forestofglory

I've been enjoying this non fiction reading challenge! I wanted do a quick round up of books I've read and books I'm thinking about reading for this challenge. So far I've completed 7 of 12 prompts

Here's the categories and what I've read so far or am thinking of reading. (Completed prompts in underlined)

1. Politics, Crime, and Law
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim - read for urban planning club

2. Diplomacy, Military Conflict, and International Relations
The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road by Xin Wen

3. Travel, Trade, and Migration
The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald C. Shoup (next up in urban planing book club)

4. Urban Life and Architecture
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue - read for Urban Planning book club earlier this year

5. Rural Life and Agriculture
Still not sure what I want to read for this one

6. Work, Labor, and Daily Life
Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women Without Men in Song Dynasty China by Hsiao-Wen Cheng

7. Culture and Religion
Ethnic Identity in Tang China by Marc S. Abramson (Many of the books I read would be an easy fit here)

8. Arts and Material Culture
Artisans in Early Imperial China by Anthony J. Barbieri-Low

9. Science and Technology
Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts by Ruth Yun-Ju Chen or Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China by Nicholas K. Menzies

10. Geography and Cartography
Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China by Craig Clunas

11. Weather and Climate
The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History by Ruth Mostern

12. Flora and Fauna
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer -- I'm currently reading this