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Series
Publisher
Choices Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
With Beijing the focus of the 2008 Summer Olympics, one must not forget the other sites hosting events during the games and what they have to offer visitors. Cities includes: Shanghai; Qingdao; Qinhuangdao; Tianjin; Shenyang; and Hong Kong.
22) Marco Polo
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A biography, using first-person narrative, of the Venetian explorer who spent many years in the court of Kublai Khan in China.
24) Iron & silk
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
This anecdotal record of a young man's encounter with the Chinese and their way of life offers unique insights to readers. Salzman had majored in Chinese literature at Yale, and his first job after graduation in 1982 was teaching English to students and teachers at Hunan Medical College in Changsha. He met this considerable challenge with sensitivity, humor, and imagination, and was quickly regarded with respect and affection. Salzman had studied...
35) Notes from China
Author
Publisher
Collier Books
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1972, a few short months after Nixon’s legendary visit to China, master historian Barbara W. Tuchman made her own trip to that country, spending six weeks in eleven cities and a variety of rural settlements. The resulting reportage was one of the first even-handed portrayals of Chinese culture that Americans had ever read.
Tuchman’s observations capture the people as they lived, from workers in the city and provincial party...
