Celebrating the World of China
In Fiction & Nonfiction

Fiction

The King of Trees
Ah Cheng
FIC ACHENG

The Moon Opera
Bi Feiyu
FIC BI

Three Sisters
Bi Feiyu
FIC BI

City of Tranquil Light
Bo Caldwell
FIC CALDWELL

Once on a Moonless Night
Sijie Dai
FIC DAI

The Concubine's Daughter
Pai Kit Fai
FIC FAI

The Vagrants
Yiyun Li
FIC LI

Beijing Coma
Ma Jian
FIC MA

Under Fishbone Clouds
Sam Meekings
FIC MEEKINGS

The Last Empress
Anchee Min
FIC MIN

Years of Red Dust: Stories of Shanghai
Qiu Xiaolong
FIC QIU

Shanghai Girls
Lisa See
FIC SEE

Border Town
Shen Congwen
FIC SHEN

Siren of China
Michael C. Tang
FIC TANG

English
Wang Gang
FIC WANG

Brothers
Yu Hua
FIC YU

Architecture and Art

Chinese Silk: A Cultural History
Shelagh Vainker
677.391 VAI

China: 3000 Years of Art and Literature
Jason Steuber, editor
700.951 CHI

Treasures of China: The Glories of the Kingdom of the Dragon
John Chinnery
709.51 CHI

Splendors of China's Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong
Chuimei Ho
709.51 HO

Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery
Patricia Bjaaland Welch
709.51 WEL

The Great Gardens of China: History, Concepts, Techniques
Fang Xiaofeng
712.0951 FAN

New China Architecture
Xing Ruan
720.951 RUA

The New Look of Chinese Homes: Home Decoration and Furnishing
747.0951 NEW

The Night Banquet: A Chinese Scroll Through Time
De-nin D. Lee
759.951 LEE

Cooking

Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes from Hunan Province
Fuchsia Dunlop
641.5951 DUN

China Modern: 100 Cutting-Edge, Fusion-Style Recipes for the 21st Century
Ching-He Huang
641.5951 HUA

The Chinese Kitchen: Recipes, Techniques, Ingredients, History, and Memories from America's Leading Authority on Chinese Cooking
Eileen Yin-Fei Lo
641.5951 LO

The Shun Lee Cookbook: Recipes from a Chinese Restaurant Dynasty
Michael Tong and Elaine Louie
641.5951 TON

The Breath of a Wok: Unlocking the Spirit of Chinese Wok Cooking Through Recipes and Lore
Grace Young and Alan Richardson
641.5951 YOU

Culture

Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands
Colin Legerton
305.800951 LEG

It's All Chinese to Me: An Overview of Culture & Etiquette in China
Pierre Ostrowski & Gwen Penner
306.0951 OST

Why the Chinese Don't Count Calories: 15 Secrets of a 3,000-year-Old Food Culture
Lorraine Clissold
613.2 CLI

Economics

When China Rules the World: The End of the Western world and the Birth of a New Global Order
Martin Jacques
327.51 JAC

China's Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society
John and Doris Naisbitt
330.951 NAI

The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
Alexandra Harney
337.51 HAR

Chocolate Fortunes: The Battle for the Hearts, Minds, and Wallets of China's Consumers
Lawrence L. Allen
338.476641 ALL

The China Strategy: Harnessing the Power of the World's Fastest Growing Economy
Edward Tse
338.951 TSE

As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything
Karl Gerth
339.470951 GER

History

The Terra Cotta Army: China’s First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation
John Man
931.04 MAN

The Imperial Capitals of China: A Dynastic History of the Celestial Empire
Arthur Cotterell
951 COT

Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present
Jonathan Fenby
951 FEN

The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
Timothy Brook
951.02 BRO

Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival
Dean King
951.042 KIN

The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China
Hannah Pakula
951.042 PAK

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962
Frank Dikötter
951.055 DIK

Tiananmen Moon: Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989
Philip J. Cunningham
951.058 CUN

City of Heavenly Tranquility: Beijing in the History of China
Jasper Becker
951.156 BEC

Language

Conversational Cantonese Chinese
CD 495.1783421 CON

Learn in Your Car Mandarin Chinese
Henry N. Raymond
CD 495.183421 RAY

Complete Mandarin Chinese
Elizabeth Scurfield
CD 495.183421 SCU

Ultimate Chinese: Beginner-Intermediate
CD 495.183421 ULT

Music

Chine: Musique Classique Instrumentale: Classical Music of China
CD 781.62951 CHI

Chinese Music of the Han and the Uighurs
CD 781.62951 CHI

The Ancient Art Music of China
Lily Yuan
CD 781.62951 YUA

Poetry and Literature

A Time to Talk: Poems of Friendship
Myra Cohn Livingston, selector
808.819353 TIM

Wreckage
Ha Jin
811.54 JIN

Anthology of Chinese Literature: From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century
Cyril Birch, editor
895.1 ANT

The Clouds Should Know Me by Now: Buddhist Poet Monks of China
Red Pine & Mike O’Connor, editors
895.1 CLO

An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911
Stephen Owen, editor and translator
895.108 ANT

The Columbia History of Chinese Literature
Victor H. Mair, editor
895.109 COL

Religion

Encyclopedia of Buddhism
Robert E. Buswell, Jr., editor
REF 294.303 ENC VOLS. 1 + 2 

What Do Buddhists Believe? : Meaning and Mindfulness in Buddhist Philosophy
Tony Morris
294.34 MOR

The Essential Tao: An Initiation into the Heart of Taoism Through the Authentic Tao Te Ching and the Inner Teachings of Chuang Tzu
Thomas Cleary, translator
299.514 CLE

Taoism: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places
Jennifer Oldstone-Moore
299.514 OLD

Travel

China: Renaissance of the Middle Kingdom
Charis Chan
915.1 CHA

Shanghai Encounter
915.1132 SHA

Beijing Encounter
915.1156 BEI

Hong Kong & Macau City Guide
915.125 HON

Yunnan: China South of the Clouds
Jim Goodman
915.135 GOO

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