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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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Thomsen Rudi
Ambition and Confucianism: A Biography of Wang Mang
8vo, 248pp.
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Li, Qiongjiu, 1909
Li Qiongjiu guo hua Xuan
4to, 84 p., plates : col. ill. ; 38 cm.
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Zhang Da Zhuang
Zhang Dazhuang hua ji / [ze ren bian ji Zhang Xiong.]
4to [36] p. : all col. ill. ; 38 cm.
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Yu ZHI Zhen
Yu Zhizhen Hua Ji
portfolio ([12] leaves of plates
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Ye Qianyu
Ye Qianyu Hua Ji
1 portfolio (12 leaves of plates) : all col. ill. ; 36 cm.
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Shen Ge Shui Xiao Lin You Sheng / Shan ge shui xiao lin you sheng : 1961 nian feng jing xie sheng hua Ji
Mountains and water water chanting and smiling: landscapes painted live by nature, the poetical tile of this beautiful collection of chinese paingtings made in the year 1961 and printed in 1964. 14 leaves in portfolio. front cover of the portfolio wrap detached but present, ow very good. rare.
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Zhu Zhan Hua Xuan
1 portfolio . (loose-leaf), 16 col. plates ; 37 cm.
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Shi Lu
Shi Lu hua Ji
1 portfolio (12 leaves of plates : 12 col. ill.) ; 36 cm.
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Michael Nylan (a cura di), Griet Vankeerberghen (a cura di)
Chang'an 26 BCE: An Augustan Age in China
8vo hardcover, 642 pagine. During the last two centuries BCE, the Western Han capital of Chang'an, near today's Xi'an in northwest China, outshone Augustan Rome in several ways while administering comparable numbers of imperial subjects and equally vast territories. At its grandest, during the last fifty years or so before the collapse of the dynasty in 9 CE, Chang'an boasted imperial libraries with thousands of documents on bamboo and silk in a city nearly three times the size of Rome and nearly four times larger than Alexandria. Many reforms instituted in this capital in ate Western Han substantially shaped not only the institutions of the Eastern Han (25-220 CE) but also the rest of imperial China until 1911. Although thousands of studies document imperial Rome's glory, until now no book-length work in a Western language has been devoted to Han Chang'an, the reign of Emperor Chengdi (whose accomplishments rival those of Augustus and Hadrian), or the city's impressive library project (26-6 BCE), which ultimately produced the first state-sponsored versions of many of the classics and masterworks that we hold in our hands today. Chang'an 26 bce addresses this deficiency, using as a focal point the reign of Emperor Chengdi (r. 33-7 bce), specifically the year in which the imperial library project began. This in-depth survey by some of the world's best scholars, Chinese and Western, explores the built environment, sociopolitical transformations, and leading figures of Chang'an, making a strong case for the revision of historical assumptions about the two Han dynasties. A multidisciplinary volume representing a wealth of scholarly perspectives, the book draws on the established historical record and recent archaeological discoveries of thousands of tombs, building foundations, and remnants of walls and gates from Chang'an and its surrounding area. cina han e roma di augusto.
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Zhang Daqian
Zhang Daqian lin mo Dunhuang bi hua / Sichuan sheng bo wu guan Bian
4to, cloth in dust jacket, 97 pages of color plates. ; 38 cm. Zhang, Daqian, - 1899-1983
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Wu Dingbo (a cura di), Patrick D. Murphy (a cura di)
Science Fiction from China
8vo, pp.217. Despite periods of heavy censorship and political opposition, science fiction has emerged in the People's Republic of China as a popular literary genre. This anthology of stories by six major Chinese science fiction writers is the first such collection to be published in English. The stories are enriched by China's ancient tradition of fantastic literature as well as that nation's fascination with futuristic science and technology, and they provide illuminating glimpses of Chinese attitudes, values, and daily life. Wu provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of Chinese science fiction together with a chronological bibliography of stories, novels, and related critical works. This fine anthology of eight stories by six authors shows that, while years behind the west in terms of maturity of the genre, China is catching up as fast as the state will allow. Editor Dingbo Wu's excellent introduction gives a historical overview of SF in China, while detailing the fluctuations of political acceptibility during the past decade. Publishers Weekly Despite periods of heavy censorship and political opposition, science fiction has emerged in the People's Republic of China as a popular literary genre. This anthology of stories by six major Chinese science fiction writers is the first such collection to be published in English. The stories are enriched by China's ancient tradition of fantastic literature as well as that nation's fascination with futuristic science and technology, and they provide illuminating glimpses of Chinese attitudes, values, and daily life. Like most Chinese science fiction writers, the authors represented in this volume are engaged in scientific research or the popularization of science. Their work reflects the critical dictum that scientific fiction must be scientifically factual or based on reasonable extrapolations of known fact. Among the themes treated in these stories are people's use of and relationship to robots and clones; peaceful versus military application of technology; futuristic detection and intelligence operations; space exploration and warfare; and personal heroism, patriotism, and responsibility. The stories typically incorporate an optimistic view of science's contribution to the future of humankind. Wu provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of Chinese science fiction together with a chronological bibliography of stories, novels, and related critical works. This collection offers a unique perspective on modern China and a welcome opportunity to explore the Chinese contribution to one of the most popular forms of contemporary fiction. fantascienza cinese.
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Kinkley, Jeffrey C.
Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels
8vo, The depiction of personal and collective suffering in modern Chinese novels differs significantly from standard Communist accounts and many Eastern and Western historical narratives. Writers such as Yu Hua, Su Tong, Wang Anyi, Mo Yan, Han Shaogong, Ge Fei, Li Rui, and Zhang Wei skew and scramble common conceptions of China s modern development, deploying avant-garde narrative techniques from Latin American and Euro-American modernism to project a surprisingly un-Chinese dystopian vision and critical view of human culture and ethics. The epic narratives of modern Chinese fiction make rich use of magical realism, surrealism, and unusual treatments of historical time. Also featuring graphic depictions of sex and violence, as well as dark, raunchy comedy, these novels reflect China s recent history re-presenting the overthrow of the monarchy in the early twentieth century and the resulting chaos of revolution and war; the recurring miseries perpetrated by class warfare during the dictatorship of Mao Zedong; and the social dislocations caused by China s industrialization and rise as a global power. This book casts China s highbrow historical novels from the late 1980s to the first decade of the twenty-first century as a distinctively Chinese contribution to the form of the global dystopian novel and, consequently, to global thinking about the interrelations of utopia and dystopia.
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Loewe Michael
Everyday Life in Early Imperial China During the Han Period 202 Bc-Ad 220
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue paper covered boards with black cloth spine.208p. + plates
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Chan Koonchung, Michael Duke
The Fat Years
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Liang, Hsiao-Sheng , Liang Xiaosheng , Chen Hanming; Belcher, James O. , Hanming Chen
Panic and Deaf: Two Modern Satires (Fiction from Modern China)
8vo, Educated Youth. The Lost Generation. They served Mao s Cultural Revolution as Red Guards in the late 1960s, only to be sacrificed to that same revolution a decade later when they were rusticated to desolate communes and the wastelands of northern China. When they were allowed to return to the cities, they found themselves dislocated once again, this time by the social and economic upheavals of the post-Mao era. Liang Xiaosheng, a former Red Guard and one of China s most accomplished satirists, follows his compatriots as they make their way through the morass of petty corruption, bureaucratic back-biting, and opportunism that is the new New China. In a tone deceptively light and humorous, Liang expresses the financial and sexual frustration, pathetic mediocrity, and impotent resentment of aging educated youth rendered increasingly superfluous by the brash economic dynamism of China s new entrepreneurial class.
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Sanft Charles
Communication and Cooperation in Early Imperial China: Publicizing the Qin Dynasty
8vo, br. pp.251. This revealing book challenges longstanding notions of the Qin dynasty, Chinas first imperial dynasty (221206 BCE). The received history of the Qin dynasty and its founder is one of cruel tyranny with rule through fear and coercion. Using a wealth of new information afforded by the expansion of Chinese archaeology in recent decades as well as traditional historical sources, Charles Sanft concentrates on cooperative aspects of early imperial government, especially on the communication necessary for government. Sanft suggests that the Qin authorities sought cooperation from the populace with a publicity campaign in a wide variety of mediafrom bronze and stone inscriptions to roads to the bureaucracy. The book integrates theory from anthropology and economics with early Chinese philosophy and argues that modern social science and ancient thought agree that cooperation is necessary for all human societies.
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Scheidel Walter Ed.
State Power in Ancient China and Rome
8vo, 303 pages.The Chinese and the Romans created the largest empires of the ancient world. Separated by thousands of miles of steppe, mountains and sea, these powerful states developed independently and with very limited awareness of each other's existence. This parallel process of state formation served as a massive natural experiment in social evolution that provides unique insight into the complexities of historical causation. Comparisons between the two empires shed new light on the factors that led to particular outcomes and help us understand similarities and differences in ancient state formation. The explicitly comparative perspective adopted in this volume opens up a dialogue between scholars from different areas of specialization, encouraging them to address big questions about the nature of imperial rule. In a series of interlocking case studies, leading experts of early China and the ancient Mediterranean explore the relationship between rulers and elite groups, the organization and funding of government, and the ways in which urban development reflected the interplay between state power and communal civic institutions. Bureaucratization, famously associated with Qin and Han China but long less prominent in the Roman world, receives special attention as an index of the ambitions and capabilities of kings and emperors. The volume concludes with a look at the preconditions for the emergence of divine rulership. Taken together, these pioneering contributions lay the foundations for a systematic comparative history of early empires.
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Loewe Michael
Everyday Life In Early Imperial China: During the Han Period 202 BC-AD 220
8vo, pp208. In this lively and accessible account, with illustrations on nearly every page, Michael Loewe gives us a vivid picture of the lives of peasants working the land, the lives of town inhabitants, and the elaborate hierarchy of institutions and civil servants that sustained the vast imperial government. In a new Preface and an updated Bibliography, Loewe calls our attention to the significance of scholarly research and discoveries since the original publication of his classic work.
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Liang Cai
Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire
8vo, pp. 276. Contests long-standing claims that Confucianism came to prominence under Chinas Emperor Wu. When did Confucianism become the reigning political ideology of imperial China? A pervasive narrative holds it was during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (141- 87 BCE). In this book, Liang Cai maintains that such a date would have been too early and provides a new account of this transformation. A hidden narrative in Sima Qians The Grand Scribes Records (Shi ji) shows that Confucians were a powerless minority in the political realm of this period. Cai argues that the notorious witchcraft scandal of 91 - 87 BCE reshuffled the power structure of the Western Han bureaucracy and provided Confucians an opportune moment to seize power, evolve into a new elite class, and set the tenor of political discourse for centuries to come. Through a detailed analysis of the surviving textual evidence, Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire provides a powerful image of the destruction of one order in the last years of the reign of Emperor Wu and the creation of a new elite under Huo Guang. Though these events have already been the subject of at least one detailed English-language study the narrower time-frame and more focused narrative in Liang Cais study provides an even more powerful picture of the enduring aftermath of Emperor Wus witchcraft trials. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
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Nicola Di Cosmo (a cura di) Ed.
Military Culture in Imperial China
8vo, pp.449.This volume explores the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the Qing empire, with contributions by eminent scholars aiming to reexamine the relationship between military matters and law, government, historiography, art, philosophy, literature, and politics. This book critically investigates the perception that, due to the influence of Confucianism, Chinese culture has systematically devalued military matters. There was nothing inherently pacifist about the Chinese governments' views of war, and pragmatic approaches - even aggressive and expansionist projects - often prevailed. Though it has changed in form, a military elite has existed in China from the beginning of its history, and military service included a large proportion of the population at any given time. Popular literature praised the martial ethos of fighting men. Civil officials attended constantly to military matters on the administrative and financial ends. The seven military classics produced in antiquity continued to be read even into the modern period. These original essays explore the ways in which intellectual, civilian, and literary elements helped shape the nature of military institutions, theory, and the culture of war. This important contribution bridges two literatures, military and cultural, that seldom appear together in the study of China, and deepens our understanding of war and society in Chinese history.
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Ch'u T'ung-tsu (Qu Tongzu)
Han Social Structure
8vo, 550 pp. Edited by Jack L. Dull. Vol. I of Han Dynasty China (series). Fresh and clean.
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Pines, Yuri, Shelach, Gideon, Von Falkenhausen, Lothar, robin S. Yates
Birth of an Empire: The State of Qin Revisited
8vo, br. ed. Summary: In 221 BCE the state of Qin vanquished its rivals and established the first empire on Chinese soil, starting a millennium-long imperial age in Chinese history. Hailed by some and maligned by many, Qin has long been an enigma. In this pathbreaking study, the authors integrate textual sources with newly available archeological and paleographic materials, providing a boldly novel picture of Qin's cultural and political trajectory, its evolving institutions and its religion, its place in China's history, and the reasons for its success and for its ultimate collapse.
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Ricci Matteo, Trigault Nicolas
Entrata nella China de' Padri della Compagnia del Gesù (1582-1610)
8vo, pp.643.
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Lévi, Jean , Ed.
La Dispute Sur Le Sel et Le Fer
broché, Porté au rang des classiques chinois, La Dispute sur le sel et le fer retranscrit les répliques échangées en 81 avant J.-C. au cours d'un conseil impérial, dont le point de départ est la question du monopole du sel et du fer, décrété quarante ans plus tôt comme moyen de renflouer le Trésor épuisé par la guerre contre les Huns et quelques autres barbares. Il s'ensuivra une controverse générale sur la manière de gouverner, entre d'une part, des tenants de l'école des Lois, pour lesquels les questions de morale n'ont aucune part à tenir dans le domaine politique, et d'autre part, des érudits confucéens et des sages.Ce texte, transmis par Huan Kuan dans la seconde moitié du Ier siècle avant notre ère, constitue à la fois un témoignage de première main et sans fard sur les conditions de vie concrètes et sur les moeurs politiques de cette époque lointaine, et une mine de réflexions atemporelles sur l'art de gérer une société. - Nombre de page(s) : 739 . texte chinois et français.
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Lu Yu
Le Classique Du thé
Couverture souple. Traduit du chinois par Catherine DESPEUX. Présentation de l'éditeur : "Une petite feuille amère, sur un arbre qui pouvait atteindre plus de vingt mètres de haut, est devenue, un jour, lorigine de la boisson la plus recherchée dans le monde entier : le thé. En Chine, cette petite feuille doit aussi son succès à un homme dont le fabuleux destin la conduit à devenir le dieu du thé : Lu Yu (733-804). Il est le premier à avoir présenté une synthèse des différents aspects du thé et à avoir posé les bases de lart de la dégustation dans son ouvrage élevé au rang de livre canonique : Le classique du thé.".
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Dikotter, Frank
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
8vo, pp.396
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Pomeranz Kenneth
La grande divergenza. La Cina, l'Europa e la nascita dell'economia mondiale Moderna
8vo, br. ed. Perché nell'Ottocento l'Europa ha imboccato la strada dello sviluppo economico-industriale? Quali sono le ragioni della "grande divergenza" che si è aperta fra l'Europa e il resto del mondo? Avvalendosi di un'analisi settore per settore, il volume mostra che in realtà le condizioni dell'Europa e della Cina erano del tutto simili ancora nel Settecento per speranza di vita, consumi, mercato dei beni e fattori produttivi, strategie familiari. A creare la differenza furono il carbone e i commerci con le Americhe. La combinazione di questi fattori consentì all'Europa nord-occidentale di svilupparsi secondo un modello basato su un alto sfruttamento di risorse e una bassa intensità di lavoro, al contrario di quanto avvenne in Cina.
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LEIBNIZ GOTTFRIED WILHELM
Writings on China
8vo, br. ed. pp.xvi,157. Writings on China. Translated, with an Introduction, Notes, and Commentaries by Daniel J. Cook and Henry Rosemont, Jr.
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Allan Sarah
The Heir And The Sage: Dynastic Legend In Early China
8vo revised and exèanded edition. . A comprehensive analysis of the transformations of ancient history in early Chinese texts.
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Giele Enno
Imperial Decision-Making and Communication in Early China: A Study of Cai Yong's Duduan
8vo, hardcover, 357pp.
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Puett Michael christine Gross-Loh (Autore), E. Spediacci (Traduttore)
La Via: Un nuovo modo di pensare qualsiasi cosa
8vo, br. ed. 144p. Tendiamo a credere che per cambiare la nostra vita si debba pensare in grande. Ma i pensatori della Cina classica direbbero: non dimenticare ciò che è piccolo. Iniziamo a cambiare veramente quando cominciamo con piccoli cambiamenti del nostro modo di vivere. Primo libro nel suo genere, "La via" attinge alle opere dei grandi filosofi cinesi dell'età classica per offrirci una guida che ci aiuti a vivere bene. Nello spiegare ciò che i loro insegnamenti consigliano su argomenti come il prendere le decisioni o il migliorare le relazioni con gli altri, "La via" sfida alcune assunzioni profondamente consolidate dentro di noi e che informano la nostra società. Il modo in cui pensiamo di vivere le nostre vite non è il modo in cui effettivamente le viviamo. Possiamo vivere bene non tanto «trovando» noi stessi, come vorrebbero farci credere, bensì coltivando noi stessi e vivendo in stretta relazione con il mondo. "La via", con l'aiuto del pensiero cinese classico, ci insegna «un nuovo modo di pensare qualsiasi cosa».
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Minxin Pei
China's Crony Capitalism. The Dynamics of Regime Decay
8vo, hardcover, When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build socialism with Chinese characteristics. More than three decades later, China s efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working people s paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and growing social tensions. China s Crony Capitalism traces the origins of China s present-day troubles to the series of incomplete reforms from the post-Tiananmen era that decentralized the control of public property without clarifying its ownership. Beginning in the 1990s, changes in the control and ownership rights of state-owned assets allowed well-connected government officials and businessmen to amass huge fortunes through the systematic looting of state-owned property in particular land, natural resources, and assets in state-run enterprises. Mustering compelling evidence from over two hundred corruption cases involving government and law enforcement officials, private businessmen, and organized crime members, Minxin Pei shows how collusion among elites has spawned an illicit market for power inside the party-state, in which bribes and official appointments are surreptitiously but routinely traded. This system of crony capitalism has created a legacy of criminality and entrenched privilege that will make any movement toward democracy difficult and disorderly. Rejecting conventional platitudes about the resilience of Chinese Communist Party rule, Pei gathers unambiguous evidence that beneath China s facade of ever-expanding prosperity and power lies a Leninist state in an advanced stage of decay
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Raphals Lisa
Divination And Prediction In Early China And Ancient Greece
8vo, 496pp. Divination was an important and distinctive aspect of religion in both ancient China and ancient Greece, and this book will provide the first systematic account and analysis of the two side by side. Who practised divination in these cultures and who consulted it? What kind of questions did they ask, and what methods were used to answer those questions? As well as these practical aspects, Lisa Raphals also examines divination as a subject of rhetorical and political narratives, and its role in the development of systematic philosophical and scientific inquiry. She explores too the important similarities, differences and synergies between Greek and Chinese divinatory systems, providing important comparative evidence to reassess Greek oracular divination.
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Hecheng, Tan
The Killing Wind: A Chinese County's Descent into Madness during the Cultural Revolution
8vo, hardcover in dust jacket, 505pp. A spasm of extreme radicalism that rocked China to its foundations in the mid- to late 1960s, the Cultural Revolution has generated a vast literature. Much of it, however, is at a birds-eye level, and we have very few detailed accounts of how it worked on the ground. Long after the event, Tan Hecheng, now a retired Chinese writer and editor, was sent to Daoxian, Mao s home county, to report on the official investigation into the massacre that took place there during the Cultural Revolution. In The Killing Wind, Tan recounts how over the course of 66 days in 1967, over 9,000 Chinese class enemies were massacred in the Daoxian, in the Hunan Province. The killings were unprovoked and carried out with incredible, stomach-churning brutality, which is documented here in excruciating detail. But although this could easily be just a compendium of horrors, it s also a meditation on memory, moral culpability, and the failure of the Chinese government to come to terms with the crimes of the Maoist era. Tan interweaves the story of his research with the recollections of survivors and reflections on the long-term consequences of the Cultural Revolution. Akin to Jan Gross s Neighbors, about the Holocaust in a Polish town, The Killing Wind likewise paints a single episode in extraordinary detail in order to make a broader argument about the long term consequences flowing from one of the twentieth century s greatest human tragedies
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Solomon, Richard H
A revolution is not a dinner party: A feast of images of the Maoist transformation of China
8vo, hardcover in dj. 199 pages, illustrated, chronology, notes. In Brodart jacket protector. "This ingenious attempt to explain the mysteries of Chinese politics to Western readers has two unusal features.a kaleidoscope of photographic images for which [the author's] lucid text serves as a kind of continuous caption. .It provides as vivid a sense of the complexities of Maoist China as any book yet published. .should help to clarify the traditinal image of China in the American mind, an image that has often swung capriciously from sentimental enthusiasm to angry disappointment and back again" Richard Bernstein; TIME Magazine, September 6, 1976
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Pomfret John
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
8vo, br ed. A first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years as seen through the life of an award-winning journalist and his four Chinese classmates As a twenty-year-old exchange student from Stanford University, John Pomfret spent a year at Nanjing University in China. His fellow classmates were among those who survived the twin tragedies of Mao's rule?the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution?and whose success in government and private industry today are shaping China's future. Pomfret went on to a career in journalism, spending the bulk of his time in China. After attending the twentieth reunion of his class, he decided to reacquaint himself with some of his classmates. Chinese Lessons is their story and his own. Beginning with Pomfret's first days in China, Chinese Lessons takes us back to the often torturous paths that brought together the Nanjing University History Class of 1982. One classmate's father was killed during the Cultural Revolution for the crime of being an intellectual; another classmate labored in the fields for years rather than agree to a Party-arranged marriage; a third was forced to publicly denounce and humiliate her father. As we watch Pomfret and his classmates begin to make their lives as adults, we see as never before the human cost and triumph of China's transition from near-feudal communism to first-world capitalism. John Pomfret is a reporter for The Washington Post. Formerly the Post's Beijing bureau chief, he is now the Los Angeles bureau chief. In 2003, Pomfret was awarded the Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Asian Journalism by the Asia Society, an annual award for best coverage of Asia. He lives with his wife and family in Los Angeles
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Wessels C.
Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia 1603-1721
8vo, br. ed. Reprint pp.360. Contents Preface. 1. Bento De Goes (1602 1607). 2. Antonio de Andrade (1624). 3. The Tsaparang Mission (1625 1640). 4. Francisco De Azevedo (1631 1632). 5. Stephen Cacella and John Cabral (1626 1632). 6. John Grueber and Albert D'Orville (1661 1664). 7. Hippolyte Desideri (1714 1722). Appendices i. Azevedo's account of his journey to Tibet (Portuguese text). ii. Letter of Stephen Cacella from Cambirasi October 4 1627 (Portuguese text). iii. Letter of John Cabral from Hugli June 17 1628 (Portuguese text). iv. Letter of John Grueber from Tyrnau January 13 1670 (Latin text). v. Eulogy on John Grueber (Latin text). Index. 346 pp.
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Watson Burton
Ssu-ma Ch'ien Grand Historian of China
8vo. 276 pp, very good original cloth in dustjacket with marginal chips, small former owner's signature. examines the traditional models of historical writing such as the 'Spring and Autumn Annals' and the 'Book of Documents,' from which Ssu-ma Ch'ien drew much of his material and inspiration. He also describes the state of Chinese historiography at the time of writing of the Shih chi. He discusses the origins of Chinese historical theory and demonstrates the extent to which the Shih chi has influenced its development. Also provided is an annotated translation of the historian's autobiography along with the additions made to it by his successor, Pan Ku.
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Brook Timothy
Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China
8vo, br. ed. pp. x-286. Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unknowledged. This text breaks the silence surrounding the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration between the Chinese and their Japanese occupiers.
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Barmé Geremie R.
Shades of Mao. The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader
8vo, hardcover oiginal cloth, (no df) pp.334. Essays, poems, songs, folkloric anecdotes and photographs celebrating the myth of Mao. . . . The editor supplies an insightful, and cohesing introduction. -- Reference and Research Book News(A) highly entertaining and informative collection of translations of official, admiring, tacky, but sometimes also highly critical writings, and illustrations of objects, all featuring Mao
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Taylor Jay
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China
8vo, One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the world through a quarter century of bloody revolutions, civil conflict, and wars of resistance against Japanese aggression. In 1949, when he was defeated by Mao Zedong his archrival for leadership of China he fled to Taiwan, where he ruled for another twenty-five years. Playing a key role in the cold war with China, Chiang suppressed opposition with his white terror,controlled inflation and corruption, carried out land reform, and raised personal income, health, and educational levels on the island. Consciously or not, he set the stage for Taiwan's evolution of a Chinese model of democratic modernization. Drawing heavily on Chinese sources including Chiang's diaries, The Generalissimo provides the most lively, sweeping, and objective biography yet of a man whose length of uninterrupted, active engagement at the highest levels in the march of history is excelled by few, if any, in modern history. Jay Taylor shows a man who was exceedingly ruthless and temperamental but who was also courageous and conscientious in matters of state. Revealing fascinating aspects of Chiang?s life, Taylor provides penetrating insight into the dynamics of the past that lie behind the struggle for modernity of mainland China and its relationship with Taiwan. About the Author: Jay Taylor is a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.
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Zeitlin Judith T.
Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale
8vo, br. ed. pp.332. on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai s Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese
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Gumilev Lev Nikolaevich (Autore), R. E. F. Smith (Traduttore)
Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John
8vo, pp.xix- 405. The so called 'Kingdom of Prester John' was a Christian power thought to exist in Central Asia at the time of the twelfth-century crusades. At a deeper level, for the steppe peoples it constitutes a distant dynamic which led to the world-shattering rise of Mongol power under Chinggis (Genghis) Khan. The book ranges widely in subject matter, space and time. Christian history and ecological, demographic, social and economic history are all interwoven with the politics, religions and literature of the vast and varied area between European Russia and China from c800 to 1300. The author's views are distinctive and stimulating and are not always accepted by western specialists. But his bold synthesis fills in many of the missing links between histories of Europe and medieval China and makes it possible to think of these vast areas as, in some senses, parts of a greater whole.
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Andrieu Jacques
Psychologie de Mao Tsé-toung
8vo, Peu de chefs d'État ont été autant adulés, internationalement, que Mao : de Malraux à Sartre en passant par Alain Peyrefitte et Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, ils ont été nombreux à saluer ce " phare de l'humanité " (Giscard d'Estaing). Pourtant, Mao est responsable de l'une des plus grandes folies meurtrières de l'Histoire du dernier siècle. Pour comprendre ce que fut la " pensée-Mao ", néologisme forgé en l'honneur du grand timonier, Jacques Andrieu tente de cerner la psychologie du personnage au travers de son expression, dans ses écrits et dans ses interventions publiques. L'auteur passe au crible de la biographie de Mao un florilège de citations souvent inattendues, parfois cocasses, et montre quels motifs insoupçonnés ont causé certains des plus grands malheurs de la Chine.
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Hergé
Les Aventures de Tintin 5: Le Lotus Bleu
rel. ed. pp.62. en français.
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Norwich John Julius
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe
Hardcover in dj 8vo, t Edition. Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe 'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent - were born within a single decade. Each looms large in his country's history and, in this book, John Julius Norwich broadens the scope and shows how, against the rich background of the Renaissance and destruction of the Reformation, their wary obsession with one another laid the foundations for modern Europe. Individually, each man could hardly have been more different - from the scandals of Henry's six wives to Charles's monasticism - but, together, they dominated the world stage.
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Bickers Robert
Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination
8vo, cloth in dj. pp.576. The extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful country it is today. Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be one of the handful of countries not to succumb. Invaded, humiliated and looted, China nonetheless kept its sovereignty. Robert Bickers' major new book is the first to describe fully what has proved to be one of the modern era's most important stories: the long, often agonising process by which the Chinese had by the end of the 20th century regained control of their own country. Out of China uses a brilliant array of unusual, strange and vivid sources to recreate a now fantastically remote world: the corrupt, lurid modernity of pre-War Shanghai, the often tiny patches of 'extra-territorial' land controlled by European powers (one of which, unnoticed, had mostly toppled into a river), the entrepôts of Hong Kong and Macao, and the myriad means, through armed threats, technology and legal chicanery, by which China was kept subservient. Today Chinese nationalism stays firmly rooted in memories of its degraded past - the quest for self-sufficiency, a determination both to assert China's standing in the world and its outstanding territorial claims, and never to be vulnerable to renewed attack. History matters deeply to Beijing's current rulers - and Out of China explains why.
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Antonkin Alexei
Les Chiens de Faience. Témpoignage d'un correspondant de l'agence Tass à Pékin pour servir a l'histoire de l'Union soviétique et de la Chine
8vo, br. ed. 14.5x21. 215pp.
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Yang Mei-hui Mayfair
Gifts Favors & Banquets
8vo, br. ed. 23x15cm, viii,370 pp., An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business?all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, indebtedness, and reciprocity. Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's close scrutiny of this phenomenon serves as a window to view facets of a much broader and more complex cultural, historical, and political formation. Using rich and varied ethnographic examples of guanxi stemming from her fieldwork in China in the 1980s and 1990s, the author shows how this "gift economy" operates in the larger context of the socialist state redistributive economy. About the Author: Mayfair Mei-hui Yang isProfessor of Religious Studies,East Asian Languages,Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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