Kashmir: A Story Retold

Business & Money

Joshi, Manoj

Economics

India Research Press

India File

History

Trevor Fishlock

Asia

Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd.

Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China

Biographies & Memoirs

CHANG, JUNG

Community & Culture

HARPER/COLLINS.

From the land of lost content: The Dalai Lama's fight for Tibet

BARBER, Noel.

Collins.

Classic study, originally published in 1969. Personal experiences, work with Gandhi, Nehru, Indian politics, government.a provocative and interesting memoir, stretching from a Punjab village to the highest echelons of power in New Delhi.

India from Curzon to Nehru & after;

Das, Durga

The sequel to the author's book, The Medieval Foundation.

Protestant island

Bryant, Arthur.

Red star over Tibet

Dawa Norbu

From Library Journal\nThis sumptuous volume follows the format of the Day in the Life series: 90 photojournalists, in this case including Chinese, Japanese, and Americans, with support from the Chinese government and foreign businesses, spent the day of April 15, 1989 in all provinces and autonomous regions, as well as Tibet. They visited every corner--from prisons, fields, and discos, to schools, rivers, kitchens, and monasteries, catching gritty daily life as well as exotic beauty. Although it is hard to see in these 250 photographs signs of the turmoil to follow, they give as good a slice of China as is possible to fit between two covers. 
- Charles W. Hayford, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Ill. 
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\nFrom Publishers Weekly\nNinety photographers (60 Western, 30 Chinese) fanned out across China on a single day--April 15, 1989--to take the pictures that make up this rare, candid glimpse of the world's most populous nation. The photos show us villages and farms and take us into homes, schools and factories. From a kaleidoscope of images--rice-planting brigades, a defendant in the dock on trial for murder, yaks on Main Street in one city--we get a feel for the contradictions and pressures of a modernizing society. Many of the photos are exceptionally beautiful; taken together, they reveal the diversity of this vast country, moving from the tent-like yurts of Mongolian nomads to a Tantric Buddhist monastery in occupied Tibet. The photo-essay concludes with a glimpse of protest posters that went up at Beijing University as students began to occupy Tiananmen Square, a tragically ironic conclusion in light of events that followed. First serial to Time; author tour. 
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

A Day in the Life of China

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Collins Pub San Francisco

A Day in the Life in China

Cohen, David

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

A new edition of one of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years. The publication of Wild Swans in 1991 was a worldwide phenomenon. Not only did it become the best-selling non-fiction book in British publishing history, with sales of well over two million, it was received with unanimous critical acclaim, and was named the winner of the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year Award. Few books have ever had such an impact on their readers. Through the story of three generations of women -- grandmother, mother and daughter -- Wild Swans tells nothing less than the whole tumultuous history of China's tragic twentieth century, from sword-bearing warlords to Chairman Mao, from the Manchu Empire to the Cultural Revolution. At times terrifying, at times astonishing, always deeply moving, Wild Swans is a book in a million, a true story with all the passion and grandeur of a great novel.

Wild swans: Three daughters of China

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