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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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Teiwes Frederick C. , Warren Sun
Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform: Initial Steps toward a New Chinese Countryside, 1976-1981
8vo, paperback,. The decollectivization of Chinese agriculture in the early post-Mao period is widely recognized as a critical part of the overall reform program. But the political process leading to this outcome is poorly understood. A number of approaches have dominated the existing literature: 1) a power/policy struggle between Hua Guofeng's alleged neo-Maoists and Deng Xiaoping's reform coalition; 2) the power of the peasants; and 3) the leading role of provincial reformers. The first has no validity, while second and third must be viewed through more complex lenses.This study provides a new interpretation challenging conventional wisdom. Its key finding is that a game changer emerged in spring 1980 at the time Deng replaced Hua as CCP leader, but the significant change in policy was not a product of any clash between these two leaders. Instead, Deng endorsed Zhao Ziyang's policy initiative that shifted emphasis away from Hua's pro-peasant policy of increased resources to the countryside, to a pro-state policy that reduced the rural burden on national coffers. To replace the financial resources, policy measures including household farming were implemented with considerable provincial variations. The major unexpected production increases in 1982 confirmed the arrival of decollectivization as the template on the ground. The dynamics of this policy change has never been adequately explained.Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform offers a deep empirical study of critical developments involving politics from the highest levels in Beijing to China's villages, and in the process challenges many broader accepted interpretations of the politics of reform. It is essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary Chinese political history.
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Castorina Miriam, a Cura Di
Una ciotola di riso: cibo e cultura del cibo fra Italia e Cina.: Sulla via del Catai: Rivista semestrale sulle relazioni culturali tra Europa e Cina., Anno VIII, Numero 13.
8vo, br. ed. 155 p., 25 cm., illustrazioni, indice: 1. Fabio Parasecoli, Cibo e storia: metodi e ricerca 2. Maurizio Paolillo, “Più che la dieta poté il digiuno”: brevi considerazioni sull’alimentazione nel Daoismo tradizionale 3. Clara Bulfoni, Il significato simbolico del cibo nelle feste tradizionali cinesi 4. Livio Zanini, Visioni dell’alcol e del tè nelle fonti cinesi 5. Françoise Sabban, Marco Polo, la pasta e altri miti 6. Zhou Hongcheng, Con gli occhi dell’altro: il cibo cinese nelle fonti gesuite del XVII secolo 7. Paolo De Troia, Yuan Mei, un celebre gastronomo cinese del XVIII secolo 8. Michele Castelnovi, Quante bocche da sfamare: l’eco delle notizie sulla geografia dell’alimentazione in Cina 9. Miriam Castorina, Con gli occhi dell’altro: il cibo occidentale nelle fonti cinesi 10. Guido Samarani, Cibo e politica: l’esperienza di Zhang Naiqi 11. Giacomo Rech, Shanzhen haiwei, Il tesoro della montagna e il gusto del mare: la ristorazione cinese in Italia, tra pregiudizi e tradimenti
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Unger Jonathan, Ed.
Chinese Nationalism
8vo, br. ed. 236pp. highlighting and notes to some chapters. Provides conceptual insights that put the reader in a position to come to grips intellectually with the complex weave of Chinese nationalist sentiment today and in the future. contents: Introduction / Jonathan Unger 1. Chinese Nationalism / James Townsend 2. De-Constructing the Chinese Nation / Prasenjit Duara 3. The Nationless State: The Search for a Nation in Modern Chinese Nationalism / John Fitzgerald 4. How China's Nationalism Was Shanghaied / Lucian W. Pye 5. Openness and Nationalism: Outside the Chinese Revolution / Wang Gungwu 6. From Nationalism to Nationalizing: Cultural Imagination and State Formation in Postwar Taiwan / Allen Chun 7. 'Special Things in Special Ways': National Economic Identity and China's Special Economic Zones / George T. Crane 8. A Democratic Chinese Nationalism? / Edward Friedman 9. To Screw Foreigners Is Patriotic: China's Avant-Garde Nationalists / Geremie R. Barme.
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Kuo W, Ed.
A Comprehensive Glossary of Chinese Communist Terminology
4to, hardcover in dj. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book In good all round condition. Dust Jacket in good condition. 907pp. heavy: international customers please check on shipping. Ex-Library
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Lanciotti Lionello
Wang Chong L'iconoclasta
16mo, br. ed. pp.96. esaurito.
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Mcknight Brian E.
The Quality of Mercy : Amnesties and Traditional Chinese Justice
8vo 160 x 240 mm. grren cloth in dj ; pg. xii, 172; Preface, introduction, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. "[This book] holds much value for students of both social history and legal history. McKnight has offered a clue to unraveling the impact of foreign rule on Chinese civilization. His factual record demonstrates conclusively that the quality of justice is one area where foreign rule had a major impact on Chinese government. " ; 0824807367
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Idema Wilt L., Stephen H.West
Battles, Betrayals, and Brotherhood: Early Chinese Plays on the Three Kingdoms
8vo, br. ed. trade paperback, pp.xxx-469. No cycle of historical legends has enjoyed greater or more enduring popularity in China than that of the Three Kingdoms, which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (c. AD 180?220) that divided the old Han empire into the Shu-Han, Wei, and Wu states, and the eventual reunification of the realm under the Western Jin in AD 280
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Schoenhals, Michael
Spying for the People: Mao's Secret Agents, 1949-1967
8vo, br. ed. Synopsis: Since the end of the Cold War, the operations of secret police informers have come under the media spotlight, and it is now common knowledge that vast internal networks of spies in the Soviet Union and East Germany were directed by the Communist Party. By contrast, very little historical information has been available on the covert operations of the security services in Mao Zedong's China. However, as Michael Schoenhals reveals in this intriguing and sometimes sinister account, public security was a top priority for the founders of the People's Republic, and agents were recruited from all levels of society to provide intelligence and ferret out "counter-revolutionaries." On the basis of hitherto classified archival records, the book tells the story of a vast surveillance and control apparatus through a detailed examination of the cultivation and recruitment of agents, their training, and their operational activities across a twenty year period from 1949 to 1967. These revelations add an entirely new dimension to modern China's troubled social and political history. Although the story may be safely set in the past, the development of human sources to sustain an oppressive domestic order is nothing if not eerily relevant to students of the present. Book Description: In this fascinating account, Michael Schoenhals tells the story of the domestic covert operations of Mao's public security organs through a detailed examination of the cultivation and recruitment of their agents, their training, and their operational activities. These revelations, based on hitherto classified documents, enrich our understanding of modern China's troubled social history and throw much new light on its opaque dimensions of intelligence and social control.
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Masci Maria Rita, a Cura Di
L'oceano in un guscio d'ostrica Viaggiatori cinesi alla scoperta dell'Europa
8vo, br. ed. pp.341. "L'Europa dell'Ottocento, la sua vita quotidiana, i suoi costumi, il suo galateo, le conquiste della tecnica, nella descrizione stupita e perplessa dei primi viaggiatori cinesi" (4.a di copert.). Introduzione, scelta antologica, nota ai testi, traduzione e bibliografia a cura di M.R. Masci. (VIAGGIATORI CINESI IN EUROPA).
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Brown Jeremy
June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989
8o, trade paperback, The Tiananmen protests and Beijing massacre of 1989 were a major turning point in recent Chinese history. In this new analysis of 1989, Jeremy Brown tells the vivid stories of participants and victims, exploring the nationwide scope of the democracy movement and the brutal crackdown that crushed it. At each critical juncture in the spring of 1989, demonstrators and decision makers agonized over difficult choices and saw how events could have unfolded differently. The alternative paths that participants imagined confirm that bloodshed was neither inevitable nor necessary. Using a wide range of previously untapped sources and examining how ordinary citizens throughout China experienced the crackdown after the massacre, this ambitious social history sheds fresh light on events that continue to reverberate in China to this day.
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Gao Xingjian a Cura Di Danièle Crisà
In Forma Di Parole. Fermata D'autobus
8vo gr. br. ed. con fascetta. il dramma teatrale più famoso dello scrittore cinese insignito del nobe bel 2000.
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Gao Xingjian
Theatre 1. La Fuite, Au Bord De La Vie, La Somnambule, Quatre Quatuors Pour Un Week-end
8vo, br. ed. trés bon etat.
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Tam Gina Anne
Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960
8vo, br. ed. pp.232. Taking aim at the conventional narrative that standard, national languages transform 'peasants' into citizens, Gina Anne Tam centers the history of the Chinese nation and national identity on fangyan - languages like Shanghainese, Cantonese, and dozens of others that are categorically different from the Chinese national language, Mandarin. She traces how, on the one hand, linguists, policy-makers, bureaucrats and workaday educators framed fangyan as non-standard 'variants' of the Chinese language, subsidiary in symbolic importance to standard Mandarin. She simultaneously highlights, on the other hand, the folksong collectors, playwrights, hip-hop artists and popular protestors who argued that fangyan were more authentic and representative of China's national culture and its history. From the late Qing through the height of the Maoist period, these intertwined visions of the Chinese nation - one spoken in one voice, one spoken in many - interacted and shaped one another, and in the process, shaped the basis for national identity itself.
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Bin Xu
Chairman Mao's Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China
8vo, hardcover, 300pp. In the 1960s and 1970s, around 17 million Chinese youths were mobilized or forced by the state to migrate to rural villages and China's frontiers. Bin Xu tells the story of how this 'sent-down' generation have come to terms with their difficult past. Exploring representations of memory including personal life stories, literature, museum exhibits, and acts of commemoration, he argues that these representations are defined by a struggle to reconcile worthiness with the political upheavals of the Mao years. These memories, however, are used by the state to construct an official narrative that weaves this generation's experiences into an upbeat story of the 'China dream'. This marginalizes those still suffering and obscures voices of self-reflection on their moral-political responsibility for their actions. Xu provides careful analysis of this generation of 'Chairman Mao's children', caught between the political and the personal, past and present, nostalgia and regret, and pride and trauma.
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Barnett A. Doak
China On The Eve Of Communist Takeover
8vo, br. ed. This book attempts to illuminate some of the trends and conditions in China just prior to, and at the time of, the Communist takeover. It deals with the elements in the Chinese situation that contributed to the final collapse of the Nationalist regime on the China mainland during the late 1940's.
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Brown Jeremy and Paul G. Pickowicz
Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of China
8vo, br. ed, pp.462. This illuminating work examines the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the Communist takeover of China. Instead of dwelling on elite politics and policy-making processes, Dilemmas of Victory seeks to understand how the 1949-1953 period was experienced by various groups, including industrialists, filmmakers, ethnic minorities, educators, rural midwives, philanthropists, stand-up comics, and scientists. A stellar group of authors that includes Frederic Wakeman, Elizabeth Perry, Sherman Cochran, Perry Link, Joseph Esherick, and Chen Jian shows that the Communists sometimes achieved a remarkably smooth takeover, yet at other times appeared shockingly incompetent. Shanghai and Beijing experienced it in ways that differed dramatically from Xinjiang, Tibet, and Dalian. Out of necessity, the new regime often showed restraint and flexibility, courting the influential and educated. Furthermore, many policies of the old Nationalist regime were quietly embraced by the new Communist rulers. Based on previously unseen archival documents as well as oral histories, these lively, readable essays provide the fullest picture to date of the early years of the People's Republic, which were far more pluralistic, diverse, and hopeful than the Maoist decades that followed.
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Cheek Timothy
The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives
8vo, br. ed. 304pp. Ten engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party. Detailing the life of ten people who led or engaged with the Chinese Communist Party, one each for one of its ten decades of its existence, these essays reflect on the Party's relentless pursuit of power and extraordinary adaptability through the transformative decades since 1921. Demonstrating that the history of the Chinese Communist Party is not one story but many stories, readers learn about paths not taken, the role of chance, ideas and persons silenced, hopes both lost and fulfilled. This vivid mosaic of lives and voices draws together one hundred years of modern Chinese history - and illuminates possible paths for China's future
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Fromm Martin T.
Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China (Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China)
8vo, hardcover. 304pp. n the 1980s, as China transitioned to the post-Mao era, a state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national histories. They took the form of written and transcribed personal testimonies of events that preceded the turmoil of both the Cultural Revolution and, in many cases, the Communist victory in 1949. Known as wenshi ziliao, these publications represent an intense process of historical memory production that has received little scholarly attention. Hitherto unexamined archival materials and oral histories reveal unresolved tensions in post-Cultural Revolution reconciliation and mobilization, informing negotiations between local elites and the state, and between Party and non-Party organizations. Taking the northeast Russia–Manchuria borderlands as a case study, Martin T. Fromm examines the creation of post-Mao identities, political mobilization, and knowledge production in China.
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Shalom Stephen Rooskamm
Deaths in China Due to Communism: Propaganda Versus Reality (Occasional Paper / Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State U) (Center for Asian Studies, Occasional Paper No. 15)
8vo, br. ed.
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Hollmam Thomas O.
The Land of the Five Flavors: A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine
8vo, hardcover in dj, 198pp. Renowned sinologist Thomas O. Höllmann tracks the growth of food culture in China from its earliest burial rituals to today's Western fast food restaurants, mapping Chinese cuisine's geographical variations and local customs, indigenous factors and foreign influences, trade routes, and ethnic associations. Höllmann details the food practices of major Chinese religions and the significance of eating and drinking in rites of passage and popular culture. He enriches his narrative with thirty of his favorite recipes and a selection of photographs, posters, paintings, sketches, and images of clay figurines and other objects excavated from tombs. Höllmann's award-winning history revisits the invention of noodles, the role of butchers and cooks in Chinese politics, debates over the origin of grape wines, and the causes of modern-day food contamination. He discusses local crop production, the use of herbs and spices, the relationship between Chinese food and economics, the influence of Chinese philosophy, and traditional dietary concepts and superstitions. Citing original Chinese sources, Höllmann uncovers fascinating aspects of daily Chinese life, constructing a multifaceted compendium that inspires a rich appreciation of Chinese arts and culture
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