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Anderson E. N.
Everyone Eats: Understanding Food And Culture
8vo, br. ed. 249pp. Everyone eats, but rarely do we ask why or investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional reasons for why humans eat, resulting in a unique cultural and biological approach to the topic. E. N. Anderson explains the economics of food in the globalization era, food's relationship to religion, medicine, and ethnicity as well as offers suggestions on how to end hunger, starvation, and malnutrition. Everyone Eats feeds our need to understand human ecology by explaining the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment.
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Kerner, Susanne (Editor)/ Chou, Cynthia (Editor)/ Warmind, Morten (Editor)
Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast
8vo, br. ed. Throughout time and in every culture, human beings have eaten together. Commensality - eating and drinking at the same table - is a fundamental social activity, which creates and cements relationships. It also sets boundaries, including or excluding people according to a set of criteria defined by the society. Particular scholarly attention has been paid to banquets and feasts, often hosted for religious, ritualistic or political purposes, but few studies have considered everyday mensality: From Everyday Food to Feast offers an insight into this social practice in all its forms, from the most basic and mundane meals to the grandest occasions. Bringing together insights from anthropologists, archaeologists and historians, this volume offers a vast historical scope, ranging from the Late Neolithic period (6th millennium BC), through the Middle Ages, to the present day. The sixteen chapters include case studies from across the world, including the USA, Bolivia, China, Southeast Asia, Iran, Turkey, Portugal, Denmark and the UK. Connecting these diverse analyses is an understanding of commensality's role as a social and political tool, integral to the formation of personal and national om first experiences of commensality in the sharing of food between a mother and child, to the inaugural dinner of the American president, this collection of essays celebrates the variety of human life and society.
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Tsai Jacqueline
La Chine et le Luxe
8vo, br. ed. 258pp. Voici une véritable histoire de la Chine, des temps ancestraux à la modernité la plus actuelle, à travers les représentations et la pratique du luxe. Pourquoi le jade incarne-t-il le luxe éternel pour les Chinois ? Que révèle l'art de vivre du lettré ? Qu'évoquent les "pieds bandés" ? Que dévoilent la robe fendue et les talons hauts de la Shanghaienne des années 1930 ? Comment expliquer le succès des grands centres commerciaux à Hong Kong, dans les années 1980-1990, et désormais à Shanghai ? Que préfigurent le renouveau des maisons de thé à l'ancienne, le réenchantement de l'âge d'or de Shanghai ou l'intérêt pour les antiquités chinoises ? À travers ces exemples-phares, c'est la société chinoise dans son évolution et ses tendances qui est explorée. Entre histoire de la culture et état des lieux des modes et des tendances, ce livre est aussi un révélateur des ambitions de la Chine actuelle et de ses rapports avec l'Occident. Après le travail et la productivité, le luxe sera-t-il le prochain territoire qu'elle entend dominer ? Docteur de l'université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV), Jacqueline Tsai est responsable études et veille économique chez Louis Vuitton.
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Raphals Lisa
Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece
8vo, hardcover in dj, as new. xviii + 273pp., appends., bibliog., index, For the craft of Odysseus and the wisdom of Athena were examples of metis, an elusive cast of mind that ranged from wisdom and forethought to craft and cunning. Although it informed many aspects of Greek society, metis was all but absent from the language of Greek philosophy. Invoking indigenous Chinese debates, Lisa Raphals here examines the role and significance of metic intelligence in classical Chinese philosophy, literature, history, and military strategy.Raphals first examines the range of meanings of the Chinese word zhi. As with the Greek metis, the uses of zhi include "wisdom," "knowledge," "intelligence," "skill," "cleverness," and "cunning." Drawing on parallels between the two traditions, she argues that, in China as in Greece, metic intelligence tacitly informed many aspects of cultural and social life. In China, these included views of the nature of knowledge and language, standards of personal and social morality, and theories of military strategy and statecraft. After surveying representative texts from the Warring States period, Raphals considers the function of metic intelligence as the dominant quality of central characters in two novels from the Ming dynasty, the Romance of Three Kingdoms and Journey to the West. Finally, she compares the treatment of themes of heroism and recognition in the Chinese and Greek narrative traditions.
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Schram Stuart R. Editor
Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949. Voume II National Revolution and Social Revolution December 1920 - June 1927
8vo, hardcover, pp. lxii- 544.The projected ten-volume edition of Mao Zedong's writings provides abundant documentation in his own words regarding his life and thought. It has been compiled from all available Chinese sources, including the many new texts that appeared in 1993, Mao's centenary.
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Tsui Brian
China's Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New Order, 1927 1949
8vo, br. ed. 303pp. n this ambitious examination of the complex political culture of China under Guomindang rule, Brian Tsui interweaves political ideologies, intellectual trends, social movements and diplomatic maneuvers to demonstrate how the Chinese revolution became conservative after the anti-Communist coup of 1927. Dismissing violent struggles for class equality as incompatible with nationalist goals, Chiang Kai-shek's government should, Tsui argues, be understood in the context of the global ascendance of radical right-wing movements during the inter-war period. The Guomindang's revolutionary nation-building and modernization project struck a chord with China's reformist liberal elite, who were wary of mob rule, while its obsession with Eastern spirituality appealed to Indian nationalists fighting Western colonialism. The Nationalist vision was defined by the party-state's hostility to communist challenges as much as by its ability to co-opt liberalism and Pan-Asianist anti-colonialism. Tsui's revisionist reading revisits the peculiarities of the Guomindang's revolutionary enterprise, resituating Nationalist China in the moment of global radical right ascendancy.
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Qu Yuan and Others
The Songs of the South: An Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems By Qu Yuan And Other Poets
16mo, br. ed. pp.352, The Songs of the South is an anthology first compiled in the second century A.D. Its poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under seventeen titles and contain all that we know of Chinese poetry's ancient beginnings. The earliest poems were composed in the fourth century B.C. and almost half of them are traditionally ascribed to Qu Yuan.
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Crump J. I. Ed.
Legends of the Warring States: Persuasions, Romances, and Stories from Chan-Kuo Tse
8vo, br. ed. pp.189. Lively accounts of political intrigue and other lore from early China.
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Chin Tamara T.
Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination
8vo, br. ed. 380pp. Savage Exchange explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE?220 CE) at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance (?Silk Road?) markets. Tamara T. Chin explains why rival political groups introduced new literary forms with which to represent these expanded markets. To promote a radically quantitative approach to the market, some thinkers developed innovative forms of fiction and genre. In opposition, traditionalists reasserted the authority of classical texts and advocated a return to the historical, ethics-centered, marriage-based, agricultural economy that these texts described. The discussion of frontiers and markets thus became part of a larger debate over the relationship between the world and the written word. These Han debates helped to shape the ways in which we now define and appreciate early Chinese literature and produced the foundational texts of Chinese economic thought. Each chapter in the book examines a key genre or symbolic practice (philosophy, fu-rhapsody, historiography, money, kinship) through which different groups sought to reshape the political economy. By juxtaposing well-known texts with recently excavated literary and visual materials, Chin elaborates a new literary and cultural approach to Chinese economic thought.
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Sterckx Roel Ed,
Animals Through Chinese History Earliest Times to 1911
8vo, br. ed, 390pp. This volume opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. As environmental historians turn their attention to expanded chronologies of natural change, something new can be said about human history through animals and about the globally diverse cultural and historical dynamics that have led to perceptions of animals as wild or cultures as civilized. This innovative collection of essays spanning Chinese history reveals how relations between past and present, lived and literary reality, have been central to how information about animals and the natural world has been processed and evaluated in China. Drawing on an extensive array of primary sources, ranging from ritual texts to poetry to veterinary science, this volume explores developments in the human-animal relationship through Chinese history and the ways in which the Chinese have thought about the world with and through animals. This title is also available as Open Access.
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Mungello David E.
The Great Encounter of China and the West 1500-1800
8vo, cloth in dj. ex-library. In the twenty-first century, China has emerged as the leading challenger to U.S. global dominance. China is often seen as a sleeping giant, emerging out of poverty, backwardness, and totalitarianism and moving toward modernization. However, history shows that this vast country is not newly awakening, but rather returning to its previous state of world eminence. With this compelling perspective in mind, D. E. Mungello convincingly shows that contemporary relations between China and the West are far more like the 1500-1800 period than the more recent past. This fully revised second edition retains the clear and concise qualities of its predecessor, while developing important new social and cultural themes such as gender, sexuality, music, and technology. Drawing from the author's thirty years of experience teaching world history, this book illustrates the importance of history to students and general readers trying to understand today's world. About the Author: D. E. Mungello is professor of history at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Ex-Library
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Li Xiaobing
A History of the Modern Chinese Army
8vo, hardcover in dj. 320pp. Xiaobing Li's comprehensive examination of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) offers new insights into the military's central place in modern Chinese society. "A History of the Modern Chinese Army" goes beyond the usual Western assessments of the Chinese military "threat" and also expands on the politically constricted scholarship of native Chinese military historians. Li offers a sweeping yet thorough study of modern Chinese armed forces in the context of the nation's cultural traditions, its Communist revolution, and recent technological innovations that have radically transformed all aspects of Chinese society. Grounding the text in both newly released archival documents and the personal testimonies of more than two hundred PLA soldiers, Li adopts military modernization as his central theme. Li links the modernization of the military to China's rapid growth as a major industrial producer and its growing power in the international economy. Openness to political reforms is necessary, he argues, to ensure China's continued progress toward building one of the world's most advanced professional military forces. Li's analysis thus sheds new light on China's achievement and maintenance of its current status as a rising global power. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition
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Maspero Henri
Le Roman De Sou Ts'in
8vo, br. ed. extrait. (4)+127-141 pages. Original printed wrappers. Minor spots on the wrappers. Minor tear on page 137.
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Wang Y. Yvon
Reinventing Licentiousness: Pornography and Modern China
8vo, hardcover in dj, 289pp. Y. Yvon Wang draws on previously untapped archives?ranging from police archives and surveys to ephemeral texts and pictures?to argue that pornography in China represents a unique configuration of power and desire that both reflects and shapes historical processes. On the one hand, since the late imperial period, pornography has democratized pleasure in China and opened up new possibilities of imagining desire. On the other, ongoing controversies over its definition and control show how the regulatory ideas of premodern cultural politics and the popular products of early modern cultural markets have contoured the globalized world. Reinventing Licentiousness emphasizes the material factors, particularly at the grassroots level of consumption and trade, that governed "proper" sexual desire and led to ideological shifts around the definition of pornography. By linking the past to the present and beyond, Wang's social and intellectual history showcases circulated pornographic material as a motor for cultural change. The result is an astonishing foray into what historicizing pornography can mean for our understandings of desire, legitimacy, capitalism, and culture.
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Waley A.
The Book of Songs, Translated from the Chinese
8vo, cloth in dj, third impression of the 1937 ed. ; octavo; 358 pp (including index); a collection of ancient Chinese songs dating from 800 to 600 B.C. One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs (Shijing) is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs left from antiquity. Where the other Confucian classics treat outward things: deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works,” as Stephen Owen tells us in his foreword, The Book of Songs is the classic of the human heart and the human mind.”
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Santangelo Paolo
L'amore in Cina. Attraverso alcune opere letterarie negli ultimi secoli dell'Impero (Inconscio e cultura)
8vo br. ed. pp.337. In ogni società la passione amorosa si nutre di miti e di valori che la nobilitano e ne esaltano le pulsioni da cui trae origine. I letterati degli ultimi secoli dell'impero cinese amavano rappresentare e immaginare le passioni amorose seguendo certi codici convenzionali. Quali forme di controllo e di repressione erano state elaborate in seno alla civiltà cinese? Esiste un amore ideale e perfetto a cui si faceva riferimento? Quali sono i caratteri che più si avvicinano all'amore romantico che si è venuto a sviluppare in Europa dalla letteratura cortese a quella moderna? E se esistono differenze clturali, quali sono le basi ideologiche? A tutte queste domande l'autore ha tentato di dare una risposta.
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Birrell Anne, Ed
The Classic of Mountains And Seas
br. ed. 336pp. The Chinese CLASSIC OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS dates from the 3rd century B.C. to the 1st century A.D. and is structured according to a conception of the world as a vast land mass bounded on its four sides by four seas, beyond which lie four great wildernesses. Each chapter leads the reader through successive landscapes, describing the geographical and mythological associations of each location. The CLASSIC defies neat classification, and combines travel, genealogy, medicine, botany, regional lore, fables, and above all mythology. The CLASSIC is the key sourcebook of ancient Chinese mythology, occupying an analogous position in Chinese cultural history to Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in Greek mythology.
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Afinogenov Gregory
Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power
8vo, cloth in dj. 367pp. The untold story of how Russian espionage in imperial China shaped the emergence of the Russian Empire as a global power.
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Etiemble
L'Europe chinoise. I : De l'empire romain à Leibniz; Tome 2: De La Sinophilie a Sinophobie
2 volumes brochés en 8vo (14 cm x 22.5 cm) couverture cartonnée souple, blanche, 438 et 402 pages, aux éditions Gallimard, "Bibliothèque des Idées", Paris, 1988 premier volume : 1988 - 438 pages - de l'Empire Romain à Leibniz - à la recherche de Cathay - premières réactions de l'Europe aux nouvelles qui lui parviennent de Chine, par l'intermédiaire des missions deuxième volume : 1989 - 402 pages - de la sinophilie à la sinophobie - le Saint Siège refuse l'Europe Chinoise des Jésuites - quelques aspects de la Chine dans le Théâtre Européen du XVII° au XVIII° siècles - Voltaire sinophile - sinophiles et sinophobes
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Ding, Naifei
Obscene Things: Sexual Politics in Jin Ping Mei (ISBN:0822329166)
8vo br. ed. 352 pages. In Obscene Things Naifei Ding intervenes in conventional readings of Jin Ping Mei, an early scandalous Chinese novel of sexuality and sexual culture. After first appearing around 1590, Jin Ping Mei was circulated among some of China's best known writers of the time and subsequently was published in three major recensions. A 1695 version by Zhang Zhupo became the most widely read and it is this text in particular on which Ding focuses. Challenging the preconceptions of earlier scholarship, she highlights the fundamental misogyny inherent in Jin Ping Mei and demonstrates how traditional biases&;particularly masculine biases&;continue to inform the concerns of modern criticism and sexual politics. The story of a seductive bondmaid-concubine, sexual opportunism, domestic intrigue, adultery and death, Jin Ping Mei has often been critiqued based on the coherence of the text itself. Concentrating instead on the processes of reading and on the social meaning of this novel, Ding looks at the various ways the tale has been received since its first dissemination, particularly by critiquing the interpretations offered by seventeenth-century Ming literati and by twentieth-century scholars. Confronting the gender politics of this "pornographic"; text, she troubles the boundaries between premodern and modern readings by engaging residual and emergent Chinese gender and hierarchic ideologies.
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McMahon Keith
Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Fiction
8vo, br. ed. 392pp. Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists examines how such privilege functions in these novels and provides the first full account of literary representations of sexuality and gender in pre-modern China. In many examples of rare erotic fiction, and in other works as well-known as Dream of the Red Chamber, Keith McMahon identifies a sexual economy defined by the figures of the "miser" and the "shrew"&;caricatures of the retentive, self-containing man and the overflowing, male-enervating woman. Among these and other characters, the author explores the issues surrounding the practice of polygamy, the logic of its overvaluation of masculinity, and the nature of sexuality generally in Chinese society. How does the man with many wives manage and justify his sexual authority? Why and how might he escape or limit this presumed authority, sometimes to the point of portraying himself as abject before the shrewish woman? How do women accommodate or coddle the man, or else oppose, undermine, or remold him? And in what sense does the man place himself lower than the spiritually and morally superior woman? The most extensive English-language study of Chinese literature from the eighteenth century, this examination of polygamy will interest not only students of Chinese history, culture, and literature but also all those concerned with histories of gender and sexuality.
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Wills, John E. Jr.
China and Maritime Europe, 1500-1800: Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions
8vo, br, ed. paperback, used but Fine and unmarked. xi, 297pp. China and Maritime Europe, 1500-1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important roles here. Although pieces of these stories have been told before, these chapters provide the fullest and clearest available summaries, based on sources in Chinese and in European languages, making this information accessible to students and scholars interested in the growing connections among continents and civilizations in the early modern period. Book Description: China and Maritime Europe, 1500-1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. These chapters provide the fullest and clearest available summaries, making this information accessible to students and scholars interested in the growing connections among continents and civilizations in the early modern period.
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Teiwes Frederick C. , Warren Sun
Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform: Initial Steps toward a New Chinese Countryside, 1976-1981
8vo, paperback,. The decollectivization of Chinese agriculture in the early post-Mao period is widely recognized as a critical part of the overall reform program. But the political process leading to this outcome is poorly understood. A number of approaches have dominated the existing literature: 1) a power/policy struggle between Hua Guofeng's alleged neo-Maoists and Deng Xiaoping's reform coalition; 2) the power of the peasants; and 3) the leading role of provincial reformers. The first has no validity, while second and third must be viewed through more complex lenses.This study provides a new interpretation challenging conventional wisdom. Its key finding is that a game changer emerged in spring 1980 at the time Deng replaced Hua as CCP leader, but the significant change in policy was not a product of any clash between these two leaders. Instead, Deng endorsed Zhao Ziyang's policy initiative that shifted emphasis away from Hua's pro-peasant policy of increased resources to the countryside, to a pro-state policy that reduced the rural burden on national coffers. To replace the financial resources, policy measures including household farming were implemented with considerable provincial variations. The major unexpected production increases in 1982 confirmed the arrival of decollectivization as the template on the ground. The dynamics of this policy change has never been adequately explained.Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform offers a deep empirical study of critical developments involving politics from the highest levels in Beijing to China's villages, and in the process challenges many broader accepted interpretations of the politics of reform. It is essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary Chinese political history.
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Castorina Miriam, a Cura Di
Una ciotola di riso: cibo e cultura del cibo fra Italia e Cina.: Sulla via del Catai: Rivista semestrale sulle relazioni culturali tra Europa e Cina., Anno VIII, Numero 13.
8vo, br. ed. 155 p., 25 cm., illustrazioni, indice: 1. Fabio Parasecoli, Cibo e storia: metodi e ricerca 2. Maurizio Paolillo, “Più che la dieta poté il digiuno”: brevi considerazioni sull’alimentazione nel Daoismo tradizionale 3. Clara Bulfoni, Il significato simbolico del cibo nelle feste tradizionali cinesi 4. Livio Zanini, Visioni dell’alcol e del tè nelle fonti cinesi 5. Françoise Sabban, Marco Polo, la pasta e altri miti 6. Zhou Hongcheng, Con gli occhi dell’altro: il cibo cinese nelle fonti gesuite del XVII secolo 7. Paolo De Troia, Yuan Mei, un celebre gastronomo cinese del XVIII secolo 8. Michele Castelnovi, Quante bocche da sfamare: l’eco delle notizie sulla geografia dell’alimentazione in Cina 9. Miriam Castorina, Con gli occhi dell’altro: il cibo occidentale nelle fonti cinesi 10. Guido Samarani, Cibo e politica: l’esperienza di Zhang Naiqi 11. Giacomo Rech, Shanzhen haiwei, Il tesoro della montagna e il gusto del mare: la ristorazione cinese in Italia, tra pregiudizi e tradimenti
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Unger Jonathan, Ed.
Chinese Nationalism
8vo, br. ed. 236pp. highlighting and notes to some chapters. 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. Barme.
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Kuo W, Ed.
A Comprehensive Glossary of Chinese Communist Terminology
4to, hardcover in dj. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book In good all round condition. Dust Jacket in good condition. 907pp. heavy: international customers please check on shipping. Ex-Library
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Lanciotti Lionello
Wang Chong L'iconoclasta
16mo, br. ed. pp.96. esaurito.
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Mcknight Brian E.
The Quality of Mercy : Amnesties and Traditional Chinese Justice
8vo 160 x 240 mm. grren cloth in dj ; pg. xii, 172; Preface, introduction, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. "[This book] holds much value for students of both social history and legal history. McKnight has offered a clue to unraveling the impact of foreign rule on Chinese civilization. His factual record demonstrates conclusively that the quality of justice is one area where foreign rule had a major impact on Chinese government. " ; 0824807367
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Idema Wilt L., Stephen H.West
Battles, Betrayals, and Brotherhood: Early Chinese Plays on the Three Kingdoms
8vo, br. ed. trade paperback, pp.xxx-469. No cycle of historical legends has enjoyed greater or more enduring popularity in China than that of the Three Kingdoms, which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (c. AD 180?220) that divided the old Han empire into the Shu-Han, Wei, and Wu states, and the eventual reunification of the realm under the Western Jin in AD 280
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Schoenhals, Michael
Spying for the People: Mao's Secret Agents, 1949-1967
8vo, br. ed. Synopsis: Since the end of the Cold War, the operations of secret police informers have come under the media spotlight, and it is now common knowledge that vast internal networks of spies in the Soviet Union and East Germany were directed by the Communist Party. By contrast, very little historical information has been available on the covert operations of the security services in Mao Zedong's China. However, as Michael Schoenhals reveals in this intriguing and sometimes sinister account, public security was a top priority for the founders of the People's Republic, and agents were recruited from all levels of society to provide intelligence and ferret out "counter-revolutionaries." On the basis of hitherto classified archival records, the book tells the story of a vast surveillance and control apparatus through a detailed examination of the cultivation and recruitment of agents, their training, and their operational activities across a twenty year period from 1949 to 1967. These revelations add an entirely new dimension to modern China's troubled social and political history. Although the story may be safely set in the past, the development of human sources to sustain an oppressive domestic order is nothing if not eerily relevant to students of the present. Book Description: In this fascinating account, Michael Schoenhals tells the story of the domestic covert operations of Mao's public security organs through a detailed examination of the cultivation and recruitment of their agents, their training, and their operational activities. These revelations, based on hitherto classified documents, enrich our understanding of modern China's troubled social history and throw much new light on its opaque dimensions of intelligence and social control.
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Masci Maria Rita, a Cura Di
L'oceano in un guscio d'ostrica Viaggiatori cinesi alla scoperta dell'Europa
8vo, br. ed. pp.341. "L'Europa dell'Ottocento, la sua vita quotidiana, i suoi costumi, il suo galateo, le conquiste della tecnica, nella descrizione stupita e perplessa dei primi viaggiatori cinesi" (4.a di copert.). Introduzione, scelta antologica, nota ai testi, traduzione e bibliografia a cura di M.R. Masci. (VIAGGIATORI CINESI IN EUROPA).
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Brown Jeremy
June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989
8o, trade paperback, The Tiananmen protests and Beijing massacre of 1989 were a major turning point in recent Chinese history. In this new analysis of 1989, Jeremy Brown tells the vivid stories of participants and victims, exploring the nationwide scope of the democracy movement and the brutal crackdown that crushed it. At each critical juncture in the spring of 1989, demonstrators and decision makers agonized over difficult choices and saw how events could have unfolded differently. The alternative paths that participants imagined confirm that bloodshed was neither inevitable nor necessary. Using a wide range of previously untapped sources and examining how ordinary citizens throughout China experienced the crackdown after the massacre, this ambitious social history sheds fresh light on events that continue to reverberate in China to this day.
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Gao Xingjian a Cura Di Danièle Crisà
In Forma Di Parole. Fermata D'autobus
8vo gr. br. ed. con fascetta. il dramma teatrale più famoso dello scrittore cinese insignito del nobe bel 2000.
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Gao Xingjian
Theatre 1. La Fuite, Au Bord De La Vie, La Somnambule, Quatre Quatuors Pour Un Week-end
8vo, br. ed. trés bon etat.
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Tam Gina Anne
Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960
8vo, br. ed. pp.232. Taking aim at the conventional narrative that standard, national languages transform 'peasants' into citizens, Gina Anne Tam centers the history of the Chinese nation and national identity on fangyan - languages like Shanghainese, Cantonese, and dozens of others that are categorically different from the Chinese national language, Mandarin. She traces how, on the one hand, linguists, policy-makers, bureaucrats and workaday educators framed fangyan as non-standard 'variants' of the Chinese language, subsidiary in symbolic importance to standard Mandarin. She simultaneously highlights, on the other hand, the folksong collectors, playwrights, hip-hop artists and popular protestors who argued that fangyan were more authentic and representative of China's national culture and its history. From the late Qing through the height of the Maoist period, these intertwined visions of the Chinese nation - one spoken in one voice, one spoken in many - interacted and shaped one another, and in the process, shaped the basis for national identity itself.
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Bin Xu
Chairman Mao's Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China
8vo, hardcover, 300pp. In the 1960s and 1970s, around 17 million Chinese youths were mobilized or forced by the state to migrate to rural villages and China's frontiers. Bin Xu tells the story of how this 'sent-down' generation have come to terms with their difficult past. Exploring representations of memory including personal life stories, literature, museum exhibits, and acts of commemoration, he argues that these representations are defined by a struggle to reconcile worthiness with the political upheavals of the Mao years. These memories, however, are used by the state to construct an official narrative that weaves this generation's experiences into an upbeat story of the 'China dream'. This marginalizes those still suffering and obscures voices of self-reflection on their moral-political responsibility for their actions. Xu provides careful analysis of this generation of 'Chairman Mao's children', caught between the political and the personal, past and present, nostalgia and regret, and pride and trauma.
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Barnett A. Doak
China On The Eve Of Communist Takeover
8vo, br. ed. This book attempts to illuminate some of the trends and conditions in China just prior to, and at the time of, the Communist takeover. It deals with the elements in the Chinese situation that contributed to the final collapse of the Nationalist regime on the China mainland during the late 1940's.
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Brown Jeremy and Paul G. Pickowicz
Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of China
8vo, br. ed, pp.462. This illuminating work examines the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the Communist takeover of China. Instead of dwelling on elite politics and policy-making processes, Dilemmas of Victory seeks to understand how the 1949-1953 period was experienced by various groups, including industrialists, filmmakers, ethnic minorities, educators, rural midwives, philanthropists, stand-up comics, and scientists. A stellar group of authors that includes Frederic Wakeman, Elizabeth Perry, Sherman Cochran, Perry Link, Joseph Esherick, and Chen Jian shows that the Communists sometimes achieved a remarkably smooth takeover, yet at other times appeared shockingly incompetent. Shanghai and Beijing experienced it in ways that differed dramatically from Xinjiang, Tibet, and Dalian. Out of necessity, the new regime often showed restraint and flexibility, courting the influential and educated. Furthermore, many policies of the old Nationalist regime were quietly embraced by the new Communist rulers. Based on previously unseen archival documents as well as oral histories, these lively, readable essays provide the fullest picture to date of the early years of the People's Republic, which were far more pluralistic, diverse, and hopeful than the Maoist decades that followed.
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Cheek Timothy
The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives
8vo, br. ed. 304pp. Ten engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party. Detailing the life of ten people who led or engaged with the Chinese Communist Party, one each for one of its ten decades of its existence, these essays reflect on the Party's relentless pursuit of power and extraordinary adaptability through the transformative decades since 1921. Demonstrating that the history of the Chinese Communist Party is not one story but many stories, readers learn about paths not taken, the role of chance, ideas and persons silenced, hopes both lost and fulfilled. This vivid mosaic of lives and voices draws together one hundred years of modern Chinese history - and illuminates possible paths for China's future
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Fromm Martin T.
Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China (Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China)
8vo, hardcover. 304pp. n the 1980s, as China transitioned to the post-Mao era, a state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national histories. They took the form of written and transcribed personal testimonies of events that preceded the turmoil of both the Cultural Revolution and, in many cases, the Communist victory in 1949. Known as wenshi ziliao, these publications represent an intense process of historical memory production that has received little scholarly attention. Hitherto unexamined archival materials and oral histories reveal unresolved tensions in post-Cultural Revolution reconciliation and mobilization, informing negotiations between local elites and the state, and between Party and non-Party organizations. Taking the northeast Russia–Manchuria borderlands as a case study, Martin T. Fromm examines the creation of post-Mao identities, political mobilization, and knowledge production in China.
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Shalom Stephen Rooskamm
Deaths in China Due to Communism: Propaganda Versus Reality (Occasional Paper / Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State U) (Center for Asian Studies, Occasional Paper No. 15)
8vo, br. ed.
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Hollmam Thomas O.
The Land of the Five Flavors: A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine
8vo, hardcover in dj, 198pp. Renowned sinologist Thomas O. Höllmann tracks the growth of food culture in China from its earliest burial rituals to today's Western fast food restaurants, mapping Chinese cuisine's geographical variations and local customs, indigenous factors and foreign influences, trade routes, and ethnic associations. Höllmann details the food practices of major Chinese religions and the significance of eating and drinking in rites of passage and popular culture. He enriches his narrative with thirty of his favorite recipes and a selection of photographs, posters, paintings, sketches, and images of clay figurines and other objects excavated from tombs. Höllmann's award-winning history revisits the invention of noodles, the role of butchers and cooks in Chinese politics, debates over the origin of grape wines, and the causes of modern-day food contamination. He discusses local crop production, the use of herbs and spices, the relationship between Chinese food and economics, the influence of Chinese philosophy, and traditional dietary concepts and superstitions. Citing original Chinese sources, Höllmann uncovers fascinating aspects of daily Chinese life, constructing a multifaceted compendium that inspires a rich appreciation of Chinese arts and culture
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Levenson Joseph R.
Confucian China and Its Modern Fate: A Trilogy
8vo, paperback, pp. 641.
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Jen Lin-liu
Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China
8vo, 339pp. An unforgettable culinary tour of modern-day China describes the author's decision to enroll in a local Beijing cooking school, her progress from cooking student to intern at a chic Shanghai restaurant, the colorful characters she meets along the way, and China's culinary heritage and modern-day cuisine, accompanied by thirty-two authentic recipes.
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Chen, Te-Ping
Land of Big Numbers
8vo, hardcover in dj, Land of Big Numbers is a collection of ten short stories about characters who live in, or have emigrated from, present-day China. The collection reminds me of other favorite short-story collections: James Joyce's The Dubliners; William Maxwell's All the Days and Nights; Edward P. Jones' Lost in the City and All Aunt Hagar's Children; Wendell Berry's That Distant Land; Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter of Maladies. This collection reminds me of those collections not because it is similar to them in style, but because, like them, it paints a picture of an entire society simply by telling the stories of everyday characters living out everyday lives in that society. Some of the stories struck me as somber, telling the stories of marginalized and anonymous characters living on the fringes of a society predominantly dedicated to "progress" in the form of economic development and the accumulation of wealth. In that sense, the stories say as much about life in America as about life in China. What nevertheless makes the stories delightful is the finesse and felicity with which the author writes and the compassion with which she portrays her protagonists. One example is "New Fruit," which tells the story of qiguo, a mysterious and delicious new fruit that brings all who taste it a promise of hope and happiness that does not last. My favorite example is "Flying Machine," which tells the story of Cao Cao, an old farmer who constructs an airplane from spare parts but whose real triumph is his never-ending drive to rearrange old things into new things and to transform humble things into magnificent things. May we all live our lives as Cao Cao lives his!
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Lin Cheng
The Political Economy of the Han Dynasty and Its Legacy
8vo, pp.210. This book contains original essays on various aspect of the Han’s political economy and its legacy, written by leading Chinese and Western scholars whose collective expertise spans Economic History, History of Economic Thought and Sinology.
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Ji, Xiao-bin
Politics and Conservatism in Northern Song China: The Career and Thought of Sima Guang (1019-1086)
8vo, hardcover in dj, This is the first book, in English, offering a comprehensive study of Sima Guang's career and thought.Politics and Conservatism in Northern Song China breaks new ground in the study of Northern Song court politics. Additionally, the writing style is lively and engaging. The adeptly translated quotations and the colorful anecdotes illustrate the main analytical points while making it a fascinating read.
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Mignini F. (a cura di)
Humanitas. Attualità di Matteo Ricci. Testi, fortuna, interpretazioni
8vo grande, br. ed. 390pp. Humanitas è il termine simbolo dello straordinario incontro tra civiltà europea e cinese avvenuto ad opera di Matteo Ricci tra il 1582 e il 1610. Il gesuita maceratese comprese subito che la humanitas rinascimentale e classica degli europei corrispondeva alla perfezione umana e sociale (ren) della tradizione confuciana, e lavorò in modo instancabile al servizio di una sola e universale umanità. In questo volume sono raccolti diciotto interventi inediti e innovativi volti a restituire in modo esauriente la fisionomia dell'eredità ricciana. Cinque saggi illustrano temi relativi alla struttura e alla fruizione delle opere del gesuita: dalla storia del Grand Ricci, il maggiore strumento ora esistente per la traduzione del cinese classico, al Dizionario portoghese-cinese di Ricci e Ruggeri, ai progressi nell'interpretazione della scrittura cinese durante la missione di Ricci fino a una prima e nuova lettura linguistico-stilistica delle opere italiane. Cinque studi sono dedicati alla "Questione dei riti cinesi": una nuova interpretazione degli inizi della controversia, un'ampia ricognizione delle figure rilevanti di Giovanni Laureati e Teodorico Pedrini, una ricostruzione degli scritti e dei giudizi di Leibniz sulla disputa che stava di nuovo separando Roma e Pechino e, infine, un'interpretazione della instructio con la quale Pio XII pose fine nel 1939 all'annosa questione. I saggi rimanenti affrontano il tema dell'attualità di Ricci. indice: Introduzione : modelli e prospettive di interpretazione ricciana Prefazione al Grand Dictionnaire Ricci de la langue chinoise Per una nuova immagine del dizionario portoghese-cinese attribuito a Ricci e Ruggieri La scrittura del cinese come chiave interpretativa dell'universale nell'adattamento di Matteo Ricci e nella speculazione in Occidente Per un'estetica dell'incontro : lingua e stile nel corpus italiano di Matteo Ricci Confronti e controversie sui nomi di Dio tra Cina e Giappone nei primi anni del Seicento : i ruoli d'esordio di Francesco Pasio e Camillo Costanzo Quello che ho fatto, quello che ho sofferto, altri forse lo scriveranno : il gesuita Giovanni Laureati e le due legazioni pontificie in Cina nella prima metà del Settecento Documenti inediti di Teodorico Pedrini sulla controversia dei riti cinesi L'attualità di Matteo Ricci in Leibniz : tra linguaggio universale e relatività dei riti L'Instructio della Congregazione di Propaganda Fide dell'8 dicembre 1939 e la soluzione della questione dei riti cinesi Introduzione alla sessione Leggere Ricci oggi La Cina non vista da Matteo Ricci L'attualità vera di Ricci : il primato della cultura Attualità di un bisogno di Ricci nei rapporti tra Stato cinese e cultura cattolica Guardare alla Cina da imprenditore cattolico Quale incontro tra cultura e Vangelo? : l'esempio di Matteo Ricci e le sfide per la Chiesa oggi
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Levine, Ari Daniel
Divided by a Common Language: Factional Conflict in Late Northern Song China
8vo, hardcover in dj. Divided by a Common Language is the first English-language study to approach the political history of the late Northern Song in its entirety and the first to engage the issue of factionalism in Song political culture. Ari Daniel Levine explores the complex intersection of Chinese political, cultural, and intellectual history by examining the language that ministers and monarchs used to articulate conceptions of political authority. Despite their rancorous disputes over state policy, factionalists shared a common repertoire of political discourses and practices, which they used to promote their comrades and purge their adversaries. Conceiving of factions in similar ways, ministers sought monarchical approval of their schemes, employing rhetoric that imagined the imperial court as the ultimate source of ethical and political authority.Factionalists used the same polarizing rhetoric to vilify their opponents - who rejected their exclusive claims to authority as well as their ideological programme - as treacherous and disloyal. They pressured emperors and regents to identify the malign factions that were spreading at court and expel them from the metropolitan bureaucracy before they undermined the dynastic polity. By analyzing theoretical essays, court memorials, and political debates from the period, Levine interrogates the intellectual assumptions and linguistic limitations that prevented Northern Song politicians from defending or even acknowledging the existence of factions. From the Northern Song to the Ming and Qing dynasties, this dominant discourse of authority continued to restrain members of China's sociopolitical elite from articulating interests that acted independently from, or in opposition to, the dynastic eply grounded in both primary and secondary sources, Levine's study is important for the clarity and fluidity with which it presents a critical period in the development of Chinese imperial history and government.
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Hsia Tsi-an
The gate of darkness. Studies on the leftist literary movement in China
8vo, original cloth , no dj, notes in the first blank page, ow. very good. XXIX/298 S./pp. First published in 1968, this volume of essays, posthumously edited by the author's brother Professor Chih-tsing Hsia (a prominent Columbia University professor of Chinese literature), focuses on Chinese literary criticism relating to the work of leftist Chinese writers, including Lu Hsun (Lu Xun), Chiang Kuang-tz'u, the "Five Martyrs," and Chu Ch'iu-po, who were sympathetic to the ideals of the pre-1949 Chinese communist party. As one of the few foundational texts to provide a critical overview of the aesthetics and politics of China's leftist literary movement, The Gate of Darkness examines the conflicting dilemmas between leftist authors' own ideals and the strict ideological frameworks imposed by the propaganda policies of the Chinese communist party in the early twentieth century.
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