Published 1994.   Editors Zhu Shilin, Ma Naixun, Fu Maoyi. English text. Green pictorial boards, 246 p. including bibliography.   China was known as the "Bamboo Kingdom" and this scholarly work includes over 400 color photographs, some full page (approximately 200 species are illustrated) as well as taxonomic information, use and distribution of a total of approximately 500 species. First edition.  A beautiful book.