River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze more books like this

by Peter Hessler

Hessler's book is a memoir more of a city than of a man's experiences. Teaching English as a Peace Corps volunteer to the residents of Fuling, Hessler was inspired by the tenacity of his students and by the impact of the historical events that occurred during his tenure there. Winner of the 2001 Kiriamas Award for nonfiction and a New York Times ...

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Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization more books like this

by Robert Bagley (Editor)

This extraordinary catalogue accompanies a major traveling exhibition of 128 works of bronze, jade, and clay dating from the thirteenth century B.C. to the second century A.D. The majority of these stunningly sophisticated works of art - among the most unusual and spectacular produced anywhere in the ancient world - all come from a startling ...

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Stories from China's Past: Han Dynasty Pictorial Tomb Reliefs and Archaeological Objects from Sichuan Province, People's Republic of China = Chun more books like this

by Martin J. Powers, Chinese Culture Center Of San Francisco, Kenneth J. Dewoskin

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Centre and Province in the People's Republic of China: Sichuan and Guizhou, 1955-1965 more books like this

by David S G Goodman

According to common misconception the Chinese political system is highly centralised. One result of this widely accepted view is that China specialists have often neglected the study of decision-making as a process. Concentrating upon the neighbouring, but contrasting provinces of Sichuan and Guizhou during the decade before the Cultural ...

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Doing Business in Rural China: Liangshan's New Ethnic Enterpreneurs more books like this

by Thomas Heberer

Mountainous Liangshan Prefecture, on the southern border of Sichuan Province, is one of China's most remote regions. Although Liangshan's majority ethnic group, the Nuosu (now classified by the Chinese government as part of the Yi ethnic group), practiced a subsistence economy and were, by Chinese standards, extremely poor, their traditional ...

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The Wilderness Home of the Giant Panda more books like this

by William G Sheldon

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Business Opportunities in Sichuan Province, China more books like this

by Nanyang Business School, Tan Teck Meng

The Chinese economy is currently expanding, and while much is known about the the expansion taking place in China's coastal cities, this book assembles information about the growth taking place in inner China, especially in the cities of Chengdu, Chongqing and Wuhan. One of a series of business reports for Southeast Asia, this book aims to help ...

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The giant pandas of Wolong more books like this

by Schaller

The giant panda is threatened with extinction. Only about a thousand survive in the wild in China, about half of them protected in reserves. In an effort to save this remarkable species, the government of China and the World Wildlife Fund began cooperative research in 1980. "The Giant Pandas of Wolong" is not only the first report of this joint ...

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Red Earth: Revolution in a Sichuan Village more books like this

by Stephen Lyon Endicott

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Szechuan Cooking more books like this

by Outlet

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The Country of Streams and Grottoes: Expansion, Settlement, and the Civilizing of the Sichuan Frontier in Song Times more books like this

by Richard Von Glahn, Glahn Richard Von, Richard Von Glahn

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ANC Sichuan/Unif China more books like this

by Steven F Sage

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Discovered Alive: The Story of the Chinese Redwood more books like this

by William B. Gittlen

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Szechwan and the Chinese Republic; Provincial Militarism and Central Power, 1911-1938 more books like this

by Robert A Kapp

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Sichuan more books like this

by May Holdsworth

An illustrated guide to Sichuan Province offering a broad range of sightseeing and entertainment options. The book contains an historical and cultural background, essays and fiction by famous visitors and local writers, and practical information on visas, airlines, hotels, restaurants and shopping.

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In Praise of the Maoist Economic Planning: Living Standards and Economic Development in Sichuan Since 1931 more books like this

by Chris Bramall

This book is an evaluation of economic development in China's most populous province between the Nanjing decade (1928-1937) and the "liberalization" programme initiated in 1978. Much of it discusses the changing distribution of incomes and capabilities between locations within Sichuan. The famine that followed the Great Leap Forwward is also ...

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Business Opportunities in Sichuan Province, China more books like this

by Teck Meng Tan

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The Highlanders of Central China: A History, 1895-1937 more books like this

by Jerome Ch'en

Examining the importance of regional differences in China's history, this text details the social, economic and political conditions of the central highlands at the end of the 19th century, and the early part of the 20th. Thus the nature and development of modern Chinese rural society is studied.

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Missionary Medicine in China: A Study of Two Canadian Protestant Missions in China Before 1937 more books like this

by Yuet-Wah Cheung

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Prov & Pol Imperial China Nims more books like this

by Samuel Adrian M Adshead, Curzon

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Giant pandas and sleeping dragons = Daxiongmao more books like this

by Pollyanna Pickering, Anna-Louise Pickering

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Han tomb art of West China; a collection of first- and second-century reliefs. more books like this

by Richard C. Rudolph

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Poppies and Politics in China: Sichuan Province, 1840s to 1940s more books like this

by Xiaoxiong Li

During the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, China was the most important opium-producing and opium-consuming country in the world. Within China, Sichuan Province was the largest opium-producing region. It not only produced about 40 per cent of the country's entire supply during the late 1890s and early 1900s, but was home ...

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Der Tempelberg Ch'i-Ch'u in Der Provinz Szechwan, Im China Der Gegenwart more books like this

by Florian C Reiter

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Dazu grottoes more books like this

by Tzu-jan Pai, Shu-ming Sun, Chun-shu Wang, W. C. Chau

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