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Hugh Thomas
Comrade Editor: Letters to the People's Daily. Chinese Democracy in Action.
Trade Paperback. Very Good.
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Levis, John Hazedel
Foundations of Chinese Musical Art
First Edition, copiously illustrated with musical compositions in Western & Chinese styles. Scarce. Lg. 8vo, 234pp, mounted frontis. & illus. rebound in blue boards.
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Margouliès G.
Anthologie raisonnée de la littérature chinoise. Aperçu d'histoire littéraire de la Chine, récits historiques, allégories et apologues, la satire, philosophie et morale de la vie politique, le peuple chinois, la guerre, la mort, la séparation, l'amour, La
14 x 23, 458 pp., broché, état passable, dos abimé pages non coup.
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HUA Junwu
Contemporary Chinese Painting
First edition. Folio. Cloth, in dj and the publisher's illustrated slipcase. 195 pp. 90 full color, full page illustrations. Fine/fine 90 color, 202 b.w. photos, 195p. excellent anthology of about 90 modern Chinese painters, including Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Pan Tianshou, Li Keran, Lin Fengmian, Ye Qianyu et al., biographies of the artists, portraits, High quality paper and color printing.
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Granet Marcel
La Religione Dei Cinesi
16mo. br. ed. con bandelle. A cura di B. Candian, pp. 192
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Chang, Leon Long-Yien and Peter Miller
Four Thousand Years of Chinese Calligraphy
4 Fine with Mylar Cover. Hardcover. Oversize. 430 pages.An in depth and extensive examination of the five basic Chinese script forms, the vmaterials used, calligraphy as an expression of the artist and the traditions utilized in Chinese calligraphy. Large full size examples in black and white. extra shipping for international orders.
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Hejzlar Josef, Photographs by B. Forman
Chinese Watercolors
Cloth. Covers 96 artists, with 70 pages of text followed by 115 reproductions in color. Contents include: Retrospective of Chinese Art, Analysis of Media of Expression, Survey of Artists of the Shanghai School, Chronological Table of Dynasties. Artists presented include: Jen Po-nien, Ch'i Pai-shih, Huang Pin-hung, Ch'en Pan-ting, Hsu Pei-hung, Lin Feng-mien. Photographs by B. Forman. The dust jacket price is clipped.
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Paludan Ann
The Chinese Spirit Road. The Classical Tradition of Stone Tomb Statuary
4to Hardcover in dj. [9x11"] 290pp., 296 black & white plates, 9 tables, 16 charts.22 x 29 cm., large size, as new copy, appendices on foreigners in N. Song spirit roads at Gongxian, Covers the role of sculpture and sculptors in China, Western Han and the emergence of stone tomb statuary, Eastern Han & the establishment of the Spirit Road. Period of disunion, Sui & Tang, N. Song, Ming & Qing dynasties. Shunling, Huang- ling Zuling, tables
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Ferguson John C.
Chinese Painting
First Edition. . 4to - Black cloth boards w/gilt lettering & design of cherry blossoms on cover. ix+199pp+59 p Index of Chinese names
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Li Chieh, a Cura Di Bertan Fiorenzo e Gabriele Foccardi
Architettura Cinese: Il Trattato di Li Chieh
cm.17,5x24,5,; pp.125, num.figg.bn.e tavv.a col.nt.; leg.ed.soprac.fig.a col.; Coll.Strenna. Ristampa dell'autorevole trattato di architettura cinese del XII secolo, con ampio apparato critico. Pregevole edizione illustrata con 16 tavole a colori e molti disegni nel testo.
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Kaye, Lincoln, Mei-Lang, Hsu (illustrator)
Cousin Felix Meets the Buddha : And Other Encounters in China and Tibet
cloth in dj Price Intact. 394 pages. Long caricatured as a land of stagnant traditions or lockstep Maoist conformity, China today is a country on the move - literally. China's new migrant labor pool, known as the "blind river," logs in more road miles and piecework hours than any other workforce in the world - but also mentally and spiritually, as more and more Chinese search for some new faith, whether Maoist, Buddhist, humanist, or laissez-faire - to fill in where decaying Party ideology leaves off. The new China, where religious pilgrims cross paths with born-again capitalists and uprooted communards, is a chaos of true believers pursuing different, often conflicting, visions of fulfillment. Never read or open. ISBN: 0374299986
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Cahill James
The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China (Bampton Lectures in America)
Stiff colored wrappers, very good, 117 b.w. photos, index, bibliography, 187p., notes. A scholarly monograph, addressing our image of the Chinese artist, the painters' livelihood, studio & hand. A grand essay, giving us the kind of insights to really appreciate the full art of Chinese painters & paintings
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Zheng Jingwen
The Art of Wu Zuoren
4to. One hundred pieces by the celebrated Chinese Artist Wu Zuoren. Parallel Chinese and English text.110pp, illustrated in color. Excellent copy - very bright and clean with no wear to book or DJ. lmost 'as new' copy. Owner's stamp on half-title.
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SUN, Jie (editor)
Selected Paintings of Wu Zuoren and Xiao Shufang
First Edition.4to. Text and captions in English and Chinese. Contains 112 pages displaying 71 color paintings, with decorative endpapers, bound in deep green cloth, with white spine labels, in colorful, pictorial dust jacket and slipcase.
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Flower and Bird Paintings By Li shan of the Qing Dynasty, Seven 12 Prints Inink and Colour on Paper
21,31x27,5 cm. bound in chinese accordeon style w. brocade boards, in card box. 7 prints. very good, whith a sheet of english transaltion and presentation.
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Paintings of the Qing Dynasty
21,31x27,5 cm. bound in chinese accordeon style w. brocade boards, in card box. 7 prints. very good, whith a sheet of english transaltion and presentation.
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Lang Shi ning ( Baldassarre Castiglione )
Lang Shi ning (baldassarre castiglione) Lang Shining 100 Horse Paintings hua bai jun tu jing pin
38cm portfolio of 12 color reproductions among the hundred horse paintings of this qing dynasty european painter.in china. folio format. portafoglio di 12 riproduzioni tra i 100 cavalli del pittore gesuita alla corte Qing.
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Schreiber, Hermann and Georg
Vanished Cities
original Cloth in dj. Fine/ near fine. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green cloth covers with decorated cloth front cover and gilt letters on spine cover.344 pages plus 14 page index. Many illustrations by photos.
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Tiffany Studios
Antique Chinese Rugs
8vo original red cloth in pictorial dj. as new/ as new. An overview of chinese rugs, with chapters on history, materials, designs, colors and classifications. A reprint of the 1908 publication by Tiffany Studios.
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Holt, Rosa Belle
Oriental and Occidental Rugs Antique and Modern
Hard Cover. Revised Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 353pp with supplement and index. With 33 full-page illustrations, 12 in full color, and other in-text drawings, as well as a map of the Orient. original Red cloth, decorated and titled in black on spine, top edge red. Light age-toning
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The Imperial City in the Past Peking Photos
set of 7 postcard photos of the forbidden city in beijing, on occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the palace museum. 7 cartoline, come nuove.
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Bretschneider E.
Mediaeval researches from eastern Asiatic Sources: fragments towards the knowledge of the geography and history of central and western Asia from the 13th to the 17th century in 2 Vols
Reissue of the 1888 edition. 2 volumes. 8vo, original cloth 227 x 145mm. ppxii,334 & x,352, an extended tinted map of this part of Asia and one folded chinese mediaeval map. Trübner's Oriental Series. 1: Notes on Chinese Medieval Travellers to the West. 2: Notices of the Medieval Geography and History of Central and Western Asia. 3: Explanation of a Mongol-Chinese Medieval Map of Central and Western Asia. 4: Chinese Intercourse with the Countries of Central and Western Asia during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. In the first of the four papers Bretschneider provides excerpts from five Chinese thirteenth-century narratives including the account of mongol Hulagu's expedition to Western Asia between 1253 and 1259, and the story of the King of Little Armenia Haithon's journey to Mongolia in 1254-55. The second paper gives a sketch of the records of Mohammedan authors of the Mongol invasions of Persia, Russia, Poland, Hungary and Germany. The medieval map of Asia discussed in the third paper represents the three Mongol empires west of China, governed by the descendants of Genghis Khan, and was possibly executed in China about 1330. The fourth paper dvelves on the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and specifically the Mongols and the Oirats as depicted in the Ming shu. Bretschneider was a Russian sinologue living in Peking, and had access to sources of materials inaccessible to most European scholars The same Emile Bretschneider author of the History of European botanical discoveries in China (1898) and Botanicon Sinicum (1882/96).
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Grousset René
Histoire du Moyen Age. Vol 10: L'Asie Orientale des Origines au XVe siècle. Premier Partie: Les Empires Tome X
1941, in-8 XXXVII-583 pp.-66 cartes dans le texte.(Histoire générale publiée sous la dir. de G. Glotz), tres bon etat.
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Berthelot
La Pensée de l'Asie et l'Astrobiologie
14 x 22, 383 pp., broché, bon état . Chapitres : 1- L'Astrobiologie et l'astronomie chaldéenne. 2- Les antécédents de l'astrobiologie et son rôle dans la formation des sciences (différence avec les croyances sauvages et les cultes bio-solaires qui ont précédé l'astrobiologie; - différence entre l'astrobiologie et le point de vue de la science moderne; agriculture et astrobiologie: les conditions sociales et techniques de l'idée astrobiologique; l'idée de périodicité et la science historique.) - 3- L'astrobiologie et l'état chinois. 4- L'astrobiologie et la morale chinoise. 5- l'Astrobiologie et les philosophies indiennes. 6- Astrobiologie et bouddhisme. 7- La troisième Asie: le monothéisme islamique et judaïque et l'astrobiologie. 8- - Les trois Asies: formation du christianisme et astrobiologie. 9- L'astrobiologie et les quatre continents (le "temple" et le "siècle" suivant les étrusques, l'étrurie, Rome et la Chaldée; l'astrobiologie au Mexique; le Bénin et l'image du monde)"
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Chang, Kwang-Chih
Shang Civilization
Trade Paperback. Fine. First Edition, 2nd Printing; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 417 pp w/black and white illustrations, index, bibliography. From the jacket :"A superb job of presenting a brief but comprehensive history of the Shang civilization." -- Fumiko Ikawas-Smith, Science.
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Atkinson Thomas Witlam
Oriental and Western Siberia : A Narrative of Seven Years Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, The Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of Central Asia
Folding map, numerous black and white engravings, xvi + 533pp + 2 adverts, index, original blind stamped cloth, slightly worn, teared on top of spine. Text and plates are clean and very bright. "Atkinson's original objective in undertaking these travels was to sketch the scenery of Siberia. He traveled on a czar's pass out of Russia's Asiatic dominions from Kokhan on the west to the eastern end of the Baikal and as far south as the Chinese town of Tchin-si; and into the immense Syan-shan chain, never before seen by any European and a great portion of the western part of the Gobi. He crossed over 39,500 miles in 7 years penetrating into areas most probably never seen by a white man. He suffered significantly, from hunger and thirst and was placed in critical situations amongst Central Asian tribes and among escaped Chinese prisoners. Atkinson produce at least 560 sketches of the scenery, executed in colours. A number are exquisitely produced in this volume and in lithographed colours as well. His book has over the years become known as one of the greatest accounts of European travel into Central and Eastern Asia".
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Teng Emma Jinhua
Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895
8vo, xvii-370pp. , 34 figures, 15 color plates. taiwan, natives, chinese colonial, savages, island of women.
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Legendre A. F.
Le Far West Chinois Recit de voyage. Étude géographique, sociale et Économique Vol 2: Kientchang et Lolotie. Chinois - Lolos - Sifans; Vol. 3 Au Yunnan et Dans Le Massif Du Kin-ho
8vo pp 371, map; 344, map
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Smedley Agnes
China Fights Back
8vo cloth, as new,
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Cho-yo
Japanese Chess (Sho-Ngi) The Science and Art of War of Struggle Philosophically Treated - Chinese Chess (Chong-Kie) and I-Go
8vo 242 pp. hardcover, as new. Gameboard graphics, military maps, extensive index. Text in English with Japanese and Chinese characters translated & explained.
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Wright Arthur F.
Buddhism in Chinese History
8vo otrginal cloth xiv-144 pp., 8 illus. in b&w. "Based on six lectures presented at the University of Chicago under the joint sponsorship of the Department of Anthropology and The Federated Theological Faculty.". Includes bibliographical references.
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Nazaroff P. S.
Moved on from Kashgar to Kashmir
1st Edition. 8vo. Folding sketch map, 33 photo illustrations, 317pp.Original cloth gilt, spine a little faded, some marginalia in pencil, otherwise a particularly clean copy throughout. The first half of the book is a description of the author's four years in Kashgar amongst the Sarts and Chinese there and the second part is the story of his journey from Kashgar to Kashmir via Yarkand, Karakoram Pass, Leh and Zoji La to Srinagar. Yakushi N18a.
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Saunders, E. Dale
Mudra: A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture
Quarto. 296 pp. 26 monochrome plates, 110 illustrations, 40 Mudra: a pictorial index. Bollingen series LVIII. Mudra is the Sanscrit term for the symbolic gestures or hand postures used in Buddhist rituals. In this book mudra is studied with particular reference to the Buddhist sculpture of Japan and the book is offered as a practical aid for those interested in the iconographic aspect of all Buddhist art. Notes, Bibliography and Index. As issued in publishers beige linen with gilt Bollingen symbol on cover and gilt title on spine. Dustwrapper shelf worn at the extremities.originally Published in the Bollingen Series, LVIII. Mudra: a pictorial index (40 small B&W photographs of mudras on two pages); Preface; Table of contents; List of plates; List of Text Figures; Note on Pronunciation; I. Introduction (7 chapters); II. The Principal Symbolic Gestures (8 chapters); III. Six secondary Mudra and the Asana (15 chapters); IV. The Attributes (Introduction and 18 chapters); Notes; Bibliography and Abbreviations; Index. 26 B&W plates, 110 illustrations. xxiii + 296 pages
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Liu, James J Y
The Chinese Knight-Errant
Hard Cover. original cloth No Jacket.ing in corner of front free page and very light damage to corners and spine of cover. No other markings in book. From the Introduction: In giving examples of historical knights and of chivalric literature, I have tried to let the works concerned speak for themselves, so that the reader can form his own impressions based on material as close to the original as possible. Many biographies, anecdotes, poems, and short tales are translated in full, while long prose romances and dramatic works are generally summarized. In no case have I attempted to retell the story in "modern" fashion to make it more interesting, or to alter details that might offend Western sensibility so as to render them more palatable, for this is intended to be an objective study. On the other hand, I have not refrained from making critical comments on works cited or described. 242pp.
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Booz, Elisabeth B.
Tibet
12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Softcover, 208 pp. Nice color photos of life in Tibet. ISBN: 0002176270
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Collins, Robert
East To Cathay: The Silk Road (Trade Routes Series)
First Edition Thus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Part of the trade route series, in very clean tight condition. Dust jacket w two small tears.
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Leiffer Walter
Himalaya Mountains of Destiny. a Study in Geopolitics.
first. H.C. 176p., Int. VG. Ext. VG D.J. only slightly rubbed. 15 pages of pl ates
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Kaulback Ronald
Tibetan Trek
8vo original Grey cloth, very good, a little soiled, no dj., 300p.,9bw photos, 2 maps, index.
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Atkinson, Thomas Witlam
Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China. With adventures among the mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, Manyargs,Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi and Gelyaks Hunting and Pastoral Tribes
First US edition in VG condition, full brown original cloth with gilt lettering and design to front cover, slight shelfwear, large folding map perfect, some foxing, not affecting illustrations, 448 pages plus 4 pages of ads. original title: Travels in the regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China. With adventures among the mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi, and Gelyaks: the hunting and pastoral Tribes. , architect and traveller, Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799 - 1861) and his wife Lucy, spent seven years travelling in Siberia and Central Asia during the period 1847 - 53. Their son Alatau was born during their travels at the beginning of November in 1848 in what is today Eastern Kazakhstan. Bearing in mind the conditions they were living in and the extreme cold, it is a miracle that he survived! Thomas Atkinson's first book "Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, The Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of Central Asia" was first published in London and New York in 1858. In the preface to this, his second book describing the travels he (and his wife and son who are invisible in his writing) gives more detail on the natural history and resources of this vast region than he gave in "Oriental and Western Siberia.". He did not confine himself to seeking only to satisfy the scientists among his readership but also discusses the possibility of British commerce in the region. "Our commerce, prodigious as are its operations, is, its is well known, capable of infinite expansion, and I have laid open a field of almost incalculable extent, where enterprise, skill, and industry are sure to find a profitable investment." He also addresses the great interest in Britain in Russian ambitions for the region: "For those of my compatriots who have been alarmed by the approaches of Russia to our Indian Empire, I have faithfully stated every step that has recently been made in this direction, and afforded them an opportunity of learning her present position on the north of the Himalaya. Her existing relations with China, now that we are engaged in a war with its government, will doubtless give increased interest to the facts I have been enabled to collect respecting the several advances she has skillfully made into Chinese territory, and the consequent extraordinary development of her own." (From the preface).
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Haslund, Henning
TENTS IN MONGOLIA (Yabonah) (Adventures and Experiences Among the Nomads of Central Asia)
8vo, 22.5x14.5cm, original maroon cloth, xvi + 366pp, maps, line drawings, many b&w photos, notes, index. 2nd imp. account of Danish expedition in the early 1920s.
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Haslund Henning
Men and Gods in Mongolia. (Zayagan). Transl. from the Swedish by Elizabeth Sprigge and Claude Napier
Black cloth, very good, in perfect illustrated, mylar protected dw. 358p., map, index, bibliography, 57 b.w. photos. Based on the author's service with Sven Hedin's Central Asiatic Expedition in Turkestan and Tienshan, 1927-30. Primary source on Mongols, beliefs, music, occultism, laws, strong men of Torguts, etc.
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Carruthers, Douglas
Unknown Mongolia A Record of Travel and Exploration in North-West Mongolia and Dzungaria -(With 3 Chap. on Sport by J.H. Miller) 2 Vols
2 violumes 8vo hardcover pp. xxxii + 660, 168 Illus., 6 Maps (Mostly Folded), Panoramas Diagram, HardBound, Size 23cm ISBN: 8120608577
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Lefebvre Alain
La Politique Rurale De La Chine
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Geoffroy-dechaume François
China Looks at the World--Reflections for a Dialogue: Eight Letters to T'ang-lin
8vo, 22x14cm, vg black cloth gilt, in very good dj. 237pp, map, illus, bibliog, index. 1st ed. From Foreword: 'Francoise Geoffroy-Dechaume is a painter, as well as a government official and an author. He has written a book which is learned, penetrating and wise; but which, above all, is instinct with the life and thinking of the Chinese
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Zucker A. E.
The Chinese Theater
First English edition using the Little, Brown sheets. Quarter bound in batik boards and white cloth; spine lightly sunned. b/w illustrations, superb four hand colored silk paintings of Chinese theater characters ( a General - frontis, a Scholar, a Demi-Mondaine, and a Clown ), protected by rice paper, chronological table, bibliography, index, 234pp. Seventeen additional illustrations as well. indexed. an excellent copy
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Lai, T.C. & Gamarekian, S.E.
The Romance of the Western Chamber
1st Hardcover in Dust Jacket; Book as new in as new D Jacket in Fine condition,
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Zhu Hong
The Chinese Western: Short Fiction From Today's China
Paperback. Very Good. From Publishers Weekly The Chinese Cultural Revolution lasted from 1966 to 1976, and reactions to it have dominated Chinese writing since. The so-called "Chinese Western" examines the impact of the Revolution on impoverished, isolated western China, regions profoundly entrenched in tradition. Each of the eight stylistically varied stories selected by Zhu Hong, a professor of American literature in Beijing who has also taught at Harvard, illuminates the bewilderment and undeniable courage of a people confronted by monumental change. In Jia Pingwua's nearly mythic "How Much Can a Man Bear?" the injustices of the Cultural Revolution are only a politicized form of existing enslavement: " 'Let me tell you,' " says a husband to his wife, " 'living, your body belongs to me, and dead, your ghost is mine!' " The urban student who narrates Zhu Xiaoping's "Chronicle of Mulberry Tree Village" observes a destitute rural village to which he has been sent for reeducation and concludes that its guileful inhabitants elude his ability to judge them. Wang Meng's "Anecdotes of Chairman Maimaiti" counters suffering with black humor; a failed author sentenced to labor "with writers he envied" jokes with them after Red Guards assault him for being an "evil liberal writer": " 'Who cares if you folks don't give me recognition! The people consider me a writer!' " One wishes stories by women had also been included, but with novel subjects, richly evoked settings and vivid, often poignant characterizations, this collection has wide appeal. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. ISBN: 0345351401
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Shu-Chiung (Mrs. Wu Lien-Teh)
Yang Kuei-Fei: The Most Famous Beauty of China
16mo, Blue cloth with gilt lettering on front. xvii,102pp. illustrated 4 plates
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Buxton, L. H. Dudley
China: The Land and the People: A Human Geography
original Cloth. First Edition. 8vo some light foxing, and small nick at top edge spine. Bookplate and previous owners inscription in front endpaper. Contains a chapter on the climate by W. G. Kendrew. 16 full page plates and 30 maps and text figures,including map of the Provinces of China. 333pp
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Hauser Ernest O.
Shanghai Cité à Vendre. Le Brooklyn De L'empire Céleste 1842-1937 (reprint of the 1945 french translation of chang-hai, city for sale (1940) published as blanxs et jaunes ò chang-ha)
8vo pp.312, relié, neuf, reprint of the 1945 french translation of Shang-hai, city for sale (1940) published as Blancs et jaunes à chang-hai.
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