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Iris Versari
L'uomo Che Non Conosceva La libertà. Voci Inascoltate Dalla Cina Moderna
8vo, br. ed. una storia uigura dal Turkesan cinese (Xinjiang)
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Clunas Craig
Chinese Painting and Its Audiences
4to, hardcover Bollingen Series XXXV, national gallery of art washington: What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them discussed here in English for the first time, to show how Chinese painting has been understood by a range of audiences over five centuries, from the Ming Dynasty to today. Richly illustrated, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences demonstrates that viewers in China and beyond have irrevocably shaped this great artistic tradition. Arguing that audiences within China were crucially important to the evolution of Chinese painting, Clunas considers how Chinese artists have imagined the reception of their own work. By examining paintings that depict people looking at paintings, he introduces readers to ideal types of viewers: the scholar, the gentleman, the merchant, the nation, and the people.In discussing the changing audiences for Chinese art, Clunas emphasizes that the diversity and quantity of images in Chinese culture make it impossible to generalize definitively about what constitutes Chinese painting. Exploring the complex relationships between works of art and those who look at them, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences sheds new light on how the concept of Chinese painting has been formed and reformed over hundreds of years.
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Grescoe Taras
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War
8vo, br. ed.
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Kung-chuan Hsiao, Mote F. W. Transl.
A History of Chinese Political Thought, Volume One: From the Beginnings to the Sixth Century A.D
8vo, br. xxi + 778 pages. Index. This volume launches the translation of a work that describes the development of Chinese political thought from the time of Confucius in the late Chou era into the twentieth century. The author systematically treats leading thinkers, schools, and movements, displaying a consummate mastery of traditional Chinese learning, and of Western analytical and comparative methods. This first complete translation includes prefatory remarks by Kung-chuan Hsiao and notes prepared by the translator to assist the Western reader. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
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Liu Cixin, Xia Jia, Chen Qiufan e Wu Yan
Nebula. Fantascienza contemporanea cinese. Ediz. italiana e Cinese
8vo, br. ed. "Una selezione di alcune delle voci più importanti della fantascienza cinese contemporanea che di certo delizieranno i lettori di tutto il mondo. Le visioni e le questioni presentate in questo libro sono importanti non solo per la Cina, ma per tutta l'umanità". Ken Liu, vincitore dei premi Hugo, Nebula e World Fantasy Dall'invecchiamento della popolazione ai cambiamenti climatici, dall'istruzione di massa all'impatto dei social network, le storie immaginate da Liu Cixin, Xia Jia, Chen Qiufan e Wu Yan mostrano una Cina lontana dall'Occidente per costume e sensibilità, ma simile nelle realtà economico-sociali e così tecnologicamente avanzata da restituire uno sguardo sul futuro che attende il mondo intero. L' immagine di copertina è stata selezionata tra le proposte degli allievi della Scuola Internazionale di Comix, così come le immagini scelte per introdurre all' interno del volume ogni racconto
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Liang Chi-chao
History of Chinese Political Thought During the Early Tsin Period
Small octavo. viii + 210pp. + 20pp. ads. Gilt-lettered red cloth spine, black cloth boards. B/w frontis. portrait. B/w illustration. Glossary & index.
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Maxwell Hamilton John
Edgar Snow. a Biography
8vo, hardcover in dj.
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Creel, Herrlee Glessner
Origins of Statecraft in China: The Western Chou Empire v. 1
8vo, xiv, 559pp. Very good copy in very good dustjacket. Almost as new. This is Volume 1 but Volume 2 was never published. This is a significant study of the Western Chou (1122-771 B.C.
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Lai David , Strategic Studies Institute
Learning from the Stones: A Go Approach to Mastering China s Strategic Concept, Shi
4to, br,ed. Most of the ideas that form of the foundation of American defense policy and military strategy today were once new and untested concepts at the far edge of strategic thought. It took thinkers of vision and creativity to give them life and refine them to the point they could be adopted by the defense community and used for strategy and force development. This is a never ending process: new strategic concepts constantly emerge, some fade away, a few pass the tests of suitability, feasibility, and acceptability and make it into the mainstream. To help with this process of identifying those new and untested strategic concepts that merit further examination, the Strategic Studies Institute is publishing a special series called Advancing Strategic Thought. This provides a venue--a safe haven--for creative, innovative, and experimental thinking about national security policy and military strategy
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RUSSELL Bertrand
The Problem of China
8vo, br. ed. pp. 107.
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Yang Jiang
A Cadre School Life Six Chapters
8vo, br. ed. Translated by Geremie Barme and bennett Lee. The author was one of China's leading intellectuals at the tiem of The Cultural Revolution in China, She was sent to a cadre school for "re-education" and this short memoir, told with gentle humour and simplicity, is an account of this time of national upheaval.
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Pye Lucian W.
The Spirit of Chinese Politics. New Edition
8vo, br. ed. Lucian Pye, one of the most knowledgeable observers of China, unfolds in this book a deep psychological analysis of Chinese political culture. The dynamics of the Cultural Revolution, the behavior of the Red Guards, and the compulsions of Mao Tse-tung are among the important symptoms examined. But Pye goes behind large events, exploring the more enduring aspects of Chinese culture and the stable elements of the national psychology as they have been manifested in traditional, Republican, and Communist periods. He also scans several possible paths of future development. The emphasis is on the roles long played by authority, order, hierarchy, and emotional quietism in Chinese political culture as shaped by the Confucian tradition and the institution of filial piety, and the resulting confusions brought about by the displacements of these traditions in the face of political change and modernization. In this new edition Pye adds a chapter on the basic tension between consensus and conflict in the operation of Chinese politics, illustrating the "spirit" in action, and another discussing the great gap that persists between the worlds of the political leadership and of society at large in post-Tiananmen China. About the Author: Lucian W. Pye was Ford Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Mao Tse-Tung: The Man in the Leader.
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Scott Michael
Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West
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Li Kunwu
Ma génération, celle d'un vie chinoise, Tome 1, Tome 2
2 volumes 4to, br. ed. 255,255. Ils ont connu le Grand Bond en avant, la Révolution culturelle, lenthousiasme et le désespoir. Ils se souviennent tous de ce quils faisaient le jour de la mort du président Mao. «Ils», cest la génération dUne vie chinoise. A lheure de la révolution Internet, que sont devenus les femmes et les hommes de la révolution maoïste Li Kunwu nous offre un témoignage sur cette génération qui a construit la Chine daujourdhui. bande dessiné, graphic novel, fumetti cinesi
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Jun Jing
Feeding China's Little Emperors: Food, Children, and Social Change.
8vo, br. ed. pp.249. Until recently, Chinese children ate what their parents fed them and were not permitted to influence, much less dictate, their own diet. The situation today is radically different, especially in cities and prosperous villages, as a result of a notable increase in people's income and a fast-growing consumer culture. Chinese children, with spending money in their pockets, arguably have become the most determined consumers-usually of snack foods, soft drinks, and fast foods from such Western outlets as McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken. With many children, especially pampered only children, now controlling not only their own but also their family's choice of staples, snacks, and restaurants, a major reformation in the concept of childhood is occurring in China. This book focuses on how the transformation of children's food habits, the result of China's transition to a market economy and its integration into the global economic arena, has changed the intimate relationship of childhood, parenthood, and family life. Since the early 1980s, a drastic decline in fertility and a steady rise in family income have been accompanied by a profusion of new products successfully advertised on television and in other media as "children's food." This commercialization of children's diet has become so pervasive that even children in remote villages surprise their parents with demands for particular trendy foods and soft drinks. Many Chinese parents, reared very differently, anxiously question whether their children are eating well and growing up healthy. The contributors to this book, drawn from the fields of anthropology, sociology, political economy, and nutrition, examine a wide variety of topics: the effects of new foods on children's health; the consumption of "prestige" foods; the social implications of commercialized children's food on a Chinese Islamic community; the adaptations of Kentucky Fried Chicken in response to indigenous fast-food companies; the generation gap in attitudes toward food consumption; the significance of religion and nutrition in feeding and healing children; the creation of baby-friendly hospitals to promote breastfeeding and scientific childcare methods; the special role of nationalism and traditional Chinese medicine in children's food production; and the business promotion of having fun as an aspect of eating well.
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Dunlop Fuchsia
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A sweet-sour memoir of eating in China
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.320. british edition.
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Kerr, Douglas (Editor)/ Kuehn, Julia (Editor)
A Century of Travels in China: Critical Essays on
8vo, br. ed. 232pp.
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Swislocki, Mark
Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai
8vo, br. ed. 304pp. Culinary Nostalgia is the first Western-language book to explore the unique significance that the Chinese people attach to their country s many distinct regional foods, as well as the shifting roles that Western food plays in urban life. Author Mark Swislocki focuses on Shanghai-a food lover s paradise-as a rich intersection of urban, regional, and national identities, and examines how tastes registered change and continuity at pivotal moments throughout the city s history. From the earliest accounts of Shanghai s specialty foodstuffs to the dazzling variety of regional cuisines and restaurants in the metropolis of today, this book uncovers how city residents have constructed their relationship to the city itself, to other parts of China, and to the wider world. This new history of Shanghai develops an original framework for studying food culture as an intrinsic part of the way Chinese people connect to the past, live in the present, and imagine a future.
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Mo Yan
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh
8vo, hardcover in dj, excellent copy of the first uk ed.
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Hong Ying
Daughter of the River. An Autobiography
8vo, br. ed. Paperback. 278, [4] pages.he text is illustrated with two inserts, for pages each, of black-and-white photography. first blank page preceding title page torn, ow. very good. First published in Taipei, Taiwan as " Ji'er de Nu'er ", an autobiography which portrays '' the harsh reality of millions of lives at the bottom of Chinese society ".
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Dikotter, Frank
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
br. ed. An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China`s Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People`s Republic of China. Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up and overtake Britain in less than 15 years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives. So opens Frank Dikötter`s astonishing, riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era. Dikötter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world`s superpowers and prove the power of communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of one of the most deadly mass killings of human history, as at least 45 million people were worked, starved or? beaten to death, but also the greatest demolition of real estate in human history, as up to a third of all housing was turned into rubble. The experiment was a catastrophe for the natural world as well, as the land was savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. In a powerful meshing of exhaustive research and narrative drive, Dikötter for the first time links up what happened in the corridors of power?the vicious backstabbing and bullying tactics that took place among party leaders?with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. His magisterial account recasts the history of the People`s Republic of China. Printed Pages: 448
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Santangelo Paolo
L'impero cinese agli inizi della storia globale. Società, vita quotidiana, e immaginario: I, II, III, IV, V, Completo in 5volumi.
5 volumi in 8vo, br. ed. pp. 304. L'impero cinese agli inizi della storia globale offre una serie di immagini della società, delle istituzioni, del pensiero e della vita privata della Cina imperiale, nel momento del suo massimo sviluppo e della sua decadenza, nei secoli che vedono l'avvio e il consolidamento del processo di globalizzazione. Il quinto volume comprende appendici bibliografiche sulla saggistica, le maggiori fonti letterarie e storiche cinesi dell'epoca, un glossario dei termini, dei titoli e dei personaggi citati e alcune tavole di consultazione.
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Map of the Peoples Republic of China. [Chinese Map with Inset of South China Sea Islands].
Large colour folding map of China, 114.5 x 162cm. Features inset maps of South China Sea Islands and a world map showing China's Geographic Location at lower corners. Scale 1:4000,000. Text in Pinyin, English and Chinese characters. Shows administrative regions correct to December 1983; boundaries, water features, capitals, towns, villages, shipping and other transport routes.
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Yu Hua
The Past and the Punishments: Eight Stories (Fiction from Modern China)
content: On the Road at Eighteen , Classical Love , World Like Mist , The Past and the Punishments, 1986 ; Blood and Plum Blossoms ; The Death of a Landlord ; Predestination ; Translators Postscript Synopsis: To travel through these stories is to cross a landscape of stunning beauty and terrific cruelty, where expectations are subverted, where moral certainties are shattered, where gorgeously wrought surfaces beguile at the same time that acts of incredible brutality horrify. It is no wonder that Yu Huas stories caused a sensation when they first appeared in the 1980s. His work represents a sophisticated and often disturbing revolution in the Chinese literary tradition, reminiscent of the fiction of modernists like Kafka, Kawabata, Borges, and Robbe-Grillet, but drawing inspiration from several strains of traditional Chinese narrative as well. This is the first collection of short fiction by Yu Hua to appear in English. It takes us on a haunting and harrowing journey from classical China through the Cultural Revolution and into the new era of economic reform, exploding along the way our preconceived notions of what Chinese literature and culture are all about in the 1990s. Review: That the concept and history of punishment should figure heavily in the artistic sensibility of a young Chinese writer who grew up during the Cultural Revolution is hardly surprising. The main characters in both the title story and in "1986" are scholars specializing in the history of punishment through the ages, and an ancient fortune teller in another story is said to have achieved near-immortality through the deaths of his first four children. Personality and feeling are almost secondary in Yu Hua's cruel world, a world dominated by numerology, prophecy, and the faceless power of the state.
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Pye Lucian W.
The Dynamics of Chinese Politics
8vo. original cloth hardcover, some faint notes in pencil, ow. as new, but no dj. xxii-306pp.
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Chang, Chun-Shu; Chang, Shelley Hsueh-Lun
Redefining History: Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in P'u Sung-ling's World, 1640-1715
8vo. Hard Cover cloth, no dj. xiii (v), 358 (1) pp, acknowledgments, Chronology: The Ch'ing Reigns, a note about Romanization, Introduction: Text, Interpretation, and Methodology; Part I. P'u Sung-ling: Life, Work, and Intellectual Legacy: 1. The Frustrated Intellectual and His World; 2. The Creative Literatus and His Art. Part II. Liao-chai Chih-i: A History and a Culture Mosaic: 3. The Collection of Liao-chai: Structure, Texts, and Contexts; 4. Gender Relations, Individual Fulfillment, and Family Ethics: Fantasy and Realism; 5. Officials, Would-Be Officials, and Class Consciousness: Satires, Allegories, and Crime Stories; 6. Racial Tension, Socioeconomic Conditions, and Country Life. Part III. The Legacy of the Liao-chai: 7. Culture, Tradition, and the Individual in P'u Sung-ling's Creative Consciousness; 8. Passion, Vision, and Historuy: From the "Small Way" to the "Great Way'; Epicogue: Creating and Transmitting Traditions -- Liao-chai and Its Audiences; Appenidx: On the Authorship of Hsing-shih yin-yuan chuan; notes, glossary, bibliography, index, about the authors. First Edition, 1998. "This intimate examination of the career, times, and ideas of P'u Sung-ling (1640-1715) focuses on his magnum opus, Liao-chai chih- i, or Tales of the Unusual from the Studio of Deliberation and Musing. P'u lived through the turbulent period of Ming-Ch'ing dynastic transition in the seventeenth century. While P'u did not attain his goal of becoming a statesman, he was not impeded in his intellectual and literary pursuits. When he died in 1715, he left a body of work including over 500 essays, 1,295 poems, 119 lyrics, 18 encyclopedias and handbooks, 20 operas, 100 folk songs, and 500 short stories, becoming one of the most well-known scholar-writers and the best known short-story author in Chinese history. The 500 stories in Liao-chai chih-i, which P'u composed in his self-styled capacity as historian, had the most lasting influence of any single work on the shaping of popular consciousness in China. It is based on an exhaustive exploration of contemporary Chinese historical and literary sources, including local histories, clan and family records, autobiographical and biographical materials, folklore, essays, poems, and plays: in short, the entire range of literary sources." from the jacket flap. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine.
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Lanxin Xiang
Mao's Generals: Chen Yi and the New Fourth Army
8vo, hardcover.pp.xi-226. Mao s Generals reevaluates the military history of Mao Zedong s seizure of power in China using all original historical materials, confronting the history as recorded by the communist party-influenced historians. It disputes the total invincibility and brilliance of Mao in military affairs by restoring credit to the generals that made significant contributions to the communist victory.The focus falls mainly on a brilliant romantic poet named Chen Yi who founded the New Fourth Army with a group of brilliant young men and led peasant guerrillas to the victory that broke the Kuomintong s backbone. Despite his accomplishments, he could not deter his eventual demise at the hands of Mao. The author uses these incidents, plus the manipulation of the Anti-Japanese War to expose the actual nature of the communist revolution and policy in China under Mao.
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Sheppard Stephen
For all the tea in China
12mo, br. ed.
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Chaozhu Ji
The Man on Mao's Right : From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life Inside China's Foreign Ministry
8vo, hardcover in myler protectd dj, ex library with usual markings, stamps and pastedowns, ow. quite good. internally excellent. No other narrative from within the corridors of power has offered as frank and intimate an account of the making of the modern Chinese nation as Ji Chaozhus The Man on Maos Right. Having served Chairman Mao Zedong and the Communist leadership for two decades, and having become a key figure in Chinas foreign policy, Ji now provides an honest, detailed account of the personalities and events that shaped todays Peoples Republic. The youngest son of a prosperous government official, nine-year-old Ji and his family fled Japanese invaders in the late 1930s, escaping to America. Warmly received by his new country, Ji returned its embrace as he came of age in New Yorks East Village and then attended Harvard University. But in 1950, after years of enjoying a life of relative ease while his countrymen suffered through war and civil strife, Ji felt driven by patriotism to volunteer to serve China in its conflict with his adoptive country in the Korean War. Jis mastery of the English language and American culture launched his improbable career, eventually winning him the role of English interpreter for Chinas two top leaders: Premier Zhou Enlai and Party Chairman Mao Zedong. With a unique blend of Chinese insight and American candor, Ji paints insightful portraits of the architects of modern China: the urbane, practical, and avuncular Zhou, the conscience of the Peoples Republic; and the messianic, charismatic Mao, student of Chinas ancient pasthis countrys stern father figure. In Jis memoir, he is an eyewitness to modern Chinese history, including the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the Nixon summit, and numerous momentous events in Tiananmen Square. As he becomes caught up in political squabbles among radical factions, Jis past and charges against him of "incorrect" thinking subject him to scrutiny and suspicion. He is repeatedly sent to a collective farm to be "reeducated" by the peasants. After the Mao years, Ji moves on to hold top diplomatic posts in the United States and the United Kingdom and then serves as under secretary-general of the United Nations. Today, he says, "The Chinese know America better than the Americans know China. The risk is that we misperceive each other." This highly accessible insiders chronicle of a struggling people within a developing powerhouse nation is also Ji Chaozhus dramatic personal story, certain to fascinate and enlighten Western readers. A riveting biography and unique historical record, The Man on Maos Right recounts the heartfelt struggle of a man who loved two powerful nations that were at odds with each other. Ji Chaozhu played an important role in paving the way for what is destined to be known as the Chinese Century. Praise for The Man on Maos Right "Brave, beautifully written testimony . A true "fly-on-the-wall" account of the momentous changes in Chinese society and international relations over the last century." --Kirkus Reviews "It is a relief to read an account by an urbane and often witty insider who neither idolizes nor demonizes China's top leaders . . . . Highly recommended." Library Journal, starred review About the Author: Ji Chaozhu was born on July 30, 1929, in the Shanxi Province of China. Throughout his decorated career, he has held posts in Chinas Ministry of Foreign Affairs (where he was deputy director of the Department of Translation and Interpretation and deputy director of American and Oceanic Affairs). In 1982, he was appointed minister counselor of the Embassy of the Peoples Republic of China in the United States of America, and has served as Chinas ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Vanuatu, and the Court of St. Jamess. From 1991 to 1996, he served as the under secretary-general of the United Nations.
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Ku-Cheng Li (Autore), Kwok-Sing Li (Compilatore), Mary Lok (Traduttore)
A Glossary of Political Terms of the People's Republic of China
8vo, br. ed. xxix-639pp. This is a collection of over 560 important and frequently-used Chinese political terms and phrases that appeared between 1949 and 1990. Each entry contains an explanation of the term and its origin, a description of how and under what circumstances the term was used, and a discussion of the changes of meaning over the years, as well as the political and social significance of the words.
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Terzani Tiziano
La Porta Proibita. Un giornalista italiano ha vissuto per anni da cinese in Cina
8vo, br. ed. pp.284.
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Staude Terzani Angela a Cura Di
Diverso da tutti e da Nessuno
8vo, br. ed. pp.258 . Mentre non accennano a sbiadire, nella memoria di chi lo ha amato, le immagini di Tiziano Terzani vestito di bianco che parla della pace, della vita e della morte, più lontana si fa nel tempo la sua figura di reporter, di grande protagonista di una stagione irripetibile del giornalismo. Questo libro ce la riporta davanti agli occhi con magnifica evidenza, quella figura, con la sua vitalità dirompente, il suo rigore professionale, la sua curiosità fenomenale, la sua travolgente risata. Ognuno degli amici e dei colleghi che da tutto il mondo hanno risposto generosamente allinvito di Angela Terzani contribuisce qui con un flash, con un ricordo più meditato, con qualche prezioso documento, anche inedito a comporre il ritratto irresistibile di un instancabile cacciatore di storie e di verità. E sono sufficienti soltanto alcuni dei titoli delle testimonianze raccolte in questo volume per capire latmosfera che vi si respira: Monsieur Moustache, Viaggiare per il mondo alla ricerca della verità, Da dove arriva, questo?, Partito senza lasciare indirizzo, Il gigante, Con i piedi più che mai piantati nella vita, Lapprovato dal cielo Completa il volume una ricca sezione di «documenti», con alcune lettere, uno scritto di Saskia Terzani e il Dialogo con il Vecchio di Folco Terzani, dedicato alla mitica figura che Terzani raccontò in Un altro giro di giostra. Testimonianze e ricordi di: Abbas, Mara Amorevoli Elizabeth Becker, Giovanna Botteri Salomon Bouman, Philip Bowring Paolo Breccia, Nayan Chanda Umberto Chapperon, Furio Colombo Charles-Antoine de Nerciat Siegmund Ginzberg, Pham Lan Huong Henry Kamm, Peter R. Kann Nicholas Leung, Leo Manfrini Fernando Mezzetti, Michael Nesselhauf Valerio Pellizzari, Jane Perkins Jean-Claude Pomonti, Philippe Pons James Pringle, Ilaria Maria Sala Orville Schell, William Shawcross Ith Sintahn, Bernardo Valli Willem van Kemenade, Vasu Dev Das Jue Wang, Martin Woollacott Yoichi Yokobori, Giuliano Zincone E con: le lettere ad Alessandro Berti le lettere a Terence Ward e Idanna Pucci una nota di Mukti Datta uno scritto di Saskia Terzani il Dialogo con il Vecchio di Folco Terzani
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Goldin Paul Rakita
The Culture of Sex in Ancient China
8vo, br. ed. pp.244.
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Granet Marcel
Catégories matrimoniales et relations de proximité dans la Chine Ancienne.
in-8, brochure orginale 254 pp., 1 planche à double-page, Publication des Annales Sociologiques serie B sociologie religieuse fascicules 1-3. exemplaire en parfait etat.
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Wetering Van De Janwillem
Van Gulik: Sa Vie Son Oeuvre
16mo, br. ed. pp.159
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Hsieh Daniel
Love and Women in Early Chinese Fiction
8vo, hardcoverin dj pp.330. Synopsis: This book focuses on how women and love are portrayed in chuanqi fiction, a genre of Chinese literature of the Tang dynasty. It argues that the emergence of "love" as a theme in Chinese literature is closely related to the historical background of the Tang dynasty. Daniel Hsieh is an associate professor of Chinese at Purdue University
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Lee Hamrin, Carol, Zhao, Suisheng, Barnett, A. Doak
Decision-making in Deng's China: Perspectives from Insiders (Studies on Contemporary China (M.E. Sharpe Paperback))
8vo, br. ed. xlviii- 256pp. Considers the politics of central decision-making by focusing on senior policy makers and implementing bureaucracies on the one hand, and actors in economic and non-economic arenas on the other. The contributors held significant party and government positions in China up to 1989.
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De Bary Theodore
The Liberal Tradition in China: Ch'ien Mu Lectures (Neo-Confucian studies)
8vo, original cloth . (6),122pp ex-library with stampa and stickers. ow very good. Ex-Library
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Mazurkewich, Karen; Ong, A. Chester
Chinese Furniture: A Guide to Collecting Antiques
The international market for antique Chinese furniture is booming, and masterpieces from the Ming and Qing dynasties are now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Chinese Furniture is a survey of these collectibles from the very best hardwood pieces featured to standard softwood specimens still available on the Asian market. This antique furniture book presents an overview of carving styles, wood types, regional variations, class distinctions and restoration techniques. Detailed chapters on various types of wooden furniture cover chairs, stools and benches, tables and desks, beds, cabinets and bookshelves, doors and screens and household accessories. With this renewed interest in antique furniture, a forgery market has emerged. Thousands of factories in southern China are churning out brand new or refurbished furniture and passing them off as Chinese antiques. Chinese Furniture unearths these forgeries and serves as an indispensable reference guide to collectors of antique wood furniture
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FISCHER Paul
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
8vo, hardcover book was well loved but cared for. Possible ex-library copy with all the usual markings and stickers. Some light textual notes, highlighting and underling
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Rowe, William T.
Crimson Rain: Seven Centuries of Violence in a Chinese County
8vo, haardcover in dj, 465pp. explores the roots of violence in Chinese rural society over the past seven hundred years, based on the study of a single highland county, Macheng, Hubei province, in the Great Divide Mountains separating the Yangzi valley from the North China Plain. Between the expulsion of the Mongols in the mid-fourteenth century and the invasion of the Japanese in 1938, Macheng experienced repeated, often self-inflicted waves of mass extermination of segments of its population. This book argues that, beyond its strategic military centrality and ingrained social tensions, cultural factors such as popular religion, folklore, collective memory, and local historical production played key roles in the continued proclivity of the county s population for massive carnage. In the process, the history of Macheng also provides a case study in the way events and trends of national significance in the history of China have been experienced at the local level.
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Spera Renato W.
Il Diario Del Generale Li Fen-tzu
8vo, bcm, ril. ed. sovracoperta. pp.267.
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Timothy Brook Jerome Bourgon Gregory Blue (Autore)
Death by a Thousand Cuts
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.320. In a public square in Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin was executed before a crowd of onlookers. He was among the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi. Called by Western observers ?death by a thousand cuts? or ?death by slicing,? this penalty was reserved for the very worst crimes in imperial China. A unique interdisciplinary history, Death by a Thousand Cuts is the first book to explore the history, iconography, and legal contexts of Chinese tortures and executions from the tenth century until lingchi?s abolition in 1905. The authors then turn their attention to an in-depth investigation of ?oriental? tortures in the Western imagination. While early modern Europeans often depicted Chinese institutions as rational, nineteenth- and twentieth-century readers consumed pictures of lingchi executions as titillating curiosities and evidence of moral inferiority. By examining these works in light of European conventions associated with despotic government, Christian martyrdom, and ecstatic suffering, the authors unpack the stereotype of innate Chinese cruelty and explore the mixture of fascination and revulsion that has long characterized the West?s encounter with ?other? civilizations. Compelling and thought-provoking, Death by a Thousand Cuts questions the logic by which states justify tormenting individuals and the varied ways by which human beings have exploited the symbolism of bodily degradation for political aims.
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Woei Lien Chong (Editor), Anne-Marie Brady (Contributor), Lowell Dittmer (Contributor), Monika Gaenssbauer (Contributor), Nick Knight (Contributor), Stefan R. Landsberger (Contributor), Nora Sausmikat (Contributor), Barend J. ter Haar (Contributor),
China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives
8vo, hardcover, Woei Lien Chong (Editor), Anne-Marie Brady (Contributor), Lowell Dittmer (Contributor), Monika Gaenssbauer (Contributor), Nick Knight (Contributor), Stefan R. Landsberger (Contributor), Nora Sausmikat (Contributor), Barend J. ter Haar (Contributor), Treating China s Cultural Revolution as much more than a political event, this innovative volume explores its ideological dimensions. The contributors focus especially on the CR s discourse of heroism and messianism and its demonization of the enemy as reflected in political practice, official literature, and propaganda art, arguing that these characteristics can be traced back to hitherto-neglected undercurrents of Chinese tradition. Moreover, while most studies of the Cultural Revolution are content to point to the discredited cult of heroism and messianism, this book also explores the alternative discourses that have flourished to fill the resulting vacuum. The contributors analyze the intense intellectual and artistic ferment in post-Mao China that embody resistance to CR ideology, as well as the urgent quest for authentic individuality, new forms of social cohesion, and historical truth.
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Jean-Paul Desroches Françoise Sabban Céline Martin-Raget
Les séductions du palais : Cuisiner et manger en Chine
4to, br. ed. pp.192. Catalogue d'objets et livre de recettes, Les Séductions du palais. Cuisiner et manger en Chine accompagne une exposition du musée du Quai Branly. Voyage des saveurs à travers l'espace chinois, beauté de l'art de la table, ce livre nous fait découvrir une civilisation à travers sa cuisine, l'une des plus réputées au monde. Il nous plonge dans les traditions de table en Chine, à travers des objets culinaires conservés au Musée national de Chine et au musée Guimet, et une sélection de trente-deux recettes emblématiques. Cet ouvrage retrace, depuis le Néolithique, une riche histoire avec ses inventions (celle des pâtes alimentaires ou de boissons alcooliques tirées des céréales.), ses instruments de cuisson et sa vaisselle (bronze, céramique, laque, orfèvrerie, porcelaine.), ses traditions culinaires (la consommation de grains de céréales cuits entiers, la gastronomie médicinale.). D'origine rituelle, façonnée sur les autels des ancêtres, la gastronomie chinoise a gagné au fil des siècles la table des princes. De solennelle elle est devenue savoureuse et partie si intégrante de la vie chinoise que le premier mot que l'on adresse à un ami est Chifanle meiyou, "Avez-vous mangé ?".
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Siu Helen F. , Ed.
Furrows: Peasants, Intellectuals, and the State. Stories and Histories Fron Modern China
8vo, br. ed. 360pp.
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Gu Hua
La Morte Del re Dei Serpenti, Racconti
8vo, br. ed.
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Vandermeersch Léon
Les deux raisons de la pensée chinoise : Divination et Idéographie
8vo, br. ed. pp.203. Selon Léon Vandermeersch, l'idéographie chinoise a été inventée, au XIIIe siècle avant notre ère, pour noter non des discours, mais des divinations. Ce système de notation d'équations divinatoires s'est transformé au cours d'un demi-millénaire en une langue graphique restée relativement indépendante de la langue parlée. Ce n'est qu'au VIIIe siècle de notre ère qu'une écriture (idéographique) de la langue parlée a été extraite de cette langue graphique. A l'appui de cette thèse, l'auteur étudie l'invention chinoise des équations divinatoires, étude jamais entreprise auparavant, la divination pratiquée au néolithique chinois ayant été abondamment décrite, mais sans être autrement étudiée. Cette étude met aussi en évidence la pénétration d'un rationalisme divinatoire au plus profond de la culture chinoise historique, marquée de "raison manticologique" au lieu de la raison théologique. Léon Vandermeersch laisse ouverte la question de savoir si, après une dramatique occidentalisation à marche forcée à partir des guerres de l'Opium, la Chine d'aujourd'hui pourrait redécouvrir la fécondité de sa propre culture, pas encore remise d'avoir subi, après le mépris des modernistes de l'entre-deux-guerres, un complet écrasement sous le totalitarisme maoïste.
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Du, Yongtao (Editor)/ Kyong-mcclain, Jeff (Editor)/ Baldanza, Kathlene (Contributor)/ Bol, Peter K. (Contributor)/ Chittick, Andrew (Contributor)
Chinese History in Geographical Perspective
8vo, br. ed. pp.vi-213. The authors in this volume believe that long-term, profound, and sometimes tumultuous changes in the last five hundred years of the history of China have been no less geographical than social, political, or economic. From the dialectics of local-empire relations to the imperial states persistent array of projects for absorbing and transforming ethnic regions on the margins of empire; from the tripling of imperial territories in the Qing to the disputes over the identity of the former "outer zones" in the early Republican era; and from the universalistic imagination of "all-under-heaven" to the fraught processes of re-drawing a new set of nation-state boundaries in the twentieth century, the study of the dynamics of geography, broadly conceived, promises to provide insight into the contested development of the geographical entity which we, today, call 'China.' About the Author: Yongtao Du is Assistant Professor of Asian History at Oklahoma State University. His research interests include translocal practices in late imperial China and literati geographic consciousness in China during the Song through the Qing. He received a PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. Jeff Kyong-McClain is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His research explores the place of archeology in nation-building in modern China, Sino-Western interaction in China's borderlands, and urban transformations during the Republican era. He received his PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009.
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Cai Jindong, Sheila Melvin
Beethoven in China. How the Great Composer Became an Icon in the People's Republic
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