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  • Cotton Fields in Xinjiang

    de Lu Di ...
    I like to ask couples where they met each other. It is a magical moment when two strangers became interested in each other before they were friends, lovers, and family. When I was old enough to ask my mom, she said she had never met my father before they married. I started to find out how they met and it started when my mom went to Xinjiang when she was 17.In 1965, 1100 teenagers between 16 and 19 ... Leer más

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  • The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949

    A Microhistory of the Caterpillar Fungus

    de Di Lu ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores the dissemination of knowledge around Chinese medicinal substances from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries in a global context. The author presents a microhistory of the caterpillar fungus, a natural, medicinal substance initially used by Tibetans no later than the fifteenth century and later assimilated into Chinese materia medica from the eighteenth century onwards. Tracing ... Leer más

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    The second book in the gripping Ava Lee spin-off series features fan-favourite Uncle Chow Tung and his ascendancy to the head of the Triad gang in Fanling.1980: A pivotal year in modern Chinese history as Premier Deng Xiaoping begins what he intends to be the transformation of China into an economic superpower. The most visible evidence of Deng’s policy is the creation of Special Economic Zones, ... Leer más

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  • The Retreat of the Elephants

    An Environmental History of China

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    The eminent China scholar delivers a landmark study of Chinese culture's relationship to the natural environment across thousands of years of history.Spanning the three millennia for which there are written records, The Retreat of the Elephants is the first comprehensive environmental history of China. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources ... Leer más

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  • The Last Chinese Chef

    A Novel

    de Nicole Mones ...
    The bestselling author of Lost in Translation "unlocks the deepest mysteries of legendary Chinese culinary arts to produce a feast for the human heart" (David Henry Hwang, author of M. Butterfly).This alluring novel of friendship, love, and cuisine brings the bestselling author of Lost in Translation and A Cup of Light to one of the great Chinese subjects: food. As in her previous novels, Mones's ... Leer más

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  • Don't Cry, Tai Lake

    de Qiu Xiaolong ...
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    **"Dark, gorgeous…feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --Washington Post Book World on A Case of Two CitiesChief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is offered a bit of luxury by friends and supporters within the Party – a week's vacation at a luxurious resort near Lake Tai, a week where he can relax, and recover, undisturbed by outside demands or disruptions. ... Leer más

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  • Wild Ginger

    A Novel

    de Anchee Min ...
    Two girls come of age during the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution in this novel by the national bestselling author of Empress Orchid.The young and beautiful Wild Ginger is only in elementary school, but has already survived hell through her sheer iron will. Singled out by the Red Guards for her "foreign-colored eyes," she has seen her deceased father branded a traitor and her mother commit ... Leer más

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  • Ginkgo

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    Perhaps the world’s most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when people first found it useful about a thousand years ago. Today ginkgo is beloved for the elegance of its leaves, prized for its edible nuts, and revered ... Leer más

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  • The Mao Case

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    Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is the head of the Special Case group and is often put in charge of those cases that are considered politically "sensitive" since. As a rising party cadre, he's regarded by many as reliable. But Inspector Chen, though a poet by inclination and avocation, takes his job as a policeman very seriously, despite the pressures put upon him from ... Leer más

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  • What a Mushroom Lives For

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    How the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China—and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worldsWhat a Mushroom Lives For pushes today’s mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries, Western science has promoted a human- and animal-centric framework of what counts as action, agency, movement, and behavior. But, as Michael Hathaway ... Leer más

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  • The Early Chinese Empires

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