institutions, and historical events from the seventeenth century up to the present day.
Beginning with Qing civilization and continuing to contemporary times, volume II brings together key source texts from more than three centuries of Chinese history, with opening essays by noted China authorities providing context for readers not familiar with the period in question.
Here are just a few of the topics covered in this second volume of Sources of Chinese Tradition:
" Early Sino-Western contacts in the seventeenth century;
" Four centuries of Chinese reflections on differences between Eastern and Western civilizations;
" Nineteenth- and twentieth-century reform movements, with treatises on women's rights, modern science, and literary reform;
" Controversies over the place of Confucianism in modern Chinese society;
" The nationalist revolution -- including readings from Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek;
" The communist revolution -- with central writings by Mao Zedong;
" Works from contemporary China -- featuring political essays from Deng Xiaoping and dissidents including Wei Jingsheng.
With more than two hundred selections in lucid, readable translation by today's most renowned experts on Chinese language and civilization, Sources of Chinese Tradition will continue to be recognized as the standard for source readings on Chinese civilization, an indispensable learning tool for scholars and students of Asian civilizations.
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Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Centuryby Wing-Tsit Chan, David Johnson, Kwang-Ching Liu, Julia Ching, Theodore Debary, Richard Lufrano, David Mungello, Chester Tan, William Theodore De BaryISBN 023111270X (0-231-11270-X)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century'Book summary:For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic writings and historical documents of the Chinese themselves. Now in its second edition, revised and extended through Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin--era China, this classic volume remains unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, and thought in the world's largest nation. Award-winning China scholar Wm. Theodore de Bary -- who edited the first edition in 1960 -- and his coeditor Richard Lufrano have revised and updated the second volume of Sources to reflect the interactions of ideas, institutions, and historical events from the seventeenth century up to the present day.
Beginning with Qing civilization and continuing to contemporary times, volume II brings together key source texts from more than three centuries of Chinese history, with opening essays by noted China authorities providing context for readers not familiar with the period in question.
Here are just a few of the topics covered in this second volume of Sources of Chinese Tradition:
" Early Sino-Western contacts in the seventeenth century;
" Four centuries of Chinese reflections on differences between Eastern and Western civilizations;
" Nineteenth- and twentieth-century reform movements, with treatises on women's rights, modern science, and literary reform;
" Controversies over the place of Confucianism in modern Chinese society;
" The nationalist revolution -- including readings from Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek;
" The communist revolution -- with central writings by Mao Zedong;
" Works from contemporary China -- featuring political essays from Deng Xiaoping and dissidents including Wei Jingsheng.
With more than two hundred selections in lucid, readable translation by today's most renowned experts on Chinese language and civilization, Sources of Chinese Tradition will continue to be recognized as the standard for source readings on Chinese civilization, an indispensable learning tool for scholars and students of Asian civilizations.
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Speak Mandarinby Henry C. Fenn, M.G. TewksburyISBN 0300000847 (0-300-00084-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Stick Out Your Tongueby Ma Jian, Flora Drew, Jian MaISBN 0374269882 (0-374-26988-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945by Barbara TuchmanISBN 0553257986 (0-553-25798-6)
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The Story of the Stoneby Barry HughartISBN 0553282786 (0-553-28278-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of the Stone'Book summary:Set in a mythical, medieval China where folklore and history are indistinguishable, a dead monk, an ancientand now missingmanuscript, and a ghostly murderer entice the venerable Master Li and his faithful companion Number Ten Ox into the Valley of Sorrows for a deadly and uproarious confrontation with the long-dead Laughing Prince. [via]
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Tao: The Watercourse Wayby Al Chung-Liang Huang, Alan WattsISBN 0394489012 (0-394-48901-2)
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Tao: The Watercourse Wayby Alan WattsISBN 0394733118 (0-394-73311-8)
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Three Kingdomsby Kuan-Chung Lo, Moss Roberts, John S. ServiceISBN 0520225031 (0-520-22503-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Kingdoms'Book summary:Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 b.c.-a.d. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. This decisive period in Chinese history became a subject of intense and continuing interest to historians, poets, and dramatists. Writing some 1,200 years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on this rich literary heritage to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that has become the Chinese national epic. Luo's novel offers a startling and unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is conducted, and how wars are planned and fought; it has influenced the ways the Chinese think about power, diplomacy, and war even to this day. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this Ming dynasty masterpiece continues to be widely influential in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, and remains a great work of world literature. The University of California Press is pleased to make the complete and unabridged translation available again.[via]More editions of Three Kingdoms:
Wavesby Bonnie S. McDougall, Dao BeiISBN 0340487712 (0-340-48771-2)
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Way of Chinese Paintingby Sze Mai-MaiISBN 0394701666 (0-394-70166-6)
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Wisdom of Confuciusby Confucius, Epiphanius WilsonISBN 0517122979 (0-517-12297-9)
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Wok Cookbookby Charmaine SolomonISBN 0517371006 (0-517-37100-6)
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Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and Whiteby Frank WuISBN 046500640X (0-465-00640-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White'Book summary:Yellow by Frank H. Wu is an eclectic, incisive investigation-cum-meditation that, though focusing on Asian Americans, recasts the United States' ongoing debate about racial identity in all forms. Wu suggests that the widespread stereotyping of Asian Americans, while "superficially positive," is inherently damaging. Mixing personal anecdotes, current events, academic studies, and court cases, Wu not only debunks the myth of a "model minority" but also makes discomfiting observations about attitudes toward affirmative action, what he calls "rational" discrimination, mixed marriages, racial profiling, and the "false divisions" of integration versus pluralism and assimilation versus multiculturalism. Though its conclusions are unremarkable, Yellow is thought provoking. The book's strength--besides its clarity and thoughtfulness--is a lack of tendentiousness. Wu prefers to suggest, not posit; muse, not shout; and ask questions, not necessarily answer them. --H. O'Billovitch [via]
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Zhuangzi: Basic Writingsby Burton Watson, ZhuangziISBN 0231129599 (0-231-12959-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zhuangzi: Basic Writings'Book summary:Only by understanding Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. This is the central tenet of the philosophy that was to become Daoism, espoused by the person -- or group of people -- known as Zhuanzi (369?-286? B.C.), in the text of the same name. In order to be free, individuals must discard rigid conventions that distinguish good from bad, right from wrong, and follow a course of action not founded on motives of gain or striving. When one ceases to judge events as good or bad, man-made suffering disappears and natural suffering is embraced as part of life.
Elucidating a mystical philosophy dedicated to the spiritual nourishment of the individual, Zhuangzi makes many points through humor. He also uses parable and anecdote, non sequitur and even nonsense, to jolt the reader into awareness of truth outside the pale of ordinary logic. With inspired, unconventional language and visionary ideas, the Zhuangzi seems to float free of the historical period and society in which it was written, addressing all people across all ages.
Columbia presents this renowned translation by Burton Watson of a seminal text in Chinese philosophy in pinyin romanization for the first time. Look for new pinyin editions of three other classic philosophical texts translated by Watson: Xunzi: Basic Writings, Han Feizi: Basic Writings, and Mozi: Basic Writings.
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Fundamentals of Chinese Charactersby John Jing-hua YinISBN 0300109458 (0-300-10945-8)
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