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Pye Lucian W.
The Dynamics of Chinese Politics
8vo. original cloth hardcover, some faint notes in pencil, ow. as new, but no dj. xxii-306pp.
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Chang, Chun-Shu; Chang, Shelley Hsueh-Lun
Redefining History: Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in P'u Sung-ling's World, 1640-1715
8vo. Hard Cover cloth, no dj. xiii (v), 358 (1) pp, acknowledgments, Chronology: The Ch'ing Reigns, a note about Romanization, Introduction: Text, Interpretation, and Methodology; Part I. P'u Sung-ling: Life, Work, and Intellectual Legacy: 1. The Frustrated Intellectual and His World; 2. The Creative Literatus and His Art. Part II. Liao-chai Chih-i: A History and a Culture Mosaic: 3. The Collection of Liao-chai: Structure, Texts, and Contexts; 4. Gender Relations, Individual Fulfillment, and Family Ethics: Fantasy and Realism; 5. Officials, Would-Be Officials, and Class Consciousness: Satires, Allegories, and Crime Stories; 6. Racial Tension, Socioeconomic Conditions, and Country Life. Part III. The Legacy of the Liao-chai: 7. Culture, Tradition, and the Individual in P'u Sung-ling's Creative Consciousness; 8. Passion, Vision, and Historuy: From the "Small Way" to the "Great Way'; Epicogue: Creating and Transmitting Traditions -- Liao-chai and Its Audiences; Appenidx: On the Authorship of Hsing-shih yin-yuan chuan; notes, glossary, bibliography, index, about the authors. First Edition, 1998. "This intimate examination of the career, times, and ideas of P'u Sung-ling (1640-1715) focuses on his magnum opus, Liao-chai chih- i, or Tales of the Unusual from the Studio of Deliberation and Musing. P'u lived through the turbulent period of Ming-Ch'ing dynastic transition in the seventeenth century. While P'u did not attain his goal of becoming a statesman, he was not impeded in his intellectual and literary pursuits. When he died in 1715, he left a body of work including over 500 essays, 1,295 poems, 119 lyrics, 18 encyclopedias and handbooks, 20 operas, 100 folk songs, and 500 short stories, becoming one of the most well-known scholar-writers and the best known short-story author in Chinese history. The 500 stories in Liao-chai chih-i, which P'u composed in his self-styled capacity as historian, had the most lasting influence of any single work on the shaping of popular consciousness in China. It is based on an exhaustive exploration of contemporary Chinese historical and literary sources, including local histories, clan and family records, autobiographical and biographical materials, folklore, essays, poems, and plays: in short, the entire range of literary sources." from the jacket flap. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine.
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Lanxin Xiang
Mao's Generals: Chen Yi and the New Fourth Army
8vo, hardcover.pp.xi-226. Mao s Generals reevaluates the military history of Mao Zedong s seizure of power in China using all original historical materials, confronting the history as recorded by the communist party-influenced historians. It disputes the total invincibility and brilliance of Mao in military affairs by restoring credit to the generals that made significant contributions to the communist victory.The focus falls mainly on a brilliant romantic poet named Chen Yi who founded the New Fourth Army with a group of brilliant young men and led peasant guerrillas to the victory that broke the Kuomintong s backbone. Despite his accomplishments, he could not deter his eventual demise at the hands of Mao. The author uses these incidents, plus the manipulation of the Anti-Japanese War to expose the actual nature of the communist revolution and policy in China under Mao.
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Sheppard Stephen
For all the tea in China
12mo, br. ed.
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Chaozhu Ji
The Man on Mao's Right : From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life Inside China's Foreign Ministry
8vo, hardcover in myler protectd dj, ex library with usual markings, stamps and pastedowns, ow. quite good. internally excellent. No other narrative from within the corridors of power has offered as frank and intimate an account of the making of the modern Chinese nation as Ji Chaozhus The Man on Maos Right. Having served Chairman Mao Zedong and the Communist leadership for two decades, and having become a key figure in Chinas foreign policy, Ji now provides an honest, detailed account of the personalities and events that shaped todays Peoples Republic. The youngest son of a prosperous government official, nine-year-old Ji and his family fled Japanese invaders in the late 1930s, escaping to America. Warmly received by his new country, Ji returned its embrace as he came of age in New Yorks East Village and then attended Harvard University. But in 1950, after years of enjoying a life of relative ease while his countrymen suffered through war and civil strife, Ji felt driven by patriotism to volunteer to serve China in its conflict with his adoptive country in the Korean War. Jis mastery of the English language and American culture launched his improbable career, eventually winning him the role of English interpreter for Chinas two top leaders: Premier Zhou Enlai and Party Chairman Mao Zedong. With a unique blend of Chinese insight and American candor, Ji paints insightful portraits of the architects of modern China: the urbane, practical, and avuncular Zhou, the conscience of the Peoples Republic; and the messianic, charismatic Mao, student of Chinas ancient pasthis countrys stern father figure. In Jis memoir, he is an eyewitness to modern Chinese history, including the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the Nixon summit, and numerous momentous events in Tiananmen Square. As he becomes caught up in political squabbles among radical factions, Jis past and charges against him of "incorrect" thinking subject him to scrutiny and suspicion. He is repeatedly sent to a collective farm to be "reeducated" by the peasants. After the Mao years, Ji moves on to hold top diplomatic posts in the United States and the United Kingdom and then serves as under secretary-general of the United Nations. Today, he says, "The Chinese know America better than the Americans know China. The risk is that we misperceive each other." This highly accessible insiders chronicle of a struggling people within a developing powerhouse nation is also Ji Chaozhus dramatic personal story, certain to fascinate and enlighten Western readers. A riveting biography and unique historical record, The Man on Maos Right recounts the heartfelt struggle of a man who loved two powerful nations that were at odds with each other. Ji Chaozhu played an important role in paving the way for what is destined to be known as the Chinese Century. Praise for The Man on Maos Right "Brave, beautifully written testimony . A true "fly-on-the-wall" account of the momentous changes in Chinese society and international relations over the last century." --Kirkus Reviews "It is a relief to read an account by an urbane and often witty insider who neither idolizes nor demonizes China's top leaders . . . . Highly recommended." Library Journal, starred review About the Author: Ji Chaozhu was born on July 30, 1929, in the Shanxi Province of China. Throughout his decorated career, he has held posts in Chinas Ministry of Foreign Affairs (where he was deputy director of the Department of Translation and Interpretation and deputy director of American and Oceanic Affairs). In 1982, he was appointed minister counselor of the Embassy of the Peoples Republic of China in the United States of America, and has served as Chinas ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Vanuatu, and the Court of St. Jamess. From 1991 to 1996, he served as the under secretary-general of the United Nations.
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Ku-Cheng Li (Autore), Kwok-Sing Li (Compilatore), Mary Lok (Traduttore)
A Glossary of Political Terms of the People's Republic of China
8vo, br. ed. xxix-639pp. This is a collection of over 560 important and frequently-used Chinese political terms and phrases that appeared between 1949 and 1990. Each entry contains an explanation of the term and its origin, a description of how and under what circumstances the term was used, and a discussion of the changes of meaning over the years, as well as the political and social significance of the words.
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Terzani Tiziano
La Porta Proibita. Un giornalista italiano ha vissuto per anni da cinese in Cina
8vo, br. ed. pp.284.
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Staude Terzani Angela a Cura Di
Diverso da tutti e da Nessuno
8vo, br. ed. pp.258 . Mentre non accennano a sbiadire, nella memoria di chi lo ha amato, le immagini di Tiziano Terzani vestito di bianco che parla della pace, della vita e della morte, più lontana si fa nel tempo la sua figura di reporter, di grande protagonista di una stagione irripetibile del giornalismo. Questo libro ce la riporta davanti agli occhi con magnifica evidenza, quella figura, con la sua vitalità dirompente, il suo rigore professionale, la sua curiosità fenomenale, la sua travolgente risata. Ognuno degli amici e dei colleghi che da tutto il mondo hanno risposto generosamente allinvito di Angela Terzani contribuisce qui con un flash, con un ricordo più meditato, con qualche prezioso documento, anche inedito a comporre il ritratto irresistibile di un instancabile cacciatore di storie e di verità. E sono sufficienti soltanto alcuni dei titoli delle testimonianze raccolte in questo volume per capire latmosfera che vi si respira: Monsieur Moustache, Viaggiare per il mondo alla ricerca della verità, Da dove arriva, questo?, Partito senza lasciare indirizzo, Il gigante, Con i piedi più che mai piantati nella vita, Lapprovato dal cielo Completa il volume una ricca sezione di «documenti», con alcune lettere, uno scritto di Saskia Terzani e il Dialogo con il Vecchio di Folco Terzani, dedicato alla mitica figura che Terzani raccontò in Un altro giro di giostra. Testimonianze e ricordi di: Abbas, Mara Amorevoli Elizabeth Becker, Giovanna Botteri Salomon Bouman, Philip Bowring Paolo Breccia, Nayan Chanda Umberto Chapperon, Furio Colombo Charles-Antoine de Nerciat Siegmund Ginzberg, Pham Lan Huong Henry Kamm, Peter R. Kann Nicholas Leung, Leo Manfrini Fernando Mezzetti, Michael Nesselhauf Valerio Pellizzari, Jane Perkins Jean-Claude Pomonti, Philippe Pons James Pringle, Ilaria Maria Sala Orville Schell, William Shawcross Ith Sintahn, Bernardo Valli Willem van Kemenade, Vasu Dev Das Jue Wang, Martin Woollacott Yoichi Yokobori, Giuliano Zincone E con: le lettere ad Alessandro Berti le lettere a Terence Ward e Idanna Pucci una nota di Mukti Datta uno scritto di Saskia Terzani il Dialogo con il Vecchio di Folco Terzani
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Goldin Paul Rakita
The Culture of Sex in Ancient China
8vo, br. ed. pp.244.
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Granet Marcel
Catégories matrimoniales et relations de proximité dans la Chine Ancienne.
in-8, brochure orginale 254 pp., 1 planche à double-page, Publication des Annales Sociologiques serie B sociologie religieuse fascicules 1-3. exemplaire en parfait etat.
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Wetering Van De Janwillem
Van Gulik: Sa Vie Son Oeuvre
16mo, br. ed. pp.159
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Hsieh Daniel
Love and Women in Early Chinese Fiction
8vo, hardcoverin dj pp.330. Synopsis: This book focuses on how women and love are portrayed in chuanqi fiction, a genre of Chinese literature of the Tang dynasty. It argues that the emergence of "love" as a theme in Chinese literature is closely related to the historical background of the Tang dynasty. Daniel Hsieh is an associate professor of Chinese at Purdue University
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Lee Hamrin, Carol, Zhao, Suisheng, Barnett, A. Doak
Decision-making in Deng's China: Perspectives from Insiders (Studies on Contemporary China (M.E. Sharpe Paperback))
8vo, br. ed. xlviii- 256pp. Considers the politics of central decision-making by focusing on senior policy makers and implementing bureaucracies on the one hand, and actors in economic and non-economic arenas on the other. The contributors held significant party and government positions in China up to 1989.
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De Bary Theodore
The Liberal Tradition in China: Ch'ien Mu Lectures (Neo-Confucian studies)
8vo, original cloth . (6),122pp ex-library with stampa and stickers. ow very good. Ex-Library
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Mazurkewich, Karen; Ong, A. Chester
Chinese Furniture: A Guide to Collecting Antiques
The international market for antique Chinese furniture is booming, and masterpieces from the Ming and Qing dynasties are now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Chinese Furniture is a survey of these collectibles from the very best hardwood pieces featured to standard softwood specimens still available on the Asian market. This antique furniture book presents an overview of carving styles, wood types, regional variations, class distinctions and restoration techniques. Detailed chapters on various types of wooden furniture cover chairs, stools and benches, tables and desks, beds, cabinets and bookshelves, doors and screens and household accessories. With this renewed interest in antique furniture, a forgery market has emerged. Thousands of factories in southern China are churning out brand new or refurbished furniture and passing them off as Chinese antiques. Chinese Furniture unearths these forgeries and serves as an indispensable reference guide to collectors of antique wood furniture
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FISCHER Paul
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
8vo, hardcover book was well loved but cared for. Possible ex-library copy with all the usual markings and stickers. Some light textual notes, highlighting and underling
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Rowe, William T.
Crimson Rain: Seven Centuries of Violence in a Chinese County
8vo, haardcover in dj, 465pp. explores the roots of violence in Chinese rural society over the past seven hundred years, based on the study of a single highland county, Macheng, Hubei province, in the Great Divide Mountains separating the Yangzi valley from the North China Plain. Between the expulsion of the Mongols in the mid-fourteenth century and the invasion of the Japanese in 1938, Macheng experienced repeated, often self-inflicted waves of mass extermination of segments of its population. This book argues that, beyond its strategic military centrality and ingrained social tensions, cultural factors such as popular religion, folklore, collective memory, and local historical production played key roles in the continued proclivity of the county s population for massive carnage. In the process, the history of Macheng also provides a case study in the way events and trends of national significance in the history of China have been experienced at the local level.
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Spera Renato W.
Il Diario Del Generale Li Fen-tzu
8vo, bcm, ril. ed. sovracoperta. pp.267.
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Timothy Brook Jerome Bourgon Gregory Blue (Autore)
Death by a Thousand Cuts
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.320. In a public square in Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin was executed before a crowd of onlookers. He was among the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi. Called by Western observers ?death by a thousand cuts? or ?death by slicing,? this penalty was reserved for the very worst crimes in imperial China. A unique interdisciplinary history, Death by a Thousand Cuts is the first book to explore the history, iconography, and legal contexts of Chinese tortures and executions from the tenth century until lingchi?s abolition in 1905. The authors then turn their attention to an in-depth investigation of ?oriental? tortures in the Western imagination. While early modern Europeans often depicted Chinese institutions as rational, nineteenth- and twentieth-century readers consumed pictures of lingchi executions as titillating curiosities and evidence of moral inferiority. By examining these works in light of European conventions associated with despotic government, Christian martyrdom, and ecstatic suffering, the authors unpack the stereotype of innate Chinese cruelty and explore the mixture of fascination and revulsion that has long characterized the West?s encounter with ?other? civilizations. Compelling and thought-provoking, Death by a Thousand Cuts questions the logic by which states justify tormenting individuals and the varied ways by which human beings have exploited the symbolism of bodily degradation for political aims.
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Woei Lien Chong (Editor), Anne-Marie Brady (Contributor), Lowell Dittmer (Contributor), Monika Gaenssbauer (Contributor), Nick Knight (Contributor), Stefan R. Landsberger (Contributor), Nora Sausmikat (Contributor), Barend J. ter Haar (Contributor),
China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives
8vo, hardcover, Woei Lien Chong (Editor), Anne-Marie Brady (Contributor), Lowell Dittmer (Contributor), Monika Gaenssbauer (Contributor), Nick Knight (Contributor), Stefan R. Landsberger (Contributor), Nora Sausmikat (Contributor), Barend J. ter Haar (Contributor), Treating China s Cultural Revolution as much more than a political event, this innovative volume explores its ideological dimensions. The contributors focus especially on the CR s discourse of heroism and messianism and its demonization of the enemy as reflected in political practice, official literature, and propaganda art, arguing that these characteristics can be traced back to hitherto-neglected undercurrents of Chinese tradition. Moreover, while most studies of the Cultural Revolution are content to point to the discredited cult of heroism and messianism, this book also explores the alternative discourses that have flourished to fill the resulting vacuum. The contributors analyze the intense intellectual and artistic ferment in post-Mao China that embody resistance to CR ideology, as well as the urgent quest for authentic individuality, new forms of social cohesion, and historical truth.
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Jean-Paul Desroches Françoise Sabban Céline Martin-Raget
Les séductions du palais : Cuisiner et manger en Chine
4to, br. ed. pp.192. Catalogue d'objets et livre de recettes, Les Séductions du palais. Cuisiner et manger en Chine accompagne une exposition du musée du Quai Branly. Voyage des saveurs à travers l'espace chinois, beauté de l'art de la table, ce livre nous fait découvrir une civilisation à travers sa cuisine, l'une des plus réputées au monde. Il nous plonge dans les traditions de table en Chine, à travers des objets culinaires conservés au Musée national de Chine et au musée Guimet, et une sélection de trente-deux recettes emblématiques. Cet ouvrage retrace, depuis le Néolithique, une riche histoire avec ses inventions (celle des pâtes alimentaires ou de boissons alcooliques tirées des céréales.), ses instruments de cuisson et sa vaisselle (bronze, céramique, laque, orfèvrerie, porcelaine.), ses traditions culinaires (la consommation de grains de céréales cuits entiers, la gastronomie médicinale.). D'origine rituelle, façonnée sur les autels des ancêtres, la gastronomie chinoise a gagné au fil des siècles la table des princes. De solennelle elle est devenue savoureuse et partie si intégrante de la vie chinoise que le premier mot que l'on adresse à un ami est Chifanle meiyou, "Avez-vous mangé ?".
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Siu Helen F. , Ed.
Furrows: Peasants, Intellectuals, and the State. Stories and Histories Fron Modern China
8vo, br. ed. 360pp.
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Gu Hua
La Morte Del re Dei Serpenti, Racconti
8vo, br. ed.
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Vandermeersch Léon
Les deux raisons de la pensée chinoise : Divination et Idéographie
8vo, br. ed. pp.203. Selon Léon Vandermeersch, l'idéographie chinoise a été inventée, au XIIIe siècle avant notre ère, pour noter non des discours, mais des divinations. Ce système de notation d'équations divinatoires s'est transformé au cours d'un demi-millénaire en une langue graphique restée relativement indépendante de la langue parlée. Ce n'est qu'au VIIIe siècle de notre ère qu'une écriture (idéographique) de la langue parlée a été extraite de cette langue graphique. A l'appui de cette thèse, l'auteur étudie l'invention chinoise des équations divinatoires, étude jamais entreprise auparavant, la divination pratiquée au néolithique chinois ayant été abondamment décrite, mais sans être autrement étudiée. Cette étude met aussi en évidence la pénétration d'un rationalisme divinatoire au plus profond de la culture chinoise historique, marquée de "raison manticologique" au lieu de la raison théologique. Léon Vandermeersch laisse ouverte la question de savoir si, après une dramatique occidentalisation à marche forcée à partir des guerres de l'Opium, la Chine d'aujourd'hui pourrait redécouvrir la fécondité de sa propre culture, pas encore remise d'avoir subi, après le mépris des modernistes de l'entre-deux-guerres, un complet écrasement sous le totalitarisme maoïste.
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Du, Yongtao (Editor)/ Kyong-mcclain, Jeff (Editor)/ Baldanza, Kathlene (Contributor)/ Bol, Peter K. (Contributor)/ Chittick, Andrew (Contributor)
Chinese History in Geographical Perspective
8vo, br. ed. pp.vi-213. The authors in this volume believe that long-term, profound, and sometimes tumultuous changes in the last five hundred years of the history of China have been no less geographical than social, political, or economic. From the dialectics of local-empire relations to the imperial states persistent array of projects for absorbing and transforming ethnic regions on the margins of empire; from the tripling of imperial territories in the Qing to the disputes over the identity of the former "outer zones" in the early Republican era; and from the universalistic imagination of "all-under-heaven" to the fraught processes of re-drawing a new set of nation-state boundaries in the twentieth century, the study of the dynamics of geography, broadly conceived, promises to provide insight into the contested development of the geographical entity which we, today, call 'China.' About the Author: Yongtao Du is Assistant Professor of Asian History at Oklahoma State University. His research interests include translocal practices in late imperial China and literati geographic consciousness in China during the Song through the Qing. He received a PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. Jeff Kyong-McClain is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His research explores the place of archeology in nation-building in modern China, Sino-Western interaction in China's borderlands, and urban transformations during the Republican era. He received his PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009.
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Cai Jindong, Sheila Melvin
Beethoven in China. How the Great Composer Became an Icon in the People's Republic
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Baccini Giulia a Cura Di
I sette savi del bosco di bambù. Personalità eccentriche nella Cina medievale. Testo cinese a Fronte
16,mo, br. ed. pp.161
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A cura di Maurizio Scarpari
Mencio e L'arte Di Governo
8vo, br. ed. testo cinese a fronte. pp.385. Il pensiero cinese antico e i principi del buon governo che hanno guidato la Cina per oltre due millenni furono elaborati nel periodo che precedette l'unificazione imperiale (221 a.C.), caratterizzato da grandi trasformazioni e profondi sconvolgimenti politici, sociali, spirituali. Fu in quel periodo che Mencio (390-305 a.C), affascinato dalle dottrine di uno dei più grandi maestri dell'antichità, Confucio (551-479 a.C), formulò e sistematizzò una serie di precetti che, a suo dire, i sovrani dell'epoca avrebbero dovuto far propri, applicandoli a una pratica di governo volta alla creazione di uno stato forte e autorevole, nel quale il benessere materiale e spirituale della popolazione avrebbe avuto un ruolo prioritario, presupposto essenziale per la costituzione di una società pacifica, giusta e armoniosa. Le dottrine sull'arte di governo di Mencio divennero il paradigma dell'arte di governo in epoca imperiale e sono, ancor oggi, tenute in altissima considerazione dalla dirigenza cinese. Il curatore ha selezionato, tradotto e commentato i numerosi brani del Mengzi (Maestro Meng), l'opera che tramanda il pensiero del grande filosofo, relativi all'arte di governo.
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Waley Arthur
Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet.
8vo, br. ed. pp.227.
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Ying Cheng
Le Mangeur. Roman
Ex-Library
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Sterckx Roel, Editor
Of Tripod and Palate: Food, Politics, and Religion in Traditional China
8vo, hardcover, 272 pages. The offering of sacrifices, the banqueting of guests, and the ritual preparation, prohibition or consumption of food and drink were central elements in each of ancient Chinas three main religious traditions: the Classicist (Confucian) tradition, religious Daoism, and Buddhism. In Of Tripod and Palate, leading scholars examine the relationship between secular and religious food culture in ancient China from various perspectives.
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He Jiahong
Hanging Devils. Hong Jun Investigates
8vo, br. ed. Hanging Devils is a true-to-life story of cold-blooded murder and corruption from one of China's foremost legal experts. Hong Jun, a recently-returned lawyer from the US, opens a practice in Beijing intent on helping ordinary people defend their rights. His very first case leads him to the hinterland of China's snowy northeast where the brutal killing of a local beauty took place ten years earlier. In his quest for justice, Hong Jun revisits the buried secrets of the recent past, and delves deep into the underbelly of the provincial police and court system in a case that proves to be anything but ordinary.
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Jia Pingwa
L'art perdu des fours Anciens
8vo, br. ed. 1152pp. Gulu, "Fours anciens", village reculé des montagnes du Shaanxi, dans la Chine du Nord, est réputé depuis des siècles pour la qualité de sa porcelaine. Rythmé par les travaux saisonniers, la quête de nourriture et le poids des traditions, le quotidien de ses habitants n'était jusque-là que la répétition d'un même ennui. Pissechien est le souffre-douleur autant que la mascotte du bourg. Petit de taille malgré ses treize ans, d'origine incertaine, il rend de menus services aux villageois. Truchement du merveilleux dans ce monde dur, il parle aux animaux, assujettis eux aussi à la loi du plus fort. Mais si la vie était rude avant la Révolution culturelle, elle devient alors absurde. La gestion du village tourne à la foire d'empoigne et Gulu glisse dans le chaos. Les rebelles affrontent les révolutionnaires pour s'emparer des précieux fours à porcelaine. Protégé par sa "mauvaise origine de classe" et sa candeur, Pissechien assiste, en observateur, au déferlement de haine. Véritable événement littéraire en Chine à sa parution, L'art perdu des fours anciens amène le lecteur au plus près des mécanismes de la violence politique et sociale qui ont marqué le pays en profondeur. Cette ambitieuse étude de moeurs qui se donne à lire comme une satire magistrale nous révèle un immense conteur.
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Shih Sheng-Han
A preliminary survey of the book Ch'i min yao shu: an agricultural encyclopaedia of the 6th Century
Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8vo. blue cloth. 107pp
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a cura di Federico Masini e Bruno Bertuccioli
Il Palazzo di primavera. Arte ed eros in Cina
4to, pp.104. Quattro album di pitture erotiche cinesi, risalenti al periodo tra le dinastie Ming e Qing, e conservati nei secoli da un abile collezionista e grande sinologo, giuliano bertuccioli. Immagini che ci conducono in un mondo lontano e per tanti versi ancora inesplorato. Prefazione di Federico Masini. a collection of ancient chinese erotic paintings, illusrated.
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Pang Pang
The Death of Hu Yaobang
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Wright, Frank Lloyd
The Japanese Print an Interpretation
4to 144p., 32 color plates, 2 fold-outs. . VG in the original cloth. Slipcase A desirable copy of this relatively scarce 1967 edition of the 1912 work includes Wright's introductions to "Antique Colour Prints from the Collection of Frank Lloyd Wright," a 1917 exhibition catalogue, and "The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Japanese Antique Prints," a 1927 auction catalogue, as well as passages from "An Autobiography." 32 fine color plates showing works by Hiroshige, Hokusai, et al., from Wright's personal collection. Interpretazione delle stampe giapponesi da parte del grande architetto. ottima copia, nel suo cofanetto.
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Il Nuovo Ramusio. Completo in 13 Volumi. Tutto Il Pubblicato
IL NUOVO RAMUSIO. RACCOLTA DI VIAGGI, TESTI E DOCUMENTI RELATIVI AI RAPPORTI FRA L'EUROPA E L'ORIENTE. 4to, 13 voll., bross. prima edizione, tutto il pubblicato. piccola mancanza da sfregamento da scaffale al margine inferiore della sovracoperta del volume VII, piega alla sovracoperta del volume V, macchia appena percettibile alla sovracoperta del peimo tomo del volume II, altrimenti tutti i volumi in perfetto stato, con rispettive spvracoperte in pergamino (ad eccezione del volume I che ha la sovracoperta ma non il pergamino). L'opera, che comprende le relazioni ed i diari dei piu' noti viaggiatori italiani in Oriente, presentati in un testo definitivo e corredati di un commentario storico e geografico, e' cosi' composta: Vol. I - 'Liber Peregrinationis di Jacopo da Verona (1335), a cura di U. Monneret de Villard, pp. XXXII,240; Vol. II - 'I Missionari italiani nel Tibet e nel Nepal (XVIII secolo)' suddiviso in 7 parti: Parti I-II-III-IV: 'I Capuccini Marchigiani', a cura di L. Petech, pp. CXX,224; VIII,274; VIII,366; X,284; con tavv. Parti V-VI-VII: 'Ippolito Desideri S.I.', a cura di L. Petech, pp. XXXVI,252; X,354; VIII,318. Vol. III - 'Il libro dei conti di Giacomo Badoer (Costantinopoli 1436-40)', testo a cura di U. Dorini e T. Bertele', pp. XVI,858, con 5 tavv. di facsimili. Vol. IV - 'Viaggi di C. Federici e G. Balbi alle Indie Orientali (XVI secolo)', a cura di O. Pinto, pp. XLIV,438, con 5 tavv. Vol. V - 'Le navigazioni atlantiche del veneziano Alvise da Mosto (1455-56) - La navigazione del portoghese Pedro de Cintra (1462)', a cura di R. Gasparrini Leporace, pp. XXIV,356, con 4 tavv. Vol. VI - 'I viaggi di Pietro della Valle. Lettere dalla Persia.' Vol. VII - 'I viaggi in Persia degli ambasciatori veneti Barbaro e Contarini.' Bella ediz. su carta a mano di Pescia in tirat. di 900 esempl. num. Il ns., intonso, e' in ottimo stato, come nuovo. Come nell'opera del grande Ramusio, trovano posto nell'attuale collezione scritti di alcuni fra i maggiori viaggiatori europei. Ogni volume e' preceduto da un'introduzione critica sulla vita e le opere dell'autore; l'edizione critica del testo e' seguita da ampi commenti, nella quale sono utilizzate le fonti occidentali e specialmente orientali che completano le notizie fornite dalle relazioni-La Libreria dello Stato. Roma. 1950-1956 . 1st edition. 13 volumes in 4to, all ever published. A very crisp as new set. international customers please inquire on shipping.
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Lilavati N.H. Padhke;Translated by Krishnaji Shankara Patwardhan, Somashekhara Amrita Naimpally & Shyam Lal Singh
Lilavati of Bhaskaracarya A Treatise of Mathematics of Vedic Tradition : With Rationale in Terms of Modern Mathematics
Contents: Foreword. Preface. Bhaskaracarya: his life and work. Lilavati. 1.Definitions of tables. 2. Place values of digits. 3. Addition and subtraction. 4. Methods of multiplication. 5. Division. 6. Methods of finding squares. 7. Square root. 8. Method to find the cube. 9. Cube roots.10. Eight operations on fractions. 11. Addition and subtraction of fractions. 12. Multiplication fractions. 13. Division of fractions. 14. Squares, cubes, square roots and cube roots of fractions. 15. Eight rules concerning zero. 16. Reverse process. 17. To find an unknown quantity. 18. Method of transition. 19. Square transition. 20. Quadratic equation. 21. The rule of three. 22. Inverse proportion. 23. The rule of five. 24. Rules for barter. 25. Simple interest. 26. Combinations. 27. Progressions ( series). 28. Mensuration. 29. Volume. 30. Wood cutting. 31. Volume of a heap of grain. 32. Shadows. 33. Pulverization. 34. Concatenation ( permutations, partitions etc.). Index of verses. Subject index.Motilal Banarsidass. Lilavati has been used as a standard textbook for about 800 years. Itwas widely used and commented and translated into several languages of the world. Arithmetic is presented as an enjoyable playful activity. The name 'Bhaskaracarya' and 'Lilavati' are well-known. Aryabhata (b.476 AD) is credited for his pioneering work of extracting tantra sastra, (I.e. astronomy and mathematics) from vedas (generally known as the oldest embodiment of knowledge) to the level of common usage as he appropriately says in his Aryabhatiyam.In 1150 AD, Bhaskaracarya (b.1114 AD), renowned mathematician and astronomer of Vedic tradition composed Lilavati as the first part of this larger world called Siddhanta-Siromani, a comprehensive exposition of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, mensuration, number theory and related topics, 201 pp. The names 'Bhaskaracarya' and 'Lilavati' are well-known. If a student displays outstanding talent in Mathematics, the school teacher lovingly calls the student ìSecond Bhaskaracaryaî. Many legends about Lilavati are in vogue. It is but natural that Indians have a special interest in Bhaskaracarya and his works, especially the Lilavati. Professor N.H. Phadke has taken great pains in the preparation of the present work A New Light on Lilavati, thus filling a void. In the Lilavati, Arithmetic is presented as an enjoyable playful activity. Professor Phadke has admirably succeeded in preserving this spirit in the A New Light on Lilavati. Since Professor Phadke studied many books in Sanskrit, Hindi, English and Marathi, he could have easily given scholarly notes and references all over. But the author has resisted that temptation and has given the relevant supplementary information in six appendices. So the book is easy to read and the readers enjoy the playful atmosphere. The Lilavati is a book on Arithmetic written in the twelfth century. Techniques for the solution of problems are simple and easy to use and, moreover, there is a lot of interesting information in the problems presented therein. In 1150 AD, Bhaskaracarya (b. 1114 AD), renowned mathematician and astronomer of Vedic tradition composed Lilavati as the first part of his larger work called Siddhanta Siromani, a comprehensive exposition of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, mensuration, number theory and related topics. Lilavati has been used as a standard textbook for about 800 years. This lucid, scholarly and literary presentation has been translated into several languages of the world. Bhaskaracarya himself never gave any derivations of his formulae. N.H. Phadke (1902-1973) worked hard to construct proofs of several mathematical methods and formulae given in original Lilavati. The present work is an enlargement of his Marathi work and attempts a thorough mathematical explanation of definitions, formulae, short cuts and methodology as intended by Bhaskara. Stitches are followed by literal translations so that the reader can enjoy and appreciate the beauty of accurate and musical presentation in Lilavati. The book is useful to school going children, sophomores, teachers, scholars, historians and those working for cause of mathematics.
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Goullart Peter
Forgotten Kingdom ( Likiang )
8vo, 259p., with 16 pages of plates, hardcover, dust jacket.
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Giuganino, Alberto
La Pittura Cinese, 2 Volumi
Due volumi in 4° grande di XII-344pp e 588 tavole in bn e a colori. Tela editoriale con titolo e decorazione ai piatti in sovracoperta illustrata. piccoli danni al basso della sovracoperta (come da foto), altrimenti stato perfetto. Tiratura di 750 esemplari numerati, su carta a mano. Questo è il n° 496. La prima e insuperata pubblicazione in Italia con criteri scientifici sulla pittura cinese. Limited/Numbered Edition 750 Copies, this is n. 496. rare, almost mint copy in cloth and dj.
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Pinto, Fernão Mendes
The Travels of Mendes Pinto
large 8vo, Yellow cloth with red lettering in dust jacketxlvi,663,(32)p 50 Maps and Illustrations. Edited and translated from the Portuguese by Rebecca D. Catz. This text, ostensibly the autobiography of Portugese explorer Fernão Mendes Pinto, came second only to Marco Polo's work in exciting Europe's imagination of the Orient. Chronicling adventures from Ethiopia to Japan, Travels covers twenty years of Mendes Pinto's odyssey as a soldier, a merchant, a diplomat, a slave, a pirate, and a missionary, and continues to overwhelm questions about its source with the sheer enjoyment of its narrative. heavy, please international customers inquire on extra shipping.
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Sterckx Roel
The Animal and the Daemon in Early China
8vo, br. ed. pp.375. Explores early Chinese beliefs regarding the animal world and how these informed ideals of sagehood and political authority.
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Dore, Henri
RESEARCHES INTO CHINESE SUPERSTITIONS 10 Vols in 5
quality reprint 10 volumes in five,complete blue gilt buckram. scarce even in reprint.
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Lévy André
Nouvelles lettres édifiantes et curieuses d'Extrême-Occident : Par des voyageurs lettrés chinois à la Belle époque, 1866-1906
8vo, br. ed.
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Li Shuchang
Carnet De Notes Sur l'Occident Traduit du chinois par Shi Kangqiang - Préface de Michel Cartier - Avant-propos de Viviane Alleton
In-8° broché, couv. cart., iconographie en noir, 198 pp.,
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London Jack
L'invasione della Cina e altri Racconti
8vo, br. ed. pp.189. Dopo "Il richiamo della notte", continua la riscoperta della produzione fantastica di Jack London con alcune riletture satiriche e tragiche del mito evoluzionista e della fede cieca nell'inarrestabile progresso tecnologico. Nove racconti in cui la fantascienza si fa terreno di critica sociale, smascherando, oltre alla retorica libertaria e al rigorismo scientifico, il trascinarsi di ataviche ossessioni e l'anarchia del capitale refrattario a ogni opposizione, che stritola gli operai e irride i poeti. Lontano dai ghiacci, dalla natura selvaggia delle amate terre di confine, London si muove tra passato e futuro, tra la remotissima Cina e la natia San Francisco, descrivendo mondi iperbolici e segrete fonti energetiche, guerre batteriologiche e armi apocalittiche, scioperi vaneggiati e ferree oligarchie, manicomi criminali e distopiche rivoluzioni, indagando i meccanismi del potere e la natura umana
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Cochran, Sherman , Andrew C. K. Hsieh , Jamis Cochran
One Day in China: May 21, 1936
8vo, br. ed 290 pages with Appendixes, List of Passages Translated, Bibliography, and Index. Depicts the activities and experiences of people from all over China and at every level of society on an ordinary day, as related by the people themselves. Originally published in China in 1936, this is the first English edition and contains 84 of the original pieces. The selections are organized to focus on four topics that were of central importance to Chinese people at that time: Women, Local Authority, Popular Religion, and the Japanese Enemy.
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Jiang Rong
Il Totem Del Lupo
8vo, tela ed. in sovracoperta, pp.603. Chen Zhen, giovane intellettuale di Pechino, viene invitato in Mongolia per diffondere tra la popolazione locale i principi del neonato regime comunista. Le steppe sono un territorio notoriamente isolato e remoto ma nulla poteva preparare Chen Zhen a quello che lo attendeva. Si troverà infatti di fronte a gente nomade e fiera, ma sopratutto poco disposta a misurarsi con interlocutori diversi dal lupo, l'eterno avversario della steppa che è al tempo stesso nemico, spirito benefico e simbolo di un'esistenza dedita sì all'aggressione ma anche alla cooperazione e all'armonia con la natura.
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Oxfeld Ellen
Bitter and Sweet: Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China
8vo, br. ed. China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. As a result, older people in rural areas have experienced in their lifetimes both extreme deprivation and relative abundance of food. Young people, on the other hand, have a different relationship to food. Many young rural Chinese are migrating to rapidly industrializing cities for work, leaving behind backbreaking labor but also a connection to food through agriculture. Bitter and Sweet examines the role of food in one rural Chinese community as it has shaped everyday lives over the course of several tumultuous decades. In her superb ethnographic accounts, Ellen Oxfeld compels us to reexamine some of the dominant frameworks that have permeated recent scholarship on contemporary China and that describe increasing dislocation and individualism and a lack of moral centeredness. By using food as a lens, she shows a more complex picture, where connectedness and sense of place continue to play an important role, even in the context of rapid change. ISBN: 9780520293526
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