Ten Xinjiang Dances
 Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0730099390323 Release Date: 1997-09-05 Running Time: 47 minutes UPC: 730099390323 Tracks: I'll Wait For You Till Dawn My Flower Gaorita Maira In The Silver Moonshine Going Forward Dudar And Maria Beautiful Pamirs Ah! My Beloved [... more]
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Popular Chinese Violin Pieces
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0730099391023 Release Date: 1997-09-05 Running Time: 56 minutes UPC: 730099391023 Tracks: Spring Festival Ov Xinjiang Capriccioso Pastoral Celebration for Rich Harvest Spring in Northern Kiang-so - Takako Nishizaki/Chan Siufan/Koo [... more]
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Violin Concerto 'hung Hu'
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0730099390224 Release Date: 1997-09-05 Running Time: 47 minutes UPC: 730099390224 Tracks: Violin Concerto 'Hung Hu' Fantasy On A Xinjiang Folk Song The Horse Cart Happy Grassland Shanbei Suite Celebration Dance [... more]
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The Butterfly Lovers Concerto
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0747313234820 Release Date: 2004-07-20 Running Time: 63 minutes UPC: 747313234820 Tracks: The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto A Beloved Rose (Kazakh Folk-Song) The Half-Moon Climbs (Uygur Folk-Song) Spinning (Gansu Folk-Song) All [... more]
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Great Wall And The Empty Fortress
useful but flawed: National security is a term we're used to hearing in the United States, but with rare exception "security threats" are in fact threats to America's vast informal empire abroad (military bases, troop deployments, the security [... more]
CDN$21.00
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Music from the Oasis Towns of
A big surprise from western China!: The music of Chinese Turkestan featured on this CD will transport the listener not only to Central Asia, but also to the very core of the Middle Eastern Makam tradition. This ancient Turanian people have preserved [... more]
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On the trail of Marco Polo: Along the Silk Road by bicycle
A mixed bag from the Silk Road: "On the Trail of Marco Polo" recounts Brady Fotherington's 1997 bike trip along the Silk Road from China into Pakistan and India with a side trip into Afghanistan. Fotheringham also recounts some of the history [... more]
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Oasis Identities: Uyghur Nationalism Along China's Silk Road
Full Picture Doesn't Come by Visiting Two Uyghur Cities.: I am a Uyghur. My comment is: this is not a good book on Uyghurs. I haven't found it too helpful to really understand Uyghur nationalism and the Uyghur oasis identity in general. Rudelson's [... more]
CDN$27.59
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Imperial China 900-1800
From Amazon.com: A major preoccupation of this work by Princeton's highly respected professor emeritus, Frederick W. Mote, is the interplay between China and Inner Asia, a region that includes Manchuria, Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet. This is an [... more]
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Familiar Strangers
The periphery of two worlds: Most Americans don't know squat about Islam itself, let alone Islam in China. Yet today there are about 15 million Muslims in China, centered mostly in the northwest (Xinjiang province), along the margins of the old Silk Road. [... more]
CDN$25.00
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Lonely Planet Central Asia
a mixed bag: I found that the East Turkistan (Xinjiang) section of this book was much more helpful when I actually traveled there than the Cadogan "China: the Silk Routes" guide, which is much bigger and much lesse useful. For Uzbekistan, [... more]
CDN$36.07
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Southern Silk Road: In the Footsteps of Sir Aurel
Oops: Would be interested to know who is Sir Laurel Stein - not an explorer I have come across in the Taklamakan. For a literary comment to make such a crass error beggars belief. I trust that the book is a little more accurate or who knows, we may plumb [... more]
CDN$43.50
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