‎China‎

‎N. Harry Rothschild (a cura di), Leslie V. Wallace‎

‎Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China‎

‎8vo, br. ed. Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China presents a rogues’ gallery of treacherous regicides, impious monks, cutthroat underlings, ill-bred offspring, and disloyal officials. It plumbs the dark matter of the human condition, placing front and center transgressive individuals and groups traditionally demonized by Confucian annalists and largely shunned by modern scholars. The work endeavors to apprehend the actions and motivations of these men and women, whose conduct deviated from normative social, cultural, and religious expectations. Early chapters examine how core Confucian bonds such as those between parents and children, and ruler and minister, were compromised, even severed. The living did not always reverently pay homage to the dead, children did not honor their parents with due filiality, a decorous distance was not necessarily observed between sons and stepmothers, and subjects often pursued their own interests before those of the ruler or the state. The elasticity of ritual and social norms is explored: Chapters on brazen Eastern Han (25–220) mourners and deviant calligraphers, audacious falconers, volatile Tang (618–907) Buddhist monks, and drunken Song (960–1279) literati reveal social norms treated not as universal truths but as debated questions of taste wherein political and social expedience both determined and highlighted individual roles within larger social structures and defined what was and was not aberrant. A Confucian predilection to “valorize [the] civil and disparage the martial” and Buddhist proscriptions on killing led literati and monks alike to condemn the cruelty and chaos of war. The book scrutinizes cultural attitudes toward military action and warfare, including those surrounding the bloody and capricious world of the Zuozhuan (Chronicle of Zuo), the relentless violence of the Five Dynasties and Ten States periods (907–979), and the exploits of Tang warrior priests—a series of studies that complicates the rhetoric by situating it within the turbulent realities of the times. By the end of this volume, readers will come away with the understanding that behaving badly in early and medieval China was not about morality but perspective, politics, and power.‎

‎Katz Paul R.‎

‎Demon Hordes and Burning Boats: The Cult of Marshal Wen in Late Imperial Chekiang‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 284pp. Provides a lively description of how the cult of a popular plague-fighting deity named Marshal Wen arose and spread in late imperial China. Paul R. Katz is a Assistant Professor in the Institute of History at National Central University in Taiwan.‎

‎WANG SHeng-Wei‎

‎The Last Journey of the San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 400pp. From 1405, in order to maintain and expand the Ming Dynasty’s tributary system, Yongle Emperor Zhu Di (reigning 1402-1424) and Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji (reigning 1425-1435) ordered eunuch Zheng He to lead giant fleets across the seas. But soon after Zheng He’s seventh and last voyage in the 1430s, the Ming emperors put an end to this activity and ordered all records of previous voyages to be destroyed. Chinese writer Luo Maodeng (???), knowing the history of some of these voyages, wished to preserve a record of them, but, conscious of the possible penalty, decided to record the facts “under a veil”, in his 1597 novel, An Account of the Western World Voyage of the San Bao Eunuch («???????»). This is what Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang has concluded after reading and analysing Luo’s novel. Her book, The last journey of the San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He, shows the methodology and evidential arguments by which she has sought to lift the veil and the conclusions she suggests, including the derivation of the complete trans-Atlantic navigational routes and timelines of that last journey and the idea that Zheng He’s last expedition plausibly reached the ancient American Indian city, Cahokia, in the U.S. central Mississippi Valley in late autumn, 1433, long before Christopher Columbus set foot for the first time in the Americas. She supports the hotly debated view that Ming Chinese sailors and ships reached farther than previously accepted in modern times and calls for further research. She hopes this book will become an important step in bridging the gap in our understanding of ancient China-America history in the era before the Age of Discovery. An interesting contribution to an ongoing debate. This edition has 48 scattered b/w illustrations and 8 b/w plates.‎

‎Cohen, Paul A.‎

‎China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past‎

‎8vo, br. ed. contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of such key events in the recent history of China as the boxer rebellion, Mao's ascension to power in 1949, and the process of political and economic reform in the post-Mao era. This is a strong collection which will be of enormous interest to scholars of East Asian history.‎

‎Fokkema Douwe‎

‎Perfect Worlds: Utopian Fiction in China and the West‎

‎8vo, br. ed.448pp. Perfect Worlds is an extensive, comparative study of utopian narratives in both the East and the West. Douwe Fokkema provides an elegant argument about the human impulse to imagine new and better worlds, astutely observing that the utopian imagination thrives in the context of secularization. Fokkema also tracks the rise of dystopian narratives, invoking authors as diverse as Margaret Atwood and Lao She, and provides a cogent evaluation of the role of imagined worlds in both Chinese and Euro-American fiction. A shrewd comparison of cultures, as well as a vivid account of cross-cultural influence, this volume is a welcome addition to the scholarly discourse on utopias. Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses, among other things, More?s criticism of Plato, the European orientalist search for utopia in China, Wells?s Modern Utopia and his talk with Stalin, Chinese writers constructing their Confucianist utopia, traces of Daoism in Mao Zedong?s utopianism and politics and finally the rise of dystopian writing ? a negative expression of the utopian impulse ? in Europe and America as well as in China.‎

‎Lu Wenfu‎

‎Vita e passione di un gastronomo Cinese‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.144. in -8 (14 x 22 cm.), brossura editoriale con alette col. beige con illustr. a colori e titoli in nero sul piatto ant., pp. 140, (4). In ottime condizioni. Collana: NARRATORI DELLA FENICE - Traduzione e nota sull'autore di Cristina Pisciotta.‎

‎Jin Feng‎

‎Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 216pp. Preparing and consuming food is an integral part of identity formation, which in contemporary China embodies tension between fast-forward modernization and cultural nostalgia. Jin Feng?s wide-ranging exploration of cities in the Lower Yangzi Delta?or Jiangnan, a region known for its paradisiacal beauty and abundant resources?illustrates how people preserve culinary inheritance while also revamping it for the new millennium. Throughout Chinese history, food nostalgia has generated cultural currency for individuals. Feng examines literary treatments of Jiangnan foodways from late imperial and twentieth-century China, highlighting the role played by gender and tracing the contemporary metamorphosis of this cultural landscape, with its new platforms for food culture, such as television and the internet. As communities in Jiangnan refashion their regional heritage, culinary arts shine as markers of ethnic and social distinction. Jin Feng is professor of Chinese and the Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature at Grinnell College. She is the author of Romancing the Internet: Consuming and Producing Chinese Web Romance, The Making of a Family Saga: Ginling College (1915-1952), and The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction. She is also the translator of Chen Hengzhe's Early Autobiography and the editor of Nostalgia and the Modern City.‎

‎Aresu Alessandro‎

‎Le potenze del capitalismo politico. Stati Uniti e Cina‎

‎8vo, br. ed. "La difesa è molto più importante della ricchezza". Adam Smith segna così i confini dell'economia politica, nel momento della sua nascita. Anche oggi il mercato ha il suo unico limite nella sicurezza nazionale, dominio arcano dei grandi contendenti dell'arena globale, gli Stati Uniti e la Cina. Le due potenze fondono l'ambito economico e quello politico, attraverso le decisioni del Partito comunista cinese e degli apparati di difesa e sicurezza nazionale degli Stati Uniti. Pechino e Washington vivono un acceso conflitto di geodiritto: una guerra giuridica e tecnologica combattuta attraverso sanzioni, uso politico delle istituzioni internazionali, blocchi agli investimenti esteri. Partendo dalla filosofia, Alessandro Aresu traccia un percorso chiaro che porta il lettore fino alla più recente attualità, descrivendo in dettaglio il conflitto tra diritto ed economia in atto tra Stati Uniti e Cina.‎

‎Wang Di‎

‎The Teahouse under Socialism: The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 1950-2000‎

‎8vo,br. ed. 311pp. To understand a city fully, writes Di Wang, we must observe its most basic units of social life. In The Teahouse under Socialism, Wang does just that, arguing that the teahouses of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, are some of the most important public spaces—perfect sites for examining the social and economic activities of everyday Chinese. Wang looks at the transformation of these teahouses from private businesses to collective ownership and how state policy and the proprietors’ response to it changed the overall economic and social structure of the city. He uses this transformation to illuminate broader trends in China’s urban public life from 1950 through the end of the Cultural Revolution and into the post-Mao reform era. In doing so, The Teahouse under Socialism charts the fluctuations in fortune of this ancient cultural institution and analyzes how it survived, and even thrived, under bleak conditions. Throughout, Wang asks such questions as: Why and how did state power intervene in the operation of small businesses? How was "socialist entertainment" established in a local society? How did the well-known waves of political contestation and struggle in China change Chengdu’s teahouses and public life? In the end, Wang argues, the answers to such questions enhance our understanding of public life and political culture in the Communist state.‎

‎Unger Jonathan, Ed.‎

‎Chinese Nationalism‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 236pp. Provides conceptual insights that put the reader in a position to come to grips intellectually with the complex weave of Chinese nationalist sentiment today and in the future. contents: Introduction / Jonathan Unger 1. Chinese Nationalism / James Townsend 2. De-Constructing the Chinese Nation / Prasenjit Duara 3. The Nationless State: The Search for a Nation in Modern Chinese Nationalism / John Fitzgerald 4. How China's Nationalism Was Shanghaied / Lucian W. Pye 5. Openness and Nationalism: Outside the Chinese Revolution / Wang Gungwu 6. From Nationalism to Nationalizing: Cultural Imagination and State Formation in Postwar Taiwan / Allen Chun 7. 'Special Things in Special Ways': National Economic Identity and China's Special Economic Zones / George T. Crane 8. A Democratic Chinese Nationalism? / Edward Friedman 9. To Screw Foreigners Is Patriotic: China's Avant-Garde Nationalists / Geremie R. Barmé.‎

‎Ackerman Elliot, Admiral James Stavridis‎

‎2034: A Novel of the Next World War‎

‎8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.303. From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic, geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major Chris "Wedge" Mitchell is flying an F35E Lightning over the Strait of Hormuz, testing a new stealth technology as he flirts with Iranian airspace. By the end of that day, Wedge will be an Iranian prisoner, and Sarah Hunt's destroyer will lie at the bottom of the sea, sunk by the Chinese Navy. Iran and China have clearly coordinated their moves, which involve the use of powerful new forms of cyber weaponry that render US ships and planes defenseless. In a single day, America's faith in its military's strategic pre-eminence is in tatters. A new, terrifying era is at hand. So begins a disturbingly plausible work of speculative fiction, co-authored by an award-winning novelist and decorated Marine veteran and the former commander of NATO, a legendary admiral who has spent much of his career strategically out maneuvering America's most tenacious adversaries. Written with a powerful blend of geopolitical sophistication and literary, human empathy, 2034 takes us inside the minds of a global cast of characters--Americans, Chinese, Iranians, Russians, Indians--as a series of arrogant miscalculations on all sides leads the world into an intensifying international storm. In the end, China and the United States will have paid a staggering cost, one that forever alters the global balance of power. Everything in 2034 is an imaginative extrapolation from present-day facts on the ground combined with the authors' years working at the highest and most classified levels of national security. Sometimes it takes a brilliant work of fiction to illuminate the most dire of warnings: 2034 is all too close at hand, and this cautionary tale presents the reader a dark yet possible future that we must do all we can to avoid. Admiral Jim Stavridis, USN (Ret.) spent more than thirty years in the US Navy, rising to the rank of four-star admiral. He was Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and previously commanded US Southern Command, overseeing military operations through Latin America. At sea, he commanded a Navy destroyer, a destroyer squadron, and an aircraft carrier battle group in combat. He holds a PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he recently served five years as dean. He has published eight previous books. Admiral Stavridis is Chief International Security and Diplomacy Analyst for NBC News, and a columnist at both Time magazine and Bloomberg Opinion. Based in Washington, D.C., he is an operating executive of the Carlyle Group, an international private equity firm. Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novels Red Dress In Black and White, Waiting for Eden, Dark at the Crossing, and Green on Blue, as well as the memoir Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning. His books have been nominated for the National Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in both fiction and non-fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is both a former White House Fellow and Marine, and served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart.‎

‎Brunori Maurizio‎

‎Il Grande Eunuco‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.182‎

‎Choy Howard Yuen Fung‎

‎Remapping the Past : Fictions of History in Deng's China, 1979-1997 (Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography) (ISBN:9004167048)‎

‎8vo, hardcover ex-library with stamps and pastedowns, ow. good, no undelinings or highlighting. Synopsis: The most prominent literary phenomenon in the 1980s and 1990s in China, historical fiction, has never been systematically surveyed in Anglophone scholarship. This is the first investigation into how, by rewriting the past, writers of Deng Xiaoping's reform era undermined the grand narrative of official history. It showcases fictions of history by eleven native Chinese, Muslim and Tibetan authors. The four chapters are organized in terms of spatial schemes of fictional historiography, namely, regional histories and family romances, discourses on diaspora and myths of minorities, nostalgia for the hometown in the country and the city, as well as the bodily text and the textual body, thus broadly covering the eternal themes of memory, language, food, sex, and violence in historical writing. About the Author: Howard Y. F. Choy is assistant professor at Wittenberg University. He received his Ph.D. in comparative literature and humanities from the University of Colorado (2004) and is the assistant author of The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Confucianism (New York: Rosen, 2005). Ex-Library‎

‎Ramazzotti Sergio‎

‎La birra di Shaoshan. Viaggio nel paese natale di Mao‎

‎8vo, br. ed.‎

‎Santelli Filippo‎

‎La Cina non è una sola. Tensioni e paradossi della superpotenza Asiatica‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 258pp. «Ciò che accade in Cina è la nostra quotidianità». Il trauma del coronavirus, dilagato in tutto il mondo dalla lontana metropoli di Wuhan, ha dato una brusca accelerazione a un processo in atto da anni nell'opinione pubblica occidentale. Di Cina non si è mai parlato così tanto: dalla Via della Seta all'antagonismo con gli Stati Uniti, dalla travolgente crescita economica al mancato rispetto dei diritti umani, questo vasto impero è sempre più al centro di sentimenti e previsioni contrastanti, che lo danno di volta in volta destinato al dominio planetario o a un repentino tracollo. È quell'approccio emotivo e «schizofrenico» definito anche «sinofrenia». Per comprendere davvero questo Paese e le sue prospettive bisogna conoscere le «tante Cine» che oggi convivono dietro l'apparente compattezza e che Filippo Santelli racconta in questo libro. Perché la Cina è un inestricabile groviglio di forze e debolezze, di tensioni difficili da comporre che interagiscono lungo linee di faglia geografiche, economiche, sociali e culturali: la ricchezza ostentata delle classi più elevate e la povertà diffusa nelle aree rurali e tra le pieghe delle metropoli; la corsa verso l'innovazione e la visione patriarcale che penalizza le donne in famiglia e nel lavoro; la spietata competizione negli studi e la sua contropartita di ansia, frustrazione, paura del futuro; la diffusione di stili di vita e brand occidentali e un tenace e orgoglioso nazionalismo; le ambizioni di egemonia internazionale che suscitano diffidenza e compromettono le alleanze; la questione ambientale e quella demografica. Il risultato è «un Paese in bilico tra sicurezze e insicurezze, tra evoluzione e involuzione». Ne è un chiaro esempio la gestione dell'epidemia di Covid-19, prima colpevolmente trascurata e nascosta dal governo di Pechino, poi efficacemente gestita con un'inflessibilità che l'autore ha sperimentato in prima persona nella sua quarantena ospedaliera a Nanchino. Un evento emblematico di tutti i chiaroscuri della Cina odierna. Sarà l'equilibrio di queste tensioni a decidere il futuro del Dragone, e il nostro.‎

‎Vibeke Boerdahl Ed.‎

‎The Eternal Storyteller: Oral Literature in Modern China‎

‎8vo, hardcover, 388pp. Chinese storytelling has survived through more than a millennium into our own time, while similar oral arts have fallen into oblivion in the West. Under the main heading of 'The Eternal Storyteller', in August 1996 the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies hosted an International Workshop on Oral Literature in Modern China. To this meeting, the first of its kind in Europe, five special guests were invited - master tellers from Yangzhou: Wang Xizotang, Li Xintang, Fei Zhengliang, Dai Buzhang and Hui Zhaolong. The volume derived from this meeting includes an introductory article written by John Miles Foley entitled 'A Comparative View on Oral Traditions'. Thereafter, a wide range of topics relating to Chinese oral literature is covered under the headings: 'Historical Lines', 'A Spectrium of Genres', 'Studies of Yangzhou and Suzhou Story- telling' and 'Performances of Yangzhou Storytelling'. However, the present volume does more than include papers derived from the meeting. It is also lavishly illustrated in word and picture from performances by the guest-storytellers. In so doing, the world of Chinese story telling is not just described and analysed - it is also brought to life.‎

‎Chicharro Gladys‎

‎Le fardeau des petits empereurs : Une génération d'enfants uniques en Chine‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.319. En lançant la politique de l'enfant unique en 1979 simultanément aux grandes réformes économiques, le gouvernement chinois entendait accélérer la modernisation. Bien qu'il se réclame toujours du marxisme, le " socialisme de marché " est désormais prôné. La population est encouragée à s'enrichir et le pays se trouve de plus en plus intégré dans les processus de la mondialisation. A partir d'une étude de terrain menée dans la ville nouvelle de Langfang (province du Hebei), site d'une modernité utopique, ce livre porte sur le façonnement de la première génération d'enfants uniques. Dans un pays où les, structures familiales sont fondées sur le culte des ancêtres et un système de filiation strictement patrilinéaire, la position d'unique descendant occupée aujourd'hui par tous les enfants uniques les rend particulièrement précieux aux yeux de leur entourage et leur vaut le surnom de " petits empereurs ". Cependant, on évoque aussi souvent leur lourd " fardeau ", car ils se trouvent également seuls pour réaliser les attentes et assurer l'avenir de leurs parents. Ce contexte de profondes mutations (familiales et économiques) place les enfants uniques au coeur du problème que pose la transmission face à une situation radicalement nouvelle. Quc transmettent les familles dans un environnement bouleversé ? Qu'en dire au regard de l'éducation scolaire qui met directement en application les volontés gouvernementales ? En définitive, qui sont les nouveaux sujets chinois, " petits empereurs " d'un pays communiste qui pratique le libéralisme économique ? Force est de constater qu'ils ne sont pas passifs. Acteurs à part entière de leur vie et du monde, ils sont créateurs de culture. Maître de conférences à l'université paris VIII et membre du laboratoire Experice, Gladys Chicharro est ethnologue, docteur de l'Université Paris X-Nanterre. Ses travaux, menés depuis 1999 en Chine, portent sur l'éducation et la transmission aussi bien scolaire que familiale, l'enfance et les pratiques d'écriture. Elle a notamment publié " Qban yumen : Histoire d'un manuel chinois alternatif " (in B. Baptandier & G. Charuty, Du corps au texte. Approches comparatives, Nanterre, Société d'ethnologie, 2008) et " Education physique et incorporation de la morale dans les écoles élémentaires en République populaire de Chine " , Perspectives Chinoises, n°102, 2008.‎

‎Vandermeersch Léon‎

‎La Formation du Légisme - Recherche sur la Constitution d'une Philosophie Politique Caractéristique de la Chine Ancienne‎

‎8vo grande, XI-299 pp., broché, couvertures imprimées, lièves soulignures, autrement très bon état général.‎

‎Ford, Randolph B.‎

‎Rome, China, and the Barbarians: Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires‎

‎8vo, hardcover in dj. This book addresses a largely untouched historical problem: the fourth to fifth centuries AD witnessed remarkably similar patterns of foreign invasion, conquest, and political fragmentation in Rome and China. Yet while the Western Roman Empire was never reestablished, China was reunified at the end of the sixth century. Following a comparative discussion of earlier historiographical and ethnographic traditions in the classical Greco-Roman and Chinese worlds, the book turns to the late antique/early medieval period, when the Western Roman Empire 'fell' and China was reconstituted as a united empire after centuries of foreign conquest and political division. Analyzing the discourse of ethnic identity in the historical texts of this later period, with original translations by the author, the book explores the extent to which notions of Self and Other, of 'barbarian' and 'civilized', help us understand both the transformation of the Roman world as well as the restoration of a unified imperial China.‎

‎Billeter Jean-François‎

‎L'art Chinois De L'écriture‎

‎In 4', cart. ed. con sovrac., pp. 324, ill. in n. e col. n.t., in francese; strappetti ai margini della sovrac, en français, trés petites dechirures en marge de la jaquette, autrerment comme neuf. Editions Skira, 1989, in-4 relié pleine toile d'édition sous jaquette d'édition illustrée couleurs. 319 pages. Riche iconographie couleurs et noir et blanc. Parfaite condition. Sa thèse mise à part, le seul livre que J.F. Billeter ait publié pendant ses années d’enseignement est L’Art chinois de l’écriture, paru chez Skira en 1989, illustré en noir et blanc et en couleurs. Cet ouvrage de synthèse sur la calligraphie chinoise traite des caractéristiques de l’écriture chinoise, de la technique du pinceau, du passage de l’écriture à la calligraphie proprement dite, de ce que les calligraphes de différentes époques ont dit de leur pratique, des diverses fonctions qu’a remplies la calligraphie. Des rapprochements sont faits avec la pratique de la peinture, du dessin et surtout l’exécution musicale en Europe. Une version remaniée de l’ouvrage a paru chez Allia en 2010 sous une forme plus maniable, illustrée en noir et blanc seulement. Le chapitre final (ch.9) a été réécrit. Il jette sur l’ensemble du sujet un jour qui n’est plus tout à fait le même que dans la première édition. J.F. Billeter y met en lumière la relation intime qui unissait l’art chinois de l’écriture, un certain culte de l’écriture et une civilisation qui était aussi, sous l’empire, un ordre politique‎

‎Fong, Wen C., Alfreda Murck, Shou-chien Shih, Pao-chen Ch'en, Jan Stuart‎

‎IMAGES OF THE MIND: Selections from the Edward L. Elliott Family and John B. Elliott Collections of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting At the Art Museum, Princeton University‎

‎folio in color-illustrated wraps, with orange text on predominantly green spine. With black & white and full-color illustrations. 504 pp. selections from the Edward L. Elliott Family and John B. Elliot Collections of Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings at The Art Museum , Princeton University. please inquire on shipping for international orders. Catalogue of an exhibition held April 15-June 17, 1984. Bibliography: p. 491-493. Subjects Elliott family - Exhibitions.‎

‎Unger Jonathan, Ed.‎

‎Using the past to Serve the Present: Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China‎

‎Paperback. Like New. History. book is unread pages are tight crisp/clean. Contents: The play's the thing': Wu Han and Hai Rui revisited / Tom Fisher -- 'In guise of a congratulation': political symbolism in Zhou Xinfang's play Hai Rui submits his memorial / Rudolf G. Wagner -- The strange case of Liu Zhidan / David Holm -- Qu Yuan and the artists: ancient symbols and modern politics in the post-Mao era / Ralph Croizier -- Party historiography / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- The controversy over 'Feudal despotism': politics and historiography in China, 1978-82 / Lawrence R. Sullivan -- 'The spiritual heritage of Chinese capitalism': recent trends in the historiography of Chinese enterprise management / Tim Wright -- Socialism with Chinese characteristics: Sun Yatsen and the international development of China / Michael R. Godley -- History of the masses / Geremie Barmé.‎

‎Jullien François‎

‎La Valeur allusive : Des catégories originales de l'interprétation poétique dans la tradition chinoise, contribution à une réflexion sur l'altérité interculturelle [Publications de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, v. 144.]‎

‎4to, br. ed. 312 pp. Elégante édition originale qu'on ne saurait confondre avec la réédition.‎

‎Sellmann James D.‎

‎Timing and Rulership in Master Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals (Lushi Chunqiu): Lushi Chunqiu (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 178pp. Explores proper timing and the arts of rulership in the work that inspired China's first emperor. ames D. Sellmann is Professor of Philosophy and Director of East Asian Studies at the University of Guam.‎

‎Cheek Timothy Tony Saich Edts.‎

‎New Perspectives on State Socialism in China‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 424pp. ex library stamps ow. good. no underlinings or highlights. Placing Chinese Community Party history in the realm of social history and comparative politics, this text studies the roots of the policy failures of the late Maoist period and the tenacity of the CCP. Introduction: The Making and Breaking of the Party-State in China / Timothy Cheek 1. The Construction of Spatial Hierarchies: China's Hukou and Danwei Systems / Tiejun Cheng and Mark Selden 2. The United Front Redefined for the Party-State: A Case Study of Transition and Legitimation / Mary G. Mazur 3. The Mechanics of State Propaganda: The People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union in the 1950s / Julian Chang 4. Building the Party-State in China, 1949-1965: Bringing the Soldier Back In / David Shambaugh 5. The Politics of an "Un-Maoist" Interlude: The Case of Opposing Rash Advance, 1956-1957 / Frederick C. Teiwes and Warren Sun 6. Localism, Central Policy, and the Provincial Purges of 1957-1958: The Case of Zhejiang / Keith Forster 7. Shanghai's Strike Wave of 1957 / Elizabeth J. Perry 8. Surviving the Great Leap Famine: The Struggle Over Rural Policy, 1958-1962 / Dali L. Yang Conclusion: Uncertain Legacies of Revolution / Tony Saich. Newly Available Sources on CCP History from the People's Republic of China / Nancy Hearst and Tony Saich Interviews on Party History / Frederick C. Teiwes Mendacity and Veracity in the Recent Chinese Communist Memoir Literature / Joshua A. Fogel The National Defense University's Teaching Reference Materials / Warren Sun Researching China's Provinces / Keith Forster.‎