‎China‎

‎Price Robert G.‎

‎SPACE TO CREATE IN CHINESE SCIENCE FICTION‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 180pp. This study of Chinese science fiction will be of interest to students, SF fans, and even to those with a mere passing fancy of science fiction in the Middle Kingdom. The book is split into three main parts; firstly the development of Anglo-American and Chinese SF are compared - mainly for those who are new to the "genre." Next, the "unspoken" limiting guidelines for authors that no one can / will universally agree on are discussed. Also, historical case studies demonstrate why freedom to create is absolutely vital to the progressive developments of companies and even countries which also rings true for China's role in the 21st century. Finally, a sampling of 12 short stories by three major authors over the last forty years are examined for content that agrees with statements made about SF in China by experts in SF studies as well as authors themselves. All this helps even a novice in the subject to gain important insights into what it means to be an SF author in China.‎

‎Forke Anton Ed. cranmer-byng Hugh Intr.‎

‎Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure‎

‎br. ed. pp. 64. [The Yang Chu chapter of the Lieh Tzu (book 7)] CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I THE VANITY OF FAME CHAPTER II REAL AND FALSE GREATNESS CHAPTER III THE BREVITY OF CONSCIOUS LIFE CHAPTER IV DEATH THE EQUALISER CHAPTER V FALSE VIRTUES CHAPTER VI THE IDEAL LIFE CHAPTER VII DUTY TO THE LIVING AND THE DEAD CHAPTER VIII THE ART OF LIFE CHAPTER IX THE HAPPY VOLUPTUARIES CHAPTER X THE JOYOUS LIFE OF TUAN-MU-SHU CHAPTER XI THE FOLLY OF DESIRE FOR LONG LIFE CHAPTER XII SELF-SACRIFICE AND SELF-AGGRANDISEMENT CHAPTER XIII THE VANITY OF REPUTATION CHAPTER XIV DIFFICULTY AND EASE OF GOVERNMENT CHAPTER XV ALL THINGS PASS CHAPTER XVI THE NATURE OF MAN CHAPTER XVII THE FOUR CHIMERAS CHAPTER XVIII ALL PLEASURES ARE RELATIVE CHAPTER XIX THE WISDOM OF CONTENTMENT‎

‎Ye Yonglie‎

‎L’ombra delle spie sull’isola di giava Verde‎

‎8vo, tela ed. in sovracop. fantascienza cinese.‎

‎Rickett Adele Austin‎

‎Chinese Approaches to Literature from Confucius to Liang Ch'i-ch'ao‎

‎8vo, cloth in dj. pp.384. These essays, by Chinese and Western scholars, treat selected aspects of Chinese literary theory, history, and criticism from the age of Confucius to the beginning of the twentieth-century. The topics examined include Confucius as a literary critic (Donald Holzman); the view of ch i, or vital force, as a decisive element in creative writing (David Pollard); the literary theories of the eleventh-century poet and essayist Ou-yang Hsiu (Yu-shih Chen) and his contemporary Huang T ing-chien (Adele Rickett); and the seventeenth-century philosopher-poet Wang Fu-chih (Siu-kit Wong). Other essays consider the Ch ang-chou School of the Ch ing dynasty (Florence Chia-ying Yeh Chao); the distinctive methods of criticism applied to the Dream of the Red Chamber by the Chih-yen chai commentators (John Wang); and the educative function of fiction as outlined by Liang Ch i-ch ao and Yen Fu at the turn of the century (C.T. Hsia). Originally published in 1978. 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. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.‎

‎Wu-shan Shêng‎

‎L´EROS IN CHINA. La tradizione cinese Dell´erotismo‎

‎8vo, tela in sovracoperta illustrata. pp.206 con 29 illustrazioni f.t.‎

‎Pellegrini Nancy‎

‎The People's Bard: How China Made Shakespeare Its Own‎

‎16mo, br. ed. 142pp. From the first staging of the Merchant of Venice in 1913, to experimental interpretations in contemporary theaters, Shakespeare plays have been embraced in China. Touching on mortal themes of love and loss, revenge and guilt, his works have transcended the boundaries of language and culture. This book explores the unique story of how the Bard of Avon became the People’s Bard and the universality of his literary genius.‎

‎Osterhammel, Jürgen‎

‎Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment's Encounter With Asia‎

‎8vo, hardcover, pp.676. During the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East, from the Ottoman Empire and India to China and Japan. Here is the acclaimed book that challenges the notion that Europe's formative engagement with the non-European world was invariably marred by an imperial gaze and presumptions of Western superiority. Osterhammel shows how major figures such as Leibniz, Voltaire, Gibbon, and Hegel took a keen interest in Asian culture and history, and introduces lesser-known scientific travelers, colonial administrators, Jesuit missionaries, and adventurers who returned home from Asia bearing manuscripts in many exotic languages, huge collections of ethnographic data, and stories that sometimes defied belief. Osterhammel brings the sights and sounds of this tumultuous age vividly to life, from the salons of Paris and the lecture halls of Edinburgh to the deserts of Arabia, the steppes of Siberia, and the sumptuous courts of Asian princes. He demonstrates how Europe discovered its own identity anew by measuring itself against its more senior continent, and how it was only toward the end of this period that cruder forms of Eurocentrism--and condescension toward Asia?prevailed. A momentous work by one of Europe's most eminent historians, Unfabling the East takes readers on a thrilling voyage to the farthest shores, bringing back vital insights for our own multicultural age.‎

‎Luo Guanzhong‎

‎The Romance of the Three Kingdoms‎

‎16mo br. ed. 672pp. A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels - an epic story of warring factions in the era of China's Han dynasty Part historical and part legend, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms dramatizes the lives of feudal lords and their retainers, recounting their personal and military battles, intrigues and struggles to achieve dominance for almost a hundred years. It is one of the most beloved works of East Asian literature, and the most famous historical novel in China‎

‎VAN SLYKE, LYMAN P.‎

‎YANGTZE; NATURE, HISTORY AND THE RIVER‎

‎hardcover, with dust jacket, illustrations in black & white.‎

‎Pallis Marco‎

‎Peaks & Lamas‎

‎Red Cloth in dj. Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 397+13pp., 76 photographs and 4 maps. The fascinating saga of an expedition to the Himalayas, Ganges, Satlej, Ladak and Sikkim in the early 30s. A very interesting look at Tibetan art and an especially revealing study of Tibetan Buddhism. A wonderful glimpse into the lives of missionaries, hermits and pilgrims in the great Himalayas. Very slight edgewear to the beautiful pictorial dust wrapper otherwise a fine copy.‎

‎Edwin O. Reischauer Ennin Jikaku Daishi‎

‎Ennin's travels in T'ang China (838-847) and Ennin's Diary Record of a pilgrimage to China in search of the Law, 2 Volumes‎

‎8vo, frontispiece-portrait in colour in both volumes (Ennin) pp. XIV-341 ; xv-454. First edition of a work by the translator of Ennin's diary, here presented in wider perspective for those with a specific interest in the Far East, but also for those with a more general interest in the broad record of human history. Ennin was a Japanese Buddhist monk who was sent to China as the leader of a Japanese embassy. The lengthy record of his wanderings and of his tribulations and triumphs is not only the first great diary in Far Eastern history; it is also the first account of life in China by any foreign visitor (Preface). The second saperate volume is . Reischauer's full translation of Ennin's diary under the title "Ennin's Diary, the record of a pilgrimage to China in search of the law". scarce in such complete and excellent condition.‎

‎Kuhn Philip A.‎

‎Soul Stealers the Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768‎

‎8vo, br. ed. Midway through the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, in the most prosperous period of China's last imperial dynasty, mass hysteria broke out among the common people. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land, clipping off the ends of men's queues (the braids worn by royal decree), and chanting magical incantations over them in order to steal the souls of their owners. In a fascinating chronicle of this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulstealers that ensued, Philip Kuhn provides an intimate glimpse into the world of eighteenth-century China. Kuhn weaves his exploration of the sorcery cases with a survey of the social and economic history of the era. Drawing on a rich repository of documents found in the imperial archives, he presents in detail the harrowing interrogations of the accused--a ragtag assortment of vagabonds, beggars, and roving clergy--conducted under torture by provincial magistrates. In tracing the panic's spread from peasant hut to imperial court, Kuhn unmasks the political menace lurking behind the queue-clipping scare as well as the complex of folk beliefs that lay beneath popular fears of sorcery. Kuhn shows how the campaign against sorcery provides insight into the period's social structure and ethnic tensions, the relationship between monarch and bureaucrat, and the inner workings of the state. Whatever its intended purposes, the author argues, the campaign offered Hungli a splendid chance to force his provincial chiefs to crack down on local officials, to reinforce his personal supremacy over top bureaucrats, and to restate the norms of official behavior. This wide-ranging narrative depicts life in imperial China as it was actually lived, often in the participants' own words. Soulstealers offers a compelling portrait of the Chinese people--from peasant to emperor--and of the human condition. About the Author: Philip A. Kuhn is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.‎

‎Werner, E.T.C. [Edward Theodore Chalmers Werner, 1864-1954]‎

‎A Dictionary of Chinese Mythology‎

‎large 8vo. 627pp., thick,original cloth, in d.w (dj worn, chipped at edges, cloth very good). A dictionary of information dealing with Chinese superstitions, mythology and literary history.‎

‎Chu-tsing Li and Watt, James C. Y. [co-editors/contributors]; Wai-kam Ho; Zhu Xuchu; Wang Qingzheng; and Mowry, Robert [contributors], Various Artists and Illustrators‎

‎The Chinese Scholar's Studio Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period An Exhibition From The Shanghai Museum.‎

‎First Edition. Exhibition Catalogue. Beautiful copy of this handsome volume, companion volume to major 1987 exhibition. Bound in original dark blue cloth with spine lettered in gold in English and with Chinese character in gold on front cover. 59 color, 120 b.w. photos, 2 maps, bibliography, 218p.‎

‎Fangyu, Wang; Barnhart, Richard M.‎

‎Master of the Lotus Garden: The Life and Art of Bada Shanren, 1626-1705‎

‎Glossy folio , cloth in dj. Fine, as new and unopened; 300pp. Inscribed in chinese by the author on title page. Distinctive art exhibition catalogue and art monograph, featuring over 200 plates in b/w, detailing over 65 scholarly studies of Bada Shanren's works and masterpieces. Contributions include copious notes by specialists, appendix: seals; signatures, personal marks, and dating characters; dated works; letters of Bada Shanren; select Bibliography; Chronology; Index of Figures; Index of Chinese Names. Bada Shanren created one of the most compelling and distinctive bodies of graphic art in the history of Chinese culture. A prince of the Ming imperial family, he became a Buddhist monk after the Manchu invasion of China led to the collapse of the Ming dynasty. Thirty years later, when the turmoil of the conquest had passed, he returned to secular life as a painter, poet, and calligrapher. Although portrayed by his contemporaries as a mad eccentric, his art reveals a rational genius, and evidence suggests that he feigned madness to conceal his inner emotions. Despite his enigmatic character, he has had a profound influence on later generations of Chinese artists, especially those of the 20th century. This book provides an analysis of the life and art of Bada Shanren. The authors give an historical overview of the period in which Bada Shanren lived, discuss his importance in Chinese art history as the consummate scholar artist, and provide a comprehensive biography that discusses his genealogy, education, activities, friends, and development as an artist. More than 400 of Bada Shanren's works are reproduced and 70 representative paintings and works of calligraphy are accompanied by interpretive essays. There are also translations of poems and inscriptions, most of which have not been previously published.‎

‎Wilt L. Idema Edit.‎

‎Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 186pp. The saga of the Three Kingdoms —which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180–220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, Wei, and Wu states —remains as popular as ever in China, having served as the basis of not only traditional operas and ballads, but also, in more recent years, of movies, television dramas, and video games. Translated into English for the first time here, the Sanguozhi pinghua (thirteenth century CE) provides a complete and fast-paced narrative account of the events of the period, from the beginning of the civil wars to the demise of the Three Kingdoms and the short-lived reunification of the realm by the Jin dynasty. Shorter, clearer, and more accessible to Western audiences than Luo Guanzhong’s later, greatly expanded Romance (Sanguo yanyi)—and beautifully rendered in this edition by two modern-day masters of the art of Chinese literary translation—the Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language provides an ideal introduction to one of the foundational Chinese epic traditions. Tables of major Chinese dynasties and reigns, a guide to understanding formal Chinese naming conventions, a glossary of Chinese names and terms, and reproductions of some woodcuts from the original edition of the text are included.‎

‎Yan Lianke‎

‎I quattro libri‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.471. Siamo alla fine degli anni '50, nel Nord della Cina, sulle rive del Fiume Giallo: lo Scrittore, la Musicista, l'Erudito, il Religioso e altri personaggi sono imprigionati nella Sezione 99 di un campo di rieducazione per intellettuali per ricostruire il loro zelo rivoluzionario, sotto il comando del Bambino, giovane despota ossessivo. È l'epoca del Grande Balzo in avanti e i prigionieri sono sottoposti a una disciplina inflessibile e a un lavoro massacrante per raggiungere gli obiettivi produttivi fissati dal regime e risanare le proprie credenziali. Tra i roghi di libri, la corsa all'acciaio, la coltivazione intensiva del grano e una terribile carestia, gli anni passano implacabili, come la forza irriducibile della natura, sul grande fiume e sui destini dei personaggi. Un romanzo potente, lirico ed epico insieme, in cui il crescendo drammatico di eventi è scandito da quattro modi diversi di raccontare la follia umana, quattro tonalità in cui l'autore declina il suo racconto ed esprime, nonostante tutto, la sua fiducia verso l'umanità, fragile e resiliente.‎

‎Pu Ning‎

‎Flower Terror: Suffocating Stories of China [The Fossil ; A Glass of Water ; Reunion ; The Turtle ; A Type ; Silken Veil ; Duck's Tongue Cap ; Onto the Bridge ; Flower Play ; The Secret on the Pamirs ; The Day Mao Died]‎

‎8vo, br. ed. : Stories on the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In A Glass of Water, an old woman is denied water because of her family's anti-revolutionary politics, in The Fossil, a wife shows her loyalty to the Party by not speaking to her husband for three years, while in the title tale a man attracts suspicion when he buys flowers, considered a frivolous purchase. ; A collection of vignettes based mostly on Pu Ning's personal life in China between 1950's and 1970's" ; Contents: Pu Ning and his writing -- Preface -- The fossil -- A glass of water -- Flower terror -- Reunion -- The turtle -- A type -- Silken veil -- Duck's tongue cap -- Onto the bridge -- Flower play -- The secret on the Pamirs -- The day Mao died.‎

‎Boyd Julia‎

‎A Dance With the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking's Foreign Colony‎

‎8vo, hardcover dust jacket pp.336. Julia Boyd tells the fascinating tale of the foreign community surviving in Peking between the end of the Ching Dynasty and Mao s communist revolution. It is a great story very well told - turmoil behind, turmoil ahead and turmoil all around. --Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, Chairman of the BBC and former Governor of Hong Kong Based on a treasure-trove of original sources, this book gives an enthralling insight into the expatriate community in Peking during the half-century before the triumph of Mao. Anyone who wants to understand China's relationship with foreigners, today as well as yesterday, should read it. --Piers Brendon, author of The Decline and Fall of the British Empire A fascinating account sourced from many previously unpublished letters and archives. Boyd's characters flit on the surface of the city like water beetles, unaware of the depths below. --Frances Wood, Curator of Chinese Collections, British Library, author of China's First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors. '...with its fresh insights into this historic non-meeting of minds, [A Dance With the Dragon] appears at an opportune moment.' --Literary Review A fascinating account sourced from many previously unpublished letters and archives. Boyd's characters flit on the surface of the city like water beetles, unaware of the depths below. --Frances Wood, Curator of Chinese Collections, British Library, author of China's First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors. 'Boyd s volume stands alone as a valuable history of our foreign predecessors, but also offers a healthy reminder of the responsibilities incumbent upon those who make China their home.' --Asian Review of Books A fascinating account sourced from many previously unpublished letters and archives. Boyd's characters flit on the surface of the city like water beetles, unaware of the depths below. --Frances Wood, Curator of Chinese Collections, British Library, author of China's First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors. 'It is as much a glimpse of a corner of the fashionable intellectual life of Europe and America in exile as it is a guide to the vanished world of Peking itself.' --Asian Affairs A fascinating account sourced from many previously unpublished letters and archives. Boyd's characters flit on the surface of the city like water beetles, unaware of the depths below. --Frances Wood, Curator of Chinese Collections, British Library, author of China's First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors. L'autore Julia Boyd is the author of Hannah Riddell, An Englishwoman in Japan, and The Excellent Doctor Blackwell. She has traveled frequently to China.‎

‎Zhang Wei‎

‎September's Fable‎

‎large 8vo, br. ed. pp.495. Zhang Wei second novel. originally published in 1992. September's Fable tells the story of the rise and fall of a Chinese coastal village through its difficult formation, hard existence and inevitable disintegration. Spanning approximately sixty years, the novel is a rich and intriguing tapestry of life and death in rural China. Somewhat in the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, September's Fable weaves history, politics, and folklore close together to bring an enchanting way of storytelling that dexterously touches on such universal themes as love and hate, war and revolution, city and country, the noble and the ugly, and, more importantly, the inevitability of the old superseded by the new and young. About the Author: Born in 1956 in a small seaside town of eastern China, Zhang Wei has published ten novels, over a dozen novellas and numerous short stories, essays and poems. He has won more than thirty important national and international literary prizes. Zhang Wei is regarded as one of the Ten Most Important Chinese Writers of the 1990s, and his novel September s Fable is regarded as one of the Ten Most Important Chinese Literary Works of the 1990s.‎

‎Yan Lianke‎

‎Lenin's Kisses‎

‎8vo, br, ed. ex-library. but good. Synopsis: A FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE Deep within the Balou mountains lies a small rural town populated by disabled people. Blind, deaf and disfigured, the 197 citizens of the Village of Liven have until now enjoyed a peaceful, mutually supportive life out of sight and mind of the government. But when an unseasonal snowstorm wipes out that year's crops, a county official dreams up a scheme that will raise money for the district and boost his career. He convinces the villagers to set up a travelling freak-show, to include Blind Tonghua's Acute Listening Act and Deafman Ma's Firecrackers-on-the-Ear. With the money, he intends to buy Lenin's embalmed corpse from an ailing Russia and install it in a splendid mausoleum in the mountains to attract tourism to this sleepy district. However, as we all know, even the best intentions can go awry. About the Author: Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China. He is the author of numerous novels and short-story collections, including Serve the People!, Dream of Ding Village, Lenin's Kisses, The Four Books and The Explosion Chronicles. He has been awarded the Hua Zhong World Chinese Literature Prize, the Lao She Literary Award, the Dream of the Red Chamber Award and the Franz Kafka Prize. He has also been shortlisted for an array of prizes including the International Man Booker Prize, the Principe de Asturias Prize for Letters, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the FT/Oppenheimer Fund Emerging Voices Award and the Prix Femina Etranger. The Day the Sun Died won the Dream of the Red Chamber Award for the World's Most Distinguished Novel in Chinese. He lives and writes in Beijing. Ex-Library‎

‎Yan Lianke‎

‎The Years, Months, Days: Two Novellas‎

‎Waddell, L. Austine‎

‎LHASA AND ITS MYSTERIES. With a Record of the Expedition of 1903-1904‎

‎reprint of the 1906 illustrated third edition. 115 b.w. photos, colored frontis, bright copy, index, 17 appendices, large folding color map. this quality reprint , in red cloth, as the original. Lhasa the forbidden city, the Grand Lama and his evolution as the Priest-God of Lhasa, how the British mission came to be sent, great Northern plateau, invasion of Sikhim, col. Younghusband's peaceful mission becomes an armed force, invasion of the Chumbi valley across the Jelep pass,occupation of Phari Fort the advance to Tuna on the Tibetan plateau, Tang pass, wintering in Tibet, on to Guru, battle at the crystal springs. The Tibetan army and its leaders, Dash on Gyantse, past the Lakes Rham and Kala with fight in the Gorge of the Red Idol. Gyiantse its fort and town, temples, priests, convents of Gyantse visit to the caves of entombed hermits and besieged at Gyantse. Relief of Gyantse , storming of the Jong. Gyantse to Lhasa, past the Yamdok Sea , across the Tsangpo Valley.‎

‎Huc M.‎

‎Recollections Of A Journey Through Tartary,Thibet,and China During The Year 1844,1845,and 1846‎

‎8vo, cloth. pp.viii, 313.‎

‎Grosser Pierre‎

‎Dall'Asia al mondo. Un'altra visione del XX Secolo‎

‎8vo, rileg. ed.in sovracoperta, pp-709. Sapevate che la vittoria del Giappone sulla Russia nel 1905 fu decisiva per il gioco delle alleanze che avrebbe portato alla prima guerra mondiale? O che fu in Manciuria alla fine degli anni Venti che iniziò la seconda guerra mondiale? Che la guerra fredda è nata in Asia nell'estate del 1945 e che questo è anche il luogo in cui l'ordine internazionale è stato ricomposto alla fine degli anni Settanta? Basando in particolare il suo lavoro su quelli di storici cinesi, giapponesi o coreani, Pierre Grosser dimostra come Regno Unito, Russia e Stati Uniti siano state - e siano tuttora, a tutti gli effetti - delle potenze asiatiche. Grosser interrompe la visione tradizionalmente incentrata sul mondo euro-americano, senza cedere alla tentazione di fare l'ennesimo processo all'eurocentrismo, né cadere in qualche forma di asiocentrismo o terzomondismo. Un saggio che inaugura un nuovo capitolo nella storia delle relazioni internazionali del «lungo» Ventesimo secolo, dal quale non siamo ancora usciti.‎