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Declerck Dominik
Writing Against the State: Political Rhetorics in Third and Fourth Century China (Sinica Leidensia, V. 39)
8vo, hardcover. The surviving examples of the early medieval shelun, a subgenre of the fu, are translated and interpreted against their political background in this original contribution to Chinese Nanbeichao studies.
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Dolezelova-Velingerova, Milena
The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century
8vo, original yellow cloth, ex library with usual labels and stamps, otherwise very good. Ex-Library
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Li Xueqin
The Wonder of Chinese Bronzes
8vo large, cloth in dj. From the Preface: "The present work gives a brief resume of the results of the study and unearthing of bronzes in the last thirty years for the information of friends overseas who take an interest in Chinese culture." former owner's chinese red seal on title page.
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Li Feng
Early China
'Early China' refers to the period from the beginning of human history in China to the end of the Han Dynasty in AD 220. The roots of modern Chinese society and culture are all to be found in this formative period of Chinese civilization. Li Feng's new critical interpretation draws on the most recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries from the past thirty years. This fluent and engaging overview of early Chinese civilization explores key topics including the origins of the written language, the rise of the state, the Shang and Zhou religions, bureaucracy, law and governance, the evolving nature of war, the creation of empire, the changing image of art, and the philosophical search for social order. Beautifully illustrated with a wide range of new images, this book is essential reading for all those wanting to know more about the foundations of Chinese history and civilization. Book Description: Li Feng's new critical interpretation provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of China's early history. Based on the most recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries from the past thirty years, this is essential reading for anyone who wants to find out more about the foundations of Chinese history and civilization.
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Dirlik Arif
Revolution and History: Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919-1937
8vo, br. ed. 235pp. In Revolution and History, Arif Dirlik examines the application of the materialist conception of history to the analysis of Chinese history in a period when Marxist ideas first gained currency in Chinese intellectual circles. His argument raises questions about earlier interpretations of Marxist historiography by scholars who based their opinions primarily on post-1949 writings.
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Hui Victoria
War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe
8vo, br. ed. 310pp. 'Victoria Hui is perhaps the only person in the international relations field capable of writing such a sophisticated comparative history of the Chinese and European state systems. This book is pioneering in its efforts to 'bring Asia in' to the study of macro-historical change in world politics. She demonstrates expert command of Chinese and European sources, international relations theory, and social science research design. The result is a provocative argument about the importance of strategic amorality, ruthlessness, and resource mobilization in state building, and about why ancient Chinese states outperformed European states in these areas.' Alastair Iain Johnston, Harvard University 'Victoria Hui has successfully executed a stunningly bold macro-historical comparison, while bringing to light the workings of a fascinating international system. Scholarship on state making and system transformation in ancient China and modern Europe – and, indeed, in other international systems, past, present, and future – must contend with her arguments and evidence.' William Wohlforth, Dartmouth College 'Dr Hui offers us a challenging reinterpretation of modern European history by a bold and original comparison with the period of state formation in China. In doing so, she challenges some dominant theories both in the theory of state formation and in international relations theory. The boldness of the method will provoke controversy, but nothing could be more valuable, for both historians and political scientists, than to understand European history in comparative perspective. This unusual work will be of great interest, not only to students and scholars of European and Chinese history, but also to those concerned with understanding contemporary global politics.' Michael Freeman, University of Essex 'It is rare to encounter an analysis as attentive to detail and method, yet broad in the scope of its implications as that by Victoria Tin-Bor Hui. … it invites its readers to pursue further the ideas discussed on its pages.' Political Studies Review Descrizione del libro This book, first published in 2005, explores why China and Europe's development of state systems began similarly but experienced opposite outcomes.
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Doshi Rush
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
8vo, hardcover in dj. 336pp. Given the turbulence in the international order in recent years, one of the central concerns among observers of world politics is the question of China's ultimate goals. As China emerges as a superpower that rivals the United States, American policymakers grappling with this century's greatest geopolitical challenge are looking for answers to a series of critical questions. Does China have expansive ambitions? Does it have a grand strategy to achieve them? If so, what is it and what should the United States do about it? In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, and memoirs by party leaders, to demonstrate that China is in fact playing a long, methodical game to replace America as a regional and global hegemon. He traces the basic evolution of Chinese strategy, showing how it evolved in response to changes in US policy and its position in the world order. After charting these shifts over time, Doshi offers a comprehensive yet "asymmetric" plan for an effective US response to this challenge: one that undermines China's ambitions without competing dollar-for-dollar, ship-for-ship, or loan-for-loan. Ironically, the approach mirrors China's own current strategy of subtly weakening Chinese leverage in the region and elsewhere while expanding US leverage over China.
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Sima Guang
Zizhi tongjian: Warring States and Qin Volume 1 to 8: 1-8
8vo, br. ed 760pp. Zizhi tongjian Vol 1-8 – Warring States and Qin – Translated by Joseph P Yap Sima Guang (1019-1086 CE) completed his Zizhi tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance) in 1084, a monumental historiography that commences in 403 BCE and ends in 959 CE, covering a span of 1362 years of ancient and medieval Chinese history. Qin Mu the eminent contemporary Chinese historian remarks, “Sima Guang successfully merged the three disciplines of literature, history, and philosophy into one entity.” The Zizhi tongjian is about historical experience, and Sima Guang maintains that the heads-of-states can learn so much by studying history. The book has earned high acclaim among Chinese and Asian scholars ever since its publication. However, only a very small part of the work has been translated into English; hence, the work is not widely read. This volume of this translation begins in 403 BCE and concludes with the fall of the Qin Dynasty in 207 BCE. The Zizhi tongian assimilated the exceptional attributes and defining qualities of the Zuozhuan (the Commentary of Zuo) and the Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian). Since its publication, it has held a very special and esteemed position among Chinese scholars and historians. Although the work was principally sponsored and financed by the Song Imperial Court, it was organized and written by private individuals; it, therefore, deviated significantly from historical texts prepared by court officials during previous dynasties. In 403 BCE, the once powerful Jin hegemonic state was partitioned into Hann, Wei, and Zhao. Together with Qi, Qin, Chu and Yan they came to be known as the seven warring states. Sima Guang in his annotation on the enfeoffment of the three fief lords by the King of Zhou laments over the breakdown of li (rites). He says, ‘It was not the three Jin ministers who bankrupted the instituted rites; rather, the Son of Heaven brought on the collapse.’ He contends that as the illegitimate act of partitioning a state by its subjects was legitimized by the Son of Heaven - the Zhou king was wholly accountable for the demise. Sima Guang thus chose to commence his chronicle of Zizhi tongjian during the 23rd year of King Weilei of Zhou, 403 BCE, when the Son of Heaven enfeoffed the Jin ministers. The times of the Warring States was about reforms, political strategies, intrigue, warfares, conquests and wholesale massacres when the major states vied for control of China. Wei was the first state that made reforms and enjoyed of decades of prosperity and military strength; it was followed by others in varying forms. The tide turned when Duke Xiao of Qin ascended to the throne; he made resolve to strengthen his state, and it was the turning point of the Warring States. Through Shang Yang’s reform, Qin basically laid down the foundation for the final conquest of the six states. This volume offers the readers a glimpse of the political struggles between the seven states culuminating in the final unification of China by by the First Emperor Qin Shihuang in 221 BCE. The book ends with the demise of Qin. When Sima Qian (145?-90 BCE) composed the Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian) he used all the information that was available to him, numerous errors were incorporated. Sima Guang, while conducted extensive research, drew copiously on the information from Shiji on the parts of Warring States, Qin, and early Han, and his work included many of the mistakes made. Ever since much textual and archaeological information on the Warring States have become available. Yang Kuan, one of the most eminent contemporary scholars, had conducted extensive textual and archaeological research on the Warring States, shedding much light on the errors on Shiji, Zhanguoce (Warring States Strategies) and Zizhi tongjian. The author translated some of his more outstanding articles. Joseph P. Yap is a self-educated historian. Having spent many years in the business community as a corporate executive, he decided to turn his attention to translating ancient Chinese texts into English. He believes that there is certainly no shortage of excellent translators, particularly from the academic world. However the literature we inherit from the ancient Chinese are so vast that numerous books and texts are still left unattended, and he believes that these valuable texts and chronicles should be made available to a wider English readers. He published his first book the Wars with the Xiongnu in 2009. He is presently working on Volume 2 and 3 of Zizhi tongjian – The Han Empire.
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Sawyer, Ralph D.
The Tao of Spycraft : Intelligence Theory and Practice in Traditional China
8vo. 617pp. ISBN: 0813333032. early records and the first spies, the Spring and Autumn period, the Warring States period, operations and control, secrecy and countermeasures, systematic programmes and psychological warfare, assassination and other techniques, basic theory and issues, intelligence applications, political intelligence, military intelligence, classifications of terrain, prognostication, divination and nonhuman factors. Indexed.
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COUVREUR (Séraphin) Editeur et Trad.
La chronique de la Principauté de Lou. Tch'ouen Ts'iou et Tso Tchouan. 3 Volumes
3 vol. in-8 brochés, 671 + 585 + 828 pp. (Les Humanités d'Extrême-Orient - Textes de la Chine). Qq. rouss. aux dos et couv., intérieur frais, bonne condition. Texte en chinois, transcription et traduction en français. Bien complet en 3 volumes. exemplaire non coupée en parfait etat.
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Carlos Rojas, Eileen Cheng-yin Chow editors
Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon
8vo, br. ed. 304pp. highlighting and label on spine, ow. good. Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and instead argue that the two cultural sensibilities are inextricably bound up with one another. An international line up of contributors present detailed analyses of literary works and other cultural products that have previously been neglected by scholars, while also examining more familiar authors and works from provocative new angles.The essays include investigations into the cultural industries and contexts that produce the canonical and popular, the position of contemporary popular works at the interstices of nostalgia and amnesia, and also the ways in which cultural texts are inflected with gendered and erotic sensibilities while at the same time also functioning as objects of desire in its own right. As the only volume of its kind to cover the entire span of the 20th century, and also to consider the interplay of popular and canonical literature in modern China with comparable rigor, Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture is an important resource for students and scholars of Chinese literature and culture.
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Tjan Tjoe Som, [Tseng Tchou-chen] Trans,
Po Hu T'ung: The Comprehensive Discussions in the White Tiger Hall . Volume 1
8vo, br. ed Vol. 1: (1949) pp. ix-360. Introduction; Translation of Chapters I, II, XVIII, XL; Notes". appendixes. dissertation.
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Chang, Leo S., Yu Feng
The Four Political Treatises of the Yellow Emperor
8vo, br. ed. 230pp.
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Altenburger Roland
The Sword or the Needle: The Female Night-Errant (xia) in Traditional Chinese Narrative
8vo, br. ed. 428pp. This study focussing on narratives about female knights-errant (nüxia) cuts along a thematic line in Chinese literary history, and thus seeks to contribute to understanding and appreciation mainly in three fields of inquiry: the formation of narrative subgenre; the literary representation of gender; and the particularities of the Chinese knight-errantry narrative. It traces the processes of textual collecting, editing, rewriting, and intertextual referencing by which narratives about female knights-errant were invented as, and forged into, a thematic sub-genre. The narratives about a character type who boldly transgresses gender boundaries are studied as an exemplary case for a general inquiry into the subversive significance of images of gender-bending strong female characters in the Chinese narrative tradition. Finally, the present study investigates into representations of the practice of Chinese knight-errantry, which includes assassination for social policing, private vengeance, and banditry.
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Kim Hodong
Holy War in China : The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877
8vo; 9.5x6.6. 304 pp.A detailed, scholarly history of Ya'qub Beg's rebelliion and short-lived state in northwest China (present-day Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region) based on extensive archival research.
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Bielenstein Hans
Is There a Chinese Dynastic cycle?
offrprint 8vo, br. 23pp. as new
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Meskill John
The Pattern of Chinese History: Cycles, Development, or Stagnation?
8vo, br. ed. Wear to cover yellowed paper 108 pages.
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Avery Martha
The Tea Road: China and Russia Meet Across the Steppe
8vo, br. ed. 198 pp. A large section of plates between pages 96 and 97.
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Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel
The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium
8vo, br. ed. pp.400. Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives on imperial state formation prior to the European colonial expansion. The world's first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained imperial growth, bringing a growing share of humanity under the control of ever-fewer states. Two thousand years ago, just four major powers-the Roman, Parthian, Kushan, and Han empires-ruled perhaps two-thirds of the earth's entire population. Yet despite empires' prominence in the early history of civilization, there have been surprisingly few attempts to study the dynamics of ancient empires in the western Old World comparatively. Such grand comparisons were popular in the eighteenth century, but scholars then had only Greek and Latin literature and the Hebrew Bible as evidence, and necessarily framed the problem in different, more limited, terms. Near Eastern texts, and knowledge of their languages, only appeared in large amounts in the later nineteenth century. Neither Karl Marx nor Max Weber could make much use of this material, and not until the 1920s were there enough archaeological data to make syntheses of early European and west Asian history possible. But one consequence of the increase in empirical knowledge was that twentieth-century scholars generally defined the disciplinary and geographical boundaries of their specialties more narrowly than their Enlightenment predecessors had done, shying away from large questions and cross-cultural comparisons. As a result, Greek and Roman empires have largely been studied in isolation from those of the Near East. This volume is designed to address these deficits and encourage dialogue across disciplinary boundaries by examining the fundamental features of the successive and partly overlapping imperial states that dominated much of the Near East and the Mediterranean in the first millennia BCE and CE. A substantial introductory discussion of recent thought on the mechanisms of imperial state formation prefaces the five newly commissioned case studies of the Neo-Assyrian, Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Roman, and Byzantine empires. A final chapter draws on the findings of evolutionary psychology to improve our understanding of ultimate causation in imperial predation and exploitation in a wide range of historical systems from all over the globe. Contributors include John Haldon, Jack Goldstone, Peter Bedford, Josef Wiesehofer, Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel, and Keith Hopkins, whose essay on Roman political economy was completed just before his death in 2004.
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Di Cosmo Nicola
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750
8vo, br.ed. pp.544. Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity offers an integrated picture of Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppes during a formative period of world history. In the half millennium between 250 and 750 CE, settled empires underwent deep structural changes, while various nomadic peoples of the steppes (Huns, Avars, Turks, and others) experienced significant interactions and movements that changed their societies, cultures, and economies. This was a transformational era, a time when Roman, Persian, and Chinese monarchs were mutually aware of court practices, and when Christians and Buddhists criss-crossed the Eurasian lands together with merchants and armies. It was a time of greater circulation of ideas as well as material goods. This volume provides a conceptual frame for locating these developments in the same space and time. Without arguing for uniformity, it illuminates the interconnections and networks that tied countless local cultural expressions to far-reaching inter-regional ones.
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Prusek, Jaroslav, Jaroslav Prušek. Edited by Leo Ou-fan Lee
Lyrical and the Epic : Studies of Modern Chinese Literature
8vo, orighinal cloth, ex library. Ex-Library
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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, cloth in dj, xvii, 309 pp. 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
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BEASLEY, WG & EG PULLEYBLANK. (EDITED BY)
Historians of China and Japan
8vo, hardcover in dj, In the original full red cloth with gilt lettering to spine,n slightly darkened dust jacket. ; Historical Writing on the Peoples of Asia; VIII, 351 pp. small owner's chinese stamp, some pencil marginal notes ow. good.
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Yang Lian. Postf. Claudia Pozzana e Federico Piverni
In Simmetria Con La Morte, Edizione In Cinese e Italiano
quarto quadrato, br. ed. 224pp. Yang Lian scrive in versi innumerevoli osservazioni, mostra i particolari, produce sguardi ravvicinati, immagini concatenate, solo apparentemente scollegate, stridenti ma ritmate, musicalmente intonate nei più vari registri. Queste di Yang Lian sono cose vocianti, sprizzano colori e, in ondate di versi sbattono sulla risacca della pagina-battigia una molteplicità di figure di pensiero. Figure in perpetuo movimento, ben calibrate, pur nella loro asprezza, e comunque necessarie alla forma stratificata delle sue architetture compositive.
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Scarpari Maurizio
Xunzi e il problema del Male
16mo, br. ed. 108pp.
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Documents Chinois
Resolution sur l'histoire du Parti Communiste Chinois (1949-1981). Appréciation officielle sur: Mao Zedong; la "révolution culturelle"; les réalisations de la République populaire de Chine.
In-16°, pp. 143. Bross. edit.
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Bojanowska Edyta M.
A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada (uncorrected proofs)
8vo, br. ed. uncorrected proffs, very good. 373pp. dyta Bojanowska uses Ivan Goncharov's gripping travelogue a bestseller in nineteenth-century Russia as a unique eyewitness account of empire in action. Slow to be integrated into the standard narrative on European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an assertive empire eager to emulate European powers and determined to define Russia against them.
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Bettini Maurizio
Roma, città della Parola
8vo, ril. ed. sovrac, 424pp. Secondo Plinio il Vecchio, se la 'vitalitas' dell'uomo risiede nelle ginocchia, la memoria risiede «nell'orecchio». Relegare questa affermazione nello sgabuzzino delle curiosità sarebbe un errore. «La memoria dell'orecchio» infatti ha l'immediato potere di svelarci uno dei fattori determinanti nella formazione della cultura romana, la parola parlata. I Romani cioè, e molte altre testimonianze ce lo confermano, sono ancora consapevoli del fatto che i costumi, le norme, i rituali, il ricordo del passato si tramandano (e si ricostruiscono) per via aurale. Come recita un proverbio ghanese «le cose antiche stanno nell'orecchio». A Roma non solo la produzione letteraria, ma anche il diritto, la pratica dello 'ius', viveva di «parola parlata», tanto che ai caratteri dell'alfabeto essa oppose spesso un'abile resistenza. E che dire del destino, concepito non come una «porzione» di vita ('móira'), alla maniera dei Greci, ma come una «parola», 'fatum', pronunziata dall'una o l'altra divinità? Perfino la norma indiscutibile e suprema che regolava il giusto e l'ingiusto, il lecito e l'illecito, ossia il 'fas', traeva origine da questa sfera: 'fas est', celebre e solenne locuzione romana, altro non significava se non «è parola che», proprio come molti secoli dopo si dirà «sta scritto che». Anche a Roma, però, la parola è soprattutto un evento sonoro. Come rivela la meravigliosa tessitura di «armonie foniche» che avvolgeva gli enunciati della produzione poetica, religiosa e giuridica di Roma arcaica: «armonie foniche», così le definì il grande Ferdinand de Saussure, che fu tra i primi ad appassionarsene.
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Lippiello T. a Cura Di
La costante pratica del giusto mezzo. Zhongyong. Testo cinese a fronte
8vo, br. ed. Uno dei classici della letteratura filosofica cinese, "La costante pratica del giusto mezzo (Zhongyong)" è una raccolta di massime, aneddoti e brevi trattazioni attribuita a un nipote di Confucio (551-441 a.C), anche se vi contribuirono altri autori di epoche successive. Confucio, un saggio che trasmise la cultura dell'età aurea a discepoli e governanti, fu presto considerato come la più vivida espressione di idee, pratiche, riti e norme sociali, tanto da plasmare per oltre due millenni la civiltà cinese. Discepoli e seguaci posteriori trasmisero il suo pensiero in varie opere, e anche ne "La costante pratica del giusto mezzo", una guida essenziale per realizzare una vita esemplare nell'oblio di una condotta discreta. Il testo conobbe particolare fortuna nel XII secolo, quando, tornati in auge gli studi classici, divenne uno dei Quattro libri (sisbu), canone della tradizione confuciana e raccolta in uso nel sistema degli esami imperiali, unica via per l'accesso alle cariche pubbliche sino all'inizio del XX secolo.
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Arrighi Giovanni
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the 21st Century
8vo, br. ed. Giovanni Arrighi (1937–2009) was Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Long Twentieth Century, Adam Smith in Beijing, and, with Beverly Silver, Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System. His work has appeared in many publications, including New Left Review—who published an interview on his life-long intellectual trajectory in March–April 2009, and an obituary in Nov–Dec 2009—and there are more accounts on his memorial website.
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Kains, Maurice G.
Ginseng: Its Cultivation, Harvesting, Marketing and Market Value; with a Short Account of Its History and Botany
vi+53(+iii) pp., figs. 1-14; hard (original cloth-covered board) cover; a couple of minor tears on covers and some loose feps - otherwise a vg copy in original, stamped, maroon boards; Scarc
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River Charles
The Golden Horde: The History and Legacy of the Mongol Khanate
4to, br. ed. Though history is usually written by the victors, the lack of a particularly strong writing tradition from the Mongols ensured that history was largely written by those who they vanquished. Because of this, their portrayal in the West and the Middle East has been extraordinarily (and in many ways unfairly) negative for centuries, at least until recent revisions to the historical record. The Mongols have long been depicted as wild horse-archers galloping out of the dawn to rape, pillage, murder and enslave, but the Mongol army was a highly sophisticated, minutely organized and incredibly adaptive and innovative institution, as witnessed by the fact that it was successful in conquering enemies who employed completely different weaponry and different styles of fighting, from Chinese armored infantry to Middle Eastern camel cavalry and Western knights and men-at-arms. Likewise, the infrastructure and administrative corps which governed the empire, though largely borrowed from the Chinese, was inventive, practical, and extraordinarily modern and efficient. This was no fly-by-night enterprise but a sophisticated, complex, and extremely well-oiled machine. While the Golden Horde technically refers to part of the Mongol Empire, today the Golden Horde is often used interchangeably with the Mongol forces as a whole. As such, the Golden Horde conjures vivid images of savage, barbarian horsemen riding across the steppes, an unstoppable force mindlessly slaughtering and burning. It is often imagined that they conquered by sheer brutality and terror, and that they epitomized everything that came from the east: uncivilized, brutal and undisciplined. This sensationalized image, impressed upon the West by Hollywood and by the perception of the "Yellow Peril" that has colored Western views toward Asia for a long time, began almost from the beginning. The Mongols treasured art and literature and protected religion, that of their subjects as well as their own, and trade, commerce, and cultural exchanges flourished under the Golden Horde and the other Mongol khanates, but that escaped the notice of their contemporaries. Giovanni de Plano Carpini, a papal envoy journeying through Russia on his way to the Khan of the Golden Horde, noted, "They [the Mongols] attacked Rus', where they made great havoc, destroying cities and fortresses and slaughtering men; and they laid siege to Kiev, the capital of Rus'; after they had besieged the city for a long time, they took it and put the inhabitants to death. When we were journeying through that land we came across countless skulls and bones of dead men lying about on the ground. Kiev had been a very large and thickly populated town, but now it has been reduced almost to nothing, for there are at the present time scarce two hundred houses there and the inhabitants are kept in complete slavery." What can't be disputed is that the Golden Horde directly affected Eastern Europe for nearly 250 years, and even after its rapid rise brought about a long, tortuous decline, it has continued to shape the destiny of that region. The Golden Horde: The History and Legacy of the Mongol Khanate examines the events that led to the rise of the khanate, what life was like there, and how the Mongols fought. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Golden Horde like never before.
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Lu Xun, ( Lu hsun)
Selected Works in Four Volumes. Boxed Set
4 volumes in 8vo Green leatherette with gilt spine lettering, DWs as new. Volume One: 440pp, 18 Short Stories, 19 Prose Poems and 9 Essays (1918-1926); Volume Two: 382pp, 74 Essays written between 1918 and 1927; Volume Three: , 378pp, 97 Essays written between 1928 and 1933); Volume Four: 347pp, 76 Essays written between 1934 and 1936. Each volume contains a brief introduction to the historical background of the works included in the volume. Illustrated. Cardboard box. extra shipping.for intenational customers.
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Kin.mind Liu Editor
My First Trip to China: Scholars, Diplomats, and Journalists Reflect on Their First Encounters With China
square 8vo, br., ed. pp.334. Thirty leading China experts, including Perry Link (Princeton Univeristy), Andrew Nathan (Columbia University), Jonathan Mirsky (Times of London), W. J. F. Jenner, Lois Wheeler Snow, and Morton Abramowitz (The Century Foundation), recount their first visit to China, recalling their initial observations and impressions. Most first traveled to China when it was still closed to the world, or was just beginning to open. Their subsequent opinions, writings, and policies have shaped the Western relationship with China for more than a generation. This is essential reading for those who want to understand the evolution of Western attitudes toward modern China. At the same time, the collection provides a vivid, personal window onto a fascinating period in Chinese history.
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Zhao Dingxin
The Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory of Chinese History
8vo, br. ed. 472pp. In The Confucian-Legalist State, Dingxin Zhao offers a radically new analysis of Chinese imperial history from the eleventh century BCE to the fall of the Qing dynasty. This study first uncovers the factors that explain how, and why, China developed into a bureaucratic empire under the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE. It then examines the political system that crystallized during the Western Han dynasty, a system that drew on China's philosophical traditions of Confucianism and Legalism. Despite great changes in China's demography, religion, technology, and socioeconomic structures, this Confucian-Legalist political system survived for over two millennia. Yet, it was precisely because of the system's resilience that China, for better or worse, did not develop industrial capitalism as Western Europe did, notwithstanding China's economic prosperity and technological sophistication beginning with the Northern Song dynasty. In examining the nature of this political system, Zhao offers a new way of viewing Chinese history, one that emphasizes the importance of structural forces and social mechanisms in shaping historical dynamics. As a work of historical sociology, The Confucian-Legalist State aims to show how the patterns of Chinese history were not shaped by any single force, but instead by meaningful activities of social actors which were greatly constrained by, and at the same time reproduced and modified, the constellations of political, economic, military, and ideological forces. This book thus offers a startling new understanding of long-term patterns of Chinese history, one that should trigger debates for years to come among historians, political scientists, and sociologists.
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Parks M. Coble
China's War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance Against Japan
8vo, hardcover in dj pp.267. When Japan invaded China in the summer of 1937, many Chinese journalists greeted the news with euphoria. For years, the Chinese press had urged Chiang Kai-shek to resist Tokyo's aggressive overtures. This was the war they wanted, convinced that their countrymen would triumph. Parks Coble recaptures the experiences of China?s war correspondents during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937?1945. He delves into the wartime writing of reporters connected with the National Salvation Movement?journalists such as Fan Changjiang, Jin Zhonghua, and Zou Taofen?who believed their mission was to inspire the masses through patriotic reporting. As the Japanese army moved from one stunning victory to the next, forcing Chiang?s government to retreat to the interior, newspaper reports often masked the extent of China?s defeats. Atrocities such as the Rape of Nanjing were played down in the press for fear of undercutting national morale. By 1941, as political cohesion in China melted away, Chiang cracked down on leftist intellectuals, including journalists, many of whom fled to the Communist-held areas of the north. When the People?s Republic was established in 1949, some of these journalists were elevated to prominent positions. But in a bitter twist, all mention of their wartime writings disappeared. Mao Zedong emphasized the heroism of his own Communist Revolution, not the war effort led by his archrival Chiang. Denounced as enemies during the Cultural Revolution, once-prominent wartime journalists, including Fan, committed suicide. Only with the revival of Chinese nationalism in the reform era has their legacy been resurrected.
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Beonio Brocchieri Paolo; Corradini Piero; Agrawala Vasudeva S. P. Corradini, L. Lamciotti
Orientalia Romana. Essays and Lectures 2
8vo, br. ed. 47 pp. B./w. plts. Orig. softcover. N.Norbu Dewang Musical Tradition of the Tibetan People; serimondo dialogue on human nature by p. beonio brocchieri; ricerche sull'origine e lo sviluppo dei sei dicasteri (lin-pu) dell'impero cinese, di p. corradfini; lionello lanciotti, considerazioni sull'estetica letteraria nella cina antica, wang ch'ung e il sorgere dell'auronomia delle lettere.
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A cura di Frank Meinshausen
Cina. Undici Scrittori Della Rivoluzione Pop
8vo, br. ed. pp.222
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Maraini Fosco, Intr. Di Dacia Maraini
Case, amori, Universi
8vo, br. ed. softcover, 747pp. Il piccolo Clé, alter ego dell’autore, è un bambino ribelle e vivacissimo, dalla memoria prensile e dalla curiosità insaziabile. Infinite per lui sono le fonti di stupore, gioia e conoscenza: la saggezza dei contadini toscani e i libri fotografici sull’Oriente della mamma inglese, la visione della nebulosa di Andromeda e i discorsi raffinati degli scrittori ospiti dei genitori. Fin da bambino, Maraini sperimenta così le differenze tra il mondo della natura, di tutto ciò che è esterno a noi, e il nostro mondo interiore, che si esprime a seconda degli uomini, delle epoche, delle religioni e delle civiltà. Il compito dell’uomo che voglia vivere una vita piena, comprendendo davvero ciò che lo circonda, è costruire ponti tra questi mondi. È quello che Maraini farà per tutta la vita, saltando di paese in paese, di cultura in cultura, di civiltà in civiltà con lo stesso vitalismo festoso con cui da ragazzo balzava da un albero all’altro. Questo libro, romanzo autobiografico di una vita meravigliosa, è stracolmo di avventure esotiche e domestiche, del corpo e della mente. Tutto – dalla scoperta dell’eros in Maremma a quella del Budda nel remoto Tibet, dai durissimi mesi passati in un campo di concentramento giapponese alle spedizioni alpine – rappresenta un’irripetibile occasione offerta dal girotondo dell’esistenza, che questo esploratore innamorato accoglie sempre e comunque con pienezza e gratitudine. Introduzione di Dacia Maraini.
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DIENY Jean-Pierre
Pastourelles et magnanarelles. Essai sur un thème littéraire chinois. Hautes etudes orientales.
8vo, br. ed. Centre de recherche d'histoire et de philologie. Broché. 141 pages. Marques de bibliothèque. Sciences humaines.
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Yang Xiong (Auteur), Anne Cheng (Series Editor), Marc Kalinowski (Series Editor)
Maîtres Mots
8vo, br. ed. 451pp. Maîtres mots (Fayan) de Yang Xiong (53 av. J.-C. - 18 apr. J.-C.), achevé vers l'an 8 de notre ère, alors que la dynastie des Han occidentaux touche à sa fin, est un texte majeur dans l'histoire du confucianisme tant par son projet – qui est de retrouver le souffle des Classiques dans une synthèse recouvrant une grande part des questions de son temps –, que par sa forme – inspirée du rythme et de la fragmentation des Entretiens de Confucius. Il se présente comme un recueil de brefs dialogues entre Yang Xiong et un interlocuteur anonyme. Écrit dans une langue cultivant la concision et la retenue, ce texte s'articule autour de trois grands axes : l’affirmation d’une urgence à renouer avec une vie véritablement éthique, en prenant pour horizon un Confucius à la fois maître proche de nous et Saint d’une profondeur insondable ; la critique sur un mode souvent ironique de la doxa de son temps ; et enfin la réflexion historique, qui à travers de brèves observations sur les grandes figures depuis l’époque des Royaumes combattants (403-222) jusqu’à celle contemporaine de Yang Xiong, plonge le lecteur au milieu d’une multitude de modèles et contre-modèles. Cette tentative d’écrire de nouveaux Entretiens pour son temps a suscité de vifs débats dès son apparition, mais le Fayan est resté jusqu’au XIIe siècle une référence incontournable dans l’héritage confucéen. Il en a par la suite été exclu avec l’affirmation de l’orthodoxie « néo-confucéenne », profondément hostile au projet littéraire et philosophique du Fayan. Héritant de cette désaffection, la sinologie moderne n'a proposé que quelques rares études et traductions de ce texte, et aucune traduction annotée en langue occidentale n'avait été publiée à ce jour. Yang Xiong (53 av. J.-C. - 18 apr. J.-C.) est l'une des figures phare du monde lettré chinois de la dynastie des Han (206 av. J.-C. - 220 apr. J.-C.). Natif de la lointaine région de Shu (actuel Sichuan), il est appelé à la capitale Chang’an où il devient pour un temps une sorte de poète officiel chargé de composer des descriptions flamboyantes des diverses activités impériales à travers lesquelles il tente de faire passer un enseignement à l’empereur. Il semble cependant s’être rapidement désillusionné quant à la perspective de réunir dans ses écrits beauté esthétique et conscience politique, et commence en 3 av. J.-C. la rédaction d’un traité divinatoire délibérément abscons, le Grand Mystère, composé sur le modèle du Classique des mutations. Sa carrière de fonctionnaire impérial devient celle d’un lettré pauvre et obscur. Ses contemporains ne manquent pas de remarquer le paradoxe d’une telle position, à une époque où la culture classique est devenue un tremplin vers les plus brillantes positions.
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Liu Xin (Auteur), Anne Cheng (Series Editor), Marc Kalinowski (Series Editor))
Notes diverses sur la capitale de l'Ouest
8vo, br. ed. 207pp. Les Notes diverses sur la capitale de l'Ouest (Xijing zaji) nous offrent, sous la forme fragmentaire de brèves scènes et de descriptions sans organisation apparente, une vision éclatée, précise et étrange à la fois, de la glorieuse cité de Chang’an, capitale des Han occidentaux. Elles sont traditionnellement considérées comme une part des notes historiques rédigées par un grand lettré de l’époque des Han, Liu Xin (46 av. J.-C.-23 ap. J.-C.), c’est-à-dire celles qui, s’écartant trop de l’écriture orthodoxe de l’histoire, ne furent pas intégrées dans l’Histoire des Han (Han shu) rédigée par Ban Gu. De fait, cet ouvrage appartient au genre livre de notes, genre important dans l’histoire littéraire chinoise, dont il est un des fleurons. Il est un complément essentiel aux livres d’Histoire par son souci de véridicité et de détails, et il contient des anecdotes qui sont la première mention de faits qui seront ensuite repris et développés dans des ballades, des romans et plus tard à l’opéra. Au sein de la description fascinante des richesses et des fastes de la capitale, sont aussi évoqués des drames dans le gynécée impérial. Prise dans les tourments politiques de l’époque, la capitale de l’Ouest sera abandonnée en 23 de notre ère, l’année même de la mort de Liu Xin et les Han orientaux déplaceront leur capitale plus à l’Est, à Luoyang. Avec cette traduction par Jacques Pimpaneau, ce texte est pour la première fois accessible au lecteur français, qui est ainsi invité à parcourir les palais, les jardins et les tombes de la capitale disparue. Liu Xin (46 avant J.-C. - 23 après J.-C.), fils du grand bibliographe Liu Xiang, participa avec son père à l'édition des Classiques, qu’il fallait reconstituer après leur autodafé par Qin Shi Huangdi et l’incendie de la bibliothèque impériale à la chute de la dynastie Qin. Il réunit aussi toute une documentation sur la dynastie Han en vue d’en écrire l’histoire, mais ne put réaliser ce projet. Ses notes furent utilisées par l’historien Ban Gu, et le présent ouvrage est constitué des anecdotes non reprises par ce dernier. Nommé docteur, mais en butte aux calomnies de ses chers collègues, il demanda à être nommé en province. Rappelé ensuite à la capitale, il se suicida quand Wang Mang, après avoir usurpé le pouvoir, fit exécuter tous ses fils. Jacques Pimpaneau a enseigné la langue et la littérature chinoises à l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO ou plus communément Langues O’) de 1965 à 1999. Il a créé le musée Kwok On, dont les collections sont maintenant au Musée de l’Orient à Lisbonne. Il a écrit plusieurs livres sur la littérature chinoise, a traduit notamment la seconde moitié des Mémoires historiques de Sima Qian, et réalisé quelques documentaires sur les liens en Asie entre religion et théâtre. Co-directeur de la collection « Bibliothèque chinoise », Marc Kalinowski est directeur d'études à l’École pratique des hautes études de Paris où il enseigne l’histoire et la pensée de la Chine ancienne. Parmi ses publications récentes en rapport avec la présente anthologie, on peut citer Divination et société dans la Chine médiévale. Étude des manuscrits de Dunhuang de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2003). Son travail sur Wang Chong s’inscrit dans le cadre du Programme de recherche international actuellement dirigé d’Allemagne par M. Michael Lackner de l’université d’Erlangen-Nürenberg : « Destin, liberté et divination. Techniques de gestion du futur en Asie orientale et en Europe ».
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Diény Jean-Pierre
Pastourelles et Magnanarelles : Essai sur un thème littéraire Chinois
Centre de recherche d'histoire et de philologie. Broché. 141 pages. Marques de bibliothèque. Sciences humaines Ex-Library
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Vandermeersch Léon
La littérature chinoise, littérature hors Norme
8vo, br, ed. la spécificité de la littérature chinoise fondée sur une écriture idéographique, à la différence de toutes les écritures indo-européennes de la sphère occidentale où l'écriture est de type alphabétique. De notre côté donc, une écriture d'origine orale de l'autre, une écriture oraculaire monopolisée à la fin du XII ? siècle avant notre ère par les spécialistes de la divination.Léon Vandermeersch en développe les conséquences et les transformations depuis celles qui découlent de Confucius et du confucianisme, puis de la conversion en logographie quand s'impose le bouddhisme, jusqu'à la révolution culturelle du 4 mai 1929 qui abolit la langue graphique et universalise l'écriture en langue parlée. 185x117x10mm 200g
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Vandermeersch Léon
Ce que la Chine nous apprend: Sur le langage, la société, L’existence
br. ed.
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Shankman Steven
The Siren and the Sage: Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China
8vo, br. ed. pp.268. The cultures of ancient China and ancient Greece have exerted immeasurable influence on later civilizations. The texts and cultural values of classical China spread throughout East Asia and became the foundation of learning in Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Greek learning and culture receive credit for many of the intellectual paradigms of the West. Probably the one which is most distinctly Western is the tradition of logical proof and the related assumption that, as Aristotle put it in 'Metaphysics' 980, 'we all desire to know.' In contrast, the Chinese tradition, as exemplified by Laozi's 'Dao de jing,' cautions that through our desire to know we may forfeit wisdom, thus engendering a split between knowledge and wisdom. 'The Siren and the Sage' is a comparative study of what some of the most influential writers of ancient China and ancient Greece thought it meant to know and whether they distinguished knowledge from wisdom. It surveys selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from roughly the eighth through the second centuries BCE, focusing on the 'Odyssey,' the ancient Chinese 'Classic of Poetry,' Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War,' Sima Qian's 'Records of the Historian,' Plato's 'Symposium,' Laozi's 'Dao de jing' and the writings of Zhuangzi. The intention, through such juxtaposition, is to introduce foundational texts of each tradition, texts which continue to influence most of the world's peoples. It is intriguing to ask what awareness, if any, these distinctive cultures had of each other. A considerable body of scholarship comparing ancient Greece and ancient China now exists. Scholars are presenting evidence that the two cultures may actually have been aware of each other's presence, even though that awareness was presumably indirect, perhaps mediated by the nomadic peoples of Central Asia. While not directly contributing evidence, the authors argue that comparing the cultures of Greece and China will continue to be an irresistible and important scholarly debate. The book offers a provocative study which is accessible to students and general readers and at the same time contributes to the debate.
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Elman, Benjamin A.
A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China
8vo, hardcover in dj, xlii, 847 p., ill., 24 cm. "In this multidimensional analysis, Benjamin A. Elman uses over a thousand newly available examination records from the Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, 1315-1904, to explore the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the civil examination system, one of the most important institutions in Chinese history. For over five hundred years, the most important positions within the dynastic government were usually filled through these difficult examinations, and every other year some one to two million people from all levels of society attempted them.'
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Gustaffson Jan-erik
Water Resources Development in the People's Republic of China, Dissertation
8vo, br. ed. pp.188, softbound.
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Döblin, Alfred
The Three Leaps of Wang Lun: a Chinese Novel
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.418. Here for the first time in English is Alfred Döblin's astonishing epic of eighteenth century China, hailed on its publication in 1915 as a master-piece of Expressionist prose, and since recognized to be the first modern German novel. The Three Leaps of Wang Lun is the story of a doomed sectarian rebellion during the reign of Emperor Ch'ien-lung (1736-1796). It is also the most sustained evocation, in any European language, of a China untouched by the West. Döblin's imagination, almost hallucinatory in its intensity, brings this China to vivid life. Teeming cities and Tibetan wastes, political intrigue and religious yearning, life at Court and the fate of wandering outcasts are depicted in a language of enormous vigour, unfolding the theme of meekness against force, a mystical sense of the world against the realities of power. This translation for the first time presents the whole work as Döblin wrote it. The inclusion of the Prologue, dropped from the first German edition and never replaced, restores a unity of structure and theme missing from previous editions. The Introduction places the novel in the context of Döblin's life and work, the Expressionist movement and the historical background, and discusses its theme and style.
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Giuliani Federico, Emanuel Pietrobon
L'orso e il dragone. Russia e Cina, un'intesa per cambiare il Mondo
8vo, br. ed. Il XXI secolo avrebbe dovuto spianare la strada al Millennio della "fine della storia", della democratizzazione e dell’americanizzazione del mondo. Il momento unipolare, però, è durato meno del previsto. Due giganti dormienti e inizialmente non troppo reticenti a un ordine stabile a guida americana, Russia e Cina, hanno cominciato a percepirsi in pericolo. Il punto di svolta sarebbe stato Euromaidan secondo i più, ma la verità è che Euromaidan fu foce, non sorgente, e fu fine, non principio. La storia del partenariato strategico che sta cambiando il mondo, combattendo il sogno neoconservatore e liberale del Duemila quale secolo americano, non nasce nel 2014. Il 2014 è tappa di un percorso più lungo, sfaccettato, che ha avuto inizio al capolinea del Novecento: il dimenticato ma importante 1999. Un anno, per questo motivo, ivi ribattezzato "anno del destino". Prefazione di Salvatore Santangelo. Postfazione di Tiberio Graziani.
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