"If you want to change your life, you need to start from the ground up." 
-The Fairy Godmother Shoes do make the woman-and changing your shoes can change your life. As shoe maven Susan Reynolds points out in this sassy, sexy book, it all has to do with Strutting Your Stuff. 
Your new life is just a glass slipper away. Packed with prescriptive advice and fun fashion tips, Change Your Shoes, Change Your Life presents a step-by-step master makeover plan to help you reinvent yourself, revamp your life, and live your dreams. Put this plan into action, and you'll strut your way to happily ever after in no time. 
It's as easy as slipping on a new pair of shoes! Just ask Cinderella.

The Beginner's Guide to Chinese Painting: Flowers

Arts & Photography

Mei, Ruo

History & Criticism

Shanghai Press

This authoritative collector's book is the largest collection of Chinese weaving and embroider patterns available. For more than twenty-five hundred years the patterns of Chinese silk textiles captured the imaginations of their beholders. The woven and embroidered designs catalogued in Exquisite Fabrics, a survey by Gao Chunming, combine consummate mechanical and technical skill with an aesthetic vision driven by the need to communicate the most important message of Chinese culture. This Chinese art book is a compilation of over one thousand Chinese traditional designs found in weaving and embroidery. Known as zhiwen or wen in ancient China, these traditional patterns are the products of brilliant artistic skills that have been passed down from one generation to the next. Available in a gorgeous slipcase, this book presents a wide and comprehensive range of classical design motifs that include: <ul>
<li> dragons</li>
<li> phoenix</li>
<li> birds</li>
<li> auspicious animals</li>
<li> floral patterns</li>
<li> insects and fish</li>
<li> figures</li>
<li> religious</li>
<li> allegorical</li>
</ul>

Exquisite Fabrics: Traditional Weaving and Embroidery Patterns in China

Gao, Chunming

The painting Qingming Shang He Tu ("Scenes along the River during the Qingming Festival"),an over 16-foot panorama running from right to left, is considered to be one of the most brilliant works in Chinese art history. It is a masterpiece of realism, recording the pulse of a thriving, historical town and showing extraordinary detail.

Scenes along the River during the Qingming Festival

Zhang, Zeduan

This exquisite edition of A Dream of Red Mansions features a rare set of Qing Dynasty paintings by Sun Wen. This collector's edition features a complete set of Sun Wen's 230 paintings in splendid color, printed on fine paper. Condensed text from the original novel accompanies each of the paintings and offers a wonderful insight and a brief summary of each of the 120 chapters. This rare edition will be a keepsake for many generations, and is perfect for gift-giving and presentations. The original paintings are presently preserved in Lvshun Museum, Dalian, China.

Dream of Red Mansions: As portrayed through the brush of Sun Wen

Featuring hundreds of stunning photographs and insightful text, Chinese Style blends the chic designs of modern China with the traditional sensibilities of traditional Chinese art. At its core, Chinese style is a marriage of the traditional philosophies of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. Its aesthetic is also influenced by the long history of Chinese art, the regional characteristics of northern and southern houses, and the fusion trend which began in the 1930s when western style furniture was incorporated into the homes of the Chinese elite. With detailed descriptions of furnishings, materials, component pieces and color, along with around 200 photographs of today's homes in China, Chinese Style is a must for those who are looking for some quick and simple ways to give their own personal living space a touch of Chinese flair.

Chinese Style: Interiors, Furnitures, Details

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Zhu, Wen

Antiques & Collectibles

With dozens of stunning photographs, this modern translation of a Classic text is a masterpiece of classical Chinese gardening. Ji Cheng's great work on garden design, the Yuan Ye or Craft of Gardens, was originally published around 1631 and is the earliest manual of landscape gardening in the Chinese tradition. This is the first complete English translation of Ji Cheng's seminal work. This Chinese gardening book is based on J Cheng's notes and experiences from his career as a garden designer, which he discusses at some length in his introduction&gt; Since architecture is an integral part of the Chinese garden, much of the book is taken up with the design of different types of buildings and the integration of architecture with nature in the garden. Ji Cheng explains the religious and aesthetic principles underlying garden design and the appropriate emotional response to various effects. he then offers a down-to-earth series of instructions about the requirements of different types of sites, building layouts, architectural features, paving, the construction of artificial mountains, selection of rocks, and the use of natural scenery. This delightful book provides not only insights into Chinese gardening but also a unique perspective on Chinese culture and society in the late Ming dynasty. Full notes by the translator explain obscure points and introduce relevant aspects of Chinese culture, while an introduction by Maggie Keswick sets the book firmly in its historical context. Illustrations include not only Ji Cheng's original diagrams but also historical paintings and contemporary photographs of a number of outstanding gardens in the part of East China where Ji Cheng lived and worked.

Craft of Gardens: The Classic Chinese Text on Garden Design

Ji, Cheng

With hundreds of color photographs and illustrations, this Chinese gardening book is a wonderful introduction to penjing—China's treasured bonsai art. Although most people thing bonsai is a Japanese invention, the art originated in ancient China where it is called penjing. The two Chinese characters for penjing ("pot" and "landscape") capture the essence of this art: sculpting microcosms of the beauty of the natural world from plants, rocks, soil, and water, both as an artistic process and as horticultural cultivation. Both penjing and bonsai are art forms that express the beauty of nature. In China, bonsai, as a part of penjing, is often called "tree penjing," or "tree in a pot." The Chinese divide penjing into three categories: tree penjing, rock penjing, and water-and-land penjing. This Chinese gardening book showcases the Chinese art of penjing in all its aspects for the benefit of penjing aficionados and all other readers interested in Chinese culture. It covers the concept, history, categories, aesthetic features, techniques, display, appreciation, and preservation of penjing. It is a feast for the eyes while providing a wealth of information for the academically inclined as well as the practically minded. There are more than 300 lavish illustrations grouped into three different categories of penjing. The reader will not only be awed by the beautiful compositions of penjing, but will also learn about the Chinese approach to nature and to life.

Penjing: The Chinese Art of Bonsai: A Pictorial Exploration of Its History, Aesthetics, Styles and Preservation

History

Zhao, Qingquan

Asia

The Splendid Chinese Garden is an illustrated guide to the classic gardens of China. It explains the history of the garden, the traditions and beliefs they represent, their aesthetic and the techniques used to create them. Also included are chapters that survey the great gardens of China, the gardens tourists love to visit and gardeners dream of seeing and exploring. Chinese Gardens in the South of the Yangtze River:<ul>
<li>Ge Garden (Yangzhou)</li>
<li>He Yuan, also known as Jixiao Shan Zhuang (Yangzhou)</li>
<li>Zhan Garden (Nanjing)</li>
<li>Jichang Garden (Wuxi)</li>
<li>Humble Administrator's Garden (Suzhou) </li>
<li>Lingering Garden (Suzhou) </li>
<li>Master of the Nets Garden (Suzhou) </li>
<li>Lion Grove Garden (Suzhou) </li>
</ul>Chinese Gardens in the North of the Yangtze River:<ul>
<li>Yihe Garden or the Summer Palace (Beijing) </li>
<li>Beihai Park (Beijing) </li>
<li>Jingyi Garden in Xiangshan Mountain (Beijing) </li>
<li>Imperial Garden, Palace Museum (Beijing) </li>
<li>The Back Garden of the Prince Gong Mansion (Beijing)</li>
</ul>

Splendid Chinese Garden: Origins, Aesthetics and Architecture

HU, Jie

China is a country rich in bio-diversity that boasts gorgeous natural landscapes and wildlife, many unique to its land. Award winning nature photographer Xi Zhinong spent 30 years taking photos along rivers and across mountains, capturing the animals and natural wonders of China. Through his lens, a Yunnan snub-nosed monkey can be seen jumping between trees with her baby in her arms; thousands of Tibetan antelopes migrate in the wind and snow; and a takin, or gnu goat, couple is caught sharing a kiss atop a mountain ridge. Wildlife Wonders of China will lead you to the vast territory of China through photos, from the roof of the world—the Tibetan Plateau—to dry western China and the moist eastern lands influenced by monsoons. Gain insight into the changing environment in China, and be enchanted by the unique and beautiful animals living there.

Wildlife Wonders of China: A Pictorial Journey through the Lens of Conservationist Xi Zhinong

Xi, Zhinong

Photography & Video

Learn Chinese paper folding with this easy origami book. This origami paper craft book features zhezhi, the art of paper folding and origami which originated in China more than 1900 years ago and is still practiced today by the Chinese. Chinese Origami: Paper Folding for Year-Round Celebrations introduces many basic techniques and step-by-step instruction for a over 70 origami projects. Origami projects include:<ul>
<li> flowers</li>
<li> animals</li>
<li> decorations for festivals</li>
<li> plum blossoms</li>
<li> a narcissus</li>
<li> lantern</li>
<li> steamed rice dumplings</li>
<li> and much more…</li>
</ul>This origami book will show you how to fold these objects and understand the traditions of Chinese culture that are deeply rooted in them. Beginners can follow the detailed easy-to-follow diagrams and illustrations, while those who are more advance can learn from the basic techniques to create and customize their own masterpieces. Watch your imagination take shape in clever and inspired forms with the art of Chinese paper folding!

Chinese Origami: Paper Folding for Year-Round Celebrations

Chen, Yuehua

Tian, Zengli

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