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Farquhar Judith
Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China, by Farquhar
8vo, br. ed. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily life in Beijing? Appetites challenges the assumption that the mundane enjoyments of bodily life are natural and unvarying. Farquhar analyzes modern Chinese reflections on embodied existence to show how contemporary appetites are grounded in history. From eating well in improving economic times to memories of the late 1950s famine, from the flavors of traditional Chinese medicine to modernity?s private sexual passions, this book argues that embodiment in all its forms must be invented and sustained in public reflections about personal and national life. As much at home in science studies and social theory as in the details of life in Beijing, this account uses anthropology, cultural studies, and literary criticism to read contemporary Chinese life in a materialist and reflexive mode. For both Maoist and market reform periods, this is a story of high culture in appetites, desire in collective life, and politics in the body and its dispositions. Judith Farquhar is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine
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Lu Wenfu
A World of Dreams, Short Stories, Including the Gourmet
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Reichert Folker E.
Incontri con la Cina. La scoperta dell'Asia orientale nel Medioevo
8vo, br. ed. 408pp.
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Hughes E. R.
La Cina e Il Mondo Occidentale
In-8; pp. XII-232. Note bibliografiche (su alcuni moderni scrittori cinesi).
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Fortune Robert
Three years' wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China, including a visit to the tea, silk and cotton countries: with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc.
8vo hard rebound in black boards witn silver lettering., xvi-375pp. Frontis map, in text line drawings and full-page tinted plates. front and end papers in delicate orange ink showing marriage procession and chinese funeral (tape repair to last page of the one at the end, identical to the ones in front). Includes publisher's biographical foreword, absent in earlier editions. Special Limited Edition of 1,000 copies, this copy not numbered. high quality paper, printing and plate reproductions, quite rare. even scarcer than the original 1847 London edition. Fortune was the first plant collector to travel in China after the conclusion of the Opium War, as a botanical collector for the Horticultural Society of London starting in 1843. Travel was not allowed for more than 30 miles past Shanghai, but he set off by boat from Shanghai, in Chinese costume complete with shaved head and pigtail and was the first westerner to reach Soochow and many other parts of China, collecting large numbers of plants and seeds. The book contains two chapters on the cultivation and manufacture of tea with suggestions on the possibilities of developing a tea industry in India.
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De Groot, J. J. M. (Jan Jacob Maria )
The Religious System of China, 6 Vols.
quality reprint in green gilt buckram, 6 volumes, complete, very scarce even in reprint.
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Tretiakov
A Chinese Testament: The Autobiography of Tan Shih-Hua
8vo xii,316p., first ed. original yellow cloth dry embossed in red and black. Personal story of a Chinese student in the turmoil of the 1920's. Yuan p.82. Tan Shih-hua was one of S. Tretiakov's students in the Russian Section of the National University in Peking. This autobiographical account tells the story of an intelligent young man from the days of the first revolution organised by Sun Yat-sen to the 1930s
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Jia Pingwa
Turbulence
8vo, hardcover in dj Landmark novel about the devastating effects on rural China of the Cultural Revolution. A massive historical novel. Published in a small and limited print run. Regarded as Jia Pingwa's masterpiece, it is beautifully translated by the Sinologist Howard Goldblatt. Praised by Jonathan Spence, the greatest living Western scholar on China, as a stunning and powerful voice, Jia Pingwa is now one of the most established writers of our time. This title has been out-of-print for a very long time. This copy has no flaws. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature in 1987. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A flawless copy. . ISBN 0807116874
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Lilley James and Jeffrey
China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia
8vo, br. ed. 417 pages. James Lilley's life has been entwined with China's fate since 1917, when his father started selling kerosene for Standard Oil along the Yangtze River. China Hands recounts his adventures as well as those of three generations of his family - all of them absorbing, many of them exciting, and one unduly tragic. It is a fascinating and moving look at America in Asia, Asia itself, and the remarkable life of one especially capable American. Includes an Index. ". . . a splendid memoir - as engaging as it it informative." - James Schlesinger, Former Director of the CIA (Key Words: Memoirs, James Lilley, China, Jeffrey, Asia, Foreign Relations, Tiananmen Square, Taiwan, Ronald Reagan, South Korea, North Vietnam, North Korea, Kaos, Hong Kong, Den Xiaoping, Chou En-lai, Cambodia, George H. W. Bush).
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Pantsov Alexander V. With Steven Leviine
Mao: The Real Story
8vo . First Edition. This major new biography of Mao uses extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to biographers to reveal surprising details about Mao's rise to power and his leadership in China. Mao Zedong was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, the most important in the history of modern China. A complex figure, he was champion of the poor and brutal tyrant, poet and despot. Mao brought his country from poverty and economic backwardness into the modern age and onto the world stage. But he was also responsible for an unprecedented loss of life. The disastrous Great Leap Forward with its accompanying famine and the bloody Cultural Revolution were Mao's creations. Internationally Mao began to distance China from the USSR under Khrushchev and shrewdly renewed relations with the U.S. as a counter to the Soviets. He lived and behaved as China's last emperor. - dust jacket blurb Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XXVIII, 754 pages, bibliography, index, illustrated with black-and-white photographs,
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Bush George H.w. Edited By Jeffrey A. Engel
The China Diary of George H. W. Bush. The Making of a Global President
8vo, hardcover in dj, this day-by-day diary of George H. W. Bush s life in China opens a fascinating window into one of the most formative periods of his career. As head of the United States Liaison Office in Beijing from 1974 to 1975, Bush witnessed high-level policy deliberations and daily social interactions between the two Cold War superpowers. The China Diary of George H. W. Bush offers an intimate look at this fundamental period of international history, marks a monumental contribution to our understanding of U.S.-China relations, and sheds light on the ideals of a global president in the making. In compelling words, Bush reveals a thoughtful and pragmatic realism that would guide him for decades to come. He considers the crisis of Vietnam, the difficulties of detente, and tensions in the Middle East, while lamenting the global decline in American power. He formulates views on the importance of international alliances and personal diplomacy, as he struggles to form meaningful relationships with China s top leaders. With a critical eye for detail, he depicts key political figures, including Gerald Ford, Donald Rumsfeld, Deng Xiaoping, and the ever-difficult Henry Kissinger. Throughout, Bush offers impressions of China and its people, describing his explorations of Beijing by bicycle, and his experiences with Chinese food, language lessons, and Ping-Pong. Complete with a preface by George H. W. Bush, and an introduction and essay by Jeffrey Engel that place Bush s China experience in the broad context of his public career, The China Diary of George H. W. Bush offers an unmediated perspective on American diplomatic history, and explores a crucial period s impact on a future commander in chief
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Wen Chihua
The Red Mirror: Children Of China's Cultural Revolution
8vo, hardcover in dj, ex-library ow very good. These evocative stories bring to life the tragic personal impact of the Cultural Revolution on the families of China s intellectuals. Now adults, survivors recall their childhood during the tumultuous years between 1965 and 1976, when Mao s death finally drew a curtain on a bitterly failed social and political experiment. Ex-Library
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Whitfield Susan
Life Along the Silk Road
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Wang Der-wei David
The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China
8vo, br. ed. ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. Moving effortlessly across the entire twentieth-century literary landscape, David Der-wei Wang delineates the many meanings of Chinese violence and its literary manifestations. Taking into account the campaigns of violence and brutality that have rocked generations of Chinese - often in the name of enlightenment, rationality, and utopian plenitude - this book places its arguments along two related axes: history and representation, modernity and monstrosity. Wang considers modern Chinese history as a complex of geopolitical, ethnic, gendered, and personal articulations of bygone and ongoing events. His discussion ranges from the politics of decapitation to the poetics of suicide, and from the typology of hunger and starvation to the technology of crime and punishment
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Ying Ruocheng Claire Conceison
Voices Carry: Behind Bars and Backstage During China's Revolution and Reform
8vo, br- ed. pp.245. Voices Carry is the moving autobiography of one of China's most prominent citizens of the twentieth century. Beginning with his imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution, Ying Ruocheng's narrative takes us through unexpectedly amusing adventures during his incarceration before flashing back to his childhood and the legacy of his elite Manchu Catholic family. An internationally renowned actor, director, and translator, Ying also held a high government post as vice minister of culture before and during the events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Detailing his experiences in the 1930s and 1940s during China's civil war and revolution, as well as his theatrical work in the reform era-episodes ranging from his partnership with Arthur Miller on Death of a Salesman to his roles in the films The Last Emperor and Little Buddha-Ying Ruocheng's memoir provides a rare glimpse behind the scenes of contemporary Chinese culture and politics.
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Wong Kam C.
Chinese Policing: History and Reform
8vo, br. ed. 263pp.
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Teiwes, Frederick C
Politics & Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms 1950-1965
8vo, original cloth, not issued with jacket, xiii,730 pp. ISBN: 1563242265
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Barmé Geremie and Linda Jaivin
New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices
Black and white illustrations, 515pp, index, as new copy in as new dustjacket. "New Ghosts, Old Dreams reveals the world of rebellion and dissent inside China like no other book before it. It is China as seen by the Chinese - with all of its passion, humour and raw energy. Many of the articles, speeches, stories, poems and sketches that appear in this volume were banned in China and smuggled out of the country after the crackdown in 1989.". heavy: might need extra charge for international shipping.
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Fung Yu-lan, Tr. Derk Bodde
A History of Chinese Philosophy Volume 1 The Period of the Philosophers from the Beginnings to Circa 100 B.c
Imp.8vo. r xx,455pp. Notes Bibliography and Index folding map, biblio., index. First original chinese edition (only volume 1 was ever published in this edition). A very nice copy in later hardback. w. gilt titles in chinese and english. scarce in this orginal Henri Vetch edition.
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Hsiang Ju Lin
Slippery Noodles: A Culinary History of China
8vo, br. ed. China is a big country and its cuisine is one of the world s greatest. In the last century all nations everywhere have been introduced to its tastes, flavours and cooking methods. But an understanding of Chinese food history is hard to come by: the country is large and the history is long. Hsiang Ju Lin has interrogated the written record, some of it dating back to the 5th century BC, and most recently from books current in the People s Republic today; she has translated it and set it into culinary context and thereby allows the modern reader to enter into some of the breadth and depth of literature available.In a sequence of chronological chapters Hsiang Ju Lin plunges into specific topics as diverse as the influence of the Silk Road, the administration of the Imperial palace, the role of tea and sugar, many of the grand banquets of which we have record, the differences witnessed in the southern provinces, vegetarianism, bean curd and soy sauce, birds eggs and birds nests, the role of salt, the impact of the Western missions, noodles, and the relationship of food and medicine.The reader is able to taste the richness of the heritage, to read for him or herself the words as diverse as the Essential Skills for Common Folk by Jia Sixie (6th cent. AD), Food and Drink by Shen Zinan (7th cent. ), Tao Gu; Zhu Yizun, and Yuan Mei (17th and 18th), the diary of a salt merchant on the east coast and Madame Wu s Home Cooking from the late Song dynasty.
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Constable, Nicole Ed. StudiesNicole Constable is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. Other contributors are Sharon A. Carstens, Myron L. Cohen, Mary S. Erbaugh, Elizabeth Lominska Johnson, Howard J. Martin; and Ellen Oxfel
Guest People: Hakka Identity in China and Abroad
8vo, br. ed. 294pp. The essays in this volume analyze and compare what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, political, geographical, and historical contexts including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Taiwan, and contemporary China. StudiesNicole Constable is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. Other contributors are Sharon A. Carstens, Myron L. Cohen, Mary S. Erbaugh, Elizabeth Lominska Johnson, Howard J. Martin; and Ellen Oxfeld.
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Cong Dachang
When Heroes Pass Away: The Invention of a Chinese Communist Pantheon
8vo, br. ed. pp.197. This book studies the treatment of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and other Communist leaders from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. It also unravels the complex political culture in the last phase of Deng s China. The author explores why and how a Chinese Communist pantheon has risen at a time when Communist ideology is fading and the current Chinese leaders are coming to grips with a wide array of moral, social, and economic maladies. The Party has been marred by corruption and the whole society poisoned by greed. Thus, the invention of the pantheon is an important part of the official plan to preserve Communist rule.By highlighting patriotism, riding economic successes, manipulating public sentiment, and re-creating symbols, the state and power elite have skillfully promoted the pantheon to mitigate a legitimacy crisis and to relieve succession pangs. Jiang Zemin and his colleagues, who do not have the charisma of the Communist leaders of the older generation, need to link themselves to the top pantheon with the trinity of Mao, Zhou, and Deng at the top. Yet the pantheon is not merely an official product. Behind the facade of the great worship lies a multitude of intentions, purposes, and meanings, the work of a confluence of different interest groups.
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Zheng Yi
Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China
8vo, br. ed. pp.xvii-199. sticker on spine ow. a very nice copy. This compelling book provides a meticulously documented account of officially sanctioned cannibalism in the southwestern province of Guangxi during the Cultural Revolution. Drawing on his unique access to local archives of the Chinese Communist Party and on extensive interviews with party officials, the victims' relatives, and the murderers themselves, Zheng Yi paints a disturbing picture of official compliance in the systematic killing and cannibalization of individuals in the name of political revolution and "class struggle."The treasure-trove of evidence Zheng Yi has unearthed offers unprecedented insights into the way the internecine, factional struggles of the Cultural Revolution reached a horrifying level of insanity and frenzy among the ethnic Zhuang people of Guangxi. Profoundly moving, acutely observed, and unflinchingly graphic, Scarlet Memorial is a shining example of a genre of investigative reporting that courageously and independently records obscure and officially censored historical events, revealing hidden dimensions of modern Chinese history and politics.
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Haynes, John earl, Klehr, Harvey
In Denial Historians, Communism and Espionage
8vo, cloth in dj, ex-library with usual marks. Synopsis: Focusing on what they call lying about spying the authors reveal how revisionist scholars have ignored or distorted documents from Russian archives that point to espionage links between Moscow and the CPUSA. About the Author: John Haynes and Harvey Klehr co-authors of "The Secret World of American Communism" and "Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America." Ex-Library
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Chang K. C.
Food in Chinese Culture : Anthropological & Historical Perspectives
1st Edition. large 8vo.pp.429, 32 illustrations. An analysis of Chinese culture through its eating habits.
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Miller Arthur
Salesman in Beijing
8vo, [2], xii, [2], 254 pp. hardcover in dj, Illustrated with black and white photographs by Inge Morath. Chronicle of the author directing his play in China. "Salesman is about a family and business, and the chinese pratically invented both, and their reaction was little different than audience reaction had been in New York.".
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Lifton Robert Jay
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China. With a New Preface By the author
8vo, softcover.
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lo Thondup; Anne F. Thurston
The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet
8vo, cloh in dj, ex library but no marks, very good. Shortly before midnight on March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama, without his glasses and dressed as an ordinary Tibetan solider, slipped out of his summer residence with only four aides at his side. At that moment, he became the symbolic head of the Tibetan government in exile, and Gyalo Thondup, the only one of the Dalai Lama's brothers not to don the robes of a Buddhist monk, became the fulcrum for the independence movement. The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong tells the extraordinary story of the Dalai Lama's family, the exile of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism from Tibet, and the enduring political crisis that has seen remote and bleakly beautiful Tibet all but disappear as an independent nation-state. For the last sixty years, Gyalo Thondup has been at the at the heart of the epic struggle to protect and advance Tibet in the face of unreliable allies, overwhelming odds, and devious rivals, playing an utterly determined and unique role in a Cold War high-altitude superpower rivalry. Here, for the first time, he reveals how he found himself whisked between Chiang Kai-shek, Zhou Enlai, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the CIA, as he tried to secure, on behalf of his brother, the future of Tibet. About the Author: Gyalo Thondup, the older brother of the Dalai Lama, lives on a hilltop compound in Kalimpong, India, that also houses the noodle factory he set up with his late wife, Diki Dolkar (Zhu Dan).
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West, Harry (Editor)/ Raman, Parvathi (Editor)
Enduring Socialism: Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation
8vo, hardcover, Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts. The chapters focus on ways in which: pre-socialist economic, political, and cultural forms in fact endured an era of socialism and have found new life in the post-socialist present, notwithstanding revolutionary socialist claims; continuities with a pre-socialist past have been produced within the historical imaginary of post-socialism; and socialist economic, political, and cultural forms have in fact endured in a purportedly postsocialist era, despite the claims of neo-liberal reformers.
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Dutton, Michael R
Policing and Punishment in China
8vo, pp.xii-391 b/w illusts. This book traces the history of regulation and punishment in late Imperial China and the 20th century. It shows how China was the first country to use statistics to plot and police people and how it uses traditional notions of 'community mutuality' to regulate them. Scarce
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Van Gulik Robert H.
Chinese Pictorial Art as Viewed by the Connoisseur.: Notes on the Means and Methods of Traditional Chinese Connoisseurship of Pictorial Art,based Upon a Study of the Art of Mounting Scrolls in China and Japan.
reprint of Serie Orientale Roma,1958 ed. 4to, pp.xxxvii, 537, 160 illustrations, decorated hard cover slihtly worn, contents very good. a detailed study of the history and techniques of mounting paintings in China with chapters on the judging of antique scrolls, the connoisseurship of seals and the collecting of scrolls. Van Gulik considered this to be his most important work. scaece also in reprint.
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Van Gulik Robert H.
The Gibbon in China. An essay in chinese animal Lore
4to, 123 pp. Ills. original gilt blue Boards.including a small record on the animal's sounds, almost mint copy of this very scarce.work .incudes a delightful pasted ex-libris of former owner, engraved in the early 1980s by reputed chiese artist. Hua Jungwu Table of contents; List of abbreviations; Introduction; First part: From the earliest Times to the Han dynasty, ca. 1500 to 202 B.C.; Second part: From the Han dynasty to the end of the T'ang period, 202 B.C. to 907 A.D.; Third part: Sung, Yuan and Ming dynasties, 960 to 1644 A.D.; Appendix: The Gibbon in Japan; Key to the Gibbons mentioned in the text and appearing in the plates; Map of China; Folio: Chinese texts; Index; Addenda and corrigenda. Approximately 95 B&W photos and illustrations of Gibbons, paintings, scrolls, designs, drawings, woodblock prints. . Pocket on inside of back cover containing a 45 rpm record of the "Morning calls of a Hylobates Agilis, female 3 1/2 years old". 123 pages. 12 by 8 3/4 inches.
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Hsia Po-chia
Un gesuita nella città proibita. Matteo Ricci, 1552-1610
8vo ril in sovrac, pp. 420, ill., cm 16,5x21. (Biblioteca Storica). Il gesuita Matteo Ricci è a tutt'oggi uno degli occidentali più noti in Cina. Arrivato nel 1582, vi rimase per quasi trent'anni giocando un ruolo decisivo nella diffusione non solo del cristianesimo ma anche della cultura e della scienza occidentale in Cina, e nella conoscenza della cultura cinese in Europa. Il volume di PoChia Hsia, racconta l'intera vita di questo leggendario gesuita, seguendolo dai primi anni nella nativa Macerata e a Roma, al Portogallo, alla missione a Goa, infine all'approdo in Cina dove grazie alle sue conoscenze e al prestigio acquistato divenne consigliere della corte imperiale e fu il primo occidentale a poter entrare nella città proibita. Ricci va considerato il maggiore mediatore fra la Cina e l'Occidente.
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Goldman Merle
China's Intellectuals. Advise and Dissent
8vo, ex library stamps and labels ow very good. Ex-Library
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Ter Haar Barend J.
Telling Stories: Witchcraft And Scapegoating in Chinese History (Sinica Leidensia)
8vo, hardcover. This book analyzes the role of oral stories in Chinese witch-hunts. Successive chapters deal with the implications of Chinese versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story; the use of parts of the adult human body, children and foetuses, to draw out their life-force; attacks by mysterious creatures, causing open wounds, suffocation, the loss of hair and the like; the presence of a Drought Demon in the corpses of recently deceased women; and finally the emperor forcibly recruiting unmarried women for his harem. Of interest to historians and anthropologists working on oral traditions, folklore and witch-hunts (also from a comparative perspective), but also to those working on anti-Christian movements and the intersection of popular fears and political history in China. About the Author: Barend J. ter Haar, Doctorate (1990) in the Humanities, Leiden University, is Professor of Chinese History at Leiden. He published on Chinese temple cults, lay religious movements, violence, minorities, including The Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads: Creating an Identity (Brill, 1998).
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Qiu Xiaolong
La ragazza che danzava per Mao
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Le Fèvre George
An Eastern Odyssey The third expedition of Haardt and Audouin-Dubreuil Preface by André Citroën introduction by L. Audouin-Dubreuil translated and adapted by Major-General Sir E.D. Swinton [Ole Luk-Oie]
Large 8vo. 368pp. original green cloth. Portrait, and other plates from photographs. Endpaper maps, and fldg map in perfect condition. Slight sunning to spine, Account of the third Citroën expedition, 1931-32 .from Damascus to Peking, baghdad, persia, afghanistan, khyber, nankow, the gobi, suchow, sinkiang, himalayas, urumqi, bamian, christian oases.
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Wang Meng
Figure Intercambiabili
8vo, legat edit. con sovracoperta, pp.422, come nuovo.
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Farquhar Mary Ann
Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong (Studies on Modern China)
8vo, hardcover. 335pp. Ex-Library
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Che Muqi
The Silk RoadThe Silk Road Past and Present
8vo, 1st Ed. Stated. 319 pgs. Inscribed by author.Illustrated with ten b&w maps, including one fold-out map of the Silk Road taken by the author. Further illust. with 31 color photographs of the landscapes, the peoples and their labors and crafts, ancient arts and architecture which one encounters along the old Silk Road which ran across Eurasia for thousands of Kilometres/miles. For a thousand years and more after the second century B . C. a great amount of silk and silk fabrics/products was transported from China to the West over the Road.
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Mao Zedong (a Cura Di Maria Arena Regis e Filippo coccia)
Rivoluzione e Costruzione Scritti e Discorsi 1949-1957
16mo. pp. XCIV-738 leg edit, sovracoperta, ottimo
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Cammann Schuyler V. R.
The Land of the Camel: Tents and Temples of Inner Mongolia
8vo [23.5 x 16 cm]; x, 200 pp, 42 illus from photos on plates, index. orig black cloth, One of the few accounts of life and customs during this being the first to observe conditions there since the Japanese sealed the area and being the last there before the Chinese again closed the area to outsiders. He provides descriptions of religious rites, the lamaseries role in Mongolian life and interviewed the Living Buddha of Shandagu. Bibliog. Mongolica 2326.
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Fitzgerald C. P.
The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People
1st.Edition 8vo. XXII, 230 pages, bibliography, index, three maps, six illustrations, original dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is very slightly faded on the spine section. An historical examination of the southern expansion of Chinese influence, culture and power, as well as the migration of Chinese to many South-East Asian countries. Yunnan which ended as a province of China and Vietnam, which were within the Empire, but has not so since the end of the T'ang Dynasty. Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Burma, which all to varying degrees came under the influence of China.
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Granet, Marcel
La civiltà Cinese Antica
8vo, leg edit. tela dorso sbiadito, altrimenti molto buono
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Lobsang Rampa
THE THIRD EYE (The Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama)
22.5x15cm, brown cloth gilt, 256pp, b&w line drawings. 1st ed. Famous and controversial autobiography. A very good to fine copy in teared at top of spine but attractive dustwrapper.
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Goldsmith Oliver
The Citizen of the World: or, Letters From a Chinese Philosopher Residing in London, to His Friends in the East
First edition thus. Decorations by Cecil Keeling. Introduction by Rosalind Vallance. 350pp. 8vo. A perfect copy in cloth spine and marbled boards, in its intact case. The first edition of this book was published in 1762, though previously it had appeared as a series of twice-weekly articles, under the title of Chinese Letters, in John Newbery's daily paper, Public Ledger ( 1760 ).
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Sotheby's Taipei
Fine Modern Chinese Oil Paintings, Watercolours and Sculpture. March 22, 1992 YOGONG
4to Soft Cover. Fine as new. 86 items.
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Alexander, William and George Henry Mason
Views of 18th Century China. Costumes: History: Customs.
4to Many full page colour plates, 222pp, as new cloth in fine dustjacket. An attractive book with full page color reproductions compiled from the "The Costume of China" by George Henry Mason and William Alexander published in 1804 and 1805 respectively.
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Andrews, Stephen Pearl
Discoveries in Chinese, or the symbolism of the primitive characters of the Chinese system of writing as a contribution to philology and ethnology and a practical aid in the acquisition of the Chinese Language
8vo, br. ed. softcover pp. 137.
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Wieger Leon S. J.
Chinese Characters: Their origin, etymology, history, classification, and signification. A thorough study from Chinese Documents
photolitographic reissue of of the 2nd (1927) edition; enlarged and revised according to the 4th french edition translated by L. Davrout. Appendix on archaic bronze writing. 820pp. original paper boards, . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., very good, 820p., Chinese characters classified, with English descriptions. Issued in either a one complete volume, or a 2 volulme set. Volume I is etymological lessons and phonetic series, volume II is Chinese-English lexicons. An historical sketch, list of the radicals, list of numeritives & index of characters. Table of sounds, Chen, Cheng, Chien, Ch'ien, Ch'u, Chua, Chuai, Ch'uai, Chuan, Hui, Huang, Ko, Kou, Li, Liao, Lieh, Lu, Luan, Lueh, Shou, Shu, T'eng, Ti, T'ing Tiu, To, Ts'ung & Tu, Yang, Yao, Yung are some characters covered. Also family names, dynasties, administrative divisions and horary characters. Classical reference resouce compiled by the celebrated Jesuit, sinologist and scholar, extremely scarce in this fine chinese Sienhsien mission authorized reissue. very good in uncut pages.
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