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The stone of heaven : the secret history of imperial green jade / Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark.
LIBRA QE475.J27 L48 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levy, Adrian, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jadeite (Petrology).
- Precious stone industry--Burma--History.
- Precious stone industry.
- Precious stones--Collection and preservation.
- Precious stones.
- Jade art objects--China.
- Jade art objects.
- History.
- China.
- China--History.
- Burma.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 429 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001.
- Summary:
- The story of how the authors persuaded the generals of the Burmese dictatorship to take them to the remote Imperial Green Jade mine.
- Contents:
- ǂg 1 ǂt An Emperor's Obsession ǂg 3
- ǂg 2 ǂt Lord of the Mines ǂg 29
- ǂg 3 ǂt A Jungly and Evil Place ǂg 57
- ǂg 4 ǂt The Palace Plunderers ǂg 80
- ǂg 5 ǂt 'The Far Off, the Strange, the Wonderful, the Original, the True, the Brave, the Conquered' ǂg 109
- ǂg 6 ǂt An Imperial Side-Show ǂg 140
- ǂg 7 ǂt Twilight in the Forbidden City ǂg 171
- ǂg 8 ǂt Whore of the Orient ǂg 200
- ǂg 9 ǂt As Dead as the Moon ǂg 234
- ǂg 10 ǂt The New Lord of the Mines ǂg 259
- ǂg 11 ǂt Welcome to Jadeland ǂg 283
- ǂg 12 ǂt The Valley of Death ǂg 312
- ǂg 13 ǂt Romancing the Stone ǂg 345.
- ISBN:
- 0297645749
- 9780297645740
- OCLC:
- 59539039
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