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Su Tong
La Casa Dell'oppio
8vo, br. ed. 128pp. "Il villaggio di Fengyangshu si estendeva per venticinque chilometri, venticinque chilometri di strada di terra bruna coperta dalle orme dei tuoi antenati. Su metà delle terre si coltivava una strana pianta: il papavero da oppio..." "La casa dell'oppio" è considerato tra le espressioni più rappresentative della letteratura d'avanguardia cinese, genere letterario in cui la riflessione e la sperimentazione del linguaggio rispondevano all'esigenza di superare la lingua schematica e standardizzata della comunicazione politica, che aveva saturato per decenni la letteratura e ogni aspetto della vita quotidiana cinese. Il romanzo racconta il lento e tragico declino di una famiglia di proprietari terrieri arricchitisi con la coltivazione ed il commercio dell'oppio in un immaginario villaggio del sud della Cina, microcosmo rappresentativo di tutta la Cina rurale, dove l'indifferenza, la crudeltà, la fame, l'iniquità e gli istinti primordiali muovono gli uomini e regolano le loro relazioni.
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Su Tong
Racconti Fantastici
8o, br. ed. 128pp.Pubblicati tra il 1989 e il 1999, un periodo particolarmente vivace per la letteratura cinese appena affrancatasi dai limiti imposti dal realismo socialista, questi racconti sono uniti da un filo comune: la presenza, a volte appena accennata, a volte dominante, di elementi fantastici o soprannaturali all’interno del quotidiano. Fantasmi, spiriti, angeli, mostri, bambini giganti appaiono in modo imprevisto e inspiegabile, interrompendo la linearità logica della narrazione e aprendo una crepa verso un mondo che supera la percezione e si proietta verso il sogno, la fantasia e l’allucinazione. La mantella ricamata, le enormi farfalle multicolori, il grande fiore rosso di loto, la giara, le risaie inaridite e gli spaventapasseri sono gli elementi ricorrenti che contribuiscono a produrre una sensazione di irrealtà, come se gli oggetti e gli stessi personaggi, pur calati nel nostro mondo, si trovassero a tratti come sospesi tra cielo e terra.
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Jullien François
Figures de l'immanence. Pour une lecture Philosophique Du Yi King
16mo, br. ed. 400pp.Le Yi king ou Classique du changement est le livre de fonds de la civilisation chinoise. Il est né du tracé de deux marques simples, un trait continu et un trait discontinu (yang et yin), exprimant la polarité à l'œuvre dans tout processus. Il s'agit au départ d'un dispositif opératoire servant à la divination en même temps que de combinatoire, se développant en figures, révélant la régulation à détecter dans toute situation. En s'appuyant sur la lecture de Wang Fuzhi, grand penseur chinois du XVIIe siècle, François Jullien montre les effets de cohérence constitués au fil du texte qui commente ces figures et en y suivant les variations de l'immanence. Car le Yi king prétend rendre le monde intelligible sans recourir ni au mythe ni au discours, en passant à côté à la fois de l'Être et de Dieu. François Jullien se propose ainsi de retirer le Yi king des mains des gourous pour l'ouvrir à un usage philosophique.
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Coe Andrew
Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States
8vo, hardcover in dj. In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China, and the first to eat Chinese food. Today, the United States is home to more Chinese restaurants than any other ethnic cuisine. In this authoritative new history, author Andrew Coe traces the fascinating story of America's centuries-long encounter with Chinese food. CHOP SUEY tells how we went from believing that Chinese meals contained dogs and rats to makingregular pilgrimages to the neighborhood chop suey parlor. From China, the book follows the story to the American West, where both Chinese and their food struggled against racism, and then to New York and that crucial moment when Chinese cuisine first crossed over to the larger population. Along this journey, Coe shows how the peasant food of an obscure part of China came to dominate Chinese-American restaurants; unravels the truth of chop suey's origin; illuminates why American Jews fell in love with egg rolls and chow mein; and shows how Nixon's 1972 trip to China opened our palates to a new world of cuisine; and explains why we still can't get dishes like restaurants serve in China. The book also shows how larger historical forces shape our tastes-the belief in ManifestDestiny, the American assertion of military might in the Pacific, and the country's post-WWII rise to superpower status. Written for both popular and academic audiences, CHOP SUEY reveals this story through prose that brings to life the characters, settings and meals that helped form this crucialcomponent of American food culture.
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Zhang Longxi
Mighty Opposites: From Dichotomies to Differences in the Comparative Study of China
8vo, original cloth , no dj, viii + 248pp, index, notes, ex-library stamps, ow. a very good copy. This book transcends the boundaries of Chinese studies and scholarship on Western literature and critical theory, bringing together the two fields in a way that questions both the application of Western theory to Chinese materials and the resistance to theory in sinological scholarship. Recognizing that social and historical reality is external to discourse and that knowledge has an inevitable ethical import, the author argues for the importance of reality and lived experience in understanding a culture as well as the moral responsibility of such understanding. The book examines the discrepancies between various Western representations of China and the reality of China; inquires into the cultural, historical, and political contexts within which such discrepancies arise; and points out the distortion of reality in the tendency toward cultural dichotomies, the tendency to view China as the conceptual opposite of the West. Publisher's description. Ex-Library
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Santangelo Paolo
Il sogno in Cina. L'immaginario collettivo attraverso la narrativa Ming e Qing
8vo, br. ed. pp.244. Il volume presenta un gran numero di esempi tratti dalla letteratura mostrando come, anche in Oriente, l'esperienza onirica abbia dato luogo a straordinarie credenze sui poteri attribuiti al sogno. In base alla frequenza e alla natura dei sogni, secondo Feng Manglong (1574-1646) è possibile distinguere gli uomini: è noto che i saggi e gli stolti non sognano, mentre singolari sono i sogni delle persone originali, le cui emozioni sono speciali e l'animo è puro. Ma al fondo rimane il mistero che il sogno solleva sulla nostra stessa identità. Così Maury sogna l'assalto alla Bastiglia la notte che la testiera del letto gli cade sul collo e il protagonista del "Sogno del miglio giallo" ripercorre le vicende di una vita nel tempo della cottura del cereale.
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Loewe, Michael
Records of Han Administration, Volume I: Historical Assessment, Vol. II Documents
2 volumes: Volume I. Historical Assessment, pp xi, 212 plus 16 pages of plates. Volume 2 is; Documents, pp viii, 481 plus 32 pages of plates original red cloth in mylar protected dj, This is a study of 700 documents, on strips of wood, which were found at Edsen-Gel. The translations are revelatory of life; sometimes absolutely fascinating..
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Lévi Jean
Réflexions chinoises : Lettrés, stratèges et excentriques de Chine
8vo, br. ed. 253pp. Dans cet essai brillant qui se présente comme une promenade en compagnie d'un guide éclairé, Jean Levi aborde de grandes questions comme la relation maître-disciple, la transmission, la traduction ou encore la philosophie comme mode d'expression littéraire, tout en présentant d'importantes figures chinoises et leur pensée. Recourant à des exemples concrets, des dialogues allégoriques, ironiques, aporétiques, il fait vivre la pensée chinoise en l'incarnant. Des Entretiens de Confucius aux grands auteurs de stratégie et d'art de la guerre et de la politique, Sunzi et Hanfei, en passant par le poète anarchiste Xikong, Jean Levi cherche à combler le fossé entre les philosophies occidentales et orientales par une réflexion sur le langage et la dialectique, mais sans sombrer dans un comparatisme absurde et en évitant des rapprochements qui ne seraient que poudre aux yeux. L'auteur n'isole jamais les figures de leur contexte historique, mais sait replacer les faits dans l'histoire de la Chine, à laquelle il ne réduit cependant pas les pensées. La tradition romanesque n'est pas oubliée et, avec le Roman des Trois Royaumes, il s'interroge sur le cas d'un livre populaire entré dans le patrimoine littéraire. Un livre intelligemment polémique, qui se termine par une critique virulente de François Jullien, de sa méthode et du miroir déformant qu'il donne de la Chine, de la philosophie chinoise et du fossé entre Orient et Occident. À Travers Les Parcours Exemplaires D'excentriques Et De Rebelles De La Chine Ancienne, Jean Levi Interroge Les Deux Dimensions Essentielles De La Civilisation Chinoise, Wen, Lettrée, Et Wu, Militaire, Dans Leur Rapport Ambigu Au Langage. Des Entretiens De Confucius Aux Traités De Stratégie Et D'art De La Guerre Et De La Politique De Sunzi Et Han Fei, En Passant Par Les Poèmes De L'anarchiste Xi Kang, Il Aborde Les Questions De La Relation Maître-Disciple, La Transmission, La Traduction Ou Encore La Philosophie Comme Mode D'expression Littéraire. Partant D'exemples Concrets (.) Jean Levi Fait Vivre La Pensée Chinoise.
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Lévi Jean
Les fonctionnaires divins : Politique, despotisme et mystique en Chine Ancienne
8vo, br. ed. 320pp. Jean Levi est sinologue et directeur de recherche au CNRS. Il a notamment publié, dans "La Librairie du XXIe siècle", La Chine romanesque. Fictions d'Orient et d'Occident (1995).
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Jullien François
Figure dell'immanenza. Una lettura filosofica del I Ching
8vo, br. ed. pp.316. Jullien insegna all'università di Paris-VIII e si occupa dello studio del pensiero e dell'estetica della Cina classica in una prospettiva interculturale. In questo volume analizza l'I Ching, il libro-non libro servito da testo fondamentale per tutta una civiltà, come strumento, mettendo a frutto il commento agli stessi Ching di uno dei grandi pensatori cinesi del XVII secolo, Wang Fuzhi.
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Jullien Francois
Figures de l'immanence : Pour une lecture philosophique du Yi king, le Classique du Changement
16mo, br. ed. pp.381. Le Yi king est un livre déconcertant. Il est né du tracé de deux marques simples, un trait continu et un trait discontinu, expression de la polarité du réel, et à partir desquelles s?est développé un ensemble de commentaires qu?on connaît sous le nom de Classique du changement. En s?appuyant sur celui de Wang Fuzhi, grand penseur chinois du XVIIe siècle, François Jullien montre les effets de cohérence que crée le texte ainsi constitué, et la logique qui l?ordonne : celle de l?immanence. Car le Yi king prétend rendre le monde intelligible sans la médiation du mythe ou du discours. L?auteur cherche à soustraire le Yi king aux regards que son mystère a rendus suspicieux, tout en évitant l?écueil des fantasmes idéologiques que projette l?Occident, pour en faire un outil philosophique.
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Broman Sven
Chinese Shadow Theatre. Etnografiska Museet Monograph Series No. 15
8vo, hardcover and dust jacket, pp.250, superbly illustrated in b&w and colour plates. scarce orginal edition, very good copy.
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Liu Zaifu
A Study of Two Classics A Cultural Critique of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Water Margin
8vo, . Hardback. Condition: New. Language: English . 8vo. Ever since they were written in the fourteenth century, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and The Water Margin have been considered masterpieces of traditional Chinese fiction. People from different social strata have read them and remembered their stories and characters. Since the early twentieth century, Chinese critics have regarded them as part and parcel of their country s literary heritage, offering largely positive artistic assessments even as they criticize their feudal elements. In contemporary China the popularity of the two novels has made them logical choices for adaptation, resulting, for example, in a large number of films and TV dramas based on episodes in the two novels. Given their importance in traditional Chinese literature, these two classics have garnered a tremendous amount of critical attention from scholars. However, nearly all critics have treated them as literary works, failing to explore, in a concentrated manner, their cultural values even as they acknowledge their widespread social influence. This book is not a work of literary criticism in the conventional sense. Rather, it is a cultural/ideological critique. Liu Zaifu s interest lies not in the artistry of the two novels but in the cultural values they reflect and spread. In summing up the worship of violence as the ideal in The Water Margin and the worship of trickery as the ideal in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Zaifu uses the two novels as windows to look into certain unhealthy aspects of Chinese culture, linking the novels enduring popularity and social impact to the Chinese national character. Liu also contrasts the two novels with other classics, such as The Classic of Mountains and Seas and The Dream of the Red Chamber, to demonstrate the multiplicity of Chinese culture. As he calls the two classics into question, he continues to carry the May Fourth critical spirit in contemporary China and expands the scope of cultural criticism. A Study of Two Classics is the first book that focuses exclusively on the cultural values of the two classics. In addition, Liu Zaifu examines how traditional commentators like Jin Shengtan and Li Zhi promoted the cultural values embedded in the two classics and how these harmful values are received and reinforced in contemporary China. He draws inspiration from May Fourth intellectuals, particularly Lu Xun, and from a wide range of works by Western scholars. For instance, he uses Oswald Spengler s notion of pseudomorphosis to explain the degeneration and falsification of certain values in Chinese culture. As he engages in cultural comparison either implicitly or explicitly he also asks questions about modernity and modernization. Liu s style is essayistic, which allows him to bring both erudition and personal observation into play. Originally written for a Chinese audience, this highly anticipated translated work will help English-speaking readers understand the issues a leading contemporary Chinese critic tries to address. This is a critical book for scholars and students in Asian studies and literature. This book is part of the Cambria Sinophone World Series (series editor: Victor H. Mair).
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Yang Xii
La shampista e altre storie D'amore
8vo, br. ed. Una giovane prostituta, un impiegato delle pompe funebri, una bella sciampista venuta dalla campagna, uno strano pittore-businessman, giovani alla ricerca del senso della vita: attraverso vivide e rapide pennellate di colore, Xi Yang lascia sfilare davanti ai nostri occhi i personaggi di una Cina profonda e vera in cui gli eroi, stanchi di aver occupato la scena durante decenni di realismo più o meno socialista, hanno lasciato il posto agli antieroi. La vita e la morte dei protagonisti si giocano in ambienti chiusi, ristretti, una camera da letto, un bar, un salone di bellezza, in una città che non viene mai nominata ma che facilmente possiamo riconoscere come la Shangai di oggi, falsa perla dell'estremo oriente. Tutto è trucco, facciata, niente è ciò che sembra.
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Tre Racconti Cinesi
Versione dall'originale cinese a cura di Franz Kuhn. Traduzione di Italo A. Chiusano. Prima edizione 1961. Legatura editoriale illustrata da Balilla Magistri. Numero collana 74. Ottimo esemplare. Legatura editoriale in cartonato rigido rivestito da carta, continua ai piatti e al dorso, con titoli e numero di riferimento del volume nella collana su sfondo bianco al dorso, pp. 98, in 8° piccolo. raro.
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Ronaldshay, the Earl of
On the Outskirts of Empire in Asia
8vo 240x170mm. XXII+408pp.56 photographic plates,2 folding colored maps, index , first map torn, both complete. ex library copy w. usual marks, in library solid binding.Contains: Across a Continent, Turkey in Asia, Across the Taurus, Cilicia, Aleppo to Deir-el-Zob, The Desert, Lands of the Tigris, Baghdad Railway, To Kermanshah, To Teheran, Persia in 1903, Portals of Persia, Baku, Transcaspian Railway in 1903, Bokhara the Noble, Samarkand, Across the Steppes of Turkestan, Kulja, The Ibex of Turkestan, After Wild Sheep in the Siberian Altai, Sport in Mongolia, Central Siberia, The Great Siberian Railway, The East Chinese Railway, The Near East, A Tibetan Episode, The Far East, Last Words. Ex-Library
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Mo Yan
I tredici Passi
8vo, ril. ed. sovracoperta, pp.356. Stremato dalla fatica, il professor Fang Fugui, che insegna fisica in un liceo, muore mentre è in cattedra. Il suo corpo viene portato alle pompe funebri «Belmondo» dove il chirurgo plastico Li Yuchan dovrebbe prepararlo per la cerimonia. Ma poiché è impegnata a rendere presentabile il vice sindaco della città, suo ex amante (deve renderlo magro per dimostrare lo stile di vita frugale dei dirigenti del partito), il corpo del professore viene messo in attesa in una stanza frigorifera. Qui resuscita e fugge. Sulla via di casa, cade in un cantiere aperto e si ricopre completamente di calce; la moglie, credendolo un fantasma, lo caccia. Allora bussa alla porta dei vicini che sono Zhang Hongqiu, professore di fisica nel suo stesso liceo, e sua moglie, Li Yuchan, il chirurgo plastico delle pompe funebri. Poiché preferiscono saperlo morto, per farne un emblema della triste condizione degli insegnanti, i tre dirigenti della scuola decidono di dare a Fang i connotati di Zhang (grazie alle abilità chirurgiche di Li Yuchan), con l'intesa che andrà a insegnare al liceo al suo posto, mentre il secondo cercherà di far soldi dandosi agli affari a beneficio delle due famiglie. Assunte le nuove sembianze, Fang forza la propria moglie a fare l'amore con lui; la donna, credendo di essere stata violentata dal vicino, si deprime e finisce per annegarsi nel fiume. Zhang passa innumerevoli peripezie cercando di darsi al commercio delle sigarette e alla fine si convince che il suo posto è l'insegnamento. Tutt'altro che a proprio agio nella nuova identità, Fang tenta di tornare come era, poi disperato cerca di impiccarsi con la cinta dei pantaloni. Proprio in quel momento vede un passero ferito che avanza verso di lui; ne conta i passi e arriva sino a dodici: secondo un'antica leggenda vedere zampettare un passero è di buon augurio, il primo passo porta ricchezza, il secondo potere, il terzo fortuna con le donne e via di seguito fino al dodicesimo. Ma se lo si vede compiere il tredicesimo tutto il bene si capovolge trasformandosi in tragedia...
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Gittings John
Real China: From Cannibalism to Karaoke
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P. Liberati (a cura di), S. Pozzi (a cura di)
Gli insaziabili. Sedici racconti tra Italia e Cina
8vo, br, ed. pp.348. "Gli insaziabili" raccoglie i racconti di otto autori italiani e di otto autori cinesi intorno al doppio filo rosso rappresentato da eros e cibo: temi che riguardano in maniera viscerale e profonda due culture distanti geograficamente e storicamente, eppure piene di terreni fertili per un confronto, una conoscenza e un arricchimento reciproci ancora tutti da sondare e coltivare. Il libro, che esce in contemporanea in Italia e in Cina, è un gioco di specchi, di incastri, di visioni, di sguardi su due argomenti che sono agenti di scambio, strumenti di comunicazione e aggregazione, processi chimici regolati da rituali, modelli culturali, veicoli di senso, facilitatori interculturali - e vorrebbe avvicinare i lettori italiani alla Cina e i lettori cinesi all'Italia, smontando magari più di un preconcetto e contribuendo ad accorciare le distanze grazie a quell'avventura senza patria che è la lettura
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Elman Benjamin A.
Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China
8vo hardcover in dj. pp.410. During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men would gather by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds sprinkled across China. Only one percent of candidates would complete the academic regimen that would earn them a post in the administrative bureaucracy. Civil Examinations assesses the role of education, examination, and China's civil service in fostering the world's first professional class based on demonstrated knowledge and skill. While millions of men dreamed of the worldly advancement an imperial education promised, many more wondered what went on inside the prestigious walled-off examination compounds. As Benjamin A. Elman reveals, what occurred was the weaving of a complex social web. Civil examinations had been instituted in China as early as the seventh century CE, but in the Ming and Qing eras they were the nexus linking the intellectual, political, and economic life of imperial China. Local elites and members of the court sought to influence how the government regulated the classical curriculum and selected civil officials. As a guarantor of educational merit, civil examinations served to tie the dynasty to the privileged gentry and literati classes--both ideologically and institutionally. China did away with its classical examination system in 1905. But this carefully balanced and constantly contested piece of social engineering, worked out over the course of centuries, was an early harbinger of the meritocratic regime of college boards and other entrance exams that undergirds higher education in much of the world today.
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Videlier Philippe
Dîner de gala: L'étonnante aventure des Brigands Justiciers de l'Empire du Milieu
8vo, br. ed, pp. Ce livre raconte les aventures, dans la première moitié du XXe siècle, de la cohorte des Bandits Justiciers, autrement appelés Redresseurs de Torts ou Brigands Rouges : ainsi nomme-t-on l?Armée des communistes chinois qui triomphera en 1949, après de longs et coûteux combats. Leur chef est un fils de paysans du Hunan, destiné à régner sans partage sur le Parti puis sur la Chine. Quand le récit commence, le pays est déchiré par la guerre civile. Les puissances étrangères ? France, Angleterre?, mais surtout l?envahisseur japonais ? se disputent les dépouilles de l?Empire, tandis que le Kuomintang de Tchang Kaï-Chek tente de prendre le pouvoir, luttant à la fois contre les étrangers et contre ses rivaux communistes. Mao s?impose d?abord dans un petit fief reculé des montagnes. Il construit patiemment l?Armée Rouge avec quelques comparses et, tout en combattant les Japonais, parvient à repousser quatre campagnes successives de Tchang Kaï-Chek. La cinquième campagne sera terrible : le Kuomintang engage un million d?hommes, et l?Armée Rouge doit fuir, harcelée par les nationalistes et par les habitants des régions traversées, minée par des rivalités intérieures. La Longue Marche, d?octobre 1934 à octobre 1935, voit le corps d?armée dirigé par Mao perdre près de cent mille hommes sur cent trente, avant de trouver refuge dans une zone communiste stable. Ce désastre sera plus tard transformé par le Président-poète en triomphe légendaire. Mao, qui a appris des Soviétiques la pratique des purges, assoit son emprise sur le Parti. En 1949, il proclame l?avènement de la République populaire de Chine. Viendront ensuite les épisodes terribles des Cent Fleurs, du Grand Bond en avant et de la Révolution Culturelle... Cette épopée cruelle et picaresque nous est racontée sous la forme d?un récit d?aventures à la façon de Au bord de l?eau. Les personnages ont nom Tête-de-Fouine, Petit-Chien dit Rouge- Vertu, Liu-Gros-Nez, le Mandarin-Versatile, le Dragon- Borgne, l?Ours-Téméraire ou Deuxième-Couteau. Le ton, plein d?ironie narquoise, n?est pas celui du récit historique, bien que l?auteur s?appuie sur une documentation extraordinairement précise, jusque dans le moindre détail de la vie quotidienne de ces combattants légendaires : il n?y manque pas une sandale à semelle de paille ni une écuelle de porc au piment. Le récit est à la fois pétillant d?humour et nourri d?une quantité d?anecdotes souvent affreuses ("La Révolution n?est pas un dîner de gala", faisait observer le grand Timonier). Philippe Videlier confirme, avec ce livre, l?invention d?un genre : le conte historique, genre qu?il avait déjà expérimenté dans ses ouvrages précédents. Le résultat est saisissant d?intelligence, et l?humour grinçant qui baigne le texte replace l?atrocité des faits dans le grand manège de l?histoire des hommes, avec sa musique lancinante.
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McArthur Meher
Confucius: A Throneless King
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.234. Confucius is one of the most important figures in Chinese history,whose philosophies have shaped world culture. Often overlookedoutside his native country, Confucius himself was a fascinatingfigure. A contemporary of Buddha, Confucius was outspokenand uncompromising man who revolutionized Chinese societynearly 2,500 years ago, when the country was merely a looseweb of feudal provinces. No small feat for the illegitimate son ofa retired soldier and a teenage concubine, who once received aprophecy from the local fortune-teller that she would give birth toa ?throneless king.? Perhaps because of these humble beginnings, Confucius had apassionate belief in respect for others and this belief underpinnedhis life and teachings. He advised the emperors and kings of hisday, gaining their respect and undying enmity along the way. hewas equally proud of both achievements, saying that if the evilpeople of the world liked him, he was doing something wrong.Confucius established many ideas that are taken for granted today, from respecting one?s parents to the Golden Rule, to virtuebeing its own reward. his theories became the foundation of oneof the world?s first civil services and established social structuresthroughout Asia that still exist today.
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Levi Jean
Confucius
16mo, br. ed. pp.322 timbre sec de bibliorheque autrement comme neuf.
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Kinkley, Jeffrey C.
Chinese Justice, the Fiction: Law and Literature in Modern China
8vo, 497pp. During the first thirty years under communism, China completely banned crime fiction. After Mao, however, crime genres of all kinds?old and new, Chinese and Western?sprang up in profusion. Crime narrative again became one of the most prolific and best-loved forms of Chinese popular culture, and it often embodied the Chinese people?s most trenchant and open critiques of their newly restored socialist legal system. This is the first full-length study in any language of Chinese crime fiction in all eras: ancient, modern, and contemporary. It is also the first book to apply legal scholars? ?law and literature? inquiry to the rich field of Chinese legal and literary culture. Familiar Holmesian, quintessentially Chinese, and bizarre East-West hybrids of plots, crimes, detectives, judges, suspects, and ideas of law and corruption emerge from the pages of China?s new crime fiction, which is alternately embraced and condemned by the Chinese establishment as it lurches uncertainly toward post-communist society. Informed by contemporary comparative and theoretical perspectives on popular culture and the fiction of crime and detection, this book is based on extensive readings of Chinese crime fiction and interviews?in China and abroad?with the communist regime?s exiled and still-in-power security and judicial officers. It was in the Orwellian year of 1984 that the authorities set out to control China?s crime fiction and even to manufacture it themselves?only to find that fiction, like the social phenomena it depicts, seems destined to remain one step ahead of the law. Dalla quarta di copertina ?Kinkley illuminates Chinese conceptions of crime, law, and justice at both official and popular levels from pre-modern times through the 1990s, comparing traditions of Chinese detective fiction with those of American and European authors. . . . Students of Chinese history, literature, sociology, and law all will learn much from this unique book.??Perry Link, Princeton University ?Through his analysis of the works, authors, genres and plots of Chinese crime and court case fiction, Kinkley succeeds in illuminating China?s new legal culture from diverse angels. He has written an entertaining and intelligent book on the fiction and facts of the Chinese justice system.??The China Journal
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Eberhard Crailsheim e María Dolores Elizalde
The Representation of External Threats: From the Middle Ages to the Modern World
8vo hardcover, pp.466. In The Representation of External Threats, Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde present a collection of articles that trace the phenomenon of external threats over three continents and four oceans, offering new perspectives on their development, social construction, and representation. Eberhard Crailsheim, Ph.D. (2008), is Marie-Curie fellow (IF) at the Institute of History, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He is the author of The Spanish Connection (Böhlau 2016), and has published many articles on threats on the Philippines. María Dolores Elizalde, Ph.D. (1988), is Scientific Researcher at the Institute of History, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She is specialized in international history and in colonial and postcolonial processes in Asia and the Pacific, with a particular focus on the Philippines.
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Kinkley Jeffrey C.
Chinese Justice, the Fiction: Law and Literature in Modern China
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp-497. During the first thirty years under communism, China completely banned crime fiction. After Mao, however, crime genres of all kinds?old and new, Chinese and Western?sprang up in profusion. Crime narrative again became one of the most prolific and best-loved forms of Chinese popular culture, and it often embodied the Chinese people?s most trenchant and open critiques of their newly restored socialist legal system.This is the first full-length study in any language of Chinese crime fiction in all eras: ancient, modern, and contemporary. It is also the first book to apply legal scholars? ?law and literature? inquiry to the rich field of Chinese legal and literary culture. Familiar Holmesian, quintessentially Chinese, and bizarre East-West hybrids of plots, crimes, detectives, judges, suspects, and ideas of law and corruption emerge from the pages of China?s new crime fiction, which is alternately embraced and condemned by the Chinese establishment as it lurches uncertainly toward post-communist society.Informed by contemporary comparative and theoretical perspectives on popular culture and the fiction of crime and detection, this book is based on extensive readings of Chinese crime fiction and interviews?in China and abroad?with the communist regime?s exiled and still-in-power security and judicial officers. It was in the Orwellian year of 1984 that the authorities set out to control China?s crime fiction and even to manufacture it themselves?only to find that fiction, like the social phenomena it depicts, seems destined to remain one step ahead of the law.
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Zhu Xiao-mei
Il pianoforte Segreto
8vo, br. ed. pp.288. Nel '68, gli studenti manifestavano sventolando il Libretto rosso del presidente Mao. Nel frattempo, in Cina, la Rivoluzione culturale mieteva vittime proprio tra i giovani. Una di questi, al tempo studentessa di musica, decide pochi anni fa di ignorare l'insegnamento del padre, di «andarsene in silenzio, senza lasciare traccia», e raccontare invece la sua storia, e quella di un'intera generazione di giovani sottoposta a un diffuso lavaggio del cervello e convinta della giustezza di un'ideologia che li costringeva alla delazione e alla denuncia, oltre a togliere loro ogni libertà. Uccidendoli anche nell'anima: commoventi il rimorso, il dolore e il pentimento di Zhu Xiao-Mei per aver creduto alle menzogne del maoismo e avere agito di conseguenza. È anche per «chiedere scusa», che l'autrice scrive, ed è proprio il pentimento, tra i tanti sentimenti contrastanti, ad animare la sua scrittura. Nata in una di quelle famiglie che al tempo vennero disgregate ed etichettate con il bollo infamante «di cattive origini», cioè di musicisti e intellettuali, Zhu Xiao-Mei viene internata per cinque anni in un campo di rieducazione ai confini con la Mongolia. La storia di come le note di una fisarmonica risveglino in lei l'amore per la musica e la spingano a procurarsi avventurosamente un pianoforte è raccontata con semplicità, la stessa che aggiunge pathos involontario al resoconto dei mille soprusi perpetrati dai sorveglianti sugli internati. Il potere salvifico della musica anche in circostanze orribili è un tema trattato diffusamente in letteratura a proposito della Shoah, ma Zhu Xiao-Mei aggiunge una quantità di riflessioni inedite, e racconta il percorso a dir poco accidentato che la porta negli Stati Uniti, le difficoltà che affronta per continuare a studiare pianoforte, per poi approdare a Parigi dove dà il primo concerto, dedicato a Bach. Il compositore che per lei indica una «via» molto simile a quella del Tao. Suonerà le Variazioni Goldberg ovunque, e la sua esecuzione è diventata un culto.
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Kaplan Robert D.
The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
8vo, hrdcover in dj, 280pp. A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy “[Kaplan] has emerged not only as an eloquent defender of foreign-policy realism but as a grand strategist to whom the Pentagon turns for a tour d’horizon.”—The Wall Street Journal In the late thirteenth century, Marco Polo began a decades-long trek from Venice to China along the trade route between Europe and Asia known as the Silk Road—a foundation of Kublai Khan’s sprawling empire. Now, in the early twenty-first century, the Chinese regime has proposed a land-and-maritime Silk Road that duplicates exactly the route Marco Polo traveled. Drawing on decades of firsthand experience as a foreign correspondent and military embed for The Atlantic, Robert D. Kaplan outlines the timeless principles that should shape America’s role in a turbulent world that encompasses the Chinese challenge. From Kaplan’s immediate thoughts on President Trump to a frank examination of what will happen in the event of war with North Korea, these essays are a vigorous reckoning with the difficult choices the United States will face in the years ahead. Praise for The Return of Marco Polo’s World “Elegant and humane . . . [a] prophecy from an observer with a depressingly accurate record of predictions.”—Bret Stephens, The New York Times Book Review “These essays constitute a truly pathbreaking, brilliant synthesis and analysis of geographic, political, technological, and economic trends with far-reaching consequences. The Return of Marco Polo’s World is another work by Robert D. Kaplan that will be regarded as a classic.”—General David Petraeus (U.S. Army, Ret.) “Thoughtful, unsettling, but not apocalyptic analyses of world affairs flow steadily off the presses, and this is a superior example. . . . Presented with enough verve and insight to tempt readers to set it aside to reread in a few years.”—Kirkus Review (starred review) “An astute, powerfully stated, and bracing presentation.”—Booklist “This volume compiles sixteen major essays on America’s foreign policy from national security commentator Kaplan. . . . An overview of thoughtful, multilayered positions and perspectives evolving through changing circumstances.”—Publishers Weekly
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Doniselli Eramo, Isabella
Il drago in Cina. Storia straordinaria di Un'icona
8vo, br. ed. Il drago è forse il più appariscente esempio di "ibrido" mitologico ed è presente nella mitologia e nelle tradizioni popolari di molte culture fiorite nei diversi continenti, si lega ai miti cosmogonici della nascita del mondo e ovunque porta con sé una forte valenza simbolica di potenza e di forza. In Cina, il drago è creatura benevola, simbolo yang della forza e della fertilità maschile, principio attivo dell'energia, della luce, della forza. Trascorre l'inverno sottoterra e al risveglio, nell'equinozio di primavera, provoca il primo tuono e dà inizio alle piogge primaverili, benefiche per l'agricoltura. Dunque un'importanza vitale in un paese da sempre prevalentemente agricolo. Il motivo del drago attraversa l'intera storia dell'arte cinese, assumendo innumerevoli fogge a seconda delle credenze dell'epoca, a seconda degli stili e delle possibilità offerte dai materiali e dalle tecniche impiegati. Questo studio ripercorre la straordinaria evoluzione nel tempo dell'icona del drago cinese, dalle essenziali raffigurazioni di epoca neolitica, fino alla fantasmagorica immagine codificata nel momento di massimo splendore della Cina imperiale. Un'icona che diventa spunto di confronto e di dialogo tra Oriente e Occidente.
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Leffman David
The Mercenary Mandarin: How A British Adventurer Became A General In Qing-Dynasty China
8vo, br. ed. 372pp. William Mesny ran off to sea as a boy and jumped ship at Shanghai in 1860 when he was just 18. Amid the chaos of foreign intrigue and civil war in 19th-century China, he became a smuggler, a prisoner of the Taiping rebels, a gun-runner and finally enlisted in the Chinese military. After five years of fierce campaigning against the Miao in remote Guizhou province, Mesny rose to the rank of general and used this privileged position to travel around China - to the borders with Burma, Tibet and Vietnam - writing opinionated newspaper articles, collecting plants and advising government officials on the development of railways, telegraphs and other modern reforms. Mesny eventually settled in Shanghai with a 16-year-old concubine and published Mesny's Chinese Miscellany, a weekly magazine about his experiences. But his story was not to end well. After his implication in an illicit arms deal, his fortunes never recovered, and when he died in 1919 he was working as a desk clerk. David Leffman has spent over 15 years footstepping Mesny's travels across China, interviewing locals and piecing together his life story from contemporary journals, private letters and newspaper articles
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Zia Helen
Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.446. Shanghai has historically been China’s jewel, its richest, most modern and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class when Mao’s proletarian revolution emerged victorious from the long civil war. Terrified of the horrors the Communists would wreak upon their lives, citizens of Shanghai who could afford to fled in every direction. Seventy years later, members of the last generation to fully recall this massive exodus have revealed their stories to Chinese American journalist Helen Zia, who interviewed hundreds of exiles about their journey through one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. From these moving accounts, Zia weaves together the stories of four young Shanghai residents who wrestled with the decision to abandon everything for an uncertain life as refugees in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States. Benny, who as a teenager became the unwilling heir to his father’s dark wartime legacy, must decide either to escape to Hong Kong or navigate the intricacies of a newly Communist China. The resolute Annuo, forced to flee her home with her father, a defeated Nationalist official, becomes an unwelcome exile in Taiwan. The financially strapped Ho fights deportation from the U.S. in order to continue his studies while his family struggles at home. And Bing, given away by her poor parents, faces the prospect of a new life among strangers in America. The lives of these men and women are marvelously portrayed, revealing the dignity and triumph of personal survival. Herself the daughter of immigrants from China, Zia is uniquely equipped to explain how crises like the Shanghai transition affect children and their families, students and their futures, and, ultimately, the way we see ourselves and those around us. Last Boat Out of Shanghai brings a poignant personal angle to the experiences of refugees then and, by extension, today. “Zia’s portraits are compassionate and heartbreaking, and they are, ultimately, the universal story of many families who leave their homeland as refugees and find less-than-welcoming circumstances on the other side.”—Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club
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Dawson Raymond
The Chinese Chameleon
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SKLOVSKIJ Viktor.
Marco Polo
8vo, tela rossa con scritte oro in sovracoperta. editoriale illustrata con ali; 286 pp.; 2 apparati fuori testo di bellissime tavv. a colori applicate; a cura di M. Olsùfieva
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Mao Tse-tung, Pref. Aldo Natoli
Note Su Stalin e Il Socialismo Sovietico
16mo, br. e. pp.152
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Whitfield S. Ed.
Le vie della seta. Popoli, culture, Paesaggi
4to, ril. ed. in sovracoperta. pp.480. Dalle pietre preziose alle spezie, dalle fedi religiose alle innovazioni tecnologiche, lo scambio di merci e idee lungo le antiche rotte commerciali delle Vie della Seta svolse un ruolo cruciale nello sviluppo delle civiltà asiatiche, africane ed europee. Questo libro offre la prima visione complessiva di 1500 anni di storia, ponendo al centro del discorso le tipologie dei territori. Con contributi di oltre settanta specialisti di tutto il mondo, ogni capitolo esplora la storia del commercio e delle culture lungo le Vie della Seta nel contesto dei diversi luoghi - steppe, montagne, deserti, fiumi e mari - per rivelare l'estrema importanza che i paesaggi hanno avuto nel determinare i viaggi, le economie e le comunità di coloro che vissero e commerciarono lungo tali rotte. Splendidamente illustrato con le mappe dettagliate degli itinerari, le fotografie degli spettacolari paesaggi dell'Asia centrale e cento tesori iconici, tra oggetti e strutture architettoniche, questo innovativo libro celebra la storia e l'eredità di culture diversissime che si sono sviluppate e hanno prosperato non a dispetto delle loro differenze, ma in virtù di esse.
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Fraser Ronald
Lord of the East
8vo, original red cloth, no dj. pp.246. ex library stamps., ow good. A story of 3rd B.C. ancient China in social turmoil and its first emperor Qin shi huang (259 B.C.-210 B.C.). Ex-Library
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Yuan Mei
Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei (New Studies in Asian Culture)
8vo, br. ed. 260pp. "The one hundred-some stories depict the important role ghosts played in the lives of the Chinese, as well as revealing a great deal about sex, revenge, transvestism, corruption, and other topics banned by Mei's puritanical mid-Qing society". -- Reference & Research Book News.
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Silbey David J.
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China
8vo, br. ed. pp.273. A concise history of the pivotal uprising challenges popular academic views to reveal how the Boxers nearly defeated imperial powers, drawing on diaries and letters by Allied soldiers and diplomats to offer insight into their successes and role in inspiring subsequent generations of Chinese nationalists. 10,000 first printing. David J. Silbey teaches at Cornell University's Washington, D.C., campus. He is the author of A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899?1902.
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Dong Stella
Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City
8vo, br. ed. Transformed from a swampland wilderness into a dazzling, modern-day Babylon, the Shanghai that predated Mao's cultural revolution was a city like no other: redolent with opium and underworld crime, booming with foreign trade, blessed with untold wealth and marred by abject squalor. Journalist Stella Dong captures all the exoticism, extremes, and excitement of this legendary city as if it were a larger-than-life character in a fantastic novel. Review: For a good, spicy read about colonial Asia's most decadent city, this is the book. Stella Dong, a second-generation Chinese-American living in New York, tells the story of Old Shanghai in racy style: readers expecting tales of drugs, prostitution, and gang warfare will not be disappointed. Her scholarship is sound, however, and at the end of each chapter she provides bibliographies of drier, more academic studies for those wishing to delve deeper. The Treaty of Nanking that ended the First Opium War between Britain and China in 1842 granted trading concessions in Shanghai to the European powers. The international currents shaping the city over the next hundred years were complex: British merchants, Chinese warlords, Russian emigrés, Sephardic Jews, and German spies exploited its extraterritorial status to make Shanghai a hotbed of greed, vice, and intrigue. Opium was crucial to the city's extraordinary wealth and lawlessness, though Dong also relates the rise of its criminal gangs to the development of coastal steamships and consequent loss of inland-transportation jobs. Foreign participation in the opium trade was not confined to the British: the role of the French Concession in Shanghai is described in well-researched detail. The flamboyant personalities that prospered in the city's unfettered environment come alive, characters like Pockmarked Huang, who combined the post of police chief in the French Concession with leadership of the Green Gang. Dong explores Shanghai's political significance both as the source of Chiang Kai-shek's fortunes and as a center of Communist revolutionary activity. As the city again becomes the leading commercial metropolis of a dynamic national economy, Shanghai 1842-1949 successfully documents its unique role in the development of modern China. --John Stevenson
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Mann James
The China Fantasy: Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China
br. ed. The book that got China right: a prophetic work on how America's policies towards China led it away from liberalization and further towards authoritarianism, from the bestselling author of Rise of the Vulcans "[The China Fantasy] predicted, China would remain an authoritarian country, and its success would encourage other authoritarian regimes to resist pressures to change . . . Mann’s prediction turned out to be true." -New York Review of Books, October 2017 "From Clinton to Bush to Obama, the prevailing belief was engagement with China would make China more like the West. Instead, as [James] Mann predicted, China has gone in the opposite direction." -The New York Times, February 2018 One of our most perceptive China experts, James Mann wrote The China Fantasy as a vital wake-up call to all who are ignorant of America's true relationship with the Asian giant. For years, our leaders posited that China could be drawn to increasing liberalization through the power of the free market, but Mann asked us to consider a very real alternative: What if China's economy continues to expand but its government remains as dismissive of democracy and human rights as it is now? Now the results are in: the reign of Xi Jinping has proven that Mann was right. To understand how China got to its current state and why it may not be too late to turn back, The China Fantasy is essential reading. Calling for an end to the current policy of overlooking China's abuses for the sake of business opportunities, Mann presents an alternative path to a better China.
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Vincent Durand-Dastès
Récits de rêve en Asie Orientale
8vo, br. ed. 192pp. Métaphore de l'existence, indice de l'avenir, les rêves furent aussi lus comme des symptômes par les traités de médecine chinoise. Les maîtres de rituels exorcistes surent y relever la trace des démons à la poursuite desquels ils s'étaient lancés. Mais ce ne sont pas de ces " rêves savants " dont nous parle Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident. La perspective est ici avant tout littéraire. Quels sont les traits rhétoriques du récit de rêve en Asie orientale ? Quel rôle joue l'image onirique, le récit de rêve, au sein d'un poème, d'une anecdote ou d'un conte classique, d'une pièce de théâtre ou d'un roman long aux maints rebondissements ? Quelle langue, autrement dit, parle les rêves ? En Asie orientale, les rêves font beaucoup de choses à l'écriture.
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Gelber Harry Gregory
Dragon and the Foreign Devils: China and the World, 1100 Bc to the Present
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.512. China is the most exciting rising power in the world today. The explosive growth of its economy and the possibility that it might soon become the next superpower, dominant in East Asia and influential in every part of the world, has attracted universal interest, admiration and envy. Most histories of China approach that huge and populous country through the story of its dynasties, its struggle to defend its borders and its internal politics. Harry Gelber's "The Dragon and the Foreign Devils" is the first history for the general reader to tell the story of China from the outside as well as from the inside. It explores the relationships involved, from the incursions into China of steppe horsemen around 200 BC to the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century AD, from the first arrival of European travellers to China's decline, after 1911, into an object of the policies of the major powers, and on to the Revolution on 1949 and the Tienanmen Square protest in 1989. It explains what moved these minor and major foreign societies and how concerns with China fitted into their own major interests and views of the world. And, it outlines the recurring cycles of Chinese history, from turmoil and disorder to strong central government and back to turmoil. Informative text boxes elaborate on particular people, topics or key moments to complement the main narrative. These mini-essays deal with a wide range of topics from 'Confucius' and 'Concubines' to 'Tea' and 'Silk', and from the debilitating influence of the last nineteenth-century empress, 'Cixi', to the decisive influence on the 1941-45 Pacific War of the US Navy's ability to read 'Japanese naval codes'; and from 'Madame Chiang's' glamour to 'Mao's Sexual Habits'.
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Gelber Harry Gregory
Dragon and the Foreign Devils: China and the World, 1100 Bc to the Present
8vo, hardcover in dj. pp.512. China is the most exciting rising power in the world today. The explosive growth of its economy and the possibility that it might soon become the next superpower, dominant in East Asia and influential in every part of the world, has attracted universal interest, admiration and envy. Most histories of China approach that huge and populous country through the story of its dynasties, its struggle to defend its borders and its internal politics. Harry Gelber's "The Dragon and the Foreign Devils" is the first history for the general reader to tell the story of China from the outside as well as from the inside. It explores the relationships involved, from the incursions into China of steppe horsemen around 200 BC to the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century AD, from the first arrival of European travellers to China's decline, after 1911, into an object of the policies of the major powers, and on to the Revolution on 1949 and the Tienanmen Square protest in 1989. It explains what moved these minor and major foreign societies and how concerns with China fitted into their own major interests and views of the world. And, it outlines the recurring cycles of Chinese history, from turmoil and disorder to strong central government and back to turmoil. Informative text boxes elaborate on particular people, topics or key moments to complement the main narrative. These mini-essays deal with a wide range of topics from 'Confucius' and 'Concubines' to 'Tea' and 'Silk', and from the debilitating influence of the last nineteenth-century empress, 'Cixi', to the decisive influence on the 1941-45 Pacific War of the US Navy's ability to read 'Japanese naval codes'; and from 'Madame Chiang's' glamour to 'Mao's Sexual Habits'.
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Hsia Florence C.
Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China
8vo, cloth in dj, ex-library labels ow, as new. Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Western science, Florence C. Hsia shows how these missionary-scientists remade themselves as they negotiated the place of the profane sciences in a religious enterprise. Sojourners in a Strange Land develops a genealogy of Jesuit conceptions of scientific life within the Chinese mission field from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Analyzing the printed record of their endeavors in natural philosophy and mathematics, Hsia identifies three models of the missionary man of science by their genres of writing: mission history, travelogue, and academic collection. Drawing on the history of early modern Europe’s scientific, religious, and print culture, she uses the elaboration and reception of these scientific personae to construct the first collective biography of the Jesuit missionary-scientist’s many incarnations in late imperial China. Ex-Library
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Denis, Antoine
the perfect union the chinese Methods
4to, hardcover in dj. The ancient secrets of Chinese love-making, illustrated in color.
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DE Smedt Marc
Chinese Erotism
4to, hardcover in dj. Ril. cm. 22x28, pp. 94, ill a col. Monografia sull'erotismo che ne ricerca i presupposti e le citazioni letterarie in una società edonistica. in english.
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Benton Gregor and Lin Chun
Was Mao Really a Monster?: The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story"
8vo, br. ed. 208. Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. The book portrays Mao as a monster – equal to or worse than Hitler and Stalin – and a fool who won power by native cunning and ruled by terror. It received a rapturous welcome from reviewers in the popular press and rocketed to the top of the worldwide bestseller list. Few works on China by writers in the West have achieved its impact. Reviews by serious China scholars, however, tended to take a different view. Most were sharply critical, questioning its authority and the authors’ methods , arguing that Chang and Halliday’s book is not a work of balanced scholarship, as it purports to be, but a highly selective and even polemical study that sets out to demonise Mao. This book brings together sixteen reviews of Mao: The Unknown Story – all by internationally well-regarded specialists in modern Chinese history, and published in relatively specialised scholarly journals. Taken together they demonstrate that Chang and Halliday’s portrayal of Mao is in many places woefully inaccurate. While agreeing that Mao had many faults and was responsible for some disastrous policies, they conclude that a more balanced picture is needed.
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Zhang Lping
Sanmao. Avventure di un piccolo eroe vagabondo. Ediz. Illustrata
4to. copertina rigida. pp.76. Il piccolo Sanmao ha viaggiato in lungo e in largo, dalla Shanghai degli anni '30 sino a oggi, grazie al suo linguaggio universale e innovativo. Attraverso tante storie a fumetti in bianco e nero e senza parole, il suo autore Zhang Leping è riuscito a parlare a intere generazioni di bambini e adulti: dai contadini della Cina di allora, che spesso non sapevano leggere né scrivere, fino ai lettori colti e attenti di oggi. Tra mille avventure e disavventure, questo ragazzino orfano e vagabondo ci porta nelle strade della Parigi d'Oriente per raccontarci la vita e la società cinese di inizio secolo. Ai suoi celebri tre capelli è lasciato il compito di infonderci tutta l'ironia, la sensibilità e persino la denuncia di cui il nostro eroico Sanmao è capace. Età di lettura: da 6 anni.
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Preston Diana
The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900
8vo, br. ed. 436pp. Portrays the dramatic human experience of the Boxer Rebellion from both a Western and Chinese perspective, drawing on diaries, memoirs, and letters of those that lived through this pivotal time in the history of China. Reprint.
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Cohen Paul A.
History in Three Keys: The Boxers As Event, Experience, and Myth
8vo, hardcover pp.428. Paul A. Cohen is Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies and History at Wellesley College and an associate at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University. His publications include the award-winning Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past (Columbia).
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