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Murray Julia K.
Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology
8vo, 229 x 235 mm. hardcover in dw pp.xii-194 profusely illustrated with b&w and 25 color plates. Mirror of Morality takes an interdisciplinary look at an important form of pictorial art produced during two millennia of Chinese imperial rule. Ideas about individual morality and state ideology were based on the ancient teachings of Confucius with modifications by later interpreters and government institutions. Throughout the imperial period, members of the elite made, sponsored, and inscribed or used illustrations of themes taken from history, literature, and recent events to promote desired conduct among various social groups. This dimension of Chinese art history has never before been broadly covered or investigated in historical context. The first half of the study examines the nature of narrative illustration in China and traces the evolution of its functions, conventions, and rhetorical strategies from the second century BCE through the eleventh century. Under the stimulus of Buddhism, sophisticated techniques developed for representing stories in visual form. While tracing changes in the social functions and cultural positions of narrative illustration, the second half of the book argues that narrative illustration continued to play a vital role in elite visual culture.
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GIANOTTI Carla (a cura di)
Cenerentola Nel Paese Delle Nevi Fiaba Tibetana
8vo ril tela, sovrac (cloth, DJ). Book Condition: Perfetto (Mint). Con 23 ill. in nero e a colori, anche a doppia pagina Il testo proposto è un'antica versione orientale della fiaba di Cenerentola. Infatti molto tempo prima che le versioni di Giambattista Basile, di Charles Perrault e dei fratelli Grimm si affermassero in Europa, nella remota Cina dei T'ang, nel IX secolo, già ne circolava una versione scritta, qui presentata in appendice alla traduzione del testo tibetano. Strenna 2003 pp. 112.
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Pearl Cyril
Morrison of Peking
8vo, cloth in dj, Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears.Folding map, black and white photographic illustrations, vi + 431pp, bibliography, indext.Biography of George Ernest Morrison.
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Pinto Fernao Mendes
Peregrinazione: 1537-1558.: A cura di Giuseppe Carlo Rossi
8vo: 369 p., [7] p. di tav., 23 cm, tela in parte scolorita .in ottima sovracoperta
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Dekobra Maurice
Macao L'inferno Del Gioco
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Brown Kerry
Ballot Box China: Grassroots Democracy in the Final Major One Party State (Asian Arguments)
8vo, 138mm x 216mm x 18mm. Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy. 192 pages.
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Wu Weishan
Scolpire L'anima Di Cultura. Mostra Internazionale Di Arte Scultorea Di Wu Weishan. Palazzo Venezia Roma 1992
8vo grande, catalogo esposizione 88pp. br. ed. text in italian and chinese.
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Bennett Terry
History of Photography in China: 1842-1860 ; History of Photography in China: Western Photographers 1861-1879, ; History of Photography in China: Chinese Photographers 1844 1879 Set of Three Separate Volumes
3 volumes Quarto. Profusley Illustrated with Photo Plates. Pictorial Dust Jacket. xI: xiv, 242, II: xii, 420, III: x, 386, with c. 1000 illustrations between the three volumes; cloth-bound with pictorial dust-jackets. The first comprehensive history of the earliest years of photography in China, combining previously unpublished research with over 150 photographs, many of which are attributed and published here for the first time. bibliography, chronologies, index, dustjacket. History of Photography in China. the second volume, Western Photographers 1861-1879 is the most extensive general survey, in any language, of Western photographers who began working in China in the 1860s and 1870s. Over eighty different photographers are discussed from well-known professionals to little-known amateurs with a mass of biographical information, much previously unpublished. The book is divided into chapters on the Hong Kong Studios, Photography in Peking (Beijing), Photography in the Treaty Ports, Roving Photographers, The Ruins of the European Palaces in the Yuanmingyuan, and Photographic Periodicals. Documentary appendices list the published work of various photographers and print extensive extracts from contemporary reviews and other writings. The book concludes with a bibliography, general and regional chronologies, and a biographical index. An acclaimed international authority on the subject, Terry Bennett has been collecting and researching nineteenth-century Chinese, Japanese and Korean photography for over twenty-five years. This volume is illustrated throughout with over 400 images, sourced from private and institutional collections worldwide. Chinese Photographers 1844 1879 is the first extensive survey of early Chinese photographers in any language. It is profusely illustrated with more than 400 photographs, many of which are published here for the first time, including a fine selection of Foochow landscapes from the studios of Lai Fong, Chinas leading photographer during this period, and Tung Hing. Early chapters introduce the historical milieu from which the earliest Chinese photographers emerged and illuminate the beginnings of photography in China and contemporary Chinese reactions to its introduction. Early Chinese commercial photography both portrait and landscape are also discussed with reference to similar genres in a more international context. Individual chapters are devoted to Chinese photographers in Peking, Hong Kong, Canton, Shanghai, Foochow, Amoy, Hankow, Tientsin and other ports, Macau and Formosa. These are followed by a series of appendices: writings on photography in China by John Thomson and Isaac Taylor Headland and an invaluable guide to the identification of photographs from the Afong Studio. It concludes with an extensive bibliography, general and regional chronologies, and a biographical index. Combining existing knowledge of the subject with a mass of new research material, this major work also introduces and identifies the work of a number of previously forgotten or overlooked Chinese masters. It includes the work of: Chow Kwa (Su Sanxin), Hing Qua John & Co., Jiu San & E Fong, Kai Sack, Kung Tai, Lai Chong, Lai Fong, Liang Shitai (See Tay), Luo Yuanyou, Man Foc, Pow Kee, Pun Lun, Sang Cheong, Tung Hing, Wo Cheong, Ye Chung and many others. This third book completes a three-volume series on the photographic history of China until the late 19th century and will prompt a re-evaluation and heightened appreciation of these early Chinese photographers.
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Schipper, Kristofer
La Religione Della Cina
8vo, br. ed. bandelle "Che ne è stato della religione cinese?". Questa domanda, che si ripresenta oggi ancora più attuale, è immediatamente seguita da un'altra: "La Cina ha una vera religione autoctona?". Furono i gesuiti, nei primi anni del XVII secolo, a dare inizio al dibattito, sostenendo in tutta fretta che la vera religione della Cina era il confucianesimo. Quella 'setta venerabile' era, a loro parere, perfettamente compatibile con la fede cristiana. La sinologia, grazie ai contributi straordinari di Édouard Chavannes (1865-1918), Henri Maspero (1883-1945) e Marcel Granet (1884-1940), doveva screditare le teorie dei gesuiti e dimostrare il ruolo fondamentale del taoismo. Le trasformazioni della società cinese e la sua attuale espansione nel mondo possono essere comprese solo in riferimento a questa 'tradizione vivente', una tradizione che, nonostante le distruzioni e le persecuzioni sistematiche, è sopravvissuta fino a oggi in seno alla società cinese e che, grazie a strutture liturgiche assolutamente democratiche, ha saputo rimanere fedele alla sua missione civilizzatrice e diffondere la sua immensa eredità spirituale nel mondo intero. Lungi dall'essere una dottrina morale dualista e austera, la fede della Cina consiste nel seguire la natura nella sua creazione spontanea in armonia con il Tao, e nell'alternarsi dinamico di due forze complementari, lo yin e lo yang. Autentica religione universale dell'uomo, il taoismo vede il mondo come un tutto, felice di trovare in ogni cosa, nessuna esclusa, l'unità.
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Ai Weiwei
Il Blog. SCRITTI, INTERVISTE, INVETTIVE, 2006-2009
8vo, br. ed.
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French, Paul
Midnight in Peking: The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China (Paperback) (ISBN:9780670921072)
8vo Paperback. Book Condition: New. 214 x 153 mm. Brand New Book. A father hunts for his daughter's killer in the gripping true story "Midnight in Peking" by Paul French -which finally solves the case. On a frozen morning in January 1937, in the dying days of colonial Peking, a body was found under the haunted watchtower. It was Pamela Werner, the teenage daughter of the city's former British consul ETC Werner. Her heart had been removed. A horrified world followed the hunt for Pamela's killer, with a Chinese-British detective team pursuing suspects including a blood-soaked rickshaw puller, the Triads, and a lascivious grammar school headmaster. But the case was soon forgotten amid the carnage of the Japanese invasion.by all but ETC Werner. With a network of private investigators and informers, he followed the trail deep into Peking's notorious Badlands and back to the gilded hotels of the colonial Quarter. Some 75 years later, deep in the Scotland Yard archives, British historian Paul French accidentally came across the lost case file prepared by ETC Werner. Unveiling an undercover sex cult, heroin addicts and disappearing brothels, the truth behind the crime can now be told - and is more disturbing than anyone could imagine.Not just the unputdownable story of a savage murder, Midnight in Peking is a sweepingly evocative account of the end of an era. "An instant true crime classic. Grips from the first page to the last". (David Peace, author of "Red Riding" and "The Damned United"). "Fascinating and irresistible. I couldn't put it down". (John Berendt, author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"). 'Written in the style of a gripping murder mystery, but all the facts are true". (Kirsty Lang, BBC Radio 4 ("Book of the Week")). "Engrossing true crime whodunnit.A terrific read". (Andrew Holgate, "Sunday Times"). "Not only does Mr French succeed in solving the crime, he resurrects a period that was filled with glitter as well as evil". ("The Economist"). "French has an easygoing prose style.well chosen quotes bring a new vigour and crispness.He succeeds in giving voice to a tragic quest for justice". ("Sunday Telegraph"). "It is the storytelling flair that marks "Midnight in Peking" so highly above the run-of-the-mill true crime stories: with its false leads and twists, it sucks the reader in like the best fiction". ("The Scotsman")."The shocking true tale, combined with prose you can't drag yourself away from, makes "Midnight in Peking" a work of non fiction as compulsive as any bestselling crime novel. It also brings justice at last for a young woman whose murder nearly went unsolved". ("Sunday Express"). Born in London, Paul French has lived in China for more than 10 years. He is a widely published analyst and commentator on China; his books include
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French Paul
Mezzanotte a Pechino. Ovvero il torbido omicidio della Torre delle Volpi (ISBN:9788806212117)
8vo pp. 320. (Frontiere Einaudi). A Pechino, nel cuore di una Cina in guerra col Giappone, risiede una piccola enclave di occidentali, soprattutto diplomatici. Quando Pamela Werner, figlia di un console inglese, viene ritrovata accoltellata ai bordi di una strada, le autorità britanniche decidono di affiancare alla polizia locale un loro uomo: Richard Dennis, ex detective di Scodand Yard. Le indagini procedono tra mille difficoltà: il paese è sconvolto dall'anarchia, gli inglesi vogliono insabbiare tutto ciò che potrebbe costituire uno scandalo e persino il padre della vittima sembra nascondere qualcosa. Grazie a una trama in cui la descrizione della Cina degli anni Trenta, il tratteggio dei personaggi e gli elementi classici del noir si sposano con equilibrio, il libro di French porta alla luce una Pamela ben diversa dall'immagine della brava studentessa occidentale, e trascina il lettore in un vortice finale di sorprese che svelerà che nessuno è quello che dice di essere.
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Shih-wen Chen
Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911 (ISBN:9781409447351)
8vo. In her extensively researched exploration of China in British children's literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive dichotomies that have limited insight into the cultural and educative role these fictions played in disseminating ideas and knowledge about China. Chen considers a range of different genres and types of publication--travelogue storybooks, historical novels, adventure stories, and periodicals--to demonstrate the diversity of images of China in the Victorian and Edwardian imagination. Turning a critical eye on popular and prolific writers such as Anne Bowman, William Dalton, Edwin Harcourt Burrage, Bessie Marchant, G.A. Henty, and Charles Gilson, Chen shows how Sino-British relations were influential in the representation of China in children's literature, challenges the notion that nineteenth-century children's literature simply parroted the dominant ideologies of the age, and offers insights into how attitudes towards children's relationship with knowledge changed over the course of the century.Her book provides a fresh context for understanding how China was constructed in the period from 1851 to 1911 and sheds light on British cultural history and the history and uses of children's literature.
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Littrup Lisbeth
Identity in Asian Literature (studies in Asian topics)
8vo, vii-263pp.paperback ex-library with usual stamps and markings, in good all round conditions
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Dainian,F. Hacking,I. Newton Smith,W. Tianji,J.e Altri
Popper in Cina
br.cop.fig.a col. Ediz.italiana a cura di D.Antiseri. cm.13x21, pp.232, Coll.Saggi.
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Jacques Giès, Monique Cohen
Sérinde, terre de Bouddha : Dix siècles d'art sur la route de la soie, [exposition], Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, 24 octobre 1995-19 février 1996 [Relié]
4to, reliure ed. et couvert. 430 p., ill., cartes, bibliographie, glossaire.Paris, musée national des Arts asiatiques - Guimet
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Gies, Jacques; Cohen, Monique
Serinde, Terre de Bouddha. Dix Siecles d'Art sur la Route de la Soie
in 4 (31x24). 1 volume reliure toilée de l'éditeur sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs, 430 pages [1], avec de nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleurs, cachet ex-libris. Catalogue de l'exposition présentée à Paris, Galeries nationale du Grand Palais du 24 octobre 1995 au 19 février 1996. Bel exemplaire extra shipping for international orders.
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Cordier Henri
Melanges d'Histoire et de Geographie Orientales. Tomes 1,2.4 (manque 3)
orig. paper wrappers, 3 de 4 vols.,manque 3eme tome. largely uncut and unperused. v. 1,pp.319: jean de mandeville, v3yage de montferran en chine, travaux historiques sur la chine, debuts de la compagnie royale de suede, le colonel sir henry yule, relations de l'europe et de l'asie avant et apres le voyage de vasco de gama, memoire sur la chine de renouard de sainte-croix, deux documents tirés des papiers du general decaen, relations de la grande bretagne avec la birmanie, la premiere legation de france en chine 1847, l'expulsion de mm. huc et gabet du tibet 1846, les français aux iles lieou kìieou . vol. 2 pp.323, contains: l'asie centrale et orientale et les etudes chinoises, les chinois de turgot, intineraire de marco polo en perse, la situation en chine, delhi, l'islam en chine, a la recherche d'un passage vers l'asie par le nord et le ne, le tibet, la chine et l'angleterre, les fouilles en asie centrale, les douanes imperiales maritimes chinoises, albuquerque, general beylié, invasion mongole au moyen age, scuplture en pierre en chine, baghdad, art bouddhique, turks et ; v. 4, 272p., French text. Contains: Pere Gerbillon S.J.: MISSIONNAIRE FRANCAIS A PE-KING XVII ET XVIII SIECLES. Andre Michaux: UNE LETTRE INEDITE DU VOYAGEUR ANDRE MICHAUS. VOYAGE DE PIERRE DUPRE DE CONSTANTINOPLE A TREBIZONDE 1803. UN ORIENTALISTE ALLEMAND: Jules Klaproth. LA MISSION DUBOIS DE JACIGNY DANS L'EXTREME ORIENT 1841-1846. NOTES SURE EUSEBE DE SALLE. EDOUARD CHAVANNES
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Lam, Lai Sing
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Maos Global Order of Tripolarity
8vo, br. x-235pp.Cold War; the role of the Korean War in isolating China; ping-pong diplomacy with the United States to counteract the Soviet threat. The historical novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which two weaker sovereign powers (Shu and Wu) collude to defend themselves against the dominance of another power (Wei), is here identified as a particular inspiration for Mao in building a Sino-Soviet alliance in opposition to the powerful United States. This classical Chinese text provided Mao with a framework for understanding the complexity of global politics, establishing a balance with the two superpowers, and gaining diplomatic autonomy in China?s development.
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Curie Eva
Diario di guerra. Da New york a Chungking via Mosca
8vo, br. ed. bandelle, pp.672. . Durante la seconda guerra mondiale l'autrice, figlia della grande scienziata, fu corrispondente per l'Herald Tribune dall'Egitto, Persia, Russia, Cina, India, ecc.
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Coxe William
Account of the Russian Discoveries Between Asia and America, to Which Are Added, the Conquest of Siberia, and the History of the Transactions and Commerce Between Russia and China, the Third Edition, Revised and Corrected
3 parts in one volume, 8vo hardcover 4 large folding maps by T. Kitchin and one folding plate by I. Cheevers. "The Reverend William Coxe was an English historian who travelled widely in Europe and Russia. During a stay in St. Petersburg, Coxe researched recent Russian discoveries between Asia and America, which resulted in the present work. He endeavoured to collect the journals of several voyages subsequent to Bering's 1741 expedition, with which Gerard Friedrich Muller had concluded his account of the first Russian navigations. Coxe recounts the principal Russian discoveries and explorations made in northwestern America in their attempts to open communications with Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. The voyages and discoveries of Nevodsikoff, Serebranikoff, Trapesnikoff, Pushkareff, Drusinin, Kulkoff, Korovin, Glotoff, Solovioff, Otcheredin, Krenitzin, Levasheff, Synd, Bering, Chirikiv, and several others are included.Coxe made suggestions which led the Russians to promote expeditions of discovery to the northern parts of Siberia. Notable in the present work are a useful bibliography and pertinent observations on the fur trade between the Russians and the Chinese" (Hill)
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Appelius
Cina, Con 30 Illustrazioni
8VO, BROSSURA ORIGINALE ILLUSTRATA p. 350 PAGINE INGIALLITE DAL TEMPO ALTRIMENTI OTTIMO.
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heng, Yangwen
Storia Sociale Dell'oppio
8vo leg.ed.soprac.fig.a col. Traduzione di C.Caneva. "Attraverso una narrazione di ampio respiro, questo studio esplora la storia del consumo di oppio in Cina dal 1483 al XX secolo. Intorno alla metà del periodo del regno dei Ming, l'oppio veniva offerto in dono dagli Stati vassalli e usato a corte come afrodisiaco. Nel corso del tempo, i cinesi di diverse classi sociali e regioni hanno incominciato a usarlo per scopi "ricreativi", dando cosi avvio a una complessa cultura dell'oppio. La questione che gli studiosi delle guerre dell'oppio e della Cina moderna non hanno affrontato, è come sia nata la richiesta di oppio. Chi lo fumava, quando e perché? Il fumo a scopo ricreativo era estraneo alla Cina, e altrettanto si può dire dell'oppio in generale. Come e quando, allora, il consumo di oppio si stabilì all'interno della sofisticata cultura di consumo cinese? Il consumo dell'oppio non solo prosperò, ma divampò come fiamma viva in poche centinaia di anni. Era il periodo in cui l'Occidente europeo, l'Inghilterra in particolare, stava naturalizzando il tè e lo zucchero. L'oppio ha una storia a sé. Gli storici non l'hanno collocato nel suo contesto sociale e culturale. Alcuni si sono soffermati sul traffico, altri sulle guerre dell'oppio, alcuni sull'imperialismo e altri ancora sulla politica di controllo. Il nocciolo della questione, secondo l'autore è invece il momento in cui l'oppio si trasformò da medicina in bene di lusso e perché divenne cosi popolare e diffuso. " cm.15x23, pp.XVIII,261
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Levy, Howard S. (translator
China's Dirtiest Trickster. Folklore About Hsu Wen-ch'ang (1521-1593)
Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very good hardback copy. Signed limited edition of 300 copies, this n. 225. xxii, 157pp. Translated and described by Howard Levy.
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Huang Zhuan
Politica e teologia nell'arte cinese contemporanea. Riflessioni sull'opera di Wang Guangyi
Il miglior modo per comprendere una civiltà è attraverso la sua arte, e il miglior modo per comprendere l'arte è attraverso i suoi artisti migliori. Per qualsiasi lettore interessato ad avvicinarsi all'arte e alla cultura cinesi contemporanee questo libro presenta l'opera di un artista cinese contemporaneo privilegiando la storia delle idee e dell'arte, anziché la cronaca e la politica, servendosi di metodi e concetti facilmente comprensibili al lettore occidentale. La storia dell'arte contemporanea cinese copre tre decadi, e Wang Guangyi è indubitabilmente una figura centrale di questo periodo storico. La sua arte riflette tutte le complesse dinamiche che sono emerse nel passaggio dalla Guerra fredda alla globalizzazione ed è permeata dalla sua riflessione sul mondo teologico e sul mondo materiale. L'arte di Wang Guangyi è significativa non solo in Cina ma nel mondo intero.
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Huashi Peng; Dun huang wen wu yan jiu suo.
Zhong guo shi ku dun huang mo gao Ku Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in China 1
4to, Chinese : Di 1 ban in perfect state. magnificent color plates.
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Jiaxi, Wang & Ma Yue (text); Deng Xin (translation); Wu Guoting (artwork)
China's Rare Flowers: Painted in Traditional Chinese Style by Wu Guoting
8vo, wraps, Numerous colour illustrations & photographs throughout. Each double page contains a full-page colour illustration with accompanying small colour photograph of the respective Chinese flower on opposing page, plus descriptive text. Text in English.The artist was born in Nanjing in 1935 and is well known for his free-style birds and flowers. There are 79pp beautifully illustrated all in colour. Front cover shows red and white tree peonies.
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Zhang Jie
Mandarini Cinesi
8vo, br. ed. bandelle, pp.175
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Gu gong bo wu yuan cang hua ji bian ji wei yuan hui Bian
Zhongguo li dai hui hua : Gu gong bo wu yuan cang hua ji. vol. I, Dong Jin, Sui, Tang, Wu dai bu Fen; Vol II: Song dai bu fen (1) ; vol. III, Song dai bu fen (2) , Vol. IV. Yuan dai bu fen
4 volumes in folio cloth, dust cover, box. heavy: please inquire for internatioinal shipping.
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Huashi Peng; Miao Wang; Luoyang bo wu guan.
Tang Dinasty Tri-Colour Pottery of Luoyang Luo yang Tang san Cai
4to, 3, 5, [122] p. of plates : ill. in color ; 36 cm im chinese with abstract in english.
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Lust, John, Compiled By with the Assistance of Werner Eichhorn
Index Sinicus: A Catalogue of Articles Relating to China in Periodicals and Other Collective Publications 1920-1955
large 8vo, publisher's original yellow cloth indices; xxx-663 pages. in excellent condition.
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Schell, Orville; Delury, John
Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
8vo, study of the modern political history of China that finds a common theme through the various leadership regimes from the early 19th century into the 21st century -- the restoration of Chinese power from humiliating geo-political setbacks through the study and adaptation of organizing and technological ideas from competitors. The common thread is followed through 14 key figures in Chinese leadership and political thought ranging from the Empress Dowager Cixi to Chairman Mao. Signed by both Orville Schell and John Delury on the title page. 478 pages,
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Rivosecchi, Valerio, Kircher
Esotismo in Roma barocca: Studi sul padre Kircher
8vo. Brossura edit., pp.280, 172 tavole fuori testo, dorso ingiallito, sott. a matita ma altrimenti ottimo . Biblioteca di Storia dellArte n.12
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Mo Yan
The Garlic Ballads
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Lloyd, Geoffrey E. R.
La curiosità nei mondi Antichi. Grecia e Cina
8vo, Mm 155x210 Collana "Saggi". Volume in copertina rigida, sovraccoperta editoriale illustrata, xv-207 pagine con figure in nero nel testo. Glossario e bibliografia in chiusura. Traduzione di Massimo Palma.
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Colborne Baber Edward Royal Geographic Society
Travels and Researches in Western China
4to, viii, 201 p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Royal Geographical society. Supplementary papers. Vol. I. Part 1. Vol. I dei Supplementary Papers della Royal Geographical Siciety. Ipiù importante rapporto concerne le esplorazioni della Cina occidentale (fino a Tashienlu di Colborne Baber (pag. 201 con tavole e tre carte ripiegate)
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Lovell Julia
The Great Wall: China Against the World, 1000 BC-AD 2000
epic story of the Great Wall of China that guides the reader through the conquests and cataclysms of the Chinese empire, from the second millennium BC the present day. Over 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, the Great Wall of China has made an overwhelmingly confident physical statement about the country it spans: about China's age-old sense of being an advanced civilization anxious to draw a clear line between itself and the "barbarians" at its borders. But behind the wall's intimidating exterior and the myths that have clustered around it is a complex history that has both defined and undermined China. It is this history that Julia Lovell explores in her enthralling book. The Great Wall is an epic tale that stretches over two millennia as it follows the rise and fall of the great Chinese ruling dynasties. Full of astonishing details and extraordinary characters from emperors to engineers, statesmen to soldiers this is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand China's past, present, and future
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Christie's Hong Kong
Fine Chinese Classical & Modern Paintings Chinese Contemporary Ink Hong Kong 1-2 June 2015 Auction Highlights
4to
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Hu Shih and Chou, Chih-P'Ing (editor)
English Writings of Hu Shih: Literature and Society Volume 1 (Hardback) (ISBN:9783642311833)
8vo Hardback small ex libris stamp, otherwise as new. 242 x 158 mm. Language: English Hu Shih (1891-1962), In the 1910s, Hu studied at Cornell University and later Columbia University, both in the United States. At Columbia, he was greatly influenced by his professor, John Dewey, and became a lifelong advocate of pragmatic evolutionary change. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1917 and returned to lecture at Peking University. Hu soon became one of the leading and most influential intellectuals during the May Fourth Movement and later the New Culture Movement. His most widely recognized achievement during this period was as a key contributor to Chinese liberalism and language reform in his advocacy for the use of written vernacular Chinese. Hu Shih was the Republic of China,s Ambassador to the United States of America (1938-1942) and later Chancellor of Peking University (1946-1948). In 1939 Hu Shih was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature and in 1958 became president of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, where he remained until his death in Nangang at the age of 71. This diverse collection brings together his English essays, speeches and academic papers, as well as book reviews, all written between 1919 and 1962. English Writings of Hu Shih represents his thinking and insights on such topics as scientific methodology, liberalism and democracy, and social problems. It can also serve as a helpful resource for those who study Hu Shih and his views on ancient and modern China. The first volume Chinese Philosophy and Intellectual History allows readers to trace the development of Chinese thought and see the historical methodology applied therein. The second volume Literature and Society mainly includes Hu Shih,s works on language reform, which owing to his advocacy for the use of written vernacular Chinese were a success in both the educational and literary fields. The third volume National Crisis and Public Diplomacy mainly collects Hu,s articles and speeches from his term as Ambassador of China to the U.S.A. between 1938 and 1942.
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Bielenstein Hans
The Bureaucracy of Han Times
8vo.This is a comprehensive and fully documented study of Chinese bureaucracy during the Han period, when many of the basic lines of Chinese government practice were laid down. It is also more detailed and wider in scope than similar works on other periods of Chinese history. The book covers the time from 202 BC to AD 9 and from AD 25 to 189, analysing and describing the central and local administrations, the army, official salaries, civil service recruitment and power in government. Professor Bielenstein translates all Chinese official titles and includes alphabetical lists of these titles with their English and Chinese equivalents. Thus his book will serve both as a description for the names of offices at every level of government.
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Jesse Russel, Ronald Cohn
Wang Mang
In English language. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wang Mang (Chinese: ¿¿; pinyin: Wáng M¿ng) (c. 45 BC - 6 October 23 AD), courtesy name Jujun (¿¿), was a Han Dynasty official who seized the throne from the Liu family and founded the Xin (or Hsin, meaning "new") Dynasty (¿¿), ruling AD 9-23. The Han dynasty was restored after his overthrow and his rule marks the separation between the Western Han Dynasty (before Xin) and Eastern Han Dynasty (after Xin). Some historians have traditionally viewed Wang as a usurper, while others have portrayed him as a visionary and selfless social reformer. Though a learned Confucian scholar who sought to implement the harmonious society he saw in the classics, his efforts ended in chaos. Dannoe izdanie predstavlyaet soboj kompilyatsiyu svedenij, nahodyaschihsya v svobodnom dostupe v srede Internet v tselom, i v informatsionnom setevom resurse "Vikipediya" v chastnosti. Sobrannaya po chastotnym zaprosam ukazannoj tematiki, dannaya kompilyatsiya postroena po printsipu podbora blizkih informatsionnyh ssylok, ne imeet samostoyatelnogo syuzheta, ne soderzhit nikakih analiticheskih materialov, vyvodov, otsenok moralnogo, eticheskogo, politicheskogo, religioznogo i mirovozzrencheskogo haraktera v otnoshenii glavnoj tematiki, predstavlyaya soboj isklyuchitelno faktologicheskij material. This item is printed on demand. This is a printed copy of digital content available at Wikipedia. SOFT COVER.
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Lin Wenbi (Editor), Zu Youyi (Editor), Zhang Rong (Editor)
1881-1936 A pictorial Biography of Luxun LU HSUN LU XUN
4to, 174 pages. in english pictures and photos- Cover has a tear along fold of spine and slight shelf wear. otherwise fine.
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Changsha Chu mu bo Hua
1 portfolio ([2] l., 3 plates (1 col.)) 35 cm. Introductory note in chinese, english, français and japanese. in perfect state. from the warring states period tomb at Tzetanku excavated by hunan museum archeologists in 1973
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Lan Ying (Tianshu)
Lan Ying Shanshui Landscapes
10 leaves (in portfolio) : chiefly col. ill. ; 39 cm. Caption title: Album of landscapes by Lan Ying. Introduction also in English. reproduction of the paintings in "freehand brushwork style" from an album preserved in the Palace museum in Beijing, first published in 1655, when the artist was 71. 30,8x23,3 cm.
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Li Ku Chan (Kuchan)
Li Kuchan hua Ji
4to cloth in dj and case. [96] p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 39 cm. china animal paintings in art.
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Fang, Jizhong, 1923 -
Fang Jizhong Huaji
4to, cloth in dj [14] p., [78] p. of plates : 80 ill. (some col.), port. ; 38 cm.
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Sun Kegang
Sun Kegang hua ji
4to, cloth in dj, [10] p., [104] p. of plates : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 38 cm chinese painter.
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Ju Lian
Ju Lian shan mian hua Xuan
portfolio 13 leaves in color in box 1963- box corners flattened, ow excellent, no marks. Ju, Lian, - 1828-1904.
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Dong Shuo Ping
Dong Shouping hua Ji
portfolio 11 leaves of plates (some col.) ; 36 cm. small tear and loss at the bottom of the portfolio cover, plates intact and perfect, overall good.
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"Chang Jiang" Zhongguo hua xuan ji / Chang Jiang hang yun guan li ju Bian
1 portfolio (16 leaves) : all col. ill. ; 38 cm. Painting, Chinese - 20th century.
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