Taxing Heaven's Storehouse: Horses, Bureaucrats, and the Destruction of the Sichuan Tea Industry, 1074-1224 ... Paul Jakov Smith Harvard University Asia Center, 1991 Tea growing was a prosperous industry in Sichuan when Wang Anshi's New Policies created a Tea Market Agency to buy up Sichuanese tea and trade it to Tibetan tribesmen for cavalry horses. At first the highly autonomous Agency not only acquired the needed horses but made a profit. After the Jurchen conquest of North China, however, market realities changed and the combined Tea and Horse Agency's ...             Land of Plenty: A Treasury of Authentic Sichuan Cooking32 reviews Fuchsia Dunlop W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 A Must Own + Fuschia Dunlop rocks! + Surprisingly useful! + A MUST have if you like Sichuan food + Good book Sichuan food             Talons and Teeth: County Clerks and Runners in the Qing Dynasty (Law, Society, and Culture in China)1 review Bradly Reed Stanford University Press, 2000 The best study of local government in late imperial China This book is by far the most important study of local government in late imperial China that has yet been published. Its only possible rival might be T'ung-tsu Ch'u's 1962 classic, "Local Government in China Under the Ch'ing," which Reed's book has largely superseded. A unique feature of Reed's ...             Civilizing Chengdu: Chinese Urban Reform, 1895-19372 reviews Kristin Stapleton Harvard University Asia Center, 2000 Reforming the Hibiscus City + A scholarly yet readable book of Chinese urban history In "Civilizing Chengdu", Kristin Stapleton discusses the reforms that took place between 1895-1937 in the capital city of Sichuan province. During this time Sichuan aided in the downfall of a two thousand year old dynastic system and witnessed the rise of warlordism. Throughout much of Chinese ...             The Old Towns of Chongqing1 review, 2002 Chongqing's Endangered Architecture This book is a unique collection of black and white photographs showcasing the old towns surrounding the city of Chongqing. Many of the thirty-five towns displayed in the photograps are in danger of being demolished in order to pave the way for "modernization" of the area. Each set of ...             Street Culture in Chengdu: Public Space, Urban Commoners, and Local Politics, 1870-19301 review Di Wang Stanford University Press, 2003 Life on the Streets in Chengdu Scholarship on China has tended to mainly focus on social elites when describing urban life in the imperial and early Republican eras. One of the most famous exceptions to this is Jacques Gernet's 'Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250- 1276'. While a few other studies on ...             The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and ...1 review Isabella L. Bird Beacon Pr, 1987 A lone woman traveler in China Intrepid is the adjective that best applies to Isabella Bird. She was one of the best known travel writers of the Victorian era. She suffered from an odd probably psychosomatic disease that made her an invalid at home in Scotland -- but plant her down in China, Colorado, or Japan and give her a ...             Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization1 review Princeton University Press, 2001 Ancient Sichuan : Treasures from a Lost Civilization A fabulous book! I'd give it 10 stars! For the record, I am educated, very interested in archaeology, but not a professional archaeologist. I found this book to be clearly written and informative, but not overwhelming with abstruse detail. Content-wise, these bronze heads and masks are weird ...             Red Earth: Revolution in a Sichuan Village Stephen Lyon Endicott I. B. Tauris & Company, 1988             Dragon's Backbone1 review William G. Sewell William Sessions Ltd, 1986 A Snapshot of Chengdu Society This book is an interesting pictorial of commoners going about their everyday activities in 1920s Chengdu, when the city still had its walls and was controlled by warloards. The drawings found throughout the book were drawn by the authors' Chinese language teacher (Yu Zidan) at West China ...             Szechwan and the Chinese Republic1 review Robert A. Kapp Yale University Press, 1974 "The Devil's Cave" This study deals with the militarism of Sichuan during the Republican era. Although published in 1973, it is the only study of its kind in English. Robert Kapp begins by laying out some possible reasons for this rise in regional militaries (usually called warlordism- junfa). He believes that ...             The Country of Streams and Grottoes: Expansion, Settlement, and the Civilizing of the Sichuan Frontier in ... Richard von Glahn Harvard University Asia Center, 1988             Land of Plenty: A Treasury of Authentic Sichuan Cooking32 reviews Fuchsia Dunlop W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 A Must Own + Fuschia Dunlop rocks! + Surprisingly useful! + A MUST have if you like Sichuan food + Good book Sichuan food             Talons and Teeth: County Clerks and Runners in the Qing Dynasty (Law, Society, and Culture in China)1 review Bradly Reed Stanford University Press, 2000 The best study of local government in late imperial China This book is by far the most important study of local government in late imperial China that has yet been published. Its only possible rival might be T'ung-tsu Ch'u's 1962 classic, "Local Government in China Under the Ch'ing," which Reed's book has largely superseded. A unique feature of Reed's ...             The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and ...1 review Isabella L. Bird Beacon Pr, 1987 A lone woman traveler in China Intrepid is the adjective that best applies to Isabella Bird. She was one of the best known travel writers of the Victorian era. She suffered from an odd probably psychosomatic disease that made her an invalid at home in Scotland -- but plant her down in China, Colorado, or Japan and give her a ...             Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization1 review Princeton University Press, 2001 Ancient Sichuan : Treasures from a Lost Civilization A fabulous book! I'd give it 10 stars! For the record, I am educated, very interested in archaeology, but not a professional archaeologist. I found this book to be clearly written and informative, but not overwhelming with abstruse detail. Content-wise, these bronze heads and masks are weird ...             The Old Towns of Chongqing1 review, 2002 Chongqing's Endangered Architecture This book is a unique collection of black and white photographs showcasing the old towns surrounding the city of Chongqing. Many of the thirty-five towns displayed in the photograps are in danger of being demolished in order to pave the way for "modernization" of the area. Each set of ...             Szechwan and the Chinese Republic1 review Robert A. Kapp Yale University Press, 1974 "The Devil's Cave" This study deals with the militarism of Sichuan during the Republican era. Although published in 1973, it is the only study of its kind in English. Robert Kapp begins by laying out some possible reasons for this rise in regional militaries (usually called warlordism- junfa). He believes that ...             The Country of Streams and Grottoes: Expansion, Settlement, and the Civilizing of the Sichuan Frontier in ... Richard von Glahn Harvard University Asia Center, 1988             Street Culture in Chengdu: Public Space, Urban Commoners, and Local Politics, 1870-19301 review Di Wang Stanford University Press, 2003 Life on the Streets in Chengdu Scholarship on China has tended to mainly focus on social elites when describing urban life in the imperial and early Republican eras. One of the most famous exceptions to this is Jacques Gernet's 'Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250- 1276'. While a few other studies on ...