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Lufrano Richard John
Honorable Merchants: Commerce and Self-Cultivation in Late Imperial China (Studies of the East Asian Institute)
8vo, orig.cloth in dj 15cm, xii,241 pp Contents: Introduction; The Late Imperial World: Commerce, Education & Society; The Confucian Origins of Apprentice's Education; The Apprentice's Education Begins; Relations with Government & Community; Personal Relations in the Marketplace; The Market, Management, Money & Finance; Travel & Crime; Conclusion: Self-Cultivation in Mid-level Merchant Culture;Appendix: The Maoyi xuzhi Manual. In light of East Asia's current economic success, it has become increasingly clear that Confucian social thought, long assumed in Western scholarship to be a major stumbling block to economic development, can, under the proper circumstances, have exactly the opposite effect. Lufrano's study is the most sustained and sophisticated of recent reevaluations of Confucianism's role in the rapid commercial development in the late Ming to mid-Qing period. It will be of great interest and value to scholars in the growing field of Chinese business history and should be welcomed by those interested in the Confucian roots of Pacific Rim business practice. About the Author: Richard Lufrano is assistant professor of history at Barnard College.
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Mezzetti Fernando
Da Mao a Deng La Trasformazione Della Cina
8vo, tela ed. in sovracoperta, pp.475, come nuovo.
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Dott Brian R.
The Chile Pepper in China: A Cultural Biography (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
8vo, hardcover in dj. 296pp. Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. Entranced by the fiery taste, diners worldwide have fallen for Chinese cooking. In China, chiles are everywhere, from dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao's boast that revolution would be impossible without chiles, from the eighteenth-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber to contemporary music videos. Indeed, they are so common that many Chinese assume they are native. Yet there were no chiles anywhere in China prior to the 1570s, when they were introduced from the Americas. Brian R. Dott explores how the nonnative chile went from obscurity to ubiquity in China, influencing not just cuisine but also medicine, language, and cultural identity. He details how its versatility became essential to a variety of regional cuisines and swayed both elite and popular medical and healing practices. Dott tracks the cultural meaning of the chile across a wide swath of literary texts and artworks, revealing how the spread of chiles fundamentally altered the meaning of the term spicy. He emphasizes the intersection between food and gender, tracing the chile as a symbol for both male virility and female passion. Integrating food studies, the history of medicine, and Chinese cultural history, The Chile Pepper in China sheds new light on the piquant cultural impact of a potent plant and raises broader questions regarding notions of authenticity in cuisine.
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Vambery Arminius
Sketches of Central Asia. Additional chapters on My Travels, Adventures, and on the ethnology of Central Asia
Blue cloth gilt, viii+444pp., V. G. A very good copy.
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Cahen Gaston
Histoire Des Relations De La Russie Avec La Chine Sous Pierre Le Grand 1689-1730
extremely rare anastatic chinese reprint of the alcan paris 1912 ed. wraps, very good 8vo gr.br. pp. 274-ccxix
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Allsen Thomas T.
Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia
8vo, br. ed. In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural clearing house for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies and technologies were disseminated across Eurasia. The focus of this path-breaking study is the extensive exchanges between Iran and China. The Mongol rulers of these two ancient civilizations shared the cultural resources of their realms with one another. The result was a lively traffic in specialist personnel and scholarly literature between East and West. These exchanges ranged from cartography to printing, from agriculture to astronomy. The book concludes by asking why the Mongols made such heavy use of sedentary scholars and specialists in the elaboration of their court culture and why they initiated so many exchanges across Eurasia. This is a work of great erudition which crosses new scholarly boundaries in its analysis of communication and culture in the Mongol empire
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Gerth Karl
China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation (Harvard East Asian Monographs 224)
8vo, br. "Chinese people should consume Chinese products!" This slogan was the catchphrase of a movement in early twentieth-century China that sought to link consumption and nationalism by instilling a concept of China as a modern "nation" with its own "national products." From fashions in clothing to food additives, from museums to department stores, from product fairs to advertising, this movement influenced all aspects of China's burgeoning consumer culture. Anti-imperialist boycotts, commemorations of national humiliations, exhibitions of Chinese products, the vilification of treasonous consumers, and the promotion of Chinese captains of industry helped enforce nationalistic consumption and spread the message--patriotic Chinese bought goods made of Chinese materials by Chinese workers in factories owned and run by Chinese.In China Made, Karl Gerth argues that two key forces shaping the modern world--nationalism and consumerism--developed in tandem in China. Early in the twentieth century, nationalism branded every commodity as either "Chinese" or "foreign," and consumer culture became the place where the notion of nationality was articulated, institutionalized, and practiced. Based on Chinese, Japanese, and English-language archives, magazines, newspapers, and books, this first exploration of the historical ties between nationalism and consumerism reinterprets fundamental aspects of modern Chinese history and suggests ways of discerning such ties in all modern nations.ed.
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Bianchi Alice
Études Chinoises Xxxvii-2 (2018) - la Vie des Objets en Chine
8vo, br. ed. 238pp. contient: Cédric Laurent in memoriam michèle Pirazzoi-t'Serstevens; Nathanel AMAR : The Lives of Dakou in China: From Waste to Nostalgia; Michel CHAMBON : Produire et consommer le sang du Christ. Matérialité et christianisme en Chine contemporaine ; ZHU Pinyan : Avalokitesvara in Gold: Art and Ideology at Contemporary Baodingshan; CHEN Guangchen : The Biography of a Ritual Vessel: On Naming, and the Dialectics of Authenticity Lyce JANKOWSKI : Le faussaire et le numismate : Li Baotai et Bao Kang; Nathalie MONNET : The Chinese Books in the French Royal Library: An Essential Element in the Birth of Western Sinology
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Barzini Luigi
Parigi Pechino in sessanta giorni. Con introduzione del Principe Scipione Borghese. 126 illustrazioni nel testo, 13 tavole colorate ed una carta itineraria.
4th ed. 8vo gr. br, ed. xxv, 523p + fold-out map; illus. copetina originale usurata, altrimenti ottomo. Original card covers, soiled and worn, still a very good and tight copy.
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J Hackin, Clement Huart, Raymonde Linossier, H De Wilman-Grabowski, Charles-Henri Marchal, Henri Maspero, Serge Eliseev. With an Introduction by Paul-Louis Couchoud
Asiatic Mythology. A Detailed Description and Explanation of the Mythologies of All the Great Nations of Asia
Blue cloth. First Ediition. 12" tall x 9½". 460pp incl. index. 15 plates in colour and 345 other illustrations. ex library little wear, but very good and tight. Introduction by Paul-Louis Couchoud. 15 colour plates, black and white illustrations, 459pp, index.. The nine sections in this volume were written by leading scholars of the day: The Mythology of Persia - Clement Huart; The Mythology of the Kafirs - J. Hackin; The Mythology of Buddhism in India - Raymonde Linossier; Brahmanic Mythology - H. de Wilman-Grabowska; The Mythology of Lamaism - J. Hackin; The Mythology of Indo-China and Java - C.-H Marchal; Buddhist Mythology in Central Asia - J. Hackin; The Mythology of Modern China - Henri Maspero and The Mythology of Japan - Serge Eliseev. Ex-Library
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Chavannes, Edouard
Le T'ai Chan.: Essai de Monographie d'un Culte Chinois. Appendice. Le Dieu du Sol dans la Chine Antique. Annales du Musee Guimet, Bibliotheque d'Etudes, Tome 21. 1910
8vo, br. ed. pp.591 pp.591, chinese reprint rarer than the original 60 illustrations. folding map. bound chinese style . A classic study of the role the taishan sacred mountain and its role in Chinese religion, with an appendix on the sun god. scarce.
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Yang Lian
Origine
8vo, br. ed. testo a fronte inglese italiano pp.372. La poesia di Yang Lian coniuga una straordinaria irruenza espressiva di valenza sciamanica con la scrittura modernista di Pound, Eliot, William Carlos Williams e quella decadente di Baudelaire, senza mai smarrire l'esemplare misura della poesia classica cinese. L'energia metamorfica che percorre i suoi versi trasfigura il mondo naturale e storico secondo una morfologia antropocentrica, dove l'originale reinvenzione del meraviglioso ricorda la foga decontestualizzante della «scrittura automatica» surrealista. (Tomaso Kemeny)
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Brook Timothy
Mr. Selden's Map of China: Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer
8vo, 240pp. ex library but in excellent condition with its mylar protected dj. no internal marks, as new.
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Brook Timothy
The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (History of Imperial China)
8vo, br. ed. The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire-a millennium and a half in the making-was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace the Ming dynasty with yet another foreign occupation. The Troubled Empire explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invasions.If anything defined the complex dynamics of this period, it was changes in the weather. Asia, like Europe, experienced a Little Ice Age, and as temperatures fell in the thirteenth century, Kublai Khan moved south into China. His Yuan dynasty collapsed in less than a century, but Mongol values lived on in Ming institutions. A second blast of cold in the 1630s, combined with drought, was more than the dynasty could stand, and the Ming fell to Manchu invaders.Against this background-the first coherent ecological history of China in this period-Timothy Brook explores the growth of autocracy, social complexity, and commercialization, paying special attention to China's incorporation into the larger South China Sea economy. These changes not only shaped what China would become but contributed to the formation of the early modern world.
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Elvin Mark
The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China
8vo, br. ed. 564pp. This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand years for which there are written records. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of the Chinese people toward their environment and their landscape. Elvin chronicles the spread of the Chinese style of farming that eliminated the habitat of the elephants that populated the country alongside much of its original wildlife; the destruction of most of the forests; the impact of war on the environmental transformation of the landscape; and the re-engineering of the countryside through water-control systems, some of gigantic size. He documents the histories of three contrasting localities within China to show how ecological dynamics defined the lives of the inhabitants. And he shows that China in the eighteenth century, on the eve of the modern era, was probably more environmentally degraded than northwestern Europe around this time. Indispensable for its new perspective on long-term Chinese history and its explanation of the roots of China?s present-day environmental crisis, this book opens a door into the Chinese past.
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GIOVANNI DI PIAN DI CARPINE - A cura di Daffinà P. - Leonardi C. - Lungarotti M.C. - Menestò E. - Petech L.
Storia Dei Mongoli
8vo, cm 24x17, pp VIII-532, 16 tavv. f.t. Indice: P. Mingarelli - B. Ceppitelli, Premessa - Luciano Petech, Introduzione - E. Menestò- C. Leonardi-M. C. Lungarotti, La figura e l opera di Giovanni di Pian di Carpine: E. Menestò, Giovanni di Pian di Carpine: da compagno di Francesco a diplomatico presso i Tartari - C. Leonardi, La via dell Oriente nell « Historia Mongalorum » - M. C. Lungarotti, Le due redazioni dell « Historia Mongalorum » - E. Menestò, Prolegomena - I. Abbreviazioni e bibliografia - II. La Tradizione manoscritta - III. Le edizioni - Giovanni di Pian di Carpine, « Historia Mongalorum » testo latino a cura di E. Menestò - Giovanni di Pian di Carpine, « Storia dei Mongoli » traduzione italiana a cura di M. C. Lungarotti - P. Daffinà, Note - Indice dei nomi di persona e di luogo, a cura di A. D Alessandro. - ISBN: 9788879884352. esaurito fuori commercio.
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Bortone Fernando
Il Saggio d'Occidente
8vo, Il P. Matteo Ricci S. J. (1552 - 1610) un grande italiano nella Cina impenetrabile. Illustrazione in antiporta a piena pagina con ritratto del P. Ricci in abito di letterato cinese. Molte illustrazioni in nero a piena pagina su carta lucida e illustrazioni in nero nel testo. Carte geografiche in nero e a colori. Esemplare perfetto. Brossura editoriale illustrata, pp. 235, con fascetta editoriale.
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VON Glahn Richard
The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture
8vo. Hardback in dj. The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In "The Sinister Way", Richard von Glahn examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger framework of the historical development of Chinese popular or vernacular religion - as opposed to institutional religions such as Buddhism or Daoism. Von Glahn's study, spanning three millennia, gives due recognition to the morally ambivalent and demonic aspects of divine power within the common Chinese religious culture.
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Wilson Dick
China's Revolutionary War
8vo, br. ed.
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Tucci Giuseppe
Pre-Dinnaga Buddhist Texts on Logic from Chinese Sources
8vo, cloth, pp.xxx-87,77,89,91. Collection of texts on logic or relating to the history of Indian logic, preserved in Chinese sources and anterior to Dinnaga; Tarkasastra, Upayahrdaya, Satasastra, Vigrahavyavartani; includes substantial notes, indices of terms, works, and Indian and Chinese authors
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Segalen Victor
OEUVRES I ET II SOUS COFFRET
2 tomes, 16mo reliure, jaquette coffret. Volumes 1 et 2. Segalen, médecin de la Marine, ausculte le monde comme un grand corps. Faire de ce monde une part de soi, tel est pour lui l’enjeu de la littérature. Plus que d’autres, il a le don de percevoir la multiplicité du visible, l’instabilité des choses, la variété du sensible. L’exotisme est son affaire, mais pour en aborder les thèmes il a soin, précaution rare en son temps, de se débarrasser du poncif « palmier, chameau, casque colonial ». Son appétence pour le divers n’est pas d’ordre ethnographique. Ce qu’il vise, c’est « une Esthétique du Divers ».À sa mort à quarante et un ans, en 1919, trois livres seulement avaient paru : Les Immémoriaux, Stèles et Peintures. Des milliers de feuillets manuscrits attendent éditeurs et lecteurs. Les efforts d’Annie Joly-Segalen font peu à peu sortir de l’ombre cet édifice virtuel, « poésie encore ignorée et au sein de laquelle vit un mystère » (Pierre Jean Jouve, 1955). C’est sans doute cette lente maturation qui a fait de l’oeuvre de Segalen notre contemporaine inattendue. La nature des manuscrits, lieu d’un dialogue de l’auteur avec soi-même, interroge la notion même d’oeuvre et rend illusoire toute idée d’exhaustivité. Les genres, fiction, poésie, journal, essai, sont soit combinés, comme dans Le Fils du Ciel, projet d’art total, soit déjoués : « J’étouffe dans le Roman ! »En respectant comme jamais la présentation des documents autographes (images comprises), la présente édition ne renouvelle pas seulement la lecture du Fils du Ciel ou de l’Essai sur l’exotisme elle rend aux textes leur mouvement propre, celui d’une marche vers l’idée grandiose, et chimérique, que l’auteur se faisait de l’oeuvre à laquelle il les destinait. Édition de Christian Doumet avec la collaboration d'Adrien Cavallaro, Jean-François Louette, Andrea Schellino et Maud Schmitt. Préface et notes de Christian Doumet 183x118x70mm 1022g.
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Mungello David E.
Curious Land : Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology. With 20 Plates. Studia Leibnitiana Supplementa Volumen XXV
8vo, br. ed. 412pp. How the Jesuit accomodation to internal events in China laid the foundation for modern study of China in the West. First published as Studia Leibnitiana, Supplementa 25 (1985) by Fritz Steiner Verlag
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Hao Jingfang
Pechino Pieghevole
8vo, br. ed. Pechino è divisa in tre spazi e le ventiquattr’ore di ogni giorno sono state accuratamente organizzate per salvaguardare il tempo e l’aria che respira l’élite, composta da cinque degli ottanta milioni di persone che abitano la metropoli. Tutti gli altri, incastrati nella rigida stratificazione urbana, si spartiscono quello che rimane. Lao Dao è nato nella città pieghevole e lavora in discarica come suo padre. Vive nel sottosuolo, ma per consegnare una lettera in cambio di denaro si intrufolerà negli spazi della classe media e di quella alta, scoprendo l’esistenza di mondi diversi dal suo. Catastrofe ecologica, tecnologie di sorveglianza e disuguaglianze sociali stravolgono il tempo e lo spazio in Pechino pieghevole, l’emblematico racconto che dà il titolo a questa raccolta folgorante, un caso letterario che si inserisce nell’«ultra-irrealismo» (chaohuan), il nuovo genere letterario ispirato dalla realtà allucinata della Cina odierna. Negli undici racconti, Hao esplora la fragilità umana alle prese con gli spettri del cambiamento e del possibile, l’intelligenza artificiale e l’automazione, costruendo una narrazione pervasa di sensibilità per quest’epoca di incertezza, solitudine e disorientamento. Se la science fiction è il realismo dei nostri tempi, Hao Jingfang rivela angolazioni inattese ed estreme da cui osservare il mondo futuro in cui già viviamo. L’ultra-irrealismo di Hao Jingfang ci restituisce un futuro cinese sempre più simile al nostro. – Simone Pieranni L’opera cinese di fantascienza che svela il presente in cui viviamo. – New York Times Dopo questa lettura la realtà non è più la stessa. Teoria scientifica e riflessione politica si uniscono in uno sguardo tagliente sul conflitto di classe e il mondo che abitiamo. – Uncanny Magazine
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Scheidel Walter
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
8vo, hardcover in dj. The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world. The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern world, Escape from Rome offers new answers to some of the biggest questions in history: Why did the Roman Empire appear? Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? And, above all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world? In an absorbing narrative that begins with ancient Rome but stretches far beyond it, from Byzantium to China and from Genghis Khan to Napoleon, Scheidel shows how the demise of Rome and the enduring failure of empire-building on European soil ensured competitive fragmentation between and within states. This rich diversity encouraged political, economic, scientific, and technological breakthroughs that allowed Europe to surge ahead while other parts of the world lagged behind, burdened as they were by traditional empires and predatory regimes that lived by conquest. It wasn’t until Europe "escaped" from Rome that it launched an economic transformation that changed the continent and ultimately the world. What has the Roman Empire ever done for us? Fall and go away. : 94 (Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
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Han Song
I mattoni della rinascita
8vo, br. ed. pp.464, Considerato dalla critica come il “Kafka cinese”, Han Song estrapola scenari grotteschi e personaggi surreali direttamente dall’analisi della realtà. Attraverso una critica sofferta ma spietata, la sua visione del presente somiglia a un gigantesco mostro scaturito dal rapporto ambiguo tra l’innovazione tecnologica odierna e una tradizione che in Cina perdura da cinquemila anni. Che si tratti di viaggiatori di un misterioso aereo-mondo, di ignari cittadini controllati da un fantomatico Comitato delle Tenebre o di feti senzienti e organizzati in una società super-cosciente, in queste storie il processo di modernizzazione cinese, la globalizzazione e lo “spirito orientale” s’incontrano, contorcendosi e dibattendosi alla ricerca di un nuovo senso. Pare quasi che Han Song sia spinto a raccontare dal desidero di comprendere il futuro di quest’entità tanto concreta quanto invisibile – riflesso della Cina e del mondo – che si annida nelle pieghe dell’oggi.“Io scrivo fantascienza bidimensionale, mentre la produzione di Han Song è tridimensionale. Se la fantascienza cinese fosse una piramide, potremmo considerare la mia come le fondamenta del monumento e la sua come la vetta.” Liu CixinHan Song, nato a Chongqing, si è laureato all’Università di Wuhan nel 1991, è direttore del Comitato fantascientifico dell’associazione degli scrittori di scienza popolare, è membro dell’associazione degli scrittori cinesi e lavora presso l’agenzia di stampa Xinhua. Con la sua produzione ha ottenuto il premio Galaxy per la fantascienza cinese, il premio Nebula della lingua cinese e il premio letterario Jingdong. Le sue opere principali includono Metropolitana, Ospedale, Oceano rosso, Marte brilla sugli Stati Uniti, Le tombe del cosmo, I mattoni della rinascita, etc. È stato tradotto in inglese, francese, giapponese, italiano e altre lingue.
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Sorace Christian
Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi
8vo, br. ed. 404pp. Seventy years after the Chinese Revolution of 1949, what remains of Mao&;s communist legacy? Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays from over fifty world-renowned scholars in the China field, from various disciplines and continents. It provides an indispensable guide for understanding how the Mao era continues to shape Chinese politics today. Each chapter discusses a concept or practice from the Mao period, what it attempted to do, and what has become of it since. The authors respond to the legacy of Maoism from numerous perspectives to consider what lessons Chinese communism can offer today, and whether there is a future for the egalitarian politics that it once promised.
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Wright Teresa
Party and State in Post-Mao China
8vo, br. ed. 221pp. In recent decades, China has become a quasi-capitalist economic powerhouse. Yet it continues to be ruled by the same Communist Party-dominated government that has been in power since 1949. But how has China&;s political system achieved such longevity? And what does its stability tell us about the future of authoritarian versus liberal democratic governance?     In this detailed analysis of the deeply intertwined relationship between the ruling Communist Party and governing state, noted China expert Teresa Wright provides insightful answers to these important questions.  Though many believe that the Chinese party-state has maintained its power despite its communist and authoritarian features, Wright argues that the key to its sustained success lies in its careful safeguarding of some key communist and authoritarian characteristics, while simultaneously becoming more open and responsive to public participation.  She contends that China&;s post-Mao party-state compares well to different forms of political rule, including liberal democratic government.  It has fulfilled the necessary functions of a stable governing regime: satisfying key demographic groups and responding to public grievances; maintaining economic stability and growth; and delivering public services - without any real reduction in CCP power and influence.    Questioning current understandings of the nature, strengths, and weaknesses of democracy and authoritarianism, this thought-provoking book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of Chinese politics and international relations.
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Giles Herbert A.
China and the Chinese. March 1902 Delivered at Columbia University New York
8vo, br. ed. pp. 104.
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Chang K. C.
Art, Myth, and Ritual : The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China
Role of urbanization, writing, shamanism, art in the rise of political authority in ancient China. Hardcover, xii + 142 pages. 47 illustr. .x, [2], 142 pp.'Chang demonstrates that political power in the Three Dynasties Period, 2200-200 BC was accumulated by particular dynastic families because they controlled what they claimed was access to the gods . . . they practised divination and shamanism . . .and with their newly invented tool of writing recorded messages of communication with the gods.'
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Jiang Qing, Daniel A. Bell, Ruiping Fan, Edmund Ryden
A Confucian Constitutional Order: How China's Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future
8vo, hardcover in dust jacket, p'p.272. As China continues to transform itself, many assume that the nation will eventually move beyond communism and adopt a Western-style democracy. But could China develop a unique form of government based on its own distinct traditions Jiang Qing--China's most original, provocative, and controversial Confucian political thinker--says yes. In this book, he sets out a vision for a Confucian constitutional order that offers a compelling alternative to both the status quo in China and to a Western-style liberal democracy. A Confucian Constitutional Order is the most detailed and systematic work on Confucian constitutionalism to date.
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Ma Jian
Il Sogno Cinese
8vo, br. ed.
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Eftimiades, Nicholas
Chinese Espionage Operations and Tactics
8vo, br. ed.Mr. Eftimiades’ monograph is an important contribution to our understanding of how and why the Chinese espionage Tsunami has appeared in every aspect of American life from culture to nuclear weapons. It builds on earlier work by Mr. Eftimiades and others on China’s economic and industrial espionage, and exposes the consequences of changes in Chinese law made in 2014 and 2017. These change in law made the conduct of espionage an obligation of citizenship the “must not refuse”. By doing so, China has de facto expanded its relatively small cadre of professional intelligence officers by using the power of the State to compel any of its hundreds of thousands of students and businessmen resident outside of China to undertake espionage missions and in doing so, are overwhelming the counterintelligence resources of the US and allied nations. Dr. William Schneider, former US Undersecretary of State, Arms Control and International Security Affairs. Eftimiades’ meticulously documented study shows how China’s massive ‘whole of society’ approach to espionage has created a new paradigm on how intelligence activities are conducted and provides a cautionary tale for the numerous countries it has been directed against. - June Teufel Dreyer???Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Miami. Know before you buy. This short book is the most detailed work ever published in the unclassified world on China's intelligence tradecraft. It is NOT a causal description of a few cases of Chinese espionage with pictures thrown in for intrigue and excitement. This monograph (50 pages) is a critical analysis of China's current intelligence activities and associated espionage tradecraft. It reviews 595 cases of espionage, economic espionage, covert action, theft of technology and trade secrets. The study identifies and analyzes the specific espionage tradecraft used by China's intelligence services, State Owned Enterprises, universities, private companies, and individuals. This work is for Insider Threat specialists, Intelligence Officers, security professionals, attorneys, policy makers, journalists, and anyone else who needs a detailed understanding of China's espionage operations and tactics.
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Mattis Peter and Matthew Brazil
Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer
8vo, br. ed- 359pp. This is the first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligence operations. It profiles the leaders, top spies, and important operations in the history of China's espionage organs, and links to an extensive online glossary of Chinese language intelligence and security terms. Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil present an unprecedented look into the murky world of Chinese espionage both past and present, enabling a better understanding of how pervasive and important its influence is, both in China and abroad.
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Chen Congzhou
I Giardini Cinesi
8vo, br. ed. illustrazioni ft. a colori.
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Endicott-West Elizabeth
Mongolian Rule in China, Local Administration in the Yuan Dinasty (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series #29)
8vo, hardcover in dj. perfect condition
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Bailey F. M.
No Passport to Tibet
Hardcover. very Good. 294 pages, 8 maps, index, 23cm.
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Richardson, Hugh E.
Tibet and Its History
8vo, 5.75 x 8.75". Cloth. Fine/Good. (two small tears at the edges) First Shambhala Edition. 6" x 8.75". DJ shows shelf-wear, bending & slight tears on top & bottom edges. "This is the only complete history of Tibet in English, a lucid and straightforward history of the country from its beginnings in the sixth century A.D., to the present day. As the official representative of the British and Indian governments at Lhasa for long periods between 1936 and 1950, Hugh Richardson writes from firsthand knowledge of Tibet and its people." Sir Hugh Richardson was well ahead of any Westerner on his day in his knowledge and understanding of Tibetan culture. Certainly he knew more than Tucci, Harrer and Govinda combined about the history of Tibet and its political institutions. 327 pp. incl. index and maps. ISBN: 0877732922
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Simoons, Frederick J.
Food in China: A Cultural and Historical Inqu
large 8vo, hardcver First edition. 559pp + index b/w illustrations large octavo
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Li Ang
La Moglie Del Macellaio
8vo, br. ed. pp.216. Prendendo spunta da un fatto di cronaca realmente accaduto, Li Ang narra la storia di Lin Shi, una povera contadina costretta a sposare un uomo rude e brutale, che per professione macella maiali. L'uomo si fa costantemente beffa delle regole religiose e morali della società in cui vive e non esita ad abusare della moglie, godendo dello stesso perverso piacere che prova sgozzando animali. Lin Shi si ritrova ben presto in una situazione senza via d'uscita: emarginata dalle altre donne del villaggio - che considerano i suoi comportamenti bizzarri e le sue grida di aiuto niente altro che un perverso escamotage sessuale per eccitare il marito - scivola lentamente nella disperazione e nella follia fin quando, una notte, non sarà proprio lei stessa a "macellare" il marito.
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Griffiths John
Tea: The Drink That Changed the World
16mo, hardcover in dj, 384pp, colour & monochrome plate section, sources, index. small former owner's ex-libris sta ow excellent condition. A study of the phenomenon as well as the commodity, this is a comprehensive survey of the drink that is imbibed daily by more than half the population of the world. After water, tea is the second most-consumed drink in the world. Almost every corner of the globe is addressed in this comprehensive look at 4,500 years of tea history. Tea has affected international relations, exposed divisions of class and race, shaped the ethics of business, and even led to significant
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Lee Erika
At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
8vo, br. ed. pp.348. With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a "gatekeeping nation." Immigrant identification, border enforcement, surveillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that had existed in the United States before. Drawing on a rich trove of historical sources--including recently released immigration records, oral histories, interviews, and letters--Lee brings alive the forgotten journeys, secrets, hardships, and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. Her timely book exposes the legacy of Chinese exclusion in current American immigration control and race relations.
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Zheng Tiantian
Red Lights : The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China
8vo, br. ed. used, labels. In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, the entertainment industry, and state power. In Red Lights, Tiantian Zheng highlights the urban karaoke bar as the locus at which these three factors intersect and provides a rich account of the lives of karaoke hostesses-a career whose name disguises the sex work and minimizes the surprising influence these women often have as power brokers.Zheng embarked on two years of intensely embedded ethnographic fieldwork in her birthplace, Dalian, a large northeastern Chinese seaport of over six million people. During this time, Zheng lived and worked with a group of hostesses in a karaoke bar, facing many of the same dangers that they did and forming strong, intimate bonds with them. The result is an especially engaging, moving story of young, rural women struggling to find meaning, develop a modern and autonomous identity, and, ultimately, survive within an oppressively patriarchal state system.Moving from her case studies to broader theories of sex, gender, and power, Zheng connects a growth in capitalist entrepreneurialism to the emergence of an urban sex industry, brilliantly illuminating the ways in which hostesses, their clients, and the state are mutually created in postsocialist China.
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Manion Melanie
Retirement of Revolutionaries in China: Public Policies, Social Norms, Private Interests
8vo, hardcover in dj, In this book Melanie Manion analyzes the largest bloodless circulation of elites in history--the massive retirement of officials in the People's Republic of China. Beginning in 1978 and continuing through the 1980s, Chinese leaders in Beijing replaced millions of old cadres, including veterans of the communist revolution, with younger generations of better educated and less generalist officials. How were the elders persuaded to retire? Manion shows how a norm of age-based exit from office, historically novel in the Chinese communist setting, was engineered by top policymakers and aided by younger cadres. Manion's research combined a wide variety of sources and methods, many new to the study of Chinese politics. The author examined hundreds of party and government documents, surveyed articles in newspapers and journals, and interviewed officials in charge of supervising cadre retirement policy. She first conducted long exploratory interviews with retired cadres, and then designed questionnaires distributed to hundreds of others for quantitative analysis. Finally, to understand the viewpoints of those with the most to gain, she interviewed younger, employed cadres.The result is a rich portrayal of manipulative leadership in post-Mao China, which reveals the key role of the private interests of all the parties involved.
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Wang Jing
The Story of Stone: Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism in Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and The Journey to the West (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
8vo br. ed. In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition-all concerning stones endowed with magical properties-Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore. Wang's thorough and systematic comparison of these classic works illuminates the various tellings of the stone story and provides new insight into major topics in traditional Chinese literature.Bringing together Chinese myth, religion, folklore, art, and literature, this book is the first in any language to amass the sources of stone myth and stone lore in Chinese culture. Uniting classical Chinese studies with contemporary Western theoretical concerns, Wang examines these stone narratives by analyzing intertextuality within Chinese traditions. She offers revelatory interpretations to long-standing critical issues, such as the paradoxical character of the monkey in The Journey to the West, the circularity of narrative logic in The Dream of the Red Chamber, and the structural necessity of the stone tablet in Water Margin.By both challenging and incorporating traditional sinological scholarship, Wang's The Story of Stone reveals the ideological ramifications of these three literary works on Chinese cultural history and makes the past relevant to contemporary intellectual discourse. Specialists in Chinese literature and culture, comparative literature, literary theory, and religious studies will find much of interest in this outstanding work, which is sure to become a standard reference on the subject.
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Anderson E. N.
Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.338. Chinese food is one of the most recognizable and widely consumed cuisines in the world. Almost no town on earth is without a Chinese restaurant of some kind, and Chinese canned, frozen, and preserved foods are available in shops from Nairobi to Quito. But the particulars of Chinese cuisine vary widely from place to place as its major ingredients and techniques have been adapted to local agriculture and taste profiles. To trace the roots of Chinese foodways, one must look back to traditional food systems before the early days of globalization. Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China traces the development of the food systems that coincided with China's emergence as an empire. Before extensive trade and cultural exchange with Europe was established, Chinese farmers and agriculturalists developed systems that used resources in sustainable and efficient ways, permitting intensive and productive techniques to survive over millennia. Fields, gardens, semiwild lands, managed forests, and specialized agricultural landscapes all became part of an integrated network that produced maximum nutrients with minimal input—though not without some environmental cost. E. N. Anderson examines premodern China's vast, active network of trade and contact, such as the routes from Central Asia to Eurasia and the slow introduction of Western foods and medicines under the Mongol Empire. Bringing together a number of new findings from archaeology, history, and field studies of environmental management, Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China provides an updated picture of language relationships, cultural innovations, and intercultural exchanges.
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Wilson Andrew
The 'Ever-Victorious army': a History of the Chinese Campaign Under Lt-Col C.G. Gordon, CB, RE, and of the Suppression of the Tai-Ping Rebellion
8vo, br. ed. Journalist and traveller Andrew Wilson (1831-1881) was born in India to colonial missionaries. Educated in Europe, he later edited the China Mail in Hong Kong, and the Bombay Times. This, his best known work, was published in 1868, and recounts the suppression of the Taiping uprising in 1863-1864 by Colonel Charles G. ('Chinese') Gordon, leading a small multinational force. The Taiping rebellion against the Qing dynasty lasted from 1850 to 1864, and it is estimated that some 20 million people died as a result. Wilson was given access to Gordon's journals to write the book. Wilson was very pro-Chinese, and was quite critical of British colonial policy towards China. Despite this bias, the work contains much fascinating information on nineteenth-century China, and sheds light on the early career of one of Britain's greatest Victorian military heroes.
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Dorina Marlen Heller
China - A Country of Cannibals? The Motif of Cannibalism in Lu Xun's "A Madman's Diary"
8vo, brochure. Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Literature - Asia, grade: 1.0, University of Heidelberg (Institut für Sinologie), course: PS Einführung in die Chinesische Literatur, language: English, abstract: In this essay the focus will be on the motif of cannibalism in "A Madman's Diary" (Kuangren riji), which is the central image of this short-story. I will examine it in the socio-political context the story was written in and analyse possible readings. Furthermore since the meaning of the image of cannibalism in this text has been thoroughly discussed over the last century, I want to go on briefly exploring the choice of this motif itself. Why has Lu Xun chosen this very image of cannibalism and what could we learn from this about the author's view of (traditional) Chinese society? Lu Xun's story has already been interpreted many times and in different ways. However it is and remains a significant and complex literary piece that should be read and interpreted again and again. First of all because of its importance for the history of modern Chinese literature, generally being considered to be the first modern Chinese short-story (Hsia 33) and even more to mark the beginning of modern Chinese literature itself (Chou 1042). Despite this evident contribution to the genre of modern Chinese fiction, Lu Xun's story can also be viewed as a "prototypical text of social protest and criticism in modern Chinese literature" (Tang).
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Jun Jing
The Temple of Memories: History, Power, and Morality in a Chinese Village
8vo, br. ed. This study focuses on the politics of memory in the village of Dachuan in northwest China, in which 85 percent of the villagers are surnamed Kong and believe themselves to be descendants of Confucius. It recounts both how this proud community was subjected to intense suffering during the Maoist era, culminating in its forcible resettlement in December 1960 to make way for the construction of a major hydroelectric dam, and how the village eventually sought recovery through the commemoration of that suffering and the revival of a redefined religion.Before 1949, the Kongs had dominated their area because of their political influence, wealth, and, above all, their identification with Confucius, whose precepts underlay so much of the Chinese ethical and political tradition. After the Communists came to power in 1949, these people, as a literal embodiment of the Confucian heritage, became prime targets for Maoist political campaigns attacking the traditional order, from land reform to the ?Criticize Confucius? movement. Many villagers were arrested, three were beheaded, and others died in labor camps. When the villagers were forced to hastily abandon their homes and the village temple, they had time to disinter only the bones of their closest family members; the tombs of earlier generations were destroyed by construction workers for the dam.
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Peh-T'i Wei Betty
Shanghai Crucible of Modern China
8vo, br. ed. 299 pp. 16 pp. of historical photos and illustrations, glossary, bibliography. Glossy stiff wraps showing a color cartoon of Chinese and British negotiating at Tientsin in 1858. Light wear, Previous owner's name on endpaper. Light creasing of spine. A few notes and marks in red ink in margins of a few pages toward the rear, text mostly clean. A short political and economic history of a key Chinese trading center, as it dealt with western nations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Maps of Shanghai and China on the endpapers. ".[A] good story told with wit, verve and a sharp eye for the details of compelling local history, such as a British geological survey that found that the subsoil of Shanghai could only stand buildings of six floors, whereas London could take sixty, and New York and Hong Kong any number, a fetching snapshot of Daisy Wang, Miss Shanghai 1947, the price of rice, or the pseudo-urbanization that happened when a lumpen proletariat descended on Shanghai.She gives a sanitized version [of Chiang Kai-shek's 12 April 1927 massacre of communists and leftists] in which a total of 16 5 people were executed. There is no sense here that Chiang's men butchered for an eight-hour day and bled trade unionism dry."--Herman Mast III (University of Connecticut) ; "A Chinese city which owes a great debt to Western influence, Shanghai is the largest city in Asia, and one of its most fascinating. Complete with anecdotes and vignettes of everyday life, this vivid biography traces the city's transformation from treaty port to the commercial, industrial, and financial centre that played a vital role in the development of China's political and social consciousness."
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Wu Qingyun
Female Rule in Chinese and English Literary Utopias
8vo, br. ed. This comparative study of paired English and Chinese works presenting female rule, spans texts from the 16th to the 20th century. The works examined include Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen. .240 pages
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