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Di Cosmo Nicola and Don J. Wyatt
Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries and Human Geographies in Chinese History
8vo, br. ed. Boundaries - demanding physical space, enclosing political entities, and distinguishing social or ethnic groups - constitute an essential aspect of historical investigation. It is especially with regard to disciplinary pluralism and historical breadth that this book most clearly departs and distinguishes itself from other works on Chinese boundaries and ethnicity. In addition to history, the disciplines represented in this book include anthropology (particularly ethnography), religion, art history, and literary studies. Each of the authors focuses on a distinct period, beginning with the Zhou dynasty (c. 1100 BCE) and ending with the early centuries after the Manchu conquest (c. CE 1800) - resulting in a chronological sweep of nearly three millennia.
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Moskowitz Marc L.
Go Nation : Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China
8vo, br. ed. Go (Weiqi in Chinese) is one of the most popular games in East Asia, with a steadily increasing fan base around the world. Like chess, Go is a logic game but it is much older, with written records mentioning the game that date back to the 4th century BC. As Chinese politics have changed over the last two millennia, so too has the imagery of the game. In Imperial times it was seen as a tool to seek religious enlightenment and was one of the four noble arts that were a requisite to becoming a cultured gentleman. During the Cultural Revolution it was a stigmatized emblem of the lasting effects of feudalism. Today, it marks the reemergence of cultured gentlemen as an idealized model of manhood. Marc L. Moskowitz explores the fascinating history of the game, as well as providing a vivid snapshot of Chinese Go players today. Go Nation uses this game to come to a better understanding of Chinese masculinity, nationalism, and class, as the PRC reconfigures its history and traditions to meet the future
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Davies John Paton
China Hand: An Autobiography
8vo, hardcover dj .At the height of the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s,john Paton Davies,jr., was summoned to the State Department one morning and fired. His offense? The career diplomat had counseled the U.S. government during World War II that the Communist forces in China were poised to take over the country~ which they did, in 1949. Davies joined the thousands of others who became the victims of a political maelstrom that engulfed the country and deprived the United States of the wisdom and guidance of an entire generation of East Asian diplomats and scholars. The son of American missionaries, Davies was born in China at the turn of the twentieth century. Educated in the United States, he joined the ranks of the newly formed Foreign Service in the 1930s and returned to China, where he would remain until nearly the end of World War II. During that time he became one of the first Americans to meet and talk with the young revolutionary known as Mao Zedong. He documented the personal excesses and political foibles of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai~shek. As a political aide to General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, the wartime commander of the Allied forces in East and South Asia, he traveled widely in the region, meeting with colonial India's Nehru and Gandhi to gauge whether their animosity to British rule would translate into support for Japan. Davies ended the war serving in Moscow with George F. Kennan, the architect of America's policy toward the Soviet Union. Kennan found in Davies a lifelong friend and colleague. Neither, however, was immune to the virulent anticommunism of the immediate postwar years. China Hand is the story of a man who captured with wry and judicious insight the times in which he lived, both as observer and as actor. John Paton Davies,Jr. (1908~99) was a Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Department of State from 1931 to 1954. He was also the author of Foreign and Other Affairs and Dragon by the Tail: American, British,Japanese, and Russian Encounters with China and One Another
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Rohsenow Robert S. Ed.
ABC Dictionary of Chinese Proverbs
8vo, br. ed. 272pp. . The introductory chapter explains the proverbs' use as a store of conventional wisdom in a low-literacy culture. So, it's surprising that not all of the proverbs seem inherently memorable. But the book has a sufficiently high proportion of interesting proverbs to make it a worthwhile browser for the non specialist
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Dutton Michael
Policing Chinese Politics: A History
8vo, br. ed. In the first line of his Selected Works, Mao Zedong states, "Who are our enemies, who are our friends, that is the question germane to the revolution." In Policing Chinese Politics, Michael Dutton argues that this friend/enemy dichotomy structured Chinese social order for much of the twentieth century, and the functioning of the Chinese police reflected this. Unlike western policing, which grew out of community efforts to control crime, modern Chinese policing--born in war and revolution--was founded to defend the Communist Party. Analyzing empirical evidence including extensive material from Chinese Public Security sources, Dutton tells the political history of modern China through the history of its policing practices. The deeply political character of the Chinese police was established in the 1920s, when the Communists were fighting against Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists. Despite being surrounded and badly outnumbered by their Nationalist enemies, the Communists dedicated themselves to self-destructive campaigns against "the enemy within"-real and imagined traitors to the Communist cause. Committing the police to ferreting out these internal enemies proved pivotal. For the next fifty years, the pursuit of "counter-revolutionary" enemies provided the governing principle of Chinese policing. This proved a surprisingly flexible mission, ranging from the political purges of the 1920s to the anti-drug and anti-prostitution sweeps of the 1950s to the prosecution of the Gang of Four and their followers in the 1970s. Dutton presents a timeline of this history in each chapter, relating political developments to contemporary policing practices. Political policing began to decline with the economic reforms of the 1970s, as policing stability replaced policing the revolutionary line. The history of the police force as a Party organ, however, continues to limit true reform.
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Unger Jonathan
The Transformation of Rural China
8vo, original red cloth, as new, no dj, titles in black, author of this work has repeatedly interviewed farmers and rural officials from various parts of China in order to keep in close touch with changes that have been sweeping the country-side from the Mao era through the Deng era to the present day Jiang era. The book explores the extraordinary changes of the past forty years from the multiple perspectives of political, social, and economic transformation, showing how each impacts upon the other. The overarching theme is that the Maoist credo penetrated the villages and had a profound influence on village life and mores and attitudes
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Rapp John A.
Daoism and Anarchism: Critiques of State Autonomy in Ancient and Modern China
8vo, br. ed. focuses on anti-statist critiques in ancient and modern China and demonstrates that China does not have an unchallenged authoritarian political culture. Treating anarchism as a critique of centralized state power, the work first examines radical Daoist thought from the 4th century BCE to the 9th century CE and compares Daoist philosophers and poets to Western anarchist and utopian thinkers. This is followed by a survey of anarchist themes in dissident thought in the People s Republic of China from 1949 to the present. A concluding chapter discusses how Daoist anarchism can be applied to any anarchist-inspired radical critique today. This work not only challenges the usual ideas of the scope and nature of dissent in China, it also provides a unique comparison of ancient Chinese Daoist anarchism to Western anarchist. Featuring previously untranslated texts, such as the 9th century Buddhist anarchist tract, the Wunengzi, and essays from the PRC press, it will be an essential resource to anyone studying anarchism, Chinese political thought
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Cohen Paul A.
Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China
8vo, br. ed. The ancient story of King Goujian, a psychologically complex fifth-century BCE monarch, spoke powerfully to the Chinese during China s turbulent twentieth century. Yet most Americans - even students and specialists of this era - have never heard of Goujian. In Speaking to History , Paul A. Cohen opens this previously missing (to the West) chapter of China s recent history. He connects the story to each of the major traumas of the last century, tracing its versatility as a source of inspiration and hope and elegantly exploring, on a more general level, why such stories often remain sealed up within a culture, unknown to outsiders. Labeling this phenomenon insider cultural knowledge , Cohen investigates the relationship between past story and present reality. He inquires why at certain moments in their collective lives peoples are especially drawn to narratives from the distant past that resonate strongly with their current circumstances, and why the Chinese have returned over and over to a story from twenty-five centuries ago. In this imaginative stitching of story to history, Cohen reveals how the shared narratives of a community help to define its culture and illuminate its history.
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Liu Zhenyun
Remembering 1942: And Other Chinese Stories
8vo, hardcover in dj, Sweeping, humorous, and moving tales from one of contemporary China s greatest writers. The bestselling and award-winning author of novels satirizing contemporary China, Liu Zhenyun is also renowned for his short stories. Remembering 1942 showcases six of his best, featuring a diverse cast of ordinary people struggling against the obstacles--bureaucratic, economic, and personal--that life presents. The six exquisite stories that comprise this collection range from an exploration of office politics unmoored by an unexpected gift to the tale of a young soldier attempting to acclimate to his new life as a student and the story of a couple struggling to manage the demands of a young child. Another, about petty functionaries trying to solve a mystery of office intrigue, reads like a survival manual for Chinese bureaucracy. The masterful title story explores the legacy of the drought and famine that struck Henan Province in 1942, tracing its echoes in one man s personal journey through war and revolution and into the present. Each story is rich in wit, insight, and empathy, and together they bring into focus the realities of China s past and present, evoking clearly and mordantly the often Kafkaesque circumstances of contemporary life in the world s most populous nation. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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Billingsley Phil
Bandits in Republican China
in-8, original cloth in dust wrapper, ex library stickers and marks, ow good, xviii+375 pp., 4 pages of illustrations, very good copy. Contents: Introduction - From 'Bandit Kingdoms' to 'Bandit's World': The Growth of Banditry Under the Republic - 'Cradle of Banditry': A Case Study of Henan Province - 'Climbing Mount LIang': Who Became a Bandit? - 'Fierce Democracy': The Creation and Organization of a Bandit Gang - 'Some Men Are Brothers': Bandit Lives and Perspectives - 'Prevailing Winds, Adverse Currents': Bandits, Power, and the People - 'Apotheosis of Banditry': China Becomes a Bandits World - 'Levelers or Liabilities?': Bandits and the Revolutionary Movement - Conclusion - Appendix - Notes - Bibliography - Index
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Li Kunwu e Ôtié, Philippe
Una Vita Cinese Il Tempo Del Padre, Una Vita Cinese Il Tempo Del Partito, 2 Vols.
4to piccolo, br. ed. 2 volumi, "Una vita cinese" è l'autobiografia a fumetti dell'artista Li Kunwu, disegnata da lui stesso e scritta a quattro mani con P. Ôtié. "Il tempo del padre" è il primo di tre volumi che raccontano un viaggio nel tempo e nella storia. 1950. Mao Zedong è al potere da un anno quando sulle montagne dello Yunnan, nel sud della Cina, il segretario Li, irruente quadro comunista, conosce la giovane Xiao Tao. Dal loro matrimonio nasce Li Kunwu. Dall'infanzia rivoluzionaria alla morte di Mao, nei disegni di Li scopriamo la Cina del Grande timoniere attraverso i suoi occhi di bambino che non ha conosciuto altro che il regime comunista: la trama epica è affidata a una narrazione intima, che riflette la vita dell'autore, per più di trent'anni artista di Stato per il Partito comunista. L'autore si racconta rispettando fedelmente i fatti storici della sua vita, inevitabilmente intrecciata alla storia del suo paese: la Rivoluzione culturale, il Grande balzo in avanti. La mano di Li Kunwu, che unisce le tradizioni del pennello ai tratti caricaturali della propaganda maoista, raffigura la vertiginosa follia collettiva e la spirale di alienazione di un popolo ipnotizzato da Mao.
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Dunlop Fuchsia
Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes from Hunan Province
4to, hardcover in dj. Fuchsia Dunlop is the author of the much-loved and critically acclaimed Sichuanese cookbook Land of Plenty, which won the British Guild of Food Writers' Jeremy Round Award for best first book and which critic John Thorne called "a seminal exploration of one of China's great regional cuisines." Now, with Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook, she introduces us to the delicious tastes of Hunan, Chairman Mao's home province. Hunan is renowned for the fiery spirit of its people, its beautiful scenery, and its hearty peasant cooking. In a selection of classic recipes interwoven with a wealth of history, legend, and anecdote, Dunlop brings to life this vibrant culinary region. Look for late imperial recipes like Numbing-and-Hot Chicken, Chairman Mao's favorite Red-Braised Pork, soothing stews, and a myriad of colorful vegetable stir-fries.
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Goodman, Howard L.
Ts'ao P'i Transcendent. The Political Culture of Dynasty-founding in China at the End of the Han
8vo, First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9¼'' x 6''. Contains 249 printed pages of text.
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Jenner W. J. F.
The Tyranny of History: Roots of China's Crisis (Penguin history)
br. ed. Based on a series of lectures given by Professor Jenner in New Zealand shortly after Tianenmen Square in 1989, this book examines the peculiarities of Chinese history, and of the unique burden that history places on present-day China, which the author sees in a state of serious crisis, possibly even of potential collapse.
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Liu Zhenyun
The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon: A Novel of Contemporary China
8vo Hardcover in dj Ex-library book in good condition with typical stamps and markings. Pages are clean and the binding is tight The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corruption. The protagonist, Liu Yuejin, is a work site cook and small-time thief whose bag is stolen. In searching for it he stumbles upon another bag, which contains a flash disk that chronicles high-level corruption, and sets off a convoluted chase. There are no heroes in this scathing, complex, and highly readable critique of the dark side of China?s predatory capitalism, corruption, and the plight of the underclasses. A movie adaptation and TV series appeared in 2008 in China. Ex-Library
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Ah Cheng
The King of Trees: Three Novellas: The King of Trees, The King of Chess, The King of Children
8vo, br. ed.
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Qiu Xiaolong
Il Poliziotto Di Shanghai
br. ed. 235pp.
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Liu Zhenyun
Corridors of Power
Chinese Literature Press (dicembre 1994)
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Farquhar Judith , Zhang Qicheng
Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing
8vo, cloth in dj, pp.347. Ten Thousand Things explores the many forms of life, or, in ancient Chinese parlance "the ten thousand things" that life is and is becoming, in contemporary Beijing and beyond. Coauthored by an American anthropologist and a Chinese philosopher, the book examines the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good life, practice the embodied arts of everyday well-being, and in doing so draw on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media. Farquhar and Zhang show that there are many activities that nurture life: practicing meditative martial arts among friends in a public park; jogging, swimming, and walking backward; dancing, singing, and keeping pet birds; connoisseurship of tea, wine, and food; and spiritual disciplines ranging from meditation to learning a foreign language. As ancient life-nurturing texts teach, the cultural practices that produce particular forms of life are generative in ten thousand ways: they "give birth to life and transform the transformations." This book attends to the patterns of city life, listens to homely advice on how to live, and interprets the great tradition of medicine and metaphysics. In the process, a manifold culture of the urban Chinese everyday emerges. The lives nurtured, gathered, and witnessed here are global and local, embodied and discursive, ecological and cosmic, civic and individual. The elements of any particular life -- as long as it lasts, and with some skill and determination -- can be gathered, centered, and harmonized with the way things spontaneously go. The result, everyone says, is pleasure.
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Pu Ning (Wu Ming shih)
Red in Tooth and Claw: Twenty-Six Years in Communist Chinese Prisons
8vo, hardcover in dj. ex library with usual stamps cards and paste down, ow very good,.xxvii, 228 p. ; 22 cm. cloth with gold lettering, in gold, black, white and red colored dustjacket ; "Han Wei T'ien, a man who spent twenty-six years in the prison camps of Communist China, recalls spending two years down a well, mass executions in the Tilan prison, and braving temperatures as low as fifty degrees below zero" Ex-Library
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Wang Ruowang
Hunger Trilogy
8vo, br. ed. This autobiographical novella was written in 1980 by one of China s leading dissidents, who was released from jail in late October 1990 again after being imprisoned as a pro-democracy activist in the wake of the Tiananmen incident of spring 1989. Wang recounts three episodes of extreme hardship in his life: incarceration in a Guomindang jail during the 1930s for his communist activism, on the run from Japanese troops during the 1940s in a bleak part of Shandong Province, and imprisonment as a rightist in Shanghai during the 1960s cultural revolution. The central theme of the three stories is extreme deprivation and Hunger .
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Huang Jing
Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics
8vo, cloth in dj. 458 pages. ex library working copy with considerable highliting at some chapters. ow. still good. Factionalism is widely understood to be a distinguishing characteristic of Chinese politics. In this book, first published in 2000, Jing Huang examines the role of factionalism in leadership relations and policy-making. His detailed knowledge of intra-party politics offers an alternative understanding of still-disputed struggles behind the high walls of leadership in Zhongnanhai. Huang traces the development of factional politics from its roots in the mountaintops and the enduring impact of the personal bonds formed between Mao and his supporters at the Yan an Round Table. Critiquing the predominant theories on leadership and decision-making, he explains that it is not power struggles that give rise to factionalism, but rather the existence of factionalism that turns power into an overriding goal in CCP politics . Huang explains why policy outcomes switched constantly between Left-adventurism and Right-conservatism under Mao s reign and between emancipation of mind and socialist spiritual civilization in the Deng era Ex-Library
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Andrew, Anita M.; Rapp, John A.
Autocracy and China's Rebel Founding Emperors: Comparing Chairman Mao and Ming Taizu
8vo, br, ed. What kind of ruler was Mao Zedong? Utilizing a rich mix of analysis and new translations, this book examines other imperial predecessors and the elements linking Mao and Ming Taizu, the fourteenth-century peasant rebel who founded the Ming dynasty, as well as critiques of Western and Chinese scholarship. The book then presents translations with commentary of PRC scholars on Taizu and Mao, showing the evolution in Chinese though toward both rulers from the Cultural Revolution to the Deng Xiaoping reform era.
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Lipman Jonathan N. & Stevan Harrell, eds.
Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture (Suny Series in Chinese Local Studies)
8vo, br. ed. Ex-library withdrawn from a university library. Usual library markings including library stickers on front cover and on spine, and library stamps inside front cover. Minor shelfwear.
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Link Perry
Stubborn Weeds: Popular and Controversial Chinese Literature After the Cultural Revolution
8vo, br. ed.pp.x + 292
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Teiwes, Frederick C.
Politics at Mao's Court: Gao Gang and Party Factionalism in the Early 1950s (Studies on Contemporary China)
8vo, cloth, xvi, 326 pages + biographical note; index, notes, appendices, tables, couple of b/w photos. ex-library with usual marks and paste downs, otherwise very good.The investigation of the rise and fall of Gao Gang suggests broader implications on the nature of elite politics in the Maoist era. The illumination of basic issues in Chinese politics in the context of this case, especially as regards the role of Mao Zedong, is relevant not only to the initial post-1949 period of comparative, but flawed, party unity, but also to the structural fault lines of the political system which were later to contribute so significantly to the Cultural Revolution. Ex-Library
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Williams Philip F. Yenna Wu
The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp Through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage
8vo, br. ed. 225 x 150 mm. xii, 248 pp. Pictorial card covers.
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Iris Versari
L'uomo Che Non Conosceva La libertà. Voci Inascoltate Dalla Cina Moderna
8vo, br. ed. una storia uigura dal Turkesan cinese (Xinjiang)
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Clunas Craig
Chinese Painting and Its Audiences
4to, hardcover Bollingen Series XXXV, national gallery of art washington: What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them discussed here in English for the first time, to show how Chinese painting has been understood by a range of audiences over five centuries, from the Ming Dynasty to today. Richly illustrated, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences demonstrates that viewers in China and beyond have irrevocably shaped this great artistic tradition. Arguing that audiences within China were crucially important to the evolution of Chinese painting, Clunas considers how Chinese artists have imagined the reception of their own work. By examining paintings that depict people looking at paintings, he introduces readers to ideal types of viewers: the scholar, the gentleman, the merchant, the nation, and the people.In discussing the changing audiences for Chinese art, Clunas emphasizes that the diversity and quantity of images in Chinese culture make it impossible to generalize definitively about what constitutes Chinese painting. Exploring the complex relationships between works of art and those who look at them, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences sheds new light on how the concept of Chinese painting has been formed and reformed over hundreds of years.
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Grescoe Taras
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War
8vo, br. ed.
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Kung-chuan Hsiao, Mote F. W. Transl.
A History of Chinese Political Thought, Volume One: From the Beginnings to the Sixth Century A.D
8vo, br. xxi + 778 pages. Index. This volume launches the translation of a work that describes the development of Chinese political thought from the time of Confucius in the late Chou era into the twentieth century. The author systematically treats leading thinkers, schools, and movements, displaying a consummate mastery of traditional Chinese learning, and of Western analytical and comparative methods. This first complete translation includes prefatory remarks by Kung-chuan Hsiao and notes prepared by the translator to assist the Western reader. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
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Liu Cixin, Xia Jia, Chen Qiufan e Wu Yan
Nebula. Fantascienza contemporanea cinese. Ediz. italiana e Cinese
8vo, br. ed. "Una selezione di alcune delle voci più importanti della fantascienza cinese contemporanea che di certo delizieranno i lettori di tutto il mondo. Le visioni e le questioni presentate in questo libro sono importanti non solo per la Cina, ma per tutta l'umanità". Ken Liu, vincitore dei premi Hugo, Nebula e World Fantasy Dall'invecchiamento della popolazione ai cambiamenti climatici, dall'istruzione di massa all'impatto dei social network, le storie immaginate da Liu Cixin, Xia Jia, Chen Qiufan e Wu Yan mostrano una Cina lontana dall'Occidente per costume e sensibilità, ma simile nelle realtà economico-sociali e così tecnologicamente avanzata da restituire uno sguardo sul futuro che attende il mondo intero. L' immagine di copertina è stata selezionata tra le proposte degli allievi della Scuola Internazionale di Comix, così come le immagini scelte per introdurre all' interno del volume ogni racconto
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Liang Chi-chao
History of Chinese Political Thought During the Early Tsin Period
Small octavo. viii + 210pp. + 20pp. ads. Gilt-lettered red cloth spine, black cloth boards. B/w frontis. portrait. B/w illustration. Glossary & index.
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Maxwell Hamilton John
Edgar Snow. a Biography
8vo, hardcover in dj.
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Creel, Herrlee Glessner
Origins of Statecraft in China: The Western Chou Empire v. 1
8vo, xiv, 559pp. Very good copy in very good dustjacket. Almost as new. This is Volume 1 but Volume 2 was never published. This is a significant study of the Western Chou (1122-771 B.C.
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Lai David , Strategic Studies Institute
Learning from the Stones: A Go Approach to Mastering China s Strategic Concept, Shi
4to, br,ed. Most of the ideas that form of the foundation of American defense policy and military strategy today were once new and untested concepts at the far edge of strategic thought. It took thinkers of vision and creativity to give them life and refine them to the point they could be adopted by the defense community and used for strategy and force development. This is a never ending process: new strategic concepts constantly emerge, some fade away, a few pass the tests of suitability, feasibility, and acceptability and make it into the mainstream. To help with this process of identifying those new and untested strategic concepts that merit further examination, the Strategic Studies Institute is publishing a special series called Advancing Strategic Thought. This provides a venue--a safe haven--for creative, innovative, and experimental thinking about national security policy and military strategy
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RUSSELL Bertrand
The Problem of China
8vo, br. ed. pp. 107.
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Yang Jiang
A Cadre School Life Six Chapters
8vo, br. ed. Translated by Geremie Barme and bennett Lee. The author was one of China's leading intellectuals at the tiem of The Cultural Revolution in China, She was sent to a cadre school for "re-education" and this short memoir, told with gentle humour and simplicity, is an account of this time of national upheaval.
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Pye Lucian W.
The Spirit of Chinese Politics. New Edition
8vo, br. ed. Lucian Pye, one of the most knowledgeable observers of China, unfolds in this book a deep psychological analysis of Chinese political culture. The dynamics of the Cultural Revolution, the behavior of the Red Guards, and the compulsions of Mao Tse-tung are among the important symptoms examined. But Pye goes behind large events, exploring the more enduring aspects of Chinese culture and the stable elements of the national psychology as they have been manifested in traditional, Republican, and Communist periods. He also scans several possible paths of future development. The emphasis is on the roles long played by authority, order, hierarchy, and emotional quietism in Chinese political culture as shaped by the Confucian tradition and the institution of filial piety, and the resulting confusions brought about by the displacements of these traditions in the face of political change and modernization. In this new edition Pye adds a chapter on the basic tension between consensus and conflict in the operation of Chinese politics, illustrating the "spirit" in action, and another discussing the great gap that persists between the worlds of the political leadership and of society at large in post-Tiananmen China. About the Author: Lucian W. Pye was Ford Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Mao Tse-Tung: The Man in the Leader.
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Scott Michael
Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West
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Li Kunwu
Ma génération, celle d'un vie chinoise, Tome 1, Tome 2
2 volumes 4to, br. ed. 255,255. Ils ont connu le Grand Bond en avant, la Révolution culturelle, lenthousiasme et le désespoir. Ils se souviennent tous de ce quils faisaient le jour de la mort du président Mao. «Ils», cest la génération dUne vie chinoise. A lheure de la révolution Internet, que sont devenus les femmes et les hommes de la révolution maoïste Li Kunwu nous offre un témoignage sur cette génération qui a construit la Chine daujourdhui. bande dessiné, graphic novel, fumetti cinesi
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Jun Jing
Feeding China's Little Emperors: Food, Children, and Social Change.
8vo, br. ed. pp.249. Until recently, Chinese children ate what their parents fed them and were not permitted to influence, much less dictate, their own diet. The situation today is radically different, especially in cities and prosperous villages, as a result of a notable increase in people's income and a fast-growing consumer culture. Chinese children, with spending money in their pockets, arguably have become the most determined consumers-usually of snack foods, soft drinks, and fast foods from such Western outlets as McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken. With many children, especially pampered only children, now controlling not only their own but also their family's choice of staples, snacks, and restaurants, a major reformation in the concept of childhood is occurring in China. This book focuses on how the transformation of children's food habits, the result of China's transition to a market economy and its integration into the global economic arena, has changed the intimate relationship of childhood, parenthood, and family life. Since the early 1980s, a drastic decline in fertility and a steady rise in family income have been accompanied by a profusion of new products successfully advertised on television and in other media as "children's food." This commercialization of children's diet has become so pervasive that even children in remote villages surprise their parents with demands for particular trendy foods and soft drinks. Many Chinese parents, reared very differently, anxiously question whether their children are eating well and growing up healthy. The contributors to this book, drawn from the fields of anthropology, sociology, political economy, and nutrition, examine a wide variety of topics: the effects of new foods on children's health; the consumption of "prestige" foods; the social implications of commercialized children's food on a Chinese Islamic community; the adaptations of Kentucky Fried Chicken in response to indigenous fast-food companies; the generation gap in attitudes toward food consumption; the significance of religion and nutrition in feeding and healing children; the creation of baby-friendly hospitals to promote breastfeeding and scientific childcare methods; the special role of nationalism and traditional Chinese medicine in children's food production; and the business promotion of having fun as an aspect of eating well.
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Dunlop Fuchsia
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A sweet-sour memoir of eating in China
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.320. british edition.
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Kerr, Douglas (Editor)/ Kuehn, Julia (Editor)
A Century of Travels in China: Critical Essays on
8vo, br. ed. 232pp.
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Swislocki, Mark
Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai
8vo, br. ed. 304pp. Culinary Nostalgia is the first Western-language book to explore the unique significance that the Chinese people attach to their country s many distinct regional foods, as well as the shifting roles that Western food plays in urban life. Author Mark Swislocki focuses on Shanghai-a food lover s paradise-as a rich intersection of urban, regional, and national identities, and examines how tastes registered change and continuity at pivotal moments throughout the city s history. From the earliest accounts of Shanghai s specialty foodstuffs to the dazzling variety of regional cuisines and restaurants in the metropolis of today, this book uncovers how city residents have constructed their relationship to the city itself, to other parts of China, and to the wider world. This new history of Shanghai develops an original framework for studying food culture as an intrinsic part of the way Chinese people connect to the past, live in the present, and imagine a future.
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Mo Yan
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh
8vo, hardcover in dj, excellent copy of the first uk ed.
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Hong Ying
Daughter of the River. An Autobiography
8vo, br. ed. Paperback. 278, [4] pages.he text is illustrated with two inserts, for pages each, of black-and-white photography. first blank page preceding title page torn, ow. very good. First published in Taipei, Taiwan as " Ji'er de Nu'er ", an autobiography which portrays '' the harsh reality of millions of lives at the bottom of Chinese society ".
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Dikotter, Frank
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
br. ed. An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China`s Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People`s Republic of China. Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up and overtake Britain in less than 15 years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives. So opens Frank Dikötter`s astonishing, riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era. Dikötter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world`s superpowers and prove the power of communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of one of the most deadly mass killings of human history, as at least 45 million people were worked, starved or? beaten to death, but also the greatest demolition of real estate in human history, as up to a third of all housing was turned into rubble. The experiment was a catastrophe for the natural world as well, as the land was savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. In a powerful meshing of exhaustive research and narrative drive, Dikötter for the first time links up what happened in the corridors of power?the vicious backstabbing and bullying tactics that took place among party leaders?with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. His magisterial account recasts the history of the People`s Republic of China. Printed Pages: 448
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Santangelo Paolo
L'impero cinese agli inizi della storia globale. Società, vita quotidiana, e immaginario: I, II, III, IV, V, Completo in 5volumi.
5 volumi in 8vo, br. ed. pp. 304. L'impero cinese agli inizi della storia globale offre una serie di immagini della società, delle istituzioni, del pensiero e della vita privata della Cina imperiale, nel momento del suo massimo sviluppo e della sua decadenza, nei secoli che vedono l'avvio e il consolidamento del processo di globalizzazione. Il quinto volume comprende appendici bibliografiche sulla saggistica, le maggiori fonti letterarie e storiche cinesi dell'epoca, un glossario dei termini, dei titoli e dei personaggi citati e alcune tavole di consultazione.
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Map of the Peoples Republic of China. [Chinese Map with Inset of South China Sea Islands].
Large colour folding map of China, 114.5 x 162cm. Features inset maps of South China Sea Islands and a world map showing China's Geographic Location at lower corners. Scale 1:4000,000. Text in Pinyin, English and Chinese characters. Shows administrative regions correct to December 1983; boundaries, water features, capitals, towns, villages, shipping and other transport routes.
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