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Kazak Folk Art Designs Editorial Board
A Collection of the Kazak Folk Art Designs
204 pages (text in English and Chinese), 184 pages of color illustrations by many artists of the rich designs found on the rugs, blankets, clothing, saddles, and jewelry, metal, wooden utensils and tools, of the Kazak people of west China. Fine copy in D.J.
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Grousset René
Histoire De L'extreme Orient 2 Vols.
8vo toile. original cloth, 2 volumes (xviii,771p.), 32 plates (1 in color), 7 folding maps, Ministere de l Instruction Publique et de Beaux-Arts. Annales du Musee Guimet. Bibliotheque d Etude.
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Ching Frank
Ancestors: 900 Years in the Life of a Chinese Family
First Edition. 8vo. Tan boards with red cloth spine and gold lettering 1st edition 528pp. Map endpapers, frontispiece, photographs, illustrations, genealogy, notes, index Not only a unique family portrait extending nearly a millennium but a picture of China that transcends past and present.
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Liang Liangxing, Sara Grimes edts.
China 2003
pp.281, illustr color, map, as new.
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SKRINE, C. P.
Chinese Central Asia. With an introduction by Sir Francis Younghusband. With a frontispiece in colour, 5 panorama's and 2 maps, 51 other Illustrations
In-8, XVI + 306 pp. 56 bl/w and 1 colour ills., 2 maps original dark green cloth, lettering on spine, illustrated front fep; lettering on spine became faint, some foxing ow a nice solid copy.
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Qu Yuan, Hunag Shenfu Ed.
QU YUAN ET LE LI SAO , texte , etude et commentaires
161pp. In-8. illustr. planches
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Grousset René
Storia dell'arte e della civiltà Cinese
ril tela, sovrac, cofanetto. Prima edizione italiana. 8vo. 112 tavole fuori testo di cui 32 a col. pp. 334
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Greenblatt, Sidney L.
People of Taihang : An Anthology of Family Histories (The China Book Project Ser.)
Hardcover in near fine condition. ISBN: 087332059X
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Mathews, Jay; Mathews, Linda
One Billion: A China Chronicle
25 cm. From John K. Fairbank - The New York Review of Books The sympathetic yet critical balance of attitude that distinguishes this book no doubt reflects the authors' experience living together in China. . . .{When they} married, and had two children, they mixed collaboration and competition. By living in China as a family they were in an unusual position to explore nooks and crannies of the society around them. . . . {The Mathews's} book, which is really a journalists' effort (the best I know of) . . . captures that elusive but ubiquitous entity known as 'Chinese culture' or what makes theChinese tick. From Donald Klein - The Christian Science Monitor (Eastern edition) The Mathewses bring solid credentials to their journalistic tasks and to this new book on life in China today. For example, they often cite research that is usually known only to China-scholars. Yet, these findings are frequently tested and humanized by the Mathewses' reporting. . . . Much of the book deals with the great struggle to preserve the family (not the rights of the individual as in the West) against the encroachments of the seemingly all-powerfulstate. The reader comes away with a renewed respect for the dogged tenacity of the family structure. . . . 'One Billion' contains an unexpected bonus. The Mathewses were the first American correspondents to have young children in China, and thus the book is sprinkled with striking observations about childrenthat a childless journalist might never have noticed. China is too importantto be left to the specialists. Books such as 'One Billion'--thoughtful and very well written--deserve a wide audience. From Judith K. Davison - The New York Times Book Review Conscientious organization saves 'One Billion' from chaos, but just barely. The authors start with the first principles of Chinese life--primacy of human feelings, ties to family and village, connections to the past, pride in being Chinese. Then they 'wrap together . . . the weary contrasts between city and country life. . . . They are at their best describing the central fact of life in China--population pressure--and examining its consequences (underemployment, low productivity, inadequate housing, family planning, which extends tosterilization and abortion). The farther afield they range, the more confusing their account becomes. 'One Billion' is the authors' testament to 'the experience of a lifetime,' but the reader would have been more satisfied with less. ISBN: 039450982X
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Fae Myenne Ng
Bone
First edition. 8vo, 194pp; ivory boards with black cloth spine stamped in metallic red; photographic dust jacket in beige tones with author and title in red, black and yellow. Fine. The writer's first book and first novel. Ms. Ng was named by Granta as one of its 20 best young American writers. 500 GREAT BOOKS BY WOMEN, pp. 75-76. ISBN: 1562829440
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Steele Philip
Journey Through China
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Lord Bao Bette
Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic
Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green cloth cover with gilt letter, ISBN: 0394583256
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Christian, John Leroy
Modern Burma. A Survey of its Political and Economic Development
8vo, xii, 389 pp, 6 illus. in b&w, 7 maps, some folding. Originally bound in wraps, this copy in black boards (bound in China). A historical, cultural, political, and economic survey of Burma (now Myanmar) up to the outbreak of World War II, when the country played a strategic role in the transportation of war material between British-ruled India and China over the Burma Road. Includes accounts of the Anglo-French rivalry for Burma in the 19th century, the British colonial administration and subsequent separation of Burma from India, Burmese nationalism, principal commodities, etc.
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United States Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Morgenthau Diary (China) 2 vols.
Original paper, 1,699 pp & indexes; Very good+. some wear to spine ends, spines faded; excerpts from original 900 pp typescript.
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Gamble Sidney D.
Ting Hsien a North China Rural Community
HB 8vo, xxiv, 472pp plus 16 plates with twenty-eight B/W illustrations. Reprint of the 1954 edition published by Institute of Pacific Relations. One hundred sixteen tables. Twenty-six figures. Glossary. Footnotes. Index. Light green cloth with black lettering on spine. as nrew in as new dust jacket (very moderate wear at spine ends and front corners) price-clipped. Gamble, son of the Gamble of Proctor & Gamble, spent much of his life studying chinese social structures. The study of Ting Hsien was done between 1926 to 1933
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Watt, James
The Arts of Ancient China, the Metropolitan Museum Of Art Bulletin Summer 1990
4to, stitched in wraps. 8.5" x 11". 72 pp. Quarterly publication. ISSN: 0026-1521. Profuse color and b/w reproductions from museum collection and exhibits. Feature essay by James C. Y. Watt.
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SOTHEBY'S
Contemporary Art Part I - Sotheby's Sale 6494, Nov. 10, 1993
Sotheby's, New York, 1993. 4to size softcover book. 67 lots. About 125 pages.
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Christie's
Fine Modern and Contemporary Art, Including a Collection of Industrial Design, 9 December 1988
4to, softcover, 182 pp.
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Sotheby's New York
Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Auction Catalog: 1992 December 1 - 2
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. - Illus. - Not Paginated, appx. 250pp. - Basically AS NEW bound in oversize trade paper. Almost 700 items including jade, ceramics, sculpture, furniture, textiles, and more are described and estimated values given. Most are illustrated in color, including several full-page plates.
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Sotheby's Hong Kong
Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles 29 th April 1992
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Sotheby's New York
Fine Chinese Decorative Works of Art, October 18 and 19, 1990
4to, softcover, 622 items
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Sotheby's New York
Fine Chinese Decorative Works of Art, September 28 and 29, 1989
4to, softcover, 548 items
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Christie's Swire
Contemporary Chinese Oil Paintings Hong Kong 30 March 1992
4tp. 145pp., 86 paintings. captions in english and chinese.
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SOTHEBY'S
IMPORTANT CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES FROM KARDOS COLLECTION AND OTHER OWNERS- Sotheby's Sale July 1, 1985
4to paperback. 256pp lots described, includes color and b/w photos. Auction catalogue
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Sotheby's New York
Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles June 27, 1986, 1988
4to
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Compiled By the All-China Women's Federation
Chinese Women Striding Into the New Century
card wraps square 4to 120pp. prof. illustr. color photos.
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Meignan, Victor
De Paris à Pekin par terre, Sibérie Mongolie Ouvrage enrichi d'une carte et de 15 gravures dessinées par L. Breton
1 grande carte repl., pp. XII + 395 p. + 15 gravures (dont une à double page) dessinées par L. Breton d'après des croquis de l'auteur et des photographies. reliure toile moderne avec etiquette au dos. Notes de voyage de Victor Meignan, qui a parcouru en plein hiver la Sibérie, la Mongolie, le désert de Gobi, et la Chine septentrionale, illustré de 15 et grande carte routière.
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Liang Baohua Ed.
A Wide Knowledge of Suzhou
2 cd rom in box, 1 cultural, 2 economy. in english.
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Tadashi Fukutake
Asian Rural Society: China, India, Japan
Hardcover, 8vo, xiv+207pp, maps, tables, b/w plates, index.
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Cheng Naishan
The Piano Tuner
Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rare book. Translated by Britten Dean. Novel written by "one of the most popular woman writers in the People's Republic today". Few authors give a stronger feeling of what life is like in modern urban China than Cheng Naishan. Her stories set in Shanghai, contain perceptive, compassionate, and sometimes bitingly satirical portraits of China's people. She also writes frankly of the controversial issues of modern Chinese society: women's rights, continuing divisions of social class, the pain and horror of the Cultural Revolution, the invasion of Western ideas and the way to retain the best features of socialism. Her fiction is a blend of the old and the new, where burned-out revolutionaries and the new breed of "Chinese yuppies" live in a sometimes uneasy truce, while the older generation remains perplexed by both. That she is the only major writer in China who is a convert to Christianity adds an unusual dimension to her work. She reveals a far more sophisticated view of China than commonly seen in the Western media. The rigid cold war distinctions of capitalism and communism do not apply here. This is modern China, and there is no simple way to describe it, but in Cheng Naishan's stories we can feel it. 176 pages.
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Barmé Geremie and Minford, John Edts.
Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience
8vo pp.xx-347, very good, softcover,
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Salzman Mark
The Soloist
.Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 284 pages. The author's second novel. "The difficulties encountered by talented children are dispassionately chronicled in this unusual story about a musical prodigy who as an adult must come to terms with his own mediocrity. When Reinhart Sundheimer's prodigious talent as a world-renowned cellist suddenly and inexplicably deserts him at age 18, he is bereft for he knows no other life than that of the concert stage and is accustomed to adulation. As a college professor who has never learned social skills, he is aloof from his colleagues and spends his spare time practicing in the vain hope that his genius will return. Then, in one event-filled week, the outside world invades his insular environment. First, he is called to jury duty and second, he agrees to give cello lessons to a 12-year-old prodigy. Interacting with other jurors during deliberations on a brutal murder case and reacting to the unpredictability of his student require emotional resources that he never knew he possessed. Both experiences result in personal insight that allows him to accept his limitations as a musician and gives him the courage to broaden his horizons as a human being" (Publisher's). ISBN 0394570103.
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Asiatica Film Mediale
Incontri Con Il Cinema asiatico 4
br. 4to oblungo, pp. 87, 8-16 novembre 2003 cinema capranica roma
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Old photos of Nanjing
pp.114, br.
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Old Photos of Wuhan
pp.139, br.
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Old Photos of Tianjin
pp.139, br.
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Old Fashions photos of Dalian
pp.149, br.
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Old Photos of Shenyang
pp.135, hardcover
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Perry, L. S.
Chinese Snuff Bottles. The adventure & studies of a collector.
4to. 158pp., 162 colour plates. Beautifully illustrated volume on collecting Chinese snuff bottles, organised according to materials and decoration.
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Amsden, Charles A.
Navaho Weaving Its Technique and Its History
Unabridged republication of the 1949 edition published by The University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque, with foreword by F.W. Hodge. paperbound. 261 pages. 7 color illustrations. 123 + 12 drawings black & white illustrations. 1 maps. An in-depth view of Navaho life in the American West from l6th century Spanish influences to the 1930's. Historic images from the early days of photography and a view of American Indian history from then-contemporary eyes enhance the remarkably detailed and insightful studies on Navaho weaving. tapeti tessili navajo indiani america.
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Formenton Fabio
Il Libro Del Tappeto
Bross., cm 25x18, pp 251, numerosiss. ill. prevalentem. a colori.
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English-Chinese Dictionary of Surveying and Mapping
pp.849 specialized technical dictionary survey mapping oil
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An English - Chinese Dictionary of Technology
pp.2437
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English - Chinese Metal Mining and Ore Processing Dictionary
pp. 1079
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Concise Chinese -English Dictionary of Medicine
18x14cm, hardcover in dj r, 524pp. 1st ed.
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An English . Chinese Comprehensive Dictionary of Seismology and Geophysics
pp-670
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An English - Chinese Textile Dictionary
pp. 915
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English - Chinese Computer Dictionary Yinghan Jisuanji Cidian
pp.1209 cloth in dj. some foxing, ow, good. specialized english chinese dicitionary on compouter and electronics terminology.
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Xin Bian MongYu Huihua Guangbo Jiao Cai (materials For Radio Talk in mongolian)
manual for chinese broadcasters on radio talk and conversation in mongolian language. curious rarity. China Han Inner Mongolia radio.
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San Xi Tang Fa Tie, in 4 Tomes Chinese Calligraphy
4 large volumes in 4to , softcover wraps, 700 pages c. each, thousands of chinese calligraphy reproductions from rubbings . in chinese. scarce. CALLIGRAFIA ANTICA CINESE
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