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Andornino Giovanno B.
Cina. Prospettive di un paese in Trasformazione
8vo, br. ed. 352pp. La Cina sta trasformando le dinamiche della politica globale più di qualsiasi altro paese al mondo, eppure la conosciamo poco. Sovente oggetto di letture stereotipate e quasi assente dai programmi scolastici, la Repubblica Popolare Cinese ambisce a un ruolo da protagonista del Ventunesimo secolo. Stati Uniti e Unione Europea la definiscono partner in alcuni ambiti di interesse comune e concorrente in campo economico, ma anche rivale sistemico in quanto promotrice di un modello di stato e società alternativo a quello liberale e democratico. Ma che cosa caratterizza questo modello? E come si configura la capacità di Pechino di proiettarlo verso il resto del mondo? A un secolo dalla fondazione del Partito Comunista Cinese, questo volume delinea la nuova fisionomia politica e socio-economica della Cina in quella che il suo leader, Xi Jinping, chiama la «nuova era». Comprenderne le implicazioni è decisivo, anche per l'Italia, per impostare relazioni efficaci e sostenibili.
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Brunori Maurizio
Il Grande Eunuco
8vo, br. ed. pp.182
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Arkush, R. David and Leo O. Lee
Land without ghosts : Chinese impressions of America from the mid- nineteenth century to the Present
8vo, paperback, xvii, 309 pp. ex librry stampa and labels, internally fine, no marks. Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-309). Foreword / John K. Fairbank -- George Washington and the American political system / Xu Jiyu - - Trains and treaties / Zhigang -- Strange customs / Zhang Deyi -- Glimpses of a modern society / Li Gui -- Travel in the interior / Chen Lanbin -- How to cope with Western dinner parties / Cai Jun -- Two poems / Huang Zunxian -- Chinese in America / Zhang Yinhuan -- Translator's notes to Uncle Tom's cabin / Lin Shu -- The power and threat of America / Liang Qichao -- Report of an investigation of American education / Huang Yanpei - - The American woman / Hu Shi -- The contradictory American character / Tang Hualong -- "Things about America and Americans" / Xu Zhengkeng -- Presidential elections / Li Gongpu -- The American family : individualism, material wealth, and pleasure-seeking / "Gongwang" -- Alabama : reds and Blacks / Zou Taofen. Impressions on reaching America / Lin Yutang -- Burlesque / George Kao -- The shallowness of cultural tradition / Fei Xiaotong -- Some judgments about America / Xiao Qian -- Betty : a portrait of loneliness / Yang Gang -- A day in the country / Du Hengzhi -- Americans' lack of personal style / Yin Haiguang -- Black ghost / Yu Guangzhong -- Eating in America / Cai Nengying, Luo Lan, and Liang Shiqiu - - A family Christmas / "Jiejun" -- America, America / Zhang Beihai -- A glimpse of America / Wang Ruoshui -- Working students / Xiao Qian -- America revisited / Fei Xiaotong -- I do not regret visiting New York / Zhang Jie -- America, spacious yet confining / Liu Binyan -- Six don'ts for Chinese students in America / Wang Yuzhong -- Private ownership and public ownership / Li Shaomin Ex-Library
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Choy Howard Yuen Fung
Remapping the Past : Fictions of History in Deng's China, 1979-1997 (Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography) (ISBN:9004167048)
8vo, hardcover ex-library with stamps and pastedowns, ow. good, no undelinings or highlighting. Synopsis: The most prominent literary phenomenon in the 1980s and 1990s in China, historical fiction, has never been systematically surveyed in Anglophone scholarship. This is the first investigation into how, by rewriting the past, writers of Deng Xiaoping's reform era undermined the grand narrative of official history. It showcases fictions of history by eleven native Chinese, Muslim and Tibetan authors. The four chapters are organized in terms of spatial schemes of fictional historiography, namely, regional histories and family romances, discourses on diaspora and myths of minorities, nostalgia for the hometown in the country and the city, as well as the bodily text and the textual body, thus broadly covering the eternal themes of memory, language, food, sex, and violence in historical writing. About the Author: Howard Y. F. Choy is assistant professor at Wittenberg University. He received his Ph.D. in comparative literature and humanities from the University of Colorado (2004) and is the assistant author of The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Confucianism (New York: Rosen, 2005). Ex-Library
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Sun Shuyun
The Long March : The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
8vo, hardcover in dj, ex-librarystamps and labels, ow. good. Ex-Library
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Ramazzotti Sergio
La birra di Shaoshan. Viaggio nel paese natale di Mao
8vo, br. ed.
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Raphals Lisa
Wisdom and CunningKnowing Words: Wisdom And Cunning In The Classical Traditions Of China And Greece (Myth And Poetics)
8vo, Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xviii, 304 p., 23 cm. <br> "For the Greeks, the craft of Odysseus and the wisdom of Athena were examples of metis, an elusive cast of mind that ranged from wisdom and forethought to craft and cunning. Although it informed many aspects of Greek society, metis was all but absent from the language of Greek philosophy. Invoking indigenous Chinese debates, Lisa Raphals here examines the role and significance of metic intelligence in classical Chinese philosophy, literature, history, and military strategy."
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Santelli Filippo
La Cina non è una sola. Tensioni e paradossi della superpotenza Asiatica
8vo, br. ed. 258pp. «Ciò che accade in Cina è la nostra quotidianità». Il trauma del coronavirus, dilagato in tutto il mondo dalla lontana metropoli di Wuhan, ha dato una brusca accelerazione a un processo in atto da anni nell'opinione pubblica occidentale. Di Cina non si è mai parlato così tanto: dalla Via della Seta all'antagonismo con gli Stati Uniti, dalla travolgente crescita economica al mancato rispetto dei diritti umani, questo vasto impero è sempre più al centro di sentimenti e previsioni contrastanti, che lo danno di volta in volta destinato al dominio planetario o a un repentino tracollo. È quell'approccio emotivo e «schizofrenico» definito anche «sinofrenia». Per comprendere davvero questo Paese e le sue prospettive bisogna conoscere le «tante Cine» che oggi convivono dietro l'apparente compattezza e che Filippo Santelli racconta in questo libro. Perché la Cina è un inestricabile groviglio di forze e debolezze, di tensioni difficili da comporre che interagiscono lungo linee di faglia geografiche, economiche, sociali e culturali: la ricchezza ostentata delle classi più elevate e la povertà diffusa nelle aree rurali e tra le pieghe delle metropoli; la corsa verso l'innovazione e la visione patriarcale che penalizza le donne in famiglia e nel lavoro; la spietata competizione negli studi e la sua contropartita di ansia, frustrazione, paura del futuro; la diffusione di stili di vita e brand occidentali e un tenace e orgoglioso nazionalismo; le ambizioni di egemonia internazionale che suscitano diffidenza e compromettono le alleanze; la questione ambientale e quella demografica. Il risultato è «un Paese in bilico tra sicurezze e insicurezze, tra evoluzione e involuzione». Ne è un chiaro esempio la gestione dell'epidemia di Covid-19, prima colpevolmente trascurata e nascosta dal governo di Pechino, poi efficacemente gestita con un'inflessibilità che l'autore ha sperimentato in prima persona nella sua quarantena ospedaliera a Nanchino. Un evento emblematico di tutti i chiaroscuri della Cina odierna. Sarà l'equilibrio di queste tensioni a decidere il futuro del Dragone, e il nostro.
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Tianjian Shi
Political Participation in Beijing
8vo, br. ed. 352pp. ex-library stamps and labels, ow. very good. Ex-Library
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Vibeke Boerdahl Ed.
The Eternal Storyteller: Oral Literature in Modern China
8vo, hardcover, 388pp. Chinese storytelling has survived through more than a millennium into our own time, while similar oral arts have fallen into oblivion in the West. Under the main heading of 'The Eternal Storyteller', in August 1996 the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies hosted an International Workshop on Oral Literature in Modern China. To this meeting, the first of its kind in Europe, five special guests were invited - master tellers from Yangzhou: Wang Xizotang, Li Xintang, Fei Zhengliang, Dai Buzhang and Hui Zhaolong. The volume derived from this meeting includes an introductory article written by John Miles Foley entitled 'A Comparative View on Oral Traditions'. Thereafter, a wide range of topics relating to Chinese oral literature is covered under the headings: 'Historical Lines', 'A Spectrium of Genres', 'Studies of Yangzhou and Suzhou Story- telling' and 'Performances of Yangzhou Storytelling'. However, the present volume does more than include papers derived from the meeting. It is also lavishly illustrated in word and picture from performances by the guest-storytellers. In so doing, the world of Chinese story telling is not just described and analysed - it is also brought to life.
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Jullien François
L'inaudito. All'inizio della vita Vera
8vo, br. ed. 160pp. È attorno all'inaudito che, senza saperlo, continuano a ruotare e ad avvolgersi le nostre vite. Solo l'in-audito, in fondo, è degno di interesse, in quanto ciò che è già "udito", registrato e assimilato, non ha, in realtà, niente da apportare, se non qualche aggiustamento e sistemazione. Sul punto, forse non è il caso di continuare a ingannarci. Al contempo, visto che l'inaudito è ciò che in sé sfugge, ne consegue che ciò che di esso si lascia normalmente captare e cogliere sia innanzitutto deludente. La radicale estraneità e stranezza, non essendo pienamente liberata, si volge in banalità e familiarità. Quando non sono all'altezza dell'inaudito, mi annoio: mi stanco di quello che ho appreso o, piuttosto, di ciò che non ne ho appreso. Incontrare l'inaudito, al contrario, sbatterci improvvisamente contro, significa spostare in maniera smisurata la frontiera del possibile, sempre troppo stabile, e la morte stessa, commensurata all'incommensurabile e al vertiginoso dell'inaudito, si ritrova all'improvviso sottratta al suo isolamento. L'immaginazione, come la scienza e la fede, fa tanti sforzi per integrare la morte nella vita, per iscriverla nel suo metabolismo, per assimilarla allo scopo di giustificarla. Ma che ne è di quanto essa conserva di "inaccettabile", come si è soliti dire, ossia di non integrabile da parte del soggetto? Non resta che ricorrere alla categoria riferita a ciò che non si integra, a ciò che è fuori categoria: l'inaudito – meglio che l'"Infinito", la categoria spesso invocata per rendere conto di quel debordare – può finalmente mordere quanto di più refrattario risulta per il pensiero.
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Chicharro Gladys
Le fardeau des petits empereurs : Une génération d'enfants uniques en Chine
8vo, br. ed. pp.319. En lançant la politique de l'enfant unique en 1979 simultanément aux grandes réformes économiques, le gouvernement chinois entendait accélérer la modernisation. Bien qu'il se réclame toujours du marxisme, le " socialisme de marché " est désormais prôné. La population est encouragée à s'enrichir et le pays se trouve de plus en plus intégré dans les processus de la mondialisation. A partir d'une étude de terrain menée dans la ville nouvelle de Langfang (province du Hebei), site d'une modernité utopique, ce livre porte sur le façonnement de la première génération d'enfants uniques. Dans un pays où les, structures familiales sont fondées sur le culte des ancêtres et un système de filiation strictement patrilinéaire, la position d'unique descendant occupée aujourd'hui par tous les enfants uniques les rend particulièrement précieux aux yeux de leur entourage et leur vaut le surnom de " petits empereurs ". Cependant, on évoque aussi souvent leur lourd " fardeau ", car ils se trouvent également seuls pour réaliser les attentes et assurer l'avenir de leurs parents. Ce contexte de profondes mutations (familiales et économiques) place les enfants uniques au coeur du problème que pose la transmission face à une situation radicalement nouvelle. Quc transmettent les familles dans un environnement bouleversé ? Qu'en dire au regard de l'éducation scolaire qui met directement en application les volontés gouvernementales ? En définitive, qui sont les nouveaux sujets chinois, " petits empereurs " d'un pays communiste qui pratique le libéralisme économique ? Force est de constater qu'ils ne sont pas passifs. Acteurs à part entière de leur vie et du monde, ils sont créateurs de culture. Maître de conférences à l'université paris VIII et membre du laboratoire Experice, Gladys Chicharro est ethnologue, docteur de l'Université Paris X-Nanterre. Ses travaux, menés depuis 1999 en Chine, portent sur l'éducation et la transmission aussi bien scolaire que familiale, l'enfance et les pratiques d'écriture. Elle a notamment publié " Qban yumen : Histoire d'un manuel chinois alternatif " (in B. Baptandier & G. Charuty, Du corps au texte. Approches comparatives, Nanterre, Société d'ethnologie, 2008) et " Education physique et incorporation de la morale dans les écoles élémentaires en République populaire de Chine " , Perspectives Chinoises, n°102, 2008.
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Antonelli Federico Roberto
Il diritto cinese. Dall'antica alla nuova Via della seta
8vo, br. ed. 140pp. Il presente volume traccia il percorso compiuto dal diritto cinese dalle origini ai giorni nostri. Vengono delineati i tratti paradigmatici della tradizione giuridica cinese partendo dalle sue origini e dalle forme assunte nella Cina imperiale e a seguito del difficile incontro con la tradizione giuridica occidentale, compresa quella socialista. Si verifica inoltre la centralità che la rule by law ha assunto nella società cinese di oggi grazie alle politiche di “riforme e apertura” avviate nel 1978 e il tragitto che separa ancora il sistema giuridico cinese dalla piena recezione dei principi della rule of law. Nel frattempo la Belt and Road Initiative, l’approvazione del codice civile e l’introduzione dell’intelligenza artificiale nei tribunali proiettano il modello giuridico cinese fuori dai propri confini, innestandolo nell’autostrada in cui circolano da sempre indisturbati i modelli della tradizione giuridica occidentale.
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Vandermeersch Léon
La Formation du Légisme - Recherche sur la Constitution d'une Philosophie Politique Caractéristique de la Chine Ancienne
8vo grande, XI-299 pp., broché, couvertures imprimées, lièves soulignures, autrement très bon état général.
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Timothy Cheek, Tony Saich
New Perspectives on State Socialism in China
8vo, br. ed. 424pp.
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Ford, Randolph B.
Rome, China, and the Barbarians: Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires
8vo, hardcover in dj. This book addresses a largely untouched historical problem: the fourth to fifth centuries AD witnessed remarkably similar patterns of foreign invasion, conquest, and political fragmentation in Rome and China. Yet while the Western Roman Empire was never reestablished, China was reunified at the end of the sixth century. Following a comparative discussion of earlier historiographical and ethnographic traditions in the classical Greco-Roman and Chinese worlds, the book turns to the late antique/early medieval period, when the Western Roman Empire 'fell' and China was reconstituted as a united empire after centuries of foreign conquest and political division. Analyzing the discourse of ethnic identity in the historical texts of this later period, with original translations by the author, the book explores the extent to which notions of Self and Other, of 'barbarian' and 'civilized', help us understand both the transformation of the Roman world as well as the restoration of a unified imperial China.
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Tillman Mih Margaret
Raising China's Revolutionaries: Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s-1950s
8vo, hardcover in dj, 339pp. A widespread conviction in the need to rescue China?s children took hold in the early twentieth century. Amid political upheaval and natural disasters, neglected or abandoned children became a humanitarian focal point for Sino-Western cooperation and intervention in family life. Chinese academics and officials sought new scientific measures, educational institutions, and social reforms to improve children?s welfare. Successive regimes encouraged teachers to shape children into Qing subjects, Nationalist citizens, or Communist comrades. In Raising China?s Revolutionaries, Margaret Mih Tillman offers a novel perspective on the political and scientific dimensions of experiments with early childhood education from the early Republican period through the first decade of the People?s Republic. She traces transnational advocacy for child welfare and education, examining Christian missionaries, philanthropists, and the role of international relief during World War II. Tillman provides in-depth analysis of similarities and differences between Nationalist and Communist policy and cultural notions of childhood. While both Nationalist and Communist regimes drew on preschool institutions to mobilize the workforce and shape children?s political subjectivity, the Communist regime rejected the Nationalists? commitment to the modern, bourgeois family. With new insights into the roles of experts, the cultural politics of fundraising, and child welfare as a form of international exchange, Raising China?s Revolutionaries is an important work of institutional and transnational history that illuminates the evolution of modern concepts of childhood in China.
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Billeter Jean-François
L'art Chinois De L'écriture
In 4', cart. ed. con sovrac., pp. 324, ill. in n. e col. n.t., in francese; strappetti ai margini della sovrac, en français, trés petites dechirures en marge de la jaquette, autrerment comme neuf. Editions Skira, 1989, in-4 relié pleine toile d'édition sous jaquette d'édition illustrée couleurs. 319 pages. Riche iconographie couleurs et noir et blanc. Parfaite condition. Sa thèse mise à part, le seul livre que J.F. Billeter ait publié pendant ses années d’enseignement est L’Art chinois de l’écriture, paru chez Skira en 1989, illustré en noir et blanc et en couleurs. Cet ouvrage de synthèse sur la calligraphie chinoise traite des caractéristiques de l’écriture chinoise, de la technique du pinceau, du passage de l’écriture à la calligraphie proprement dite, de ce que les calligraphes de différentes époques ont dit de leur pratique, des diverses fonctions qu’a remplies la calligraphie. Des rapprochements sont faits avec la pratique de la peinture, du dessin et surtout l’exécution musicale en Europe. Une version remaniée de l’ouvrage a paru chez Allia en 2010 sous une forme plus maniable, illustrée en noir et blanc seulement. Le chapitre final (ch.9) a été réécrit. Il jette sur l’ensemble du sujet un jour qui n’est plus tout à fait le même que dans la première édition. J.F. Billeter y met en lumière la relation intime qui unissait l’art chinois de l’écriture, un certain culte de l’écriture et une civilisation qui était aussi, sous l’empire, un ordre politique
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Demel Walter
Come i cinesi divennero gialli. Alle origini delle teorie razziali
. ed. l saggio di Demel determina e mette a fuoco questo passaggio storicamente importante per la coscienza europea attraverso la ricognizione di una vicenda esemplare: come i cinesi divennero 'gialli'. Dagli inizi del Cinquecento alla fine del Settecento viaggiatori e missionari recatisi in Estremo Oriente relazionano sull'aspetto fisico dei cinesi affermando che essi sono di aspetto e di carnagione molto simili agli europei. Se in Occidente i pregiudizi nei confronti di popoli diversi sono di antica data, le prime formulazioni di vere e proprie teorie della razza risalgono solo alla seconda metà del secolo XVII. Demel ripercorre sinteticamente le posizioni di autori quali Bernier, Buffon, Kant e Linneo, variamente impegnati nello sforzo di creare ciascuno una propria teoria della razza imperniata fra l'altro sul riconoscimento del differente colore della pelle: nella ricostruzione di Demel risulta interessante e significativo il contributo dato dall'Illuminismo al consolidamento del pregiudizio razziale. Dalla convinzione che i cinesi non possano essere del tutto bianchi si passa, durante il secolo XIX, ad attribuire loro il colore giallo. Ma perché il giallo? In quanto intermedio fra il bianco e il marrone, il giallo esprime l'immagine ambivalente della civiltà cinese: per quanto apparisse arretrata nei confronti della coeva civiltà europea, ben difficilmente si poteva negare la sua superiorità rispetto al livello culturale di altri popoli.
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Fong, Wen C., Alfreda Murck, Shou-chien Shih, Pao-chen Ch'en, Jan Stuart
IMAGES OF THE MIND: Selections from the Edward L. Elliott Family and John B. Elliott Collections of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting At the Art Museum, Princeton University
folio in color-illustrated wraps, with orange text on predominantly green spine. With black & white and full-color illustrations. 504 pp. selections from the Edward L. Elliott Family and John B. Elliot Collections of Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings at The Art Museum , Princeton University. please inquire on shipping for international orders. Catalogue of an exhibition held April 15-June 17, 1984. Bibliography: p. 491-493. Subjects Elliott family - Exhibitions.
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Bishop Peter
The Myth of Shangri-La : Tibet, Travel Writing and the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.308
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Unger Jonathan, Ed.
Using the past to Serve the Present: Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China
Paperback. Like New. History. book is unread pages are tight crisp/clean. Contents: The play's the thing': Wu Han and Hai Rui revisited / Tom Fisher -- 'In guise of a congratulation': political symbolism in Zhou Xinfang's play Hai Rui submits his memorial / Rudolf G. Wagner -- The strange case of Liu Zhidan / David Holm -- Qu Yuan and the artists: ancient symbols and modern politics in the post-Mao era / Ralph Croizier -- Party historiography / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- The controversy over 'Feudal despotism': politics and historiography in China, 1978-82 / Lawrence R. Sullivan -- 'The spiritual heritage of Chinese capitalism': recent trends in the historiography of Chinese enterprise management / Tim Wright -- Socialism with Chinese characteristics: Sun Yatsen and the international development of China / Michael R. Godley -- History of the masses / Geremie Barmé.
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Tucci Giuseppe
Il Paese Delle Donne Dai Molti Mariti
8vo, br. ed. pp.287.
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Jullien François
La Valeur allusive : Des catégories originales de l'interprétation poétique dans la tradition chinoise, contribution à une réflexion sur l'altérité interculturelle [Publications de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, v. 144.]
4to, br. ed. 312 pp. Elégante édition originale qu'on ne saurait confondre avec la réédition.
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Sterckx Roel
Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding
16mo, br. ed. 518pp. At a time in current affairs when understanding China and the Chinese mindset has become imperative, Chinese Thought brilliantly shows us the origin of that country's thinking -- Alexander Watson - BBC: History Magazine Books of the Year A terrific book, rich and endlessly thought provoking. Roel Sterckx is a delightfully engaging and informed travelling companion who gives us a wonderful overview of Chinese thought. If you are looking for one book to understand the core ideas of Chinese civilisation, read this -- Michael Wood, author of The Story of China We have been waiting for this book for too long. For centuries, the real China has been locked in a distant castle by both the western media and Chinese propaganda. If you are curious about the origin of China's yin and yang, if you want to know more about the roots of Chinese philosophy, if you want to know how to do business with the Chinese, if you want to gain insight into Chinese art, or even if you want to understand the mentality of Chinese people, this book will answer these questions for you. Roel Sterckx's book can be the key to opening that Chinese castle's gate, and help you to understand how Chinese life has taken shape from Confucius to the food menus of today -- Xinran Xue, author of Sky Burial, The Good Women of China, and China Witness An outstanding introduction to the world of thought in classical China. Engagingly written and beautifully argued. . . an invaluable work for anyone interested in exploring the key ideas and concerns that have animated so much of Chinese civilization -- Michael Puett, author of The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life An indispensable read for those keen to understand China past and present. Sterckx's journey through the complex world of Chinese thinking is thorough, clear, accessible, articulate and fascinating. I will be recommending this book to my students, colleagues and friends alike -- Michael Scott, author of Ancient Worlds Ever wondered why Chinese have valued ritual more than law, harmony more than personal accomplishment? In this engagingly-written book, Roel Sterckx makes these and other central elements in Chinese thought easy to understand and interesting to think about -- Patricia B. Ebrey, professor of history, University of Washington L'autore Roel Sterckx is Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science and Civilization at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Clare College. He is a sinologist specializing in the cultural history, religion and thought of pre-imperial and early imperial China as well as the classical and literary Chinese language.
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Sellmann James D.
Timing and Rulership in Master Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals (Lushi Chunqiu): Lushi Chunqiu (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)
8vo, br. ed. 178pp. Explores proper timing and the arts of rulership in the work that inspired China's first emperor. ames D. Sellmann is Professor of Philosophy and Director of East Asian Studies at the University of Guam.
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Confucius , Martin Palmer Ed.
The Most Venerable Book (Shang Shu)
16mo, br. ed. pp.254. A wonderfully enjoyable storehouse of ancient Chinese history and legends, which also has an important role in understanding 21st-century China 'And remember: Heaven's blessing will cease forever if there's despair and poverty in your lands' The Most Venerable Book (also known as The Book of History) is one of the Five Classics, a key work of Chinese literature which preserves some of the most ancient and dramatic chronicles of the history, both real and mythological, of the Chinese state. For many centuries it was a central work for anyone wishing to work for the Imperial administration, preserving as it does a fascinating mixture of key Confucian concepts as well as page after page of heroes, benevolent rulers, sagacious ministers, and struggles against flood, corruption and vicious, despotic rulers. The First Emperor tried in 213 BC to have all copies of the book destroyed because of its subversive implication that 'the Mandate of Heaven' could be withdrawn from rulers who failed their people. For similar reasons it was also banned by Chairman Mao. Extraordinarily, the values of The Most Venerable Book have been revived by the Chinese government of the 2010s.
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Cheek Timothy Tony Saich Edts.
New Perspectives on State Socialism in China
8vo, br. ed. 424pp. ex library stamps ow. good. no underlinings or highlights. Placing Chinese Community Party history in the realm of social history and comparative politics, this text studies the roots of the policy failures of the late Maoist period and the tenacity of the CCP. Introduction: The Making and Breaking of the Party-State in China / Timothy Cheek 1. The Construction of Spatial Hierarchies: China's Hukou and Danwei Systems / Tiejun Cheng and Mark Selden 2. The United Front Redefined for the Party-State: A Case Study of Transition and Legitimation / Mary G. Mazur 3. The Mechanics of State Propaganda: The People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union in the 1950s / Julian Chang 4. Building the Party-State in China, 1949-1965: Bringing the Soldier Back In / David Shambaugh 5. The Politics of an "Un-Maoist" Interlude: The Case of Opposing Rash Advance, 1956-1957 / Frederick C. Teiwes and Warren Sun 6. Localism, Central Policy, and the Provincial Purges of 1957-1958: The Case of Zhejiang / Keith Forster 7. Shanghai's Strike Wave of 1957 / Elizabeth J. Perry 8. Surviving the Great Leap Famine: The Struggle Over Rural Policy, 1958-1962 / Dali L. Yang Conclusion: Uncertain Legacies of Revolution / Tony Saich. Newly Available Sources on CCP History from the People's Republic of China / Nancy Hearst and Tony Saich Interviews on Party History / Frederick C. Teiwes Mendacity and Veracity in the Recent Chinese Communist Memoir Literature / Joshua A. Fogel The National Defense University's Teaching Reference Materials / Warren Sun Researching China's Provinces / Keith Forster.
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Anderson E. N.
Everyone Eats: Understanding Food And Culture
8vo, br. ed. 249pp. Everyone eats, but rarely do we ask why or investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional reasons for why humans eat, resulting in a unique cultural and biological approach to the topic. E. N. Anderson explains the economics of food in the globalization era, food's relationship to religion, medicine, and ethnicity as well as offers suggestions on how to end hunger, starvation, and malnutrition. Everyone Eats feeds our need to understand human ecology by explaining the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment.
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Kerner, Susanne (Editor)/ Chou, Cynthia (Editor)/ Warmind, Morten (Editor)
Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast
8vo, br. ed. Throughout time and in every culture, human beings have eaten together. Commensality - eating and drinking at the same table - is a fundamental social activity, which creates and cements relationships. It also sets boundaries, including or excluding people according to a set of criteria defined by the society. Particular scholarly attention has been paid to banquets and feasts, often hosted for religious, ritualistic or political purposes, but few studies have considered everyday mensality: From Everyday Food to Feast offers an insight into this social practice in all its forms, from the most basic and mundane meals to the grandest occasions. Bringing together insights from anthropologists, archaeologists and historians, this volume offers a vast historical scope, ranging from the Late Neolithic period (6th millennium BC), through the Middle Ages, to the present day. The sixteen chapters include case studies from across the world, including the USA, Bolivia, China, Southeast Asia, Iran, Turkey, Portugal, Denmark and the UK. Connecting these diverse analyses is an understanding of commensality's role as a social and political tool, integral to the formation of personal and national om first experiences of commensality in the sharing of food between a mother and child, to the inaugural dinner of the American president, this collection of essays celebrates the variety of human life and society.
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Tsai Jacqueline
La Chine et le Luxe
8vo, br. ed. 258pp. Voici une véritable histoire de la Chine, des temps ancestraux à la modernité la plus actuelle, à travers les représentations et la pratique du luxe. Pourquoi le jade incarne-t-il le luxe éternel pour les Chinois ? Que révèle l'art de vivre du lettré ? Qu'évoquent les "pieds bandés" ? Que dévoilent la robe fendue et les talons hauts de la Shanghaienne des années 1930 ? Comment expliquer le succès des grands centres commerciaux à Hong Kong, dans les années 1980-1990, et désormais à Shanghai ? Que préfigurent le renouveau des maisons de thé à l'ancienne, le réenchantement de l'âge d'or de Shanghai ou l'intérêt pour les antiquités chinoises ? À travers ces exemples-phares, c'est la société chinoise dans son évolution et ses tendances qui est explorée. Entre histoire de la culture et état des lieux des modes et des tendances, ce livre est aussi un révélateur des ambitions de la Chine actuelle et de ses rapports avec l'Occident. Après le travail et la productivité, le luxe sera-t-il le prochain territoire qu'elle entend dominer ? Docteur de l'université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV), Jacqueline Tsai est responsable études et veille économique chez Louis Vuitton.
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Raphals Lisa
Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece
8vo, hardcover in dj, as new. xviii + 273pp., appends., bibliog., index, For the craft of Odysseus and the wisdom of Athena were examples of metis, an elusive cast of mind that ranged from wisdom and forethought to craft and cunning. Although it informed many aspects of Greek society, metis was all but absent from the language of Greek philosophy. Invoking indigenous Chinese debates, Lisa Raphals here examines the role and significance of metic intelligence in classical Chinese philosophy, literature, history, and military strategy.Raphals first examines the range of meanings of the Chinese word zhi. As with the Greek metis, the uses of zhi include "wisdom," "knowledge," "intelligence," "skill," "cleverness," and "cunning." Drawing on parallels between the two traditions, she argues that, in China as in Greece, metic intelligence tacitly informed many aspects of cultural and social life. In China, these included views of the nature of knowledge and language, standards of personal and social morality, and theories of military strategy and statecraft. After surveying representative texts from the Warring States period, Raphals considers the function of metic intelligence as the dominant quality of central characters in two novels from the Ming dynasty, the Romance of Three Kingdoms and Journey to the West. Finally, she compares the treatment of themes of heroism and recognition in the Chinese and Greek narrative traditions.
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Schram Stuart R. Editor
Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949. Voume II National Revolution and Social Revolution December 1920 - June 1927
8vo, hardcover, pp. lxii- 544.The projected ten-volume edition of Mao Zedong's writings provides abundant documentation in his own words regarding his life and thought. It has been compiled from all available Chinese sources, including the many new texts that appeared in 1993, Mao's centenary.
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Tsui Brian
China's Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New Order, 1927 1949
8vo, br. ed. 303pp. n this ambitious examination of the complex political culture of China under Guomindang rule, Brian Tsui interweaves political ideologies, intellectual trends, social movements and diplomatic maneuvers to demonstrate how the Chinese revolution became conservative after the anti-Communist coup of 1927. Dismissing violent struggles for class equality as incompatible with nationalist goals, Chiang Kai-shek's government should, Tsui argues, be understood in the context of the global ascendance of radical right-wing movements during the inter-war period. The Guomindang's revolutionary nation-building and modernization project struck a chord with China's reformist liberal elite, who were wary of mob rule, while its obsession with Eastern spirituality appealed to Indian nationalists fighting Western colonialism. The Nationalist vision was defined by the party-state's hostility to communist challenges as much as by its ability to co-opt liberalism and Pan-Asianist anti-colonialism. Tsui's revisionist reading revisits the peculiarities of the Guomindang's revolutionary enterprise, resituating Nationalist China in the moment of global radical right ascendancy.
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Qu Yuan and Others
The Songs of the South: An Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems By Qu Yuan And Other Poets
16mo, br. ed. pp.352, The Songs of the South is an anthology first compiled in the second century A.D. Its poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under seventeen titles and contain all that we know of Chinese poetry's ancient beginnings. The earliest poems were composed in the fourth century B.C. and almost half of them are traditionally ascribed to Qu Yuan.
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Crump J. I. Ed.
Legends of the Warring States: Persuasions, Romances, and Stories from Chan-Kuo Tse
8vo, br. ed. pp.189. Lively accounts of political intrigue and other lore from early China.
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Chin Tamara T.
Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination
8vo, br. ed. 380pp. Savage Exchange explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE?220 CE) at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance (?Silk Road?) markets. Tamara T. Chin explains why rival political groups introduced new literary forms with which to represent these expanded markets. To promote a radically quantitative approach to the market, some thinkers developed innovative forms of fiction and genre. In opposition, traditionalists reasserted the authority of classical texts and advocated a return to the historical, ethics-centered, marriage-based, agricultural economy that these texts described. The discussion of frontiers and markets thus became part of a larger debate over the relationship between the world and the written word. These Han debates helped to shape the ways in which we now define and appreciate early Chinese literature and produced the foundational texts of Chinese economic thought. Each chapter in the book examines a key genre or symbolic practice (philosophy, fu-rhapsody, historiography, money, kinship) through which different groups sought to reshape the political economy. By juxtaposing well-known texts with recently excavated literary and visual materials, Chin elaborates a new literary and cultural approach to Chinese economic thought.
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Sterckx Roel Ed,
Animals Through Chinese History Earliest Times to 1911
8vo, br. ed, 390pp. This volume opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. As environmental historians turn their attention to expanded chronologies of natural change, something new can be said about human history through animals and about the globally diverse cultural and historical dynamics that have led to perceptions of animals as wild or cultures as civilized. This innovative collection of essays spanning Chinese history reveals how relations between past and present, lived and literary reality, have been central to how information about animals and the natural world has been processed and evaluated in China. Drawing on an extensive array of primary sources, ranging from ritual texts to poetry to veterinary science, this volume explores developments in the human-animal relationship through Chinese history and the ways in which the Chinese have thought about the world with and through animals. This title is also available as Open Access.
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Mungello David E.
The Great Encounter of China and the West 1500-1800
8vo, cloth in dj. ex-library. In the twenty-first century, China has emerged as the leading challenger to U.S. global dominance. China is often seen as a sleeping giant, emerging out of poverty, backwardness, and totalitarianism and moving toward modernization. However, history shows that this vast country is not newly awakening, but rather returning to its previous state of world eminence. With this compelling perspective in mind, D. E. Mungello convincingly shows that contemporary relations between China and the West are far more like the 1500-1800 period than the more recent past. This fully revised second edition retains the clear and concise qualities of its predecessor, while developing important new social and cultural themes such as gender, sexuality, music, and technology. Drawing from the author's thirty years of experience teaching world history, this book illustrates the importance of history to students and general readers trying to understand today's world. About the Author: D. E. Mungello is professor of history at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Ex-Library
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Li Xiaobing
A History of the Modern Chinese Army
8vo, hardcover in dj. 320pp. Xiaobing Li's comprehensive examination of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) offers new insights into the military's central place in modern Chinese society. "A History of the Modern Chinese Army" goes beyond the usual Western assessments of the Chinese military "threat" and also expands on the politically constricted scholarship of native Chinese military historians. Li offers a sweeping yet thorough study of modern Chinese armed forces in the context of the nation's cultural traditions, its Communist revolution, and recent technological innovations that have radically transformed all aspects of Chinese society. Grounding the text in both newly released archival documents and the personal testimonies of more than two hundred PLA soldiers, Li adopts military modernization as his central theme. Li links the modernization of the military to China's rapid growth as a major industrial producer and its growing power in the international economy. Openness to political reforms is necessary, he argues, to ensure China's continued progress toward building one of the world's most advanced professional military forces. Li's analysis thus sheds new light on China's achievement and maintenance of its current status as a rising global power. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition
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Maspero Henri
Le Roman De Sou Ts'in
8vo, br. ed. extrait. (4)+127-141 pages. Original printed wrappers. Minor spots on the wrappers. Minor tear on page 137.
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Wang Y. Yvon
Reinventing Licentiousness: Pornography and Modern China
8vo, hardcover in dj, 289pp. Y. Yvon Wang draws on previously untapped archives?ranging from police archives and surveys to ephemeral texts and pictures?to argue that pornography in China represents a unique configuration of power and desire that both reflects and shapes historical processes. On the one hand, since the late imperial period, pornography has democratized pleasure in China and opened up new possibilities of imagining desire. On the other, ongoing controversies over its definition and control show how the regulatory ideas of premodern cultural politics and the popular products of early modern cultural markets have contoured the globalized world. Reinventing Licentiousness emphasizes the material factors, particularly at the grassroots level of consumption and trade, that governed "proper" sexual desire and led to ideological shifts around the definition of pornography. By linking the past to the present and beyond, Wang's social and intellectual history showcases circulated pornographic material as a motor for cultural change. The result is an astonishing foray into what historicizing pornography can mean for our understandings of desire, legitimacy, capitalism, and culture.
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Waley A.
The Book of Songs, Translated from the Chinese
8vo, cloth in dj, third impression of the 1937 ed. ; octavo; 358 pp (including index); a collection of ancient Chinese songs dating from 800 to 600 B.C. One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs (Shijing) is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs left from antiquity. Where the other Confucian classics treat outward things: deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works,” as Stephen Owen tells us in his foreword, The Book of Songs is the classic of the human heart and the human mind.”
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Santangelo Paolo
L'amore in Cina. Attraverso alcune opere letterarie negli ultimi secoli dell'Impero (Inconscio e cultura)
8vo br. ed. pp.337. In ogni società la passione amorosa si nutre di miti e di valori che la nobilitano e ne esaltano le pulsioni da cui trae origine. I letterati degli ultimi secoli dell'impero cinese amavano rappresentare e immaginare le passioni amorose seguendo certi codici convenzionali. Quali forme di controllo e di repressione erano state elaborate in seno alla civiltà cinese? Esiste un amore ideale e perfetto a cui si faceva riferimento? Quali sono i caratteri che più si avvicinano all'amore romantico che si è venuto a sviluppare in Europa dalla letteratura cortese a quella moderna? E se esistono differenze clturali, quali sono le basi ideologiche? A tutte queste domande l'autore ha tentato di dare una risposta.
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Birrell Anne, Ed
The Classic of Mountains And Seas
br. ed. 336pp. The Chinese CLASSIC OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS dates from the 3rd century B.C. to the 1st century A.D. and is structured according to a conception of the world as a vast land mass bounded on its four sides by four seas, beyond which lie four great wildernesses. Each chapter leads the reader through successive landscapes, describing the geographical and mythological associations of each location. The CLASSIC defies neat classification, and combines travel, genealogy, medicine, botany, regional lore, fables, and above all mythology. The CLASSIC is the key sourcebook of ancient Chinese mythology, occupying an analogous position in Chinese cultural history to Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in Greek mythology.
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Afinogenov Gregory
Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power
8vo, cloth in dj. 367pp. The untold story of how Russian espionage in imperial China shaped the emergence of the Russian Empire as a global power.
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Etiemble
L'Europe chinoise. I : De l'empire romain à Leibniz; Tome 2: De La Sinophilie a Sinophobie
2 volumes brochés en 8vo (14 cm x 22.5 cm) couverture cartonnée souple, blanche, 438 et 402 pages, aux éditions Gallimard, "Bibliothèque des Idées", Paris, 1988 premier volume : 1988 - 438 pages - de l'Empire Romain à Leibniz - à la recherche de Cathay - premières réactions de l'Europe aux nouvelles qui lui parviennent de Chine, par l'intermédiaire des missions deuxième volume : 1989 - 402 pages - de la sinophilie à la sinophobie - le Saint Siège refuse l'Europe Chinoise des Jésuites - quelques aspects de la Chine dans le Théâtre Européen du XVII° au XVIII° siècles - Voltaire sinophile - sinophiles et sinophobes
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Ding, Naifei
Obscene Things: Sexual Politics in Jin Ping Mei (ISBN:0822329166)
8vo br. ed. 352 pages. In Obscene Things Naifei Ding intervenes in conventional readings of Jin Ping Mei, an early scandalous Chinese novel of sexuality and sexual culture. After first appearing around 1590, Jin Ping Mei was circulated among some of China's best known writers of the time and subsequently was published in three major recensions. A 1695 version by Zhang Zhupo became the most widely read and it is this text in particular on which Ding focuses. Challenging the preconceptions of earlier scholarship, she highlights the fundamental misogyny inherent in Jin Ping Mei and demonstrates how traditional biases&;particularly masculine biases&;continue to inform the concerns of modern criticism and sexual politics. The story of a seductive bondmaid-concubine, sexual opportunism, domestic intrigue, adultery and death, Jin Ping Mei has often been critiqued based on the coherence of the text itself. Concentrating instead on the processes of reading and on the social meaning of this novel, Ding looks at the various ways the tale has been received since its first dissemination, particularly by critiquing the interpretations offered by seventeenth-century Ming literati and by twentieth-century scholars. Confronting the gender politics of this "pornographic"; text, she troubles the boundaries between premodern and modern readings by engaging residual and emergent Chinese gender and hierarchic ideologies.
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McMahon Keith
Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Fiction
8vo, br. ed. 392pp. Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists examines how such privilege functions in these novels and provides the first full account of literary representations of sexuality and gender in pre-modern China. In many examples of rare erotic fiction, and in other works as well-known as Dream of the Red Chamber, Keith McMahon identifies a sexual economy defined by the figures of the "miser" and the "shrew"&;caricatures of the retentive, self-containing man and the overflowing, male-enervating woman. Among these and other characters, the author explores the issues surrounding the practice of polygamy, the logic of its overvaluation of masculinity, and the nature of sexuality generally in Chinese society. How does the man with many wives manage and justify his sexual authority? Why and how might he escape or limit this presumed authority, sometimes to the point of portraying himself as abject before the shrewish woman? How do women accommodate or coddle the man, or else oppose, undermine, or remold him? And in what sense does the man place himself lower than the spiritually and morally superior woman? The most extensive English-language study of Chinese literature from the eighteenth century, this examination of polygamy will interest not only students of Chinese history, culture, and literature but also all those concerned with histories of gender and sexuality.
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Wills, John E. Jr.
China and Maritime Europe, 1500-1800: Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions
8vo, br, ed. paperback, used but Fine and unmarked. xi, 297pp. China and Maritime Europe, 1500-1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important roles here. Although pieces of these stories have been told before, these chapters provide the fullest and clearest available summaries, based on sources in Chinese and in European languages, making this information accessible to students and scholars interested in the growing connections among continents and civilizations in the early modern period. Book Description: China and Maritime Europe, 1500-1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. These chapters provide the fullest and clearest available summaries, making this information accessible to students and scholars interested in the growing connections among continents and civilizations in the early modern period.
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