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Featured Resources for Xi'an

A Chinese Musical Journey: Xi'an--A Cultural Tour.Naxos Rights International Limited (2007). DVD.

China: Beigjing, Shaghai, Hong Kong & Tibet.Analytical Software, Inc. (2008). DVD.

Mooney, P., C. Maudsley and G. Hatherly (2009).Xi'an, Shaanxi, and the Terracotta Army. New York: Norton.

Schoenfeld, C. (2000).Beijing & Xian, China Pictoral. [Southport, Conn.] : Hugh Lauter Levin Associates.


China News

China Daily: Connecting China Connecting the World (Current news from China, in English)
China Today (Provides links to current China news coverage from the New York Times, CNN, The Economist, & more.)


Additional Rentschler Resources on China

Bardhan, P. (2010). Awakening giants, feet of clay : Assessing the economic rise of China and India.

Benewick, R. and S. Donald (2009). The state of China atlas: Mapping the world's fastest growing economy. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Chin, A. (2008). Confucius: A life of thought and politics. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.

Cunningham, P. (2009). Tiananmen moon: Inside the Chinese student uprising of 1989. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield.

Davis, D. and E. Trani (2009). Distorted mirrors: Americans and their relations with Russia and China in the 20th century. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.

Dikötter, F. (2010). Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962.

Dunnell, R. (2010). Chinggis Khan : World conqueror.

Gerth, K. (2010). As China goes, so goes the world : How Chinese consumers are transforming everything.

Gifford, R. (2007). China road: A journey into the future of a rising power. London: Bloomsbury.

Gordon, S. (2008). When Asia was the World. [Cambridge, Mass.]: Da Capo.

Hessler, P. (2006). Oracle bones: A journey between China's past and present. New York: HarperCollins.

La Fleur, R. (2010). China.

Levy, M. (2011). Kosher Chinese: Living, teaching, and eating with China's other billion. New York: Henry Holt & Co.

Lewis, M. (2009). China's cosmopolitan empire: The Tang dynasty. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University.

Lin, Y.-C. J. (2011). Fake stuff: China and the rise of counterfeit goods. New York: Routledge.

Liu, X. (2010). The Silk Road in world history.

Luo, J. (2010). Business and technology in China. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO.

McCarthy, S. (2009). Communist multiculturalism: Ethnic revival in southwest China. Seatle: University of Washington Press.

Moskowitz, M. (2010). Cries of joy, songs of sorrow : Chinese pop music and its cultural connotations.

Pakula, H. (2009). The last empress : Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the birth of modern China.New York : Simon & Schuster.

Rojas, C. (2010). The Great Wall: A cultural history.

Schafer, E. H. (1967). The vermilion bird; T'ang images of the South. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Serge, M, et al. (2009). China safari: On the trail of Beijing's expansion into Africa. New York: Nation Books.

Spender, S., & Hockney, D. (1982). China diary. New York: Abrams.

Tang, B., & DiMarco, D. (2011). My two Chinas: The memoir of a Chinese counterrevolutionary. Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus Books.

Tregear, T. R. (1980). China, a geographical survey. New York: Wiley.

Wasserstrom, J. (2010). China in the 21st century : What everyone needs to know. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press.

Wilen-Daugenti, T. (2007). China for businesswomen: A strategic guide to travel, negotiating, and cultural differences. Berkely, Calif: Stone Bridge Press.

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China Items Available for Request from University Libraries

Ingham, M. (2007). Hong Kong: A cultural history. Cityscapes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kitahara, Y. (2003). China remembered: A rare collection of photographs from a forgotten time. New York: Harper Design International.

Lee, L. O.-f. (2008). City between worlds: My Hong Kong. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Notar, B. E. (2006). Displacing desire: Travel and popular culture in China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Ward, J., & Xu, H. (2001). Xu Xiake (1587-1641): The art of travel writing. Richmond [England]: Curzon.

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