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		<title>Hilary Spurling&#8217;s top 10 unputdownable Chinese books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[From the Guardian, London, Tuesday 11 May 2010] 1. Chinese Children at Play written and illustrated by Yui Shufang (Methuen, 1939) This was the picture book that transfixed me as a child. I was entranced by these cool, neat, nifty children rolling marbles, whipping tops, kicking little feathered missiles called Chientse, and trying to beat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Princeton University &#8211; The Cultural Revolution: reading list</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(CPC, Central Committee), Resolution on CPC History &#8217;81 * &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. 17241.194.2575 Ahn Byung-joon, Chinese Politics and the Cultural Revolution &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; DS777.55.A6735 Asia Research Center, The Great Cultural Revolution &#8217;67 &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. 17241.193.405 Ba Jin, Random Thoughts &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. PL2780.F4S913&#8217;84 G Barnouin, Barbara, &#38; Yu Changgen, Ten Years of Turbulence &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; DS778.7.B87&#8217;93 Barnouin, Barbara, Chinese Foreign Policy During [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningaboutchina.com/2010/09/19/princeton-university-the-cultural-revolution-reading-list/</link>
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		<title>Princeton University &#8211; China&#8217;s Economic Strategy from mid-1990s onwards: reading list</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brahm, Laurence J., China’s Century: The Awakening of the Next Economic Powerhouse &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. Wiley’01 Chai, Joseph, China: Transition to a Market Economy &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. OUP&#8217;97 Chan, Anita+, Transforming Asian Socialism: China and Vietnam Compared &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. Rowman&#8217;99 Chang, Maria Hsia, The Labors of Sisyphus: The Ec Dev&#8217;t of Communist China &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. NJ&#8217;98 Chen, Jian, Globalization, Competition, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningaboutchina.com/2010/09/19/princeton-university-chinas-economic-strategy-from-mid-1990s-onwards-reading-list/</link>
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		<title>SOAS &#8211; Traditional Chinese Language And Literature &amp; Traditional Chinese Literature In Translation: Required reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Traditional Chinese Language And Literature Allan, Sarah and William Crispin (eds.): The Guodian Laozi. Proceedings of the International Conference, Dartmouth College, May 1998 (Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China &#38; The Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2000) Birch, Cyril (ed.): Anthology of Chinese Literature, Vol. 1: From Early Times [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningaboutchina.com/2010/09/19/soas-traditional-chinese-language-and-literature-traditional-chinese-literature-in-translation-required-reading/</link>
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		<title>SOAS &#8211; Modern Chinese &#8211; Required reading [list compiled from several courses]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Colloquial Chinese P C T’ung and D E Pollard (Routledge 1982) Zheng Rui. Hanyu yuedu sucheng (jichu pian) (Speedy Reading Course for Chinese (elementary level)). Beijing: Beijing Languages and Cultures University Press, 2006. Essential Readings: Hu Yushu 胡裕树(ed.): Xiandai Hanyu 现代汉语(Modern Chinese). Shanghai: Shanghai Jiaoyu Chubanshe, (1995) 2001 Additional Readings: Bradford, Richard: Stylistics. London: Routledge, 1997 Edward, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningaboutchina.com/2010/09/19/soas-modern-chinese-required-reading-list-compiled-from-several-courses/</link>
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		<title>SOAS &#8211; Classical Chinese: Required Reading [combined list from several courses]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Billeter, Jean Francois: The Chinese Art of Writing. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1990 Chiang, Yee: Chinese Calligraphy. London: Methuen &#38; Co. Ltd., 1961 Dawson, Raymond: A New Introduction to Classical Chinese. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984 Graham, Angus: Notes on Classical Chinese Grammar (unpublished manuscript; copies made available at the beginning of term 2) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningaboutchina.com/2010/09/18/soas-classical-chinese-required-reading-combined-list-from-several-courses/</link>
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		<title>SOAS &#8211; Society, Environment And State In The History Of China: Required Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Economy, Elisabeth. The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. Elvin, Mark. The Retreat of the Elephants: an Environmental History of China. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. Elvin, Mark and Liu Ts’ui-jung, eds. Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History. Cambridge: Cambridge University [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningaboutchina.com/2010/09/18/soas-society-environment-and-state-in-the-history-of-china-required-reading/</link>
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		<title>SOAS &#8211; Manchu Society and Culture: An Alternative History of China (1600-1997): Reading List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul A. Cohen, China unbound: Evolving perspectives on the Chinese past, New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Nicola Di Cosmo (intro., notes, transl. of Dzengšeo’s), The diary of a Manchu soldier in seventeenth-century China : &#8220;My service in the army&#8221;, London: Routledge, 2006. Idem and Dalizhabu Bao, Manchu-Mongol relations on the eve of the Qing Conquest: a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningaboutchina.com/2010/09/18/soas-manchu-society-and-culture-an-alternative-history-of-china-1600-1997-reading-list/</link>
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		<title>SOAS Ethnography Of China: Required Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sample readings: Abbas, A. 1997. Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. Chen, Nancy et al., (eds.), 2001. China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Gates, Hill. 1996. China&#8217;s Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Harrell, Stevan. 2001. Ways [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningaboutchina.com/2010/09/18/soas-ethnography-of-china-required-reading/</link>
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		<title>Cambridge University Chinese Studies: Preparatory Reading List [annotated]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[General For those who have been offered places to read Chinese Studies at Cambridge, the short period between leaving school and coming into residence offers a valuable window of opportunity to do some effective preparatory work. This page is intended to provide guidance on the best ways to use this interlude to prepare for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningaboutchina.com/2010/09/18/cambridge-university-chinese-studies-preparatory-reading-list/</link>
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