‎Porcelaine chinoise‎

‎Lévi, Jean , Ed.‎

‎La Dispute Sur Le Sel et Le Fer‎

‎broché, Porté au rang des classiques chinois, La Dispute sur le sel et le fer retranscrit les répliques échangées en 81 avant J.-C. au cours d'un conseil impérial, dont le point de départ est la question du monopole du sel et du fer, décrété quarante ans plus tôt comme moyen de renflouer le Trésor épuisé par la guerre contre les Huns et quelques autres barbares. Il s'ensuivra une controverse générale sur la manière de gouverner, entre d'une part, des tenants de l'école des Lois, pour lesquels les questions de morale n'ont aucune part à tenir dans le domaine politique, et d'autre part, des érudits confucéens et des sages.Ce texte, transmis par Huan Kuan dans la seconde moitié du Ier siècle avant notre ère, constitue à la fois un témoignage de première main et sans fard sur les conditions de vie concrètes et sur les moeurs politiques de cette époque lointaine, et une mine de réflexions atemporelles sur l'art de gérer une société. - Nombre de page(s) : 739 . texte chinois et français.‎

‎Dikotter, Frank‎

‎The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976‎

‎8vo, pp.396‎

‎LEIBNIZ GOTTFRIED WILHELM‎

‎Writings on China‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.xvi,157. Writings on China. Translated, with an Introduction, Notes, and Commentaries by Daniel J. Cook and Henry Rosemont, Jr.‎

‎Giele Enno‎

‎Imperial Decision-Making and Communication in Early China: A Study of Cai Yong's Duduan‎

‎8vo, hardcover, 357pp.‎

‎Minxin Pei‎

‎China's Crony Capitalism. The Dynamics of Regime Decay‎

‎8vo, hardcover, When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build socialism with Chinese characteristics. More than three decades later, China s efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working people s paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and growing social tensions. China s Crony Capitalism traces the origins of China s present-day troubles to the series of incomplete reforms from the post-Tiananmen era that decentralized the control of public property without clarifying its ownership. Beginning in the 1990s, changes in the control and ownership rights of state-owned assets allowed well-connected government officials and businessmen to amass huge fortunes through the systematic looting of state-owned property in particular land, natural resources, and assets in state-run enterprises. Mustering compelling evidence from over two hundred corruption cases involving government and law enforcement officials, private businessmen, and organized crime members, Minxin Pei shows how collusion among elites has spawned an illicit market for power inside the party-state, in which bribes and official appointments are surreptitiously but routinely traded. This system of crony capitalism has created a legacy of criminality and entrenched privilege that will make any movement toward democracy difficult and disorderly. Rejecting conventional platitudes about the resilience of Chinese Communist Party rule, Pei gathers unambiguous evidence that beneath China s facade of ever-expanding prosperity and power lies a Leninist state in an advanced stage of decay‎

‎Hecheng, Tan‎

‎The Killing Wind: A Chinese County's Descent into Madness during the Cultural Revolution‎

‎8vo, hardcover in dust jacket, 505pp. A spasm of extreme radicalism that rocked China to its foundations in the mid- to late 1960s, the Cultural Revolution has generated a vast literature. Much of it, however, is at a birds-eye level, and we have very few detailed accounts of how it worked on the ground. Long after the event, Tan Hecheng, now a retired Chinese writer and editor, was sent to Daoxian, Mao s home county, to report on the official investigation into the massacre that took place there during the Cultural Revolution. In The Killing Wind, Tan recounts how over the course of 66 days in 1967, over 9,000 Chinese class enemies were massacred in the Daoxian, in the Hunan Province. The killings were unprovoked and carried out with incredible, stomach-churning brutality, which is documented here in excruciating detail. But although this could easily be just a compendium of horrors, it s also a meditation on memory, moral culpability, and the failure of the Chinese government to come to terms with the crimes of the Maoist era. Tan interweaves the story of his research with the recollections of survivors and reflections on the long-term consequences of the Cultural Revolution. Akin to Jan Gross s Neighbors, about the Holocaust in a Polish town, The Killing Wind likewise paints a single episode in extraordinary detail in order to make a broader argument about the long term consequences flowing from one of the twentieth century s greatest human tragedies‎

‎Pomfret John‎

‎Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China‎

‎8vo, br ed. A first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years as seen through the life of an award-winning journalist and his four Chinese classmates As a twenty-year-old exchange student from Stanford University, John Pomfret spent a year at Nanjing University in China. His fellow classmates were among those who survived the twin tragedies of Mao's rule?the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution?and whose success in government and private industry today are shaping China's future. Pomfret went on to a career in journalism, spending the bulk of his time in China. After attending the twentieth reunion of his class, he decided to reacquaint himself with some of his classmates. Chinese Lessons is their story and his own. Beginning with Pomfret's first days in China, Chinese Lessons takes us back to the often torturous paths that brought together the Nanjing University History Class of 1982. One classmate's father was killed during the Cultural Revolution for the crime of being an intellectual; another classmate labored in the fields for years rather than agree to a Party-arranged marriage; a third was forced to publicly denounce and humiliate her father. As we watch Pomfret and his classmates begin to make their lives as adults, we see as never before the human cost and triumph of China's transition from near-feudal communism to first-world capitalism. John Pomfret is a reporter for The Washington Post. Formerly the Post's Beijing bureau chief, he is now the Los Angeles bureau chief. In 2003, Pomfret was awarded the Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Asian Journalism by the Asia Society, an annual award for best coverage of Asia. He lives with his wife and family in Los Angeles‎

‎Watson Burton‎

‎Ssu-ma Ch'ien Grand Historian of China‎

‎8vo. 276 pp, very good original cloth in dustjacket with marginal chips, small former owner's signature. examines the traditional models of historical writing such as the 'Spring and Autumn Annals' and the 'Book of Documents,' from which Ssu-ma Ch'ien drew much of his material and inspiration. He also describes the state of Chinese historiography at the time of writing of the Shih chi. He discusses the origins of Chinese historical theory and demonstrates the extent to which the Shih chi has influenced its development. Also provided is an annotated translation of the historian's autobiography along with the additions made to it by his successor, Pan Ku.‎

‎Barmé Geremie R.‎

‎Shades of Mao. The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader‎

‎8vo, hardcover oiginal cloth, (no df) pp.334. Essays, poems, songs, folkloric anecdotes and photographs celebrating the myth of Mao. . . . The editor supplies an insightful, and cohesing introduction. -- Reference and Research Book News(A) highly entertaining and informative collection of translations of official, admiring, tacky, but sometimes also highly critical writings, and illustrations of objects, all featuring Mao‎

‎Zeitlin Judith T.‎

‎Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.332. on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai s Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese‎

‎Andrieu Jacques‎

‎Psychologie de Mao Tsé-toung‎

‎8vo, Peu de chefs d'État ont été autant adulés, internationalement, que Mao : de Malraux à Sartre en passant par Alain Peyrefitte et Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, ils ont été nombreux à saluer ce " phare de l'humanité " (Giscard d'Estaing). Pourtant, Mao est responsable de l'une des plus grandes folies meurtrières de l'Histoire du dernier siècle. Pour comprendre ce que fut la " pensée-Mao ", néologisme forgé en l'honneur du grand timonier, Jacques Andrieu tente de cerner la psychologie du personnage au travers de son expression, dans ses écrits et dans ses interventions publiques. L'auteur passe au crible de la biographie de Mao un florilège de citations souvent inattendues, parfois cocasses, et montre quels motifs insoupçonnés ont causé certains des plus grands malheurs de la Chine.‎

‎Norwich John Julius‎

‎Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe‎

‎Hardcover in dj 8vo, t Edition. Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe 'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent - were born within a single decade. Each looms large in his country's history and, in this book, John Julius Norwich broadens the scope and shows how, against the rich background of the Renaissance and destruction of the Reformation, their wary obsession with one another laid the foundations for modern Europe. Individually, each man could hardly have been more different - from the scandals of Henry's six wives to Charles's monasticism - but, together, they dominated the world stage.‎

‎Antonkin Alexei‎

‎Les Chiens de Faience. Témpoignage d'un correspondant de l'agence Tass à Pékin pour servir a l'histoire de l'Union soviétique et de la Chine‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 14.5x21. 215pp.‎

‎Feng Jicai, Tsai Feng‎

‎Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China's Cultural Revolution‎

‎8vo, br. ed 285pp.‎

‎Jia Pingwa‎

‎Le Village Englouti‎

‎8vo, br. ed. en français. 317pp.‎

‎Fong Mei‎

‎One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment‎

‎8vo, Very Good: a copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. For over three decades, China exercised unprecedented control over the reproductive habits of its billion citizens. Now, with its economy faltering just as it seemed poised to become the largest in the world, the Chinese government has brought an end to its one-child policy. It may once have seemed a shortcut to riches, but it has had a profound effect on society in modern China. Combining personal portraits of families affected by the policy with a nuanced account of China s descent towards economic and societal turmoil, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mei Fong reveals the true cost of this most controversial of policies. Drawing on eight years spent documenting its repercussions, she reveals a dystopian legacy of second children refused documentation by the state, only children supporting their parents and grandparents, and villages filled with ineligible bachelors. An exceptional piece of on-the-ground journalism, One Child humanizes the policy that defined China and warns that the ill-effects of its legacy will be felt across the globe‎

‎Elvin Mark‎

‎Changing Stories in the Chinese World‎

‎8vo, br. ed. underlining and notes in pen to some chapters, ow looks externaly as new. book is an innovative attempt to convey something of how it has felt since the early nineteenth century to be Chinese. It is based on the assumption that people live their lives in stories, or as if they themselves were in stories-stories that are largely a social inheritance but are also in some measure self-created or at least continually adapted, edited, or extended. The author describes and interprets some of the most important stories through which the Chinese have lived their lives in the last two hundred years and their understanding of them. He shows how largely forgotten works of popular literature, novels and poems in particular, can admit the reader to a number of different emotional worlds. Together they suggest that there is no such thing as the Chinese story, let alone mind, but rather a historical palimpsest of extraordinary and often internally contradictory complexity. The book begins with an examination of Li Ruzhen s Destinies of the Flowers in the Mirror, which reveals a microcosm of the educated Chinese world predating major Western influences.Balancing this emphasis on the elite are the poems collected by Zhang Yingchang in Our Dynasty s Bell of Poesy, which portray the universe of peasants, women, artisans, soldiers, and prisoners. A bestseller of the 1930 s, Tides in the Human Sea, shows the crisis of absurdity that arises when feelings no longer coincide with inherited patterns of behavior as modernization begins to take hold. Hao Ran s Children of the Western Sands, a popular Communist work of the early 1970 s, allows us to be drawn into at least a momentary empathy with the idealism of the Maoist faithful. Almost as different as can be imagined is The Bastard, by Sima Zhongyuan, one of Taiwan s most widely read writers. Its characters interpret the Communist revolution in terms derived from traditional Chinese religion, as a deserved punishment inflicted on the Chinese for the filthy impropriety of their sexual conduct. The final work considered is a book of essays, A Commonplace Fellow, by Yuan Ze nan, a Chinese-American writer who has reached the point where his Chineseness has all but vanished, and who is consciously exploring its disappearance.‎

‎Di Cosmo, Nicola [Editor]; Frank, Allen J. [Editor]; Golden, Peter B. [Editor];‎

‎The Cambridge History of Inner Asia . The Cinggisid Age‎

‎8vo, hardcover in dj, volume centres on the history and legacy of the Mongol World Empire founded by Chinggis Khan and his sons, including its impact upon the modern world. An international team of scholars examines the political and cultural history of the Mongol empire, its Chinggisid successor states, and the non-Chinggisid dynasties that came to dominate Inner Asia in its wake. Geographically, it focuses on the continental region from East Asia to Eastern Europe. Beginning in the twelfth century, the volume moves through to the establishment of Chinese and Russian political hegemony in Inner Asia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Contributors use recent research and new approaches that have revitalized Inner Asian studies to highlight the world-historical importance of the regimes and states formed during and after the Mongol conquest. Their conclusions testify to the importance of a region whose modern fate has been overshadowed by Russia and China.‎

‎Allsen Thomas T.‎

‎Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)‎

‎8vo, br. ed. In the thirteenth century the Mongols created a vast, transcontinental empire that intensified commercial and cultural contact throughout Eurasia. From the outset of their expansion, the Mongols identified and mobilized artisans of diverse backgrounds, frequently transporting them from one cultural zone to another. Prominent among those transported were Muslim textile workers, resettled in China, where they made clothes for the imperial court. In a meticulous and fascinating account, the author investigates the significance of cloth and colour in the political and cultural life of the Mongols. Situated within the broader context of the history of the Silk Road, the primary line in East-West cultural communication during the pre-Muslim era, the study promises to be of interest not only to historians of the Middle East and Asia, but also to art historians and textile specialists.‎

‎Dreyfus Paul‎

‎Matteo Ricci. Uno scienziato alla corte di Pechino‎

‎8vo, ril.ed. sovrac. L'avventura del grande gesuita innamorato della Cina e della espansione cristiana in Oriente. Un libro che guida il lettore nel profondo della cultura cinese del XVI secolo, attraverso gli usi e i costumi dell'epoca in una dimensione esotica lontanissima dal mondo occidentale di allora.‎

‎Colquhoun Archibald r‎

‎Across Chryse, Being the Narrative of A Journey of Exploration Through the South China Border Lands From Canton to Mandalay , Vols I e II‎

‎2 vols, cloth, volumes. Volume 1: Maps 1 folding, many text illustrations, 14 full page illustrations, xxx + 420pp. Volume II: Folding map, many text illustrations, 12 full page illustrations, xvi + 408pp, appendix, index. Endpapers browned, some light occasional spotting and light even browning, lower endpaper volume I torn with a little loss along the lower edge. A good set in cloth. Archibald R. Colquhoun (1848 - 1914) was a great traveller who later in his career became the First Administrator of Southern Rhodesia. It was for his exploratory work in Southern China, Burma and Indo-China described in this book that he was awarded the Founder's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1884. Chryse as mentioned in the title of this book was a former name for Indo-China and Southern China and it is Colquhoun's travels in the area (the Chinese southern provinces of Guandong, Guangxi and Yunnan Provinces, Laos, northern Thailand and Burma),‎

‎Ball Philip‎

‎The Water Kingdom‎

‎New. 234 x 153 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book. A secret history of China - a fresh new way of thinking about a people, a civilisation, an epic story. The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China s past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to grasp the overwhelming complexity and teeming energy of the country and its people. Water is a key that unlocks much of Chinese history and thought. The ubiquitous relationship that the Chinese people have had with water has made it an enduring metaphor for philosophical thought and artistic expression. From the Han emperors to Mao, the ability to manage the waters - to provide irrigation and defend against floods - became a barometer of political legitimacy, and attempts to do so have involved engineering works on a gigantic scale. Yet the strain that economic growth is putting on its water resources today may be the greatest threat to China s future. The Water Kingdom is an epic, spell-binding story. Our guides are travellers and explorers, poets and painters, bureaucrats and activists, who have themselves struggled to come to terms with living in a world so shaped and permeated by water.epic, spell-binding story. Our guides are travellers and explorers, poets and painters, bureaucrats and activists, who have themselves struggled to come to terms with living in a world so shaped and permeated by water.‎

‎Jeremy Brown (editor), Matthew D. Johnson (editor), Jacob Eyferth (contributions), Wang Haiguang (contributions), Yang Kuisong (contributions), Daniel Leese (contributions), Sha Qingqing (contributions), Sigrid Schmalzer (contributions), Michael Schoenhal‎

‎Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era‎

‎8vo, Synopsis: Maoism at the Grassroots challenges state-centered views of China under Mao, providing insights into the lives of citizens across social strata, ethnicities, and regions. It reveals how ordinary people risked persecution and imprisonment in order to assert personal beliefs and identities, despite political repression and surveillance. Review: "Maoism at the Grassroots" showcases the exciting new scholarship being produced by the rising generation of historians of the People s Republic of China. These chapters portray Mao-era society and politics with startling intimacy and humanity, drawing on a range of new sources that bring everyday experiences at the grassroots into sharp focus.--Andrew G. Walder, author of "China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed" As a work of cultural history, "Maoism at the Grassroots" seeks to complicate interpretations of China s Mao era (1949 1976) through an examination of diverse and shared experiences of everyday life As in the best edited volumes, each section of this book is nicely linked to the others and the authors make connections across the chapters rather than writing in isolation This book is a must-read for scholars who work on the People s Republic of China and will prove rewarding as well to anyone curious about ordinary life under Communist Party rule. "Maoism at the Grassroots" also makes an important intervention in the larger project of writing modern Chinese history. Until recently, Western books on China were primarily written by white men and the occasional white woman. This volume features scholarship from an impressive array of both Western and Chinese academics, many of the latter being translated into English for the first time. This marks a turning point in the production of historical scholarship on the Mao era, and hopefully is an indication of growing collaboration among scholars in different parts of the West and in China.--Sarah Mellors"Los Angeles Review of Books" (11/23/2015)" As a work of cultural history, Maoism at the Grassroots seeks to complicate interpretations of China's Mao era (1949-1976) through an examination of diverse and shared experiences of everyday life. As in the best edited volumes, each section of this book is nicely linked to the others and the authors make connections across the chapters rather than writing in isolation. This book is a must-read for scholars who work on the People's Republic of China and will prove rewarding as well to anyone curious about ordinary life under Communist Party rule. Maoism at the Grassroots also makes an important intervention in the larger project of writing modern Chinese history. Until recently, Western books on China were primarily written by white men and the occasional white woman. This volume features scholarship from an impressive array of both Western and Chinese academics, many of the latter being translated into English for the first time. This marks a turning point in the production of historical scholarship on the Mao era, and hopefully is an indication of growing collaboration among scholars in different parts of the West and in China.--Sarah Mellors"Los Angeles Review of Books" (11/23/2015) A new generation of Chinese and Western scholars is enriching the history of Mao Zedong's China with material from discarded personnel files, diaries, and unpublished manuscripts purchased from paper recyclers, as well as from recently opened local archives. Their view from below challenges the cliched images of regimented masses fanatically loyal to the revolution.--Andrew J. Nathan"Foreign Affairs" (02/10/2016) For years, Maoist China was opaque from the outside--interpretable only by what a trickle of refugees said or by inference from government references to 'the masses.' That bland term is now passe, but the Western tendency to homogenize the common folk of China persists, especially in fields related to international relations, where scholars and journalists casually refer to 'the Chinese' as‎

‎Pai, Hsiao-Hung‎

‎Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants‎

‎8vo, hardcover in dj, exlibrary stamps ow very good. Each year, 200 million workers from China?s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China?s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce??scattered sand?, in Chinese parlance?and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country. Ex-Library‎

‎Kang, Minsoo Editor and Translator‎

‎The Story of Hong Gildong‎

‎16mo, br. ed. The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. Like its English counterpart, Robin Hood, it has been adapted into countless movies, television shows, novels and comics. Its memorable lines are known to virtually every Korean by heart. Until now, this incredible 19th century fable has been all but inaccessible to English readers. Hong Gildong, the brilliant but illegitimate son of a government minister, cannot advance in society due to his secondary status, so he leaves home to become the leader of a band of outlaws who rob the rich to give to the poor. On the way to building his own empire and gaining acceptance from his family, Hong Gildong vanquishes assassins, battles monsters, and conquers kingdoms. Minsoo Kang's expressive and animated new translation finally makes the original text of this classic available in English, re-introducing a noble and righteous outlaw and sharing a beloved hallmark of Korean culture. Half fairy tale, half social protest novel, The Story of Hong Gildong is nothing less than the story of modern Korea itself (Washington Post) L'autore Minsoo Kang is an associate professor of European history at University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the author of Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination and co-editor of Visions of the Industrial Age, 1830 - 1914: Modernity and the Anxiety of Representation in Europe.‎