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Jullien François
Il saggio è senza idee o l'altro della Filosofia
8vo, br. ed. pp. 216. Jullien rivisita Confucio e gli altri grandi pensatori taoisti: il saggio è senza idee perché non ne ha di preconcette, è aperto a ogni possibilità. Nella sua ricerca Jullien s'inoltra su sentieri cinesi a braccetto con Eraclito, Montaigne e Heidegger, dando al lettore l'idea che la saggezza permetta a un filosofo europeo di andare un po' più in là rispetto a dove arrivano tutti gli altri.
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Bartoli Daniello, Intr. Adriano Prosperi
L'Asia. Istoria della Compagnia di Gesù Volume I e II
2 volumi in cofanetto 8vo, tela ed, in sovracoperta e sovcracop. trasp pp. 1464, ill. (I Millenni). “Alla penna di Daniello Bartoli si dovette la prima grande storia dell'Asia pubblicata in Europa, l'unica ad abbracciare in un solo disegno e in lingua italiana una vicenda destinata a rimanere in ombra nel bilancio storiografico dei secoli successivi che vide solo il versante atlantico dell'Europa trionfare oltre le colonne d'Ercole dello Stretto di Gibilterra. Quanto a Bartoli, il suo si può definire un merito involontario. L'aspirazione profonda che condusse l'autore a diventare gesuita fu simile a quella di tanti altri prima e dopo di lui, un indipeta, un adolescente attirato dal sogno di «andare alle Indie» e di morirvi martire della fede. Come molti adolescenti formati nelle scuole dei gesuiti, anche il quindicenne Daniello che bussò alla porta del noviziato di Novellara nel 1623 vi fu condotto dal desiderio di una missione tra i pagani, dalla volontà di diventare un apostolo e di trovare magari il premio supremo del sacrificio nelle remote terre d'oltreoceano. Ma anche nel suo caso, come in tanti altri, i superiori decisero altrimenti. E a giudicare dal risultato, l'averlo destinato al compito di scrivere non fu l'ultima delle scelte giuste che fecero.” (dall'Introduzione di Adriano Prosperi)
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Furber Holden
Imperi Rivali Nei Mercati D'oriente 1600/1800
8vo, ril. ed. in so vrcaoperta. dorso sole da scaffale,firma di app. altrimenti ottimo. esaurito fuori catlogo
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Auden W.H, Cristopher Isherwood
Viaggio in Una Guerra
8vo, br. ed. 349pp. Il contratto preparato nell'estate del 1937 da Faber and Faber e da Random House riguardava un generico "libro di viaggio sull'Estremo Oriente" e lasciava alla discrezione di Auden e Isherwood la scelta dell'itinerario e il taglio del resoconto. Ma è certo che la decisione, da parte della strana coppia di reporter, di partire per la Cina - allora in guerra col Giappone non fu delle più ovvie. Di fatto, per quanto in quegli anni l'intelligencija europea frequentasse con una certa assiduità trincee e teatri d'operazioni, nessuno aveva rivolto lo sguardo a quello che - nonostante le dimensioni, la ferocia e le implicazioni che avrebbe avuto per la storia non solo regionale era un conflitto quasi dimenticato. Che Auden e Isherwood ci fanno invece rivivere nel momento stesso in cui accade, con un'immediatezza, una precisione e un'efficacia tanto più sbalorditive se si considera che del Paese in cui soggiornarono dal gennaio al luglio del 1938 i due, per loro stessa ammissione, sapevano molto poco, e soprattutto che la forma da loro adottata un ibrido di prosa, versi e fotografie - era, ed è rimasta, un unicum.
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Kim Hyun Jin
Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Contact and Exchange between the Graeco-Roman World, Inner Asia and China
8vo, br. ed. 350pp. and Tang China, Persia, Assyria, the Huns, the Kushans and the Franks have been the subject of countless scholarly books and works of literature. However, very rarely, if at all, have these vast pre-industrial empires been studied holistically from a comparative, interdisciplinary and above all Eurasian perspective. This collection of studies examines the history, literature and archaeology of these empires and others thus far treated separately as a single inter-connected subject of inquiry. It highlights in particular the critical role of Inner Asian empires and peoples in facilitating contacts and exchange across the Eurasian continent in antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
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Appelius
AL DI LA DELLA GRANDE MURAGLIA: Mongolia, Geol, Manciuria, Frontiera della Siberia, Corea, Kurili E Sakhalin Con 58 Illustrazioni Fuori Testo
8vo, 204pp. brisura editoriale, con sovracoperta originale, però con strappi e perdite. foto b&n. manciuria, giappone, ecc. , Italian text, 58 b.w. photos. RARE As part of the Axis powers, Japan was fascinationg to the Italians. This work documents the Japanese military role in the Far East, and introducted to the Italians the prowess of new Japan. It covers the Japanese clash on the frontier with the Russians. It devotes several chapters to each of the countries cited, with good description of the land, people and cultures. It also documents the Japanese military role, and their progress, as part of the Axis. Mongolia: Kalgan, Yun Kang grotto, Japanese vs Russians in this area. Geol: imperial palace, the Lamas. Manchuria: the new metropolitian of Hsinking, grand industrial system, dramatic story of Har- bin, the city of the "dead." The frontier of Siberia, of Baron Unzern-Stenbreg. Corea: Keijo [Seoul], travels in the land of the Morning, social and political structure. On to N. Japan: visit to Kuriles and Sakhalin islands, home of the Ainu. A fascinating perspective with large number of very good photographs
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Dardess John D.
Four Seasons: A Ming Emperor and His Grand Secretaries in Sixteenth-Century China
8vo, br. ed. 268. Richly researched and engagingly written, this important history of imperial China shows in fascinating detail how Emperor Jiajing and his grand secretaries governed. Drawing on a treasure trove of the grand secretaries' personal writings, John W. Dardess's narrative brings to life the inner workings of the largest polity on the face of the earth.
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Segalen Victor
Lettere Di Cina
n - 8. Brossura edit. con alette; firma di app., altrimenti ottimo es. Un volume (20 cm) di 191 pagine; un ritratto in antiporta e 6 pp di foto fuori testo. A cura di Lucia Sollazzo
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Gewirtz Julian
Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China
8vo, br. ed. pp356. Unlikely Partners</i> recounts the story of how Chinese politicians and intellectuals looked beyond their country’s borders for economic guidance at a key crossroads in the nation’s tumultuous twentieth century. Julian Gewirtz offers a dramatic tale of competition for influence between reformers and hardline conservatives during the Deng Xiaoping era, bringing to light China’s productive exchanges with the West.<br><br>When Mao Zedong died in 1976, his successors seized the opportunity to reassess the wisdom of China’s rigid commitment to Marxist doctrine. With Deng Xiaoping’s blessing, China’s economic gurus scoured the globe for fresh ideas that would put China on the path to domestic prosperity and ultimately global economic power. Leading foreign economists accepted invitations to visit China to share their expertise, while Chinese delegations traveled to the United States, Hungary, Great Britain, West Germany, Brazil, and other countries to examine new ideas. Chinese economists partnered with an array of brilliant thinkers, including Nobel Prize winners, World Bank officials, battle-scarred veterans of Eastern Europe’s economic struggles, and blunt-speaking free-market fundamentalists.<br><br>Nevertheless, the push from China’s senior leadership to implement economic reforms did not go unchallenged, nor has the Chinese government been eager to publicize its engagement with Western-style innovations. Even today, Chinese Communists decry dangerous Western influences and officially maintain that China’s economic reinvention was the Party’s achievement alone. <i>Unlikely Partners</i> sets forth the truer story, which has continuing relevance for China’s complex and far-reaching relationship with the Wes
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Gewirtz Julian
Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China
8vo, hardcover in dj. pp.384. Unlikely Partners</i> recounts the story of how Chinese politicians and intellectuals looked beyond their country’s borders for economic guidance at a key crossroads in the nation’s tumultuous twentieth century. Julian Gewirtz offers a dramatic tale of competition for influence between reformers and hardline conservatives during the Deng Xiaoping era, bringing to light China’s productive exchanges with the West.<br><br>When Mao Zedong died in 1976, his successors seized the opportunity to reassess the wisdom of China’s rigid commitment to Marxist doctrine. With Deng Xiaoping’s blessing, China’s economic gurus scoured the globe for fresh ideas that would put China on the path to domestic prosperity and ultimately global economic power. Leading foreign economists accepted invitations to visit China to share their expertise, while Chinese delegations traveled to the United States, Hungary, Great Britain, West Germany, Brazil, and other countries to examine new ideas. Chinese economists partnered with an array of brilliant thinkers, including Nobel Prize winners, World Bank officials, battle-scarred veterans of Eastern Europe’s economic struggles, and blunt-speaking free-market fundamentalists.<br><br>Nevertheless, the push from China’s senior leadership to implement economic reforms did not go unchallenged, nor has the Chinese government been eager to publicize its engagement with Western-style innovations. Even today, Chinese Communists decry dangerous Western influences and officially maintain that China’s economic reinvention was the Party’s achievement alone. <i>Unlikely Partners</i> sets forth the truer story, which has continuing relevance for China’s complex and far-reaching relationship with the West
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Gewitz Julian
Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s
8vo, br. ed. 352pp. uncorrected proofs
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Puett Michael J.
To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China
8vo, paperback, 358pp. Evidence from Shang oracle bones to memorials submitted to Western Han emperors attests to a long-lasting debate in early China over the proper relationship between humans and gods. One pole of the debate saw the human and divine realms as separate and agonistic and encouraged divination to determine the will of the gods and sacrifices to appease and influence them. The opposite pole saw the two realms as related and claimed that humans could achieve divinity and thus control the cosmos. This wide-ranging book reconstructs this debate and places within their contemporary contexts the rival claims concerning the nature of the cosmos and the spirits, the proper demarcation between the human and the divine realms, and the types of power that humans and spirits can exercise. It is often claimed that the worldview of early China was unproblematically monistic and that hence China had avoided the tensions between gods and humans found in the West. By treating the issues of cosmology, sacrifice, and self-divinization in a historical and comparative framework that attends to the contemporary significance of specific arguments, Michael J. Puett shows that the basic cosmological assumptions of ancient China were the subject of far more debate than is generally thought.
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Shankman, Steven
Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking Through Comparisons (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)
8vo, br. ed. 314pp. This pioneering book compares Chinese and Western thought to offer a bracing and unpredictable cross-cultural conversation. The work contributes to the emerging field of Sino-Hellenic studies, which links two great and influential cultures that, in fact, had virtually no contact during the ancient period. The patterns of thought and the cultural productions of early China and ancient Greece represent two significantly different responses to the myriad problems that human beings confront. Throughout this volume the comparisons between these cultures evince two critical ideas. First, that thinking is itself an inherently comparative activity. Through making comparisons, the familiar becomes strange, and the strange somewhat more familiar. Second, since we think through comparisons, we should think them all the way through. How valid and productive are the comparisons and contrasts made between particular works and different styles of thought that emerged from two different, although contemporaneous, cultural contexts? Contributors include Roger T. Ames, Stephen W. Durrant, David L. Hall, David N. Keightley, Michael Nylan, Andrew Plaks, Michael Puett, Lisa Raphals, Haun Saussy, David Schaberg, Steven Shankman, C. H. Wang, and Anthony C. Yu. “The subject matter is timely, exciting—broadening two important traditional fields of inquiry.” — Robert C. Solomon, author of From Rationalism to Existentialism: The Existentialists and Their Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds “This book helps to create and define an important new field: informed, disciplined, and insightful comparative cultural studies for the Greek and Chinese worlds. There is a steadily growing cohort of scholars who work on these types of problems, and they are attracting an increasing audience.” — Willard J. Peterson, Princeton University
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Wood Frances
The First Emperor of China
8vo, hardcover cloth in dj.,
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Huang, Shoufu, d. 1887
Eshan tu Shuo Pictorial History of Omei Mountain
2 volumes. (2, 11, 137 leaves) : ill. ; 26 cm. Running title: Eshan tu zhi. "Huang Xitao, Huang Shoufu, Tan Zhongyue bian hui"--Pref. Reprint. Originally published: Chengdu : Hui wen tang, 1887. On double leaves, oriental style, i. Huang, Shoufu Eshan tu Shuo Pictorial History of Omei Mountain [Chengdu shi] : Sichuan ren min chu ban she : Sichuan sheng xin hua shu dian fa xing, 1984 2 volumes. (2, 11, 137 leaves) : ill. ; 26 cm. Running title: Eshan tu zhi. "Huang Xitao, Huang Shoufu, Tan Zhongyue bian hui"--Pref. Reprint. Originally published: Chengdu : Hui wen tang, 1887. On double leaves, oriental style, in case. 2 volumi doppi fogli cuciti in seta cinese con antiche incisioni sul monte OMEI
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Porcelains from the Palace Museum GUGONG BOWUYUAN CANG CI XUANJI 1982
Selected Porcelains from the Palace Museum Collection "Ku Kung Po-wu Wuan ts'ang tz'u hsuan-chi" GUGONG BOWUYUAN CANG CI XUANJI Cultural Objects Publishing House, Peking, China (1982 Wen Wu) in large folio 100 color plates mounted on heavy stock, with a 28-page Chinese/English abstract. Hardbound in cloth, bound book mark, paper jacket, BROCADE CHINESE BOX AND PROTECTIVE cardboard case. RACCOLTA DI PERCELLANE IMPERIALI DELLA CITTA' PROIBITA A PECHINO. A VERY HEAVY ITEM, PLEASE INQUIRE FOR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING
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Illustrated life of Confucius woodblock Kong zi sheng ji N. D. [1934?] Confucio
An Illustrated life of Confucius Late Qing woodblock Edition Kong zi sheng ji Tu
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Bredon Juliet
Peking a Historical and Intimate Description of Its Chief Places of Interest, with Maps, Plans and Illustrations
8vo, rare original edition, pp.478, 7 large folding maps. rebound in black boards w silver lettering.
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Tucci Giuseppe
Tibetan Folk Songs from Gyantse and Western Tibet. With two Appendices by Namkhai Norbu
4to, 320x230mm, 200 pages, 18 plates b/w, publisher's binding (slight discoloration at front lower corner) with d jacket sligthly damaged at the same corner, but now mylar protected. overall a very good and quite fresh copy. tibetan texts and english translation.
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Chin Josh e Liza Lin
Stato di sorveglianza: La via cinese verso una nuova era del controllo Sociale
8vo, br. ed. pp.336. Dove corre il confine tra l'utopia e lo Stato di polizia digitale? Questo libro prova a tracciarlo. Racconta la storia – incredibile, dettagliata, avvincente – di come il Partito comunista cinese stia costruendo un nuovo tipo di controllo politico, plasmando la volontà popolare attraverso un sofisticato (e spesso brutale) sfruttamento dei dati. È una storia nata nella Silicon Valley e poi proseguita con la «guerra al terrorismo» americana, ma che adesso si sta svolgendo in modo allarmante nella remota frontiera cinese dell'Asia centrale. Nella regione dello Xinjiang, mentre un movimento di minoranza prova a opporsi al controllo del Partito, i leader cinesi hanno costruito un distopico Stato di polizia: milioni di persone – gli uiguri – vivono costantemente sotto lo sguardo dell'Intelligenza Artificiale gestita dalle forze di sicurezza. Dall'altra parte del paese, nella città di Hangzhou, il governo sta invece tessendo un'utopia digitale. Qui la tecnologia aiuta a ottimizzare ogni aspetto della vita dei cittadini: dai percorsi del traffico alla sicurezza alimentare, alla risposta alle emergenze. Sono i due lati di una stessa medaglia, seducente e spaventosa: controllo diffuso e repressivo, da un lato; efficienza sicura e capillare, dall'altro. Gli strumenti di questo straordinario esperimento sociale non riguardano però soltanto la Cina. Il riconoscimento facciale e vocale, le telecamere di sorveglianza, la raccolta di quantità imponenti di dati sugli individui: tutto ciò si è diffuso ovunque, e costituisce un «ambiente» in cui siamo costantemente immersi, sempre di più, e senza esserne del tutto consapevoli. I pluripremiati giornalisti investigativi Josh Chin e Liza Lin accompagnano i lettori in un viaggio attraverso il nuovo mondo che la Cina sta costruendo, dentro e fuori dai suoi confini. Raccontando le storie di chi è stato colpito dalle ambizioni del Partito, "Stato di sorveglianza" rivela un futuro che è già in corso, nel quale la libertà e la democrazia, per come le abbiamo conosciute finora, dovranno essere ripensate: quello di una società nuova, costruita attorno all'immenso potere della sorveglianza digitale.
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LLoyd G.e.r And Jingyi Jenny Zhao, Edts
Ancient Greece and China Compared
8vo, hardcover, 465pp. Ancient Greece and China Compared is a pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies, bringing together scholars who all share the conviction that the sustained critical comparison and contrast between ancient societies can bring to light significant aspects of each that would be missed by focusing on just one of them. The topics tackled include key issues in philosophy and religion, in art and literature, in mathematics and the life sciences (including gender studies), in agriculture, city planning and institutions. The volume also analyses how to go about the task of comparing, including finding viable comparanda and avoiding the trap of interpreting one culture in terms appropriate only to another. The book is set to provide a model for future collaborative and interdisciplinary work exploring what is common between ancient civilisations, what is distinctive of particular ones, and what may help to account for the latter.
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Spence Jonathan
Il libro del Tradimento
8vo, br. ed. 377pp. firma di app. altrimenti come nuovo. Città di Xi'an, Cina, 28 ottobre 1728: poco prima di mezzogiorno, una portantina atttraversa la lunga via centrale, mentre un uomo "vestito curiosamente" la insegue con una corsa affannosa, brandendo nell'aria una lettera. Alcune guardie lo bloccano, e il destinatario, il generale governatore delle province di Shaanxi e Sichuan, ordina di arrestarlo. Gli basterà leggere poche righe per intuire i contorni di una gigantesca congiura anti-imperiale e dare il via a una caccia all'uomo che si concluderà con la cattura di tutti gli implicati.
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MATHIEU (R.), LEVI (J.), LEMOINE (J.), BERTHIER (B.), LAGERWEY (J.), LEVI-STRAUSS (C.)
Du Bon Usage Des Dieux En Chine. L'HOMME N° 101 JANVIER MARS 1987
8vo grand, broché contient aussi Claude Lévi-Strauss, De la fidelité au texte. pet. tache sur la tranche.
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Matteo Ripa
Storia Della Fondazione Della Congregazione e Del Collegio Dei Cinesi 3 Volumi
tre volumi in br. edit. ottimo stato.
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A cura di Wilhelm R. Traduzione di Veneziani B., Ferrara A. G.
I Ching Il Libro Dei Mutamenti
In 8, pp. 727. Bross. ill. con alette. Collana "Biblioteca Adelphi. 245". prima ed. firma di app. altrimenti ottimo.
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Lupke Christopher
The Magnitude Of Ming: Command, Allotment, And Fate In Chinese Culture
8vo, hardcover in dj, 400pp. Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiqitous as ming, variously understood as "command," "allotted lifespan," "fate," or "life." In the earliest days of Chinese writing, ming was already present, invoked in divinations and etched into ancient bronzes; it has continued to inscribe itself down to the twenty-first century in literature and film. This volume assembles twelve essays by some of the most eminent scholars currently working in Chinese studies to produce the first comprehensive study in English of ming's broad web of meanings. The essays span the history of Chinese civilization and represent disciplines as varied as religion, philosophy, anthropology, literary studies, history, and sociology. Cross-cultural comparisons between ancient Chinese views of ming and Western conceptions of moira and fatum are discussed, providing a specific point of departure for contrasting the structure of attitudes between the two civilizations. This authoritative collection testifies to the salience of ming in Chinese culture. It will appeal to a broad readership, including those interested in the history, philosophy, religion, literature, studies of gender, and anthropology of China and other related Asian cultures.
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Bertuccioli Giuliano, a Cura Di
Mandarini e Cortigiane
8vo, tela ed. in sovracop. pp.206, illustr. a colori f.t.
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Han Suyin
L'albero Ferito Cina: Autobiografia e Storia
8° carton. edit. sovrac. pp. 533, alcune ill. ft. strappoetto marginale della sovracoperrta ad un angolo, , altrimenti buono.
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Feng Menglong Ed.
Stories from a Ming Collection: The Art of the Chinese Storyteller
8vo, br. ed. 204pp. The popularity of the Chinese storyteller goes back to the marketplace of the T'ang dynasty, but the familiar figure came into its own in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This selection of stories from Feng Menglong's collection, Stories Old and New (originally published in 1624), includes representative types of the storyteller's traditional art. "The Pearl-Sewn Shirt" is a cautionary romance describing the tragedy of a broken marriage; the heroic biography, which depicts a neglected man of high worth gradually receiving recognition, is represented by "Wine and Dumplings"; an authentic twelfth-century forerunner of the detective story is found in "The Canary Murders." The other tales concern traffic in the supernatural, didactic admonitions to observe morality in sex and loyalty in friendship, and realistic accounts of the meanness and corruption of official life. Also includes "The Lady Who Was a Beggar," "The Journey of the Corpse," "The Story of Wu Pao-an," and "The Fairy's Rescue."
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Vining Edward P.
An Inglorious Columbus; or Evidence That Hwui Shan an a Party of Buddhist Monks from Afghanistan Discovered America in the Fifth Century, A. D.
8vo. original decorated cloth pp. 788 many illustrations and map ex library cover rubbed but ow excellent tight copy of a scarce and fascinating item.
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Cameron,Nigel
Barbarians and Mandarins: Thirteen Centuries of Western Travelers in China
First ed. 443p., index, bibliography, tables, maps and plans, many b.w. sketches and photos.Focus on travelers and adventurers rather than diplomats and politicians. Contents: Nestorian and Franciscan merchant, a Saint, Marco Polo, John of Montecorvino, Odoric of Pordenone, scientists, diplomats, pirates, casuists, European rivals, Matteo Ricci, Jesuits. Geman, Russian and Dutch merchants.Ferdinand Verbiest and the Emperor K'ang hsi, Ripa the Neapolitan, John Bell, Foreign lords, foreign mud, Dr. Peter Parker and the Ameican effort. Lord Elgin, Wang's mother, Mrs. Archibald Little, missionaries, writers from the West.
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Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey
On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border
8vo, hardcover in dj, 380pp. A pioneering examination of history, current affairs, and daily life along the Russia–China border, one of the world’s least understood and most politically charged frontiers.</b><br><br>The border between Russia and China winds for 2,600 miles through rivers, swamps, and vast taiga forests. It’s a thin line of direct engagement, extraordinary contrasts, frequent tension, and occasional war between two of the world’s political giants. Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey have spent years traveling through and studying this important yet forgotten region. Drawing on pioneering fieldwork, they introduce readers to the lifeways, politics, and history of one of the world’s most consequential and enigmatic borderlands.<br><br>It is telling that, along a border consisting mainly of rivers, there is not a single operating passenger bridge. Two different worlds have emerged. On the Russian side, in territory seized from China in the nineteenth century, defense is prioritized over the economy, leaving dilapidated villages slumbering amid the forests. For its part, the Chinese side is heavily settled and increasingly prosperous and dynamic. Moscow worries about the imbalance, and both governments discourage citizens from interacting. But as Billé and Humphrey show, cross-border connection is a fact of life, whatever distant authorities say. There are marriages, friendships, and sexual encounters. There are joint businesses and underground deals, including no shortage of smuggling. Meanwhile some indigenous peoples, persecuted on both sides, seek to “revive” their own alternative social groupings that span the border. And Chinese towns make much of their proximity to “Europe,” building giant Russian dolls and replicas of St. Basil’s Cathedral to woo tourists.<br><br>Surprising and rigorously researched, <i>On the Edge</i> testifies to the rich diversity of an extraordinary world haunted by history and divided by remote political decisions but connected by the ordinary imperatives of daily lif
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Tian Xiaofei
Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China
8vo, hardcover in dj pp.380. This book explores the parallel and yet profoundly different ways of seeing the outside world and engaging with the foreign at two important moments of dislocation in Chinese history, namely, the early medieval period commonly known as the Northern and Southern Dynasties (317–589 CE), and the nineteenth century. Xiaofei Tian juxtaposes literary, historical, and religious materials from these two periods in comparative study, bringing them together in their unprecedentedly large-scale interactions, and their intense fascination, with foreign cultures. By examining various cultural forms of representation from the two periods, Tian attempts to sort out modes of seeing the world that inform these writings. These modes, Tian argues, were established in early medieval times and resurfaced, in permutations and metamorphoses, in nineteenth-century writings on encountering the Other. This book is for readers who are interested not only in early medieval or nineteenth-century China but also in issues of representation, travel, visualization, and modernity.
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Maissen Thomas, Barbara Mittler
Why China Did Not Have a Renaissance – and Why That Matters: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
8vo, br. ed. Concepts of historical progress or decline and the idea of a cycle of historical movement have existed in many civilizations. In spite of claims that they be transnational or even universal, periodization schemes invariably reveal specific social and cultural predispositions.<br>Our dialogue, which brings together a Sinologist and a scholar of early modern History in Europe, considers periodization as a historical phenomenon, studying the case of the “Renaissance.” Understood in the tradition of J. Burckhardt, who referred back to ideas voiced by the humanists of the 14th and 15th centuries, and focusing on the particularities of humanist dialogue which informed the making of the “Renaissance” in Italy, our discussion highlights elements that distinguish it from other movements that have proclaimed themselves as “r/Renaissances,” studying, in particular, the Chinese Renaissance in the early 20th century.<br>While disagreeing on several fundamental issues, we suggest that interdisciplinary and interregional dialogue is a format useful to addressing some of the more far-reaching questions in global history, e.g. whether and when a periodization scheme such as “Renaissance” can fruitfully be applied to describe non-European experiences.
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Li Yiyun
Se vado Via
8vo, br. ed. Lilia Liska è sopravvissuta a tre mariti, ha cresciuto cinque figli e ha visto nascere diciassette nipoti. Ora vive in una residenza per la terza età e ha un unico obiettivo: leggere il diario del suo amore segreto, Roland Bouley – un uomo appassionato ma anche fragile e vanesio – e contestare ogni evento, correggere ogni ricordo in argute note a margine. Il diario di Roland si trasforma così in un dialogo silenzioso, una conversazione intima lunga una vita, in cui Lilia ripercorre l’esistenza di Roland, opponendo la propria versione a quella di lui, narrando la relazione fugace e clandestina che li ha uniti e rivelandone le tragiche conseguenze – una figlia illegittima, amata e scomparsa troppo presto. E nelle parole non dette, nei pensieri inespressi, nelle vite divise, Lilia cerca le ragioni di quell’amore mai dimenticato, e del dolore pungente che non l’abbandona. Se vado via è un viaggio nel tempo dove passato e presente vivono fianco a fianco e dove la voce di Lilia e quella di Roland si alternano in due verità inconciliabili, eppure vicinissime. Illuminando i moti più liberi e profondi del cuore, Yiyun Li torna con un romanzo sui ricordi e sulla memoria, il luogo in cui la vita e la morte prendono forma.
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Fumagalli, Alberto (a cura di), Con un saggio di Renata Pisu
Pu Sung Ling e il suo tempo.
4to, ril sovraccoperta, astuccio. Con un saggio di Renata Pisu. 60 illustrazioni. Legatura tela editoriale. Sopraccoperta illustrata. Cofanetto editoriale. Formato in.4 (cm. 26x30). Pagg. 188, 3 (1). Ottimo stato. Peso 1,52 kg
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Gewitz Julian
Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s
8vo, hardcover in dj. ed. 352pp.
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Tian Yuan Tan
Songs of Contentment and Transgression. Discharged Officials and Literati Communities in Sixteenth-Century North China
8vo, cloth in dj. A discharged official in mid-Ming China faced significant changes in his life. This book explores three such officials in the sixteenth century-Wang Jiusi, Kang Hai, and Li Kaixian-who turned to literary endeavors when forced to retire. Instead of the formal writing expected of scholar-officials, however, they chose to engage in the stigmatized genre of qu (songs), a collective term for drama and sanqu. As their efforts reveal, a disappointing end to an official career and a physical move away from the center led to their embrace of qu and the pursuit of a marginalized literary genre.This book also attempts to sketch the largely unknown literary landscape of mid-Ming north China. After their retirements, these three writers became cultural leaders in their native regions. Wang, Kang, and Li are studied here not as solitary writers but as central figures in the “qu communities” that formed around them. Using such communities as the basic unit in the study of qu allows us to see how sanqu and drama were produced, transmitted, and “used” among these writers, things less evident when we focus on the individual. About the Author: Tian Yuan Tan is Lecturer in Traditional Chinese Literature and Culture at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
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Minamiki George
The Chinese Rites Controversy from Its Beginning to Modern Times
Hard Cover. bound in yellow cloth, book in very good condition Dj also in very good condition 353 pp. ISBN: 0829404570
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Mungello David E. Editor
The Chinese Rites Controversy: Its History and Meaning
8vo, hardcove. jointly published by institut monumenta seria and the ricci institute for chinese-western cultural history san francisco. This collection presents the proceedings of an international conference on the significance of the Rites Controversy in Sino-Western history, held in San Francisco in 1992. It contains fifteen articles by contemporary mainstream China scholars from four continents, including some of the most eminent names in Sinology today.
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Bartlett Beatrice S.
Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ching China, 1723-1820
8vo, hardcover, ex library with usual labels and stamps, ow text in perfect state. Two black and white photographic illustrations, 8 figures, 1 map, 10 tables, reign titles of the Ch'ing Emperors (1644-1911), five appendices, notes, bibliography, glossary-index, xxii + 417pp, no dustjacket. "This book describes the transformation of Ch'ing governance from monarchial rule to ministerial administration, presenting a wholy new account of the Grand Council's founding and rise to dominance. The late eighteeenth century has been viewed as an era of intensified government centralization and increasing autocracy, but Barlett persuasively demonstrates that this characterisation must be modified in light of her findings." (Publisher's description). Ex Library
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Bernhardt, Kathryn
Women and property in China : 960-1949
Octavo in glossy pale orange and black wraps; viii, 236 p. ; 24 cm; bibliographical references (p. [201]-214) and index. Series: Law, society, and culture in China. || Women Studies; East Asian Studies; Inheritance and succession -- China -- History. Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- China -- History. Right of property -- China -- History. Mujeres -- Estado legal, leyes, etc. -- China -- Historia Derecho de propiedad -- China -- Historia Successions et hÈritages -- Chine -- Histoire. Femmes -- Droit -- Chine -- Histoire. Droit de propriÈtÈ -- Chine -- Histoire.
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Guo li Taiwan shi fan da xue. Guo wen yan jiu suo
Ji kan ; Guo li Taiwan shi fan da xue guo wen yan jiu suo ji kan = Journal of Research Institute of Chinese Literature of Taiwan Normal University ; No. 7
Quarto in pale grey printed wraps; 700pp. In Chinese with added table of contents in English (rear wrap cover). Includes the following lenghty scholary papers: "A study of the interchageable use of characters in "Prince Tsao-ming's Anthology" by Lee Hsian ; "A study of characters with variant forms found in "Spring and Autumn Annals" by Chen Hsin-hsiung ; "An expository treatise to the commentary on the 'Record of Confucius' three Interviews with the King" by YuenTing-Che ; and "A critical study of the use of pronomial vocatives in the "Classic of history under current (Han) Script" by Tai Lien-Chang. || Chinese literature -- Periodicals. China -- Civilization -- Periodicals.
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Wang, William S.-Y. ; Lyovin, Anatole
CLIBOC: Chinese linguistics bibliography on computer compiled by William S-Y. Wang and Anatole Lyovin.
Large octavo in brown polished cloth boards; 513 p. 2 maps (of 3?), part colored, in pocket; 23 cm. In English and Chinese. Princeton-Cambridge studies in Chinese linguistics, 1. || Descriptor: Information storage and retrieval systems -- Chinese language. Taalwetenschap. Chinees.
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No author stated
The Giant Panda
Medium octavo in color photo illus wraps; 118p. numerous full-page color photos. Excellent photos of pandas in captivity and in the wilds of China. Text in English.
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Liang, Fangzhong
The single-whip method (I-t'iao-pien fa) of taxation in China translated from the Chinese by Wang Y¸-ch'uan.
Quarto in pale grey wraps printed in red, with red spine; 71 p. 28 cm. In English. Land -- Taxation -- China.
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Fairbank, John K. (comp.)
Ch'ing documents, an introductory syllabus Volume 1 ; Introduction, Notes and Appendices
Quarto in red printed paper wraps; 131p, bib., 28 cm. China -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
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Tao, Zhenyu ; Song, Xi ; Kwok, Tak-Wa
Sinology in Japan and the United States; selections from Shih chiai ko kuo Han hsueh yen chiu lun wen chi (Symposium on the Sinological study over the world) Compiled and edited by Tak-Wa Kwok.
Quarto in red printed paper wraps; iv, 140p, bib., 28 cm Surprisingly uncommon. || Honolulu. Institute of Advanced Projects. Occasional papers of Research Translations: Translation series; no. 11; Variation: East-West Center.; Research Publications and Translations.; Translation series ;; no 11. || Contents: Translator's preface, by T.-W. Kwok.--The study of Chinese history in Japanese academic circles, by C. Y. Tao--Sinological study in the United States of America, by S. Sung. || China -- Study and teaching -- Japan. China -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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Yang, Fan. Yishu
Mei gui de gu shi = Lost romance
Large quarto / small folio in black color illus coated paper wraps; ca. 100 p. : col. ill. (mainly full color photos) ; 27 cm. Scarce. In Chinese; In traditional Chinese script. // Mei gui de gu shi (Motion picture) "Yang Fan zuo pin"--Cover./ Based on Yishu's novel entitled Mei gui de gu shi.
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Cameron, Nigel
An illustrated history of Hong Kong
Octavo in a blue DJ ; 362 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 23 cm Hong Kong (China) -- History -- Illustrated
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