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China Falun Gong is an interim text in the form of Qigong summarizing the cultivation and practice of Falun Gong , the most powerful cultivation system based on the supreme truth of the cosmos "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance". --This text refers to the paperback edition of this title

China and "Falun Gong": Implications and options for U.S. policy (CRS report for Congress)Thomas G Lum

China and "Falun Gong": Implications and options for U.S. policy (CRS report for Congress)

by Thomas G Lum

Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China's Predicament

Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China's Predicament

by Perry Link

Chinese intellectuals have a traditional duty, for which there is no equivalent in the West: to worry, to "take responsibility for all under heaven", to argue the question "What can we do with China?" The Spring 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square climaxed a year of animated, despairing, idealistic worry - a year in which writers, journalists, scientists, professors and officials were able to gather in private... (more)

Falun Buddha Fa: Lectures in the United StatesLi Hongzhi

Falun Buddha Fa: Lectures in the United States

by Li Hongzhi

China's Cultural Heritage: The Qing Dynasty, 1644-1912Richard J Smith

China's Cultural Heritage: The Qing Dynasty, 1644-1912

by Richard J. Smith

Richard J. Smith is professor of history and director of Asian Studies at Rice University.

The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West

The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West

by J. P. Mallory

The best-preserved mummies in the world are not found in Egypt or Peru but in the museums of Xinjiang, the westernmost province of modern China. For thousands of years the occupants of the barren wastes and oases that would later become the Silk Road buried their dead in the desiccating sands of the Tklimakan, the second greatest desert on earth. This arid environment, preserving body and clothing, allows an... (more)

Beyond Spring

by Julie Landau

The first anthology of Sung dynasty tz'u poems available in English, Beyond Spring provides a representative body of translations, 150 in all. Keeping true to the original music, Landau's faithful translations capture the phrasing and rhythms crucial to Tz'u.

China: 7000 Years of Discovery : China's Ancient TechnologyChina Scientific and Technological Museum

China: 7000 Years of Discovery : China's Ancient Technology

by China Scientific and Technological Museum

The Years That Were Fat: Peking, 1933-1940 (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks Series)George N. Kates

The Years That Were Fat: Peking, 1933-1940 (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks Series)

by George N. Kates

For seven years, from 1933 to 1940, George N. Kates--a native American--immersed himself in the inner world of Peking by living a simple and leisurely life in a traditional house inside the old Imperial City in Peking. Consciously reconstructing the lifestyle of the vanished scholar class, Kates came to know China as few other Westerners have known it. Kates offers in this volume a celebration of a city, its... (more)

Cousin Felix Meets the Buddha: and Other Encounters in China and Tibet

Cousin Felix Meets the Buddha: and Other Encounters in China and Tibet

by Lincoln Kaye

Adventures in a nation on the road Long caricatured as a land of stagnant traditions or lockstep Maoist conformity, China today is a country on the move. Literally—China's new migrant labor pool, known as the "blind river," logs in more road miles and piecework hours than any other workforce in the world—but also mentally and spiritually, as more and more Chinese search for some new faith, whether Maoist,... (more)

China Remembered: A Rare Collection of Photographs from a Forgotten Time

China Remembered: A Rare Collection of Photographs from a Forgotten Time

by Yasuto Kitahara

Over the past 26 years, Japanese photographer and educator Yasuto Kitahara has made almost innumerable trips to China to study various aspects of Chinese art and culture.During these travels, he has taken over 10,000 photographs from all 28 provinces of China, likely the most complete documentation of old China held in a single collection. China Remembered presents Kitahara's photographs and memories of a... (more)

China Behind the Smile

by R. Mulder Rowin

China is a country in transition, a country of contradictions and a country worthy of being discovered without bringing in preconceptions, because China is the country with the immortal smile and it's all up to you what you find behind the beaming lips. Rowin Mulder is not your typical tourist, but a traveller bent on discovering new horizons, on exploring the 'real' China, the hidden China, the China behind... (more)

The Five Foot Road: In Search of Vanished ChinaAngus McDonald

The Five Foot Road: In Search of Vanished China

by Angus McDonald

In February 1894 George Ernest Morrison started a journey from Shanghai in the east, through the heartland of China and into Burma. Alone, dressed in Chinese clothes, but without speaking a word of the language, Morrison travelled by foot, sedan chair, mule and boat. One hundred years later, Angus McDonald set out to follow him. Often travelling where no other Westerner has been for 50 years, McDonald found both... (more)

Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man

Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man

by Oliver August

Inside the Red Mansion is a suspenseful, slyly entertaining journey into the heart of the new China. Due to a mix-up on a routine reporting assignment, Oliver August stumbles onto the hunt for China’s most wanted man, Lai Changxing, an illiterate tycoon on the run from corruption charges. Sensing something emblematic in this outsized tale of Lai's rise and fall, August sets out to find the self-made billionaire,... (more)

A Companion to ChinaFrances Wood

A Companion to China

by Frances Wood

This urbane and charmingly illustrated volume will please both the armchair traveler and the intrepid tourist. Although Wood offers canny and often original advice on the theory and strategy of touring, this book's strength lies in the well-conceived essays on Chinese history, culture, and contemporary life keyed to the interests of the traveler; they are light enough to be read on a Chinese train, sound enough to... (more)

Grace: An American Woman's Forty Years in China, 1934-1974

Grace: An American Woman's Forty Years in China, 1934-1974

by Eleanor Cooper

"The extraordinary life of a courageous, outspoken American woman who survived forty years of upheaval in twentieth-century China . . . A unique perspective on a period of -critical transformations in China."— Kirkus Reviews "Reads like a riveting and complex novel. Set against the fascinating backdrop of China during the Cultural Revolution, it is the story of a strong woman who followed her heart against the... (more)

The Dong People of China: A Hidden Civilization (Enjoying Asia)Gail Rossi

The Dong People of China: A Hidden Civilization (Enjoying Asia)

by Gail Rossi

China DiaryCharlotte Y. Salisbury

China Diary

by Charlotte Y. Salisbury

John Chinaman and a few others

by Edward H. Parker

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because... (more)

Chinese Calligraphy

by Yee Chiang

This is the classic introduction to Chinese calligraphy. In nine richly illustrated chapters Chiang Yee explores the aesthetics and the technique of this art in which rhythm, line, and structure are perfectly embodied. He measures the slow change from pictograph to stroke to the style and shape of written characters by the great calligraphers. Speech and writing are two organs of the same human impulse--the... (more)

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