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For All the Tea in China_ How E - Sarah Rose
From BooklistStarred Review Through the adventures of Robert Fortune, a nineteenth-century plant hunter, the reader learns a delicious brew of information on the history of tea cu.... -
Factory Girls_ From Village to - Leslie T. Chang
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China -
Empress Orchid - Anchee Min
From Publishers WeeklyTalk about story arc: poor girl from rural China auditions for a job as royal concubine, winds up as emperor's wife number four, gives birth to the "last Empe... -
Embassytown - China Mieville
ReviewPRAISE FOR CHINA MIÉVILLE Embassytown “I cannot emphasize enough how terrific this novel is. It's definitely one of the best books I've read in t... -
Doctor Who_ The Wages of Sin - David A. McIntee
SUMMARY:From the wastes of Siberia to the intrigue of the imperial court at St. Petersberg, 1916, the Third Doctor, Jo and Liz are involved in the machinations of the mad mo... -
Dead Man's Bones - Susan Wittig Albert
From Publishers WeeklyIn Albert's assured 14th outing for China Bayles (after 2004's A Dilly of a Death), the herbalist and ex-lawyer is worried about the effect of the poor touri.... -
Country Driving_ A Journey Thro - Peter Hessler
EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the bestselling author of *Oracle Bones* and *River Town* comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in ... -
China - Damian Harper
Nobody knows China like Lonely Planet. Whether you want to sip cocktails in Shanghai, trek Tibet's holy Mt Kailash or contemplate history at Xu'an's Army of Terracotta Warriors, ou... -
China's Trapped Transition_ The - Minxin Pei
ReviewMinxin Pei is unquestionably one of this country's best informed and most insightful analysts of contemporary Chinese politics. This well-written, provocative book-a soberin... -
China Witness - Xinran
SUMMARY:China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history. Xinran, the ...