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9780316525961

Stone of Heaven, The: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade

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  • ISBN13:

    9780316525961

  • ISBN10:

    0316525960

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2002-01-07
  • Publisher: Little Brown & Co
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Summary

The first book ever written about Imperial Green Jade, THE STONE OF HEAVEN explores the mythology & the obsessive secret history which continues to the present day, where jadeite is mined in Burma under the most dangerous & horrifying circumstances.

Author Biography

Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark are investigative journalists specializing in foreign subjects, writing for the Sunday Times of London and other newspapers and magazines. Their stories have been syndicated in thirty countries, and three of them have prompted full-blown government inquiries. They are currently researching their second book in Eastern Europe

Table of Contents

Illustrations
xiii
Author Note xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction xix
An Emperor's Obsession
3(26)
Lord of the Mines
29(28)
A Jungly and Evil Place
57(23)
The Palace Plunderers
80(29)
`The Far Off, the Strange, the Wonderful, the Original, the True, the Brave, the Conquered'
109(31)
An Imperial Side-Show
140(31)
Twilight in the Forbidden City
171(29)
Whore of the Orient
200(34)
As Dead as the Moon
234(25)
The New Lord of the Mines
259(24)
Welcome to Jadeland
283(29)
The Valley of Death
312(33)
Romancing the Stone
345(22)
Notes 367(20)
Bibliography 387(6)
Index 393

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