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Hunter William C.
Bits of Old China
8vo, br. ed. {Size: 14.34 x 22.59 cms} Lang: - English, Pages 336, Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2013 with the help of original edition published long back [1885]. This book is Printed in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents.
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Lü Buwei, Tang Bowen Trans. Cai Lili Editor
Lü s Commentaries of History
8vo, br. ed. pp.v-367. Synopsis: Lü's Commentaries of History (Lü Shi Chun Qiu) is an important historical document. It was compiled by Lü Buwei, the Prime Minister of the state of Qin near the end of the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.), a period of Chinese history marked by a series of chaotic wars between rival states. The purpose of compiling the book was to provide a guide to government for the future Qin ruler. It was a period when the Confucian, Taoist, Moist and Legalist schools of philosophy prevailed. But instead of following any particular school of thought, Lü adopted what he considered to be useful. His writings thus contain a wealth of political and and philosophical ideas as well as commentaries on moral standards, human conduct, cultural undertakings, science, astronomy, calendar-making, medicine, agriculture and other subjects. For an historical window into the pre to early Qin period, these writings are indispensable. About the Author: Tang Bowen graduated from Peking University and was a senior English editor and translator at the Foreign Langauges Press, Beijing. He has edited and translated numerous works of Chinese classics in literature, history, and philosophy.
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Schneider Laurence
Ku Chieh-Kang and China's New History: Nationalism and the Quest for Alternative Traditions (The Center for Chinese studies. Publications) (ISBN:0520018044)
8vo, original cloth. 351pp.
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Brady, Anne-Marie
Making the Foreign Serve China: Managing Foreigners in the People s Republic
8vo, hardcover, illustrated edition. 320 pages. This book provides the first detailed analysis of a distinctive element of Chinese foreign policy, waishi, the external policies intended to influence and control both foreigners themselves as well as Chinese citizens contact with and perception of outsiders. The term also comprises China s external relations-both official state-to-state and unofficial or people-to-people diplomacy. Anne-Marie Brady argues that by encompassing all matters related to foreigners and foreign things, not merely diplomacy, waishi has proven to be one of the most effective tools in the CCP s repertoire for building and then sustaining its hold on power. The author s groundbreaking research is based on a previously unexplored genre of classified waishi materials, extensive interviews with waishi officials and foreign participants of the system, as well as extensive archival research
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Mackerras Colin
Sinophiles and Sinophobes : Western Views of China
8vo, br. ed, ex library, usual stampas and labels, ow. very good Ex-Library
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A Cura Di Edi Bozzo
Il governatore della provincia del ramo meridionale e altri Racconti
8vo, br. ed. Pagine ingiallite. La copertina riporta gli usuali segni del tempo. altrimenti ottimo. esaurito fuori caralogo.
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James Legge,
The Sacred Books of the East , The Sacred Books of China, Parts: I, I,2, II, III, IV, VI, Corresponding to Vols: III, XVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XL
8vo, hardcover , 5 volumes, being: The Sacred Books of the East , The Sacred Books of China, translated and editetd by James Legge, Parts: I, I,2, II, III, IV, VI, Corresponding to Vols: III, XVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XL. Contains:
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Li Huaiyin
Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing
8vo, hardcover in dj. This work offers the first systematic analysis of writings on modern Chinese history by historians in China from the early twentieth century to the present. It traces the construction of major interpretive schemes, the evolution of dominant historical narratives, and the unfolding of debates on the most controversial issues in different periods. Placing history-writing in the context of political rivalry and ideological contestation, Huaiyin Li explicates how the historians’ dedication to faithfully reconstructing the past was compromised by their commitment to an imagined trajectory of history that fit their present-day agenda and served their needs of political legitimation. Beginning with an examination of the contrasting narratives of revolution and modernization in the Republican period, the book scrutinizes changes in the revolutionary historiography after 1949, including its disciplinization in the 1950s and early 1960s and radicalization in the rest of the Mao era. It further investigates the rise of the modernization paradigm in the reform era, the crises of master narratives since the late 1990s, and the latest development of the field. Central to the author’s analysis is the issue of truth and falsehood in historical representation. Li contends that both the revolutionary and modernization historiographies before 1949 reflected historians’ lived experiences and contained a degree of authenticity in mirroring the historical processes of their own times. In sharp contrast, both the revolutionary historiography of the Maoist era and the modernization historiography of the reform era were primarily products of historians’ ideological commitment, which distorted and concealed the past no less than revealed it. In search of a more effective approach to rewriting modern Chinese history, Reinventing Modern China proposes a within-time, open-ended perspective, which allows for different directions in interpreting the events in modern China and views modern Chinese history as an unfinished process remaining to be defined as the country entered the twenty-first century. About the Author: Huaiyin Li is professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
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Anonyme (Autore), Rémi Mathieu . Trad.
Le classique des poèmes: Shijing
16mo, br. ed. texte chiinois, et pinyin et traduction française.Le Shijing est le plus ancien recueil de poésie chinoise. Ces textes probablement compilés par Confucius forment un ensemble disparate de chants amoureux et de chants officiels, précieux témoignages de la vie et de la pensée d'une époque. Le Classique des Poèmes est une oeuvre fondatrice et incontournable de la littérature chinoise.
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Wang Chong
Balance des discours: Traités Philosophiques
15mo, br. ed. pp.864. edition bilingue chinois français. La Balance des discours (Lunheng) est l'une des grandes sommes philosophiques de la Chine ancienne. Elle consiste en un recueil de 85 traités rédigés par le lettré Wang Chong (27-97 ? ), l'un des principaux penseurs de la dynastie Han (206 av. J.-C.220 apr. J.-C.). Le but avoué de Wang Chong est la "lutte contre l'erreur" : dans ses traités, il s'en prend à toutes sortes de conceptions qui ont cours de son temps, que ce soit les idées de penseurs anciens, l'idéologie officielle de l'Empire ou des croyances plus largement partagées. Dans sa critique, il mobilise, outre son bon sens et ses qualités d'observation, une immense érudition, multipliant les arguments et les exemples, ce qui fait de la Balance des discours non seulement une oeuvre philosophiquement importante en tant que telle, mais aussi une véritable encyclopédie des savoirs de la Chine ancienne. La présente anthologie propose la traduction de vingt traités importants d'un point de vue philosophique. Wang Chong y aborde des questions centrales de la pensée chinoise ancienne, comme celle de la nature humaine ou de la destinée. Il traite de toutes sortes d'histoires et légendes rapportées par les anciens textes, n'hésitant pas à les critiquer même lorsqu'elles peuvent se réclamer de l'autorité des plus grands auteurs ; il se permet d'ailleurs de mettre en doute l'infaillibilité des Classiques du confucianisme eux-mêmes. Il s'en prend nommément à quelques-uns des penseurs de l'époque pré-impériale, et à Confucius lui-même, en des termes sévères, dans un traité, "Questions à Confucius", qui valut à Wang Chong d'être sévèrement condamné plus tard par les confucianistes bien-pensants.
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Link Perry
An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics
8vo, hardcover vin dj, 364pp. During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to ?smash the four olds?: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted ?We want to see Chairman Mao,? they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates back to the Han period and is the very embodiment of the four olds. An Anatomy of Chinese reveals how rhythms, conceptual metaphors, and political language convey time-honored meanings of which Chinese speakers themselves may not be consciously aware, and contributes to the ongoing debate over whether language shapes thought, or vice versa. Perry Link?s inquiry into the workings of Chinese reveals convergences and divergences with English, most strikingly in the area of conceptual metaphor. Different spatial metaphors for consciousness, for instance, mean that English speakers wake up while speakers of Chinese wake across. Other underlying metaphors in the two languages are similar, lending support to theories that locate the origins of language in the brain. The distinction between daily-life language and official language has been unusually significant in contemporary China, and Link explores how ordinary citizens learn to play language games, artfully wielding officialese to advance their interests or defend themselves from others. Particularly provocative is Link?s consideration of how Indo-European languages, with their preference for abstract nouns, generate philosophical puzzles that Chinese, with its preference for verbs, avoids. The mind-body problem that has plagued Western culture may be fundamentally less problematic for speakers of Chinese.
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Pines Yuri
L' Invention de la Chine éternelle: Comment les maîtres-penseurs des Royaumes combattants ont construit l'empire le plus long de l'histoire (Ve - IIIe siècles av. J.-C.)
8vo, broch. 394pp. Cet ouvrage est une étude de la pensée politique de la période précédant la fondation de l'empire chinois en 221 av. J.-C., l'époque dite des Royaumes combattants (453-221 av. J.-C.), L'auteur a pour objectif de déterminer les principales racines idéologiques de l'empire et les cadres intellectuels qui ont contribué à la formation et à la stabilité d'un système impérial s'étant maintenu pendant plus de deux mille ans en Chine. Loin de faire un simple inventaire des idées politiques, l'auteur dépasse les clivages entre écoles, se dégage des filiations philosophiques et choisit le plus souvent de mettre en lumière le fond commun aux penseurs, en articulant son étude autour de trois grands thèmes: 1. la vision du pouvoir et du monarque; 2. les activités et la place des intellectuels face à ce pouvoir; et 3. les discours de ces derniers sur le peuple. L'approche est celle d'un historien: Yuri Pines analyse des textes aussi bien transmis par la tradition que découverts récemment en contexte archéologique, en les replaçant autant que possible dans le contexte politique, social et économique qui les a vus naître. Yuri Pines est professeur en études chinoises à l'université hébraïque de Jérusalem. Ses recherches portent sur l'histoire et la pensée politique de la Chine antique. Il est l'auteur de Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectuel Life in the Chunqiu Period, 722-453 B.C.E., (2002) et de The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy (2012).
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Tian Xiaofei
The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms: 108 (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)
8vo, hardcover in dj. 868pp. The turn of the third century CE-known as the Jian’an era or Three Kingdoms period-holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition. Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and literary criticism. Its historical personages and events have also inspired works of poetry, fiction, drama, film, and art throughout Chinese history, including Internet fantasy literature today. There is a vast body of secondary literature on these two subjects individually, but very little on their interface. The image of the Jian’an era, with its feasting, drinking, heroism, and literary panache, as well as intense male friendship, was to return time and again in the romanticized narrative of the Three Kingdoms. How did Jian’an bifurcate into two distinct nostalgias, one of which was the first paradigmatic embodiment of wen (literary graces, cultural patterning), and the other of wu (heroic martial virtue)? How did these largely segregated nostalgias negotiate with one another? And how is the predominantly male world of the Three Kingdoms appropriated by young women in contemporary China? The Halberd at Red Cliff investigates how these associations were closely related in their complex origins and then came to be divergent in their later metamorphoses.
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Hans Beck (ed.), Griet Vankeerberghen
Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
8vo, hardcover, 448pp. Situated on opposite flanks of Eurasia, ancient Mediterranean and Han-Chinese societies had a hazy understanding of each other's existence. But they had no grounded knowledge about one another, nor was there any form of direct interaction. In other words, their historical trajectories were independent. In recent years, however, many similarities between both cultures have been detected, which has energized the field of comparative history. The present volume adds to the debate a creative method of juxtaposing historical societies. Each contribution covers both ancient China and the Mediterranean in an accessible manner. Embarking from the observation that Greek, Roman, and Han-Chinese societies were governed by comparable features, the contributors to this volume explain the dynamic interplay between political rulers and the ruled masses in their culture specific manifestation as demos (Greece), populus (Rome) and min (China).
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Li Ruru
The Soul of Beijing Opera: Theatrical Creativity and Continuity in the Changing World
8vo, br. ed. 335pp. Any traditional theatre has to engage the changing world to avoid becoming a living fossil. How has Beijing opera?a highly stylized theatre with breath-taking acrobatics and martial arts, fabulous costumes and striking makeup?survived into the new millennium while coping with a century of great upheavals and competition from new entertainment forms? Li Ruru?s The Soul of Beijing Opera answers that question, looking at the evolution of singing and performance styles, make-up and costume, audience demands, as well as stage and street presentation modes amid tumultuous social and political changes. Li?s study follows a number of major artists? careers in mainland China and Taiwan, drawing on extensive primary print sources as well as personal interviews with performers and their cultural peers. One chapter focuses on the illustrious career of Li?s own mother and how she adapted to changes in Communist ideology. In addition, she explores how performers as social beings have responded to conflicts between tradition and modernity, and between convention and innovation. Through performers? negotiation and compromises, Beijing opera has undergone constant re-examination of its inner artistic logic and adjusted to the demands of the external world.
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Daniel Leese (a cura di), Puck Engman (a cura di)
Victims, Perpetrators, and the Role of Law in Maoist China: A Case-study Approach
8vo, br. ed. 213pp. The relationship between politics and law in the early People?s Republic of China was highly contentious. Periods of intentionally excessive campaign justice intersected with attempts to carve out professional standards of adjudication and to offer retroactive justice for those deemed to have been unjustly persecuted. How were victims and perpetrators defined and dealt with during different stages of the Maoist era and beyond? How was law practiced, understood, and contested in local contexts? This volume adopts a case study approach to shed light on these complex questions. By way of a close reading of original case files from the grassroots level, the contributors detail procedures and question long-held assumptions, not least about the Cultural Revolution as a period of ?lawlessness.?
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Wang Chong, Intr. Trad., Annoté Par Marc Kalinowski
Balance Des Discours: Destin, Providence Et Divination
8vo, br. ed. 652pp. La Balance des discours(Lunheng) est un recueil d'essais du penseur des Han orientaux, Wang Chong (27-100 ?). Le but de l'auteur était de mettre sur la balance les opinions et les moeurs de son temps pour inciter les hommes à plus de sagesse et de bon sens. Avec Wang Chong, on pénètre au coeur de la mentalité des lettrés des Han, de leurs habitudes et des mouvements d'idées qui les agitaient. Ses connaissances encyclopédiques, son sens de l'observation et son goût de l'exemple concret font aussi de l'ouvrage un réservoir inépuisable d'informations sur la culture et la société chinoises anciennes. Les vingt-cinq traités traduits dans la présente anthologie sont organisés autour de trois thèmes, destin, providence et divination, qui forment un ensemble cohérent. Il est difficile en effet d'aborder la question du destin chez Wang Chong sans empiéter sur le terrain de la providence, ni de parler des présages indépendamment de sa conception de l'action du Ciel dans le monde, de même que ses vues sur la divination et la magie ne peuvent se comprendre sans faire appel à sa théorie du destin. La mise à l'index de la Balance des discours au XIIe siècle par les lettrés des Song sous la double accusation d'un manque de révérence à l'égard de Confucius et d'une complaisance affichée pour le taoïsme en a fait un écrit souvent qualifié de marginal. Redécouvert au XXe siècle, Wang Chong passe dès lors pour le champion d'un rationalisme critique à la chinoise. Par-delà les excès de l'ère maoïste où il est érigé en parangon du matérialiste anti-confucéen, sa défiance à l'égard des idéologies, son pessimisme teinté d'ironie, sa philosophie vitaliste enfin et son rejet de toute intelligence divine : tout cela confère à ses écrits un pouvoir décapant qui les rend attractifs et finalement proches de nous. texte a front en chinois.
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Vitiello Giovanni
The Libertine's Friend: Homosexuality and Masculinity in Late Imperial China
8vo, cloth in dj, Delving into three hundred years of Chinese literature, from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, The Libertine’s Friend uncovers the complex and fascinating history of male homosexual and homosocial relations in the late imperial era. Drawing particularly on overlooked works of pornographic fiction, Giovanni Vitiello offers a frank exploration of the importance of same-sex love and eroticism to the evolution of masculinity in China. Vitiello’s story unfolds chronologically, beginning with the earliest sources on homoeroticism in pre-imperial China and concluding with a look at developments in the twentieth century. Along the way, he identifies a number of recurring characters—for example, the libertine scholar, the chivalric hero, and the lustful monk—and sheds light on a set of key issues, including the social and legal boundaries that regulated sex between men, the rise of male prostitution, and the aesthetics of male beauty. Drawing on this trove of material, Vitiello presents a historical outline of changing notions of male homosexuality in China, revealing the integral part that same-sex desire has played in its culture.
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Mchugh Maureen
China Mountain Zhang
8vo, br. ed. 'I am Zhang, alone with my light, and in that light I think for a moment that I am free.' Imagine a world where Chinese Marxism has vanquished the values of capitalism and Lenin is the prophet of choice. A cybernetic world where the new charioteers are flyers, human-powered kites dancing in the skies over New York in a brief grab at glory. A world where the opulence of Beijing marks a new cultural imperialism, as wealthy urbanites flirt with interactive death in illegal speakeasies, and where Arctic research stations and communes on Mars are haunted by their own fragile dangers. A world of fear and hope, of global disaster and slow healing, where progress can only be found in the cracks of a crumbling hegemony. This is the world of Zhang. An anti-hero who's still finding his way, treading a path through a totalitarian order - a path that just might make a difference. Maureen F. McHugh was born in Loveland, Ohio, and educated at Ohio University and New York University. She taught in Chinafor a year, and her experiences there and in New York formed the basis of her first novel, China Mountain Zhang. She has lived in New York City, Shijiazhuang, China, and Austin, Texas. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
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Wood Frances
Picnics Prohibited: Diplomacy in a Chaotic China During the First World War, 100th Anniversary of WWI
World War I came at an inopportune time for China. The country had joined a number of international organizations and ratified the Hague Conventions, but found its diplomatic efforts hampered by its young, inexperienced leadership, its factional regional divisions, and its foreign-controlled treaty ports and concessions. Unfortunately for the Chinese, representatives of combatant nations navigated a diplomatic tightrope between carrying out their patriotic duty to support war efforts and making sure their "hosts", the Chinese, did not take advantage of the turbulence to upset the colonial pecking order.
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Geoffroy Claude
La Chine, miroir de nos passions: Radiographie de la sinophilie et de la Sinophobie
8vo, br. ed. L'Europe, en particulier la France, a de tout temps entretenu avec la Chine une relation passionnelle alternant des moments d'engouements et des accès d'hostilité. Au gré d'une confrontation des écrits produits sur la Chine à diverses époques (Lettres des jésuites arrivés en Chine au XVIIe siècle, articles des philosophes des Lumières, littérature maoïste, ouvrages représentatifs actuels) se dessinent certaines inclinations, tantôt révélatrices des passions d'une époque, tantôt symptomatiques de penchants plus profonds. De formation sinologique, Claude Geoffroy, actuellement interprète en langue chinoise près la Cour d'Appel de Reims, est l'auteure de plusieurs ouvrages ("Pékin" Larousse, 1988 ; "Le mouvement indépendantiste taiwanais, ses origines et son développement depuis 1945", L'Harmattan, 1997 ; "Les universalismes chinois et européen, Dialogue sous le ciel", L'Harmattan, 2015) ; elle a par ailleurs traduit en français les conférences tenues en 1935 par le plus grand avocat d'une occidentalisation de la Chine ("Chen Xujing, l'Avenir de la culture chinoise" ; L'Harmattan, 2018),
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Geoffroy Clausde
L'anti-occidentalisme chinois: De l'occidentalisme anti-traditionnel à "l'occidentalisme anti-occidental"
8vo, br. ed. L'anti-occidentalisme chinois: De l'occidentalisme anti-traditionnel à "l'occidentalisme anti-occidental". L'hostilité chinoises à l'égard de " l'Occident " recouvrent une grande variété d'attitudes, allant du nationalisme, de fait, le plus étriqué et xénophobe à une émancipation du surmoi occidental qui surplombe l'histoire intellectuelle chinoise depuis plus d'un siècle : en un mot, il s'agit d'un phénomène intellectuel beaucoup plus complexe que ce que son apparence binaire, opposant la Chine à l'Occident, laisse a priori penser.
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Geoffroy Claude
Les universalismes chinois et européen: Dialogue Sous Le Ciel
8vo, br. ed. L'idéal universaliste, qui traverse les traditions intellectuelles chinoise et européenne, a entretenu des rapports équivoques, tantôt connivents, tantôt antagoniques avec diverses constructions mentales ou historiques particularisantes (première partie). À partir du Xviie siècle, les deux universalismes ont évolué dans une certaine interaction, en donnant naissance à un étrange dialogue entre leurs divers représentants (seconde partie).
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Chen Xujing, Trad Geoffroy Claude
L'avenir de la culture chinoise: Occidentalisation intégrale"": "Occidentalisation intégrale". Conférences prononcées en 1933
8vo, br. ed. Tout en sortant de l'oubli une figure de l'Histoire moderne de Chine, cette première traduction en français des conférences sur "L'avenir de la culture chinoise" prononcées en 1933 par Chen Xujing, grand théoricien de l'"occidentalisme intégral", permet de retourner aux sources de l'occidentalisme chinois. L'ample débat que ces conférences ont suscité dans les années 1930 -1940 entre de surcroît en résonance avec des thématiques aujourd'hui remises à l'honneur en Chine. Né en 1903 dans la province du Guangdong, Chen Xujing a en partie grandi à Singapour. Puis, en 1922, il a entrepris un long parcours universitaire qui l'a successivement mené de Shanghai aux Etats-Unis et en Allemagne. A son retour en Chine en 1932, il s'est activement employé à répandre son credo occidentaliste, en tenant ses fameuses conférences sur "L'avenir de la culture chinoise" qui, publiées en janvier 1934 dans le journal Guangzhou Minguo ribao, ont déclenché un intense débat. Chen Xujing n'a jamais affiché de position politique, ce qui ne l'a pas empêché d'être malmené pendant la "révolution culturelle", en raison de ses convictions occidentalistes : il est décédé en 1967, suite aux mauvais traitements qu'il a subis. Mais, l'oubli dans lequel il est rapidement tombé, doublé du discrédit que comportent implicitement les orientations actuelles de la Chine constituent, quels que soient les impensés de sa doctrine, une autre grande injustice qui méritait d'être réparée.
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JONES David Martin
The Image of China in Western Social and Political Thought
8vo, br. ed. David Martin Jones examines how China has been portrayed in European and subsequently North American social and political thought and what, if anything, this depiction tells us about the character of this thought. Such a question immediately evokes the spectre of orientalism and subsequent chapters explore whether the identification of an orientalist project invalidates the knowledge claims of European and North American social and political thought as it evolved from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001.
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Fairbank John King, Ed. Contributions By Ta-Tuan Ch'en, Hae-Jong Chun, John K Fairbank, David Farquhar, Joseph F Fletcher, Truong Buu Lam, Mark Mancall, Robert K Sakai, Benjamin I Schwartz, Chusei Suzuki
The Chinese World Order: Traditional China's Foreign Relations
8vo, original yellow cloth hardcover,no dj, essays by Ta-Tuan Ch'en, Hae-Jong Chun, John K Fairbank, David Farquhar, Joseph F Fletcher, Truong Buu Lam, Mark Mancall, Robert K Sakai, Benjamin I Schwartz, Chusei Suzuki
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Lewis Mark Edward
Writing and Authority in Early China (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)
8vo, br. ed. This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the foundation of imperial authority. Its central theme is the emergence of this body of writings as the textual double of the state, and of the text-based sage as the double of the ruler. The book examines the full range of writings employed in early China, such as divinatory records, written communications with ancestors, government documents, the collective writings of philosophical and textual traditions, speeches attributed to historical figures, chronicles, verse anthologies, commentaries, and encyclopedic compendia. Lewis shows how these writings served to administer populations, control officials, form new social groups, invent new models of authority, and create an artificial language whose mastery generated power and whose graphs became potent objects. Writing and Authority in Early China traces the enterprise of creating a parallel reality within texts that depicted the entire world. These texts provided models for the invention of a world empire, and one version ultimately became the first state canon of imperial China. This canon served to perpetuate the dream and the reality of the imperial system across the centuries. About the Author: Mark Edward Lewis is University Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Sanctioned Violence in Early China, also published by SUNY Press.
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Wood Frances
The Lure of China: Writers from Marco Polo to J. G. Ballard
8vo, hardcover in dj, 283pp., b/w. illus. For centuries, Western writers, historians, and intellectuals have been fascinated by China. In this remarkable book, Frances Wood shows how China influenced literature, memoir, and travel writing from vague Roman tales of silent silk merchants and medieval travelers such as Marco Polo, to Jesuit explorers, French poets, the Bloomsbury Group, and eyewitness accounts of war by Martha Gellhorn, Christopher Isherwood, and J.G. Ballard. What emerges is a fascinating portrait of the role of China in Western literature and culture. Frances Wood is the best-selling author of Did Marco Polo Go to China?, The Silk Road, The Forbidden City, and The First Emperor. About the Author: Frances Wood is the author of "Did Marco Polo go to China"; "The Silk Road"; "The Forbidden City"; and "The First Emperor." She is Curator of the Chinese collections in the British Library.
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Mackenzie Donald
Myths of China and Japan
8vo, original decorated tan cloth xvi, 404 pp. With Illustrations in Colour & Monochrome after Paintings and Photographs Ex-Library
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Sterckx Roel
Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China
8vo br. ed. 284pp. In ancient China, the preparation of food and the offering up of food as a religious sacrifice were intimately connected with models of sagehood and ideas of self-cultivation and morality. Drawing on received and newly excavated written sources, Roel Sterckx s book explores how this vibrant culture influenced the ways in which the early Chinese explained the workings of the human senses, and the role of sensory experience in communicating with the spirit world. The book, which begins with a survey of dietary culture from the Zhou to the Han, offers intriguing insights into the ritual preparation of food - some butchers and cooks were highly regarded and would rise to positions of influence as a result of their culinary skills - and the sacrificial ceremony itself. As a major contribution to the study of early China and to the development of philosophical thought, the book will be essential reading for students of the period, and for anyone interested in ritual and religion in the ancient world.
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Billeter François
Li Zhi, philosophe maudit (1527-1602): Contribution à une sociologie du Mandarinat
8vo, br. ed. pp.305
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Lelièvre, Dominique
Voyageurs chinois à la découverte du monde. De l'Antiquité au XIXe Siècle
broché, 8vo 472 pp. COMME NEUF. Bien que souvent méconnus en Occident, nombreux sont les Chinois à avoir quitté leur pays et parcouru le monde. De l'Antiquité au XIXe siècle, à l'instar des grands explorateurs européens, un courant inverse de voyageurs partait de la Chine vers l'Ouest. Tout comme ces personnages eux-mêmes, les motifs de leurs périples étaient variés et parfois surprenants. Bravant courageusement les pires dangers, ils partaient vers l'inconnu, généralement envoyés en missions diplomatique, commerciale, ou encore religieuse, à la recherche des textes fondateurs du Bouddhisme afin de rapporter la doctrine pure en Chine. L'auteur de cet ouvrage a réuni, pour la première fois, les documents et les témoignages qui relatent ces aventures. En citant leurs textes ou en abordant le sujet du point de vue des voyageurs eux-mêmes, il retrace les relations que ces Chinois entretenaient avec les autres pays, leur regard sur le monde, ainsi que leur rapport avec l'Empire du Milieu.
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Martino Martini, a Cura Di Federico Masinhji, Giuliano Bertucciaoli e Altri
Opera Omnia: I, Vol. 1: Lettere e documenti.; Vol. II Opere minori; III Novus Atlas Sinensis, Tomo I e Tomo II; IV, De Bello Tartarico Histiria e Altri Scritti, ; IV, Sinicae Historiae Decas Prima, Tomo 1 e 2, in Totale 8 Volumi, Completo
8 volumi in br. ed e sovracoperta .Opera Omnia: I, Vol. 1: Lettere e documenti., a cura di Giuliano Bertuccioli, 552pp; vol. II opere minori, 554pp.; III Novus Atlas Sinensis, Tomo I e Tomo II, 6,4, 9, 1175 pp.; IV, Sinicae Historiae Decas Prima, Tomo 1 e 2, 998pp.,vol V, De Bello Tartarico Histiria e Altri Scritti, 412pp.,; vol. VI, Opera omnia vol.6 Documentazioni aggiuntive e indici. in Totale 8 Volumi. Il piano di pubblicazione dell’Opera Omnia di Martino Martini […] Questo compendio, che, come ho detto, tratta gli avvenimenti dall’origine del popolo cinese fino alla nascita di Cristo e ai lettori consentirà di cogliere tutto quasi in un solo sguardo, l’ho scritto nel modo più chiaro e conciso che ho potuto, attingendo da un gran numero di libri di storia cinese, composti con grandissima cura. […] Nel comporre quest’opera tanto vasta oserei dire di aver sopportato le fatiche d’Ercole. Martino Martini (Trento 1614 – Hangzhou 1661), Sinicae Historiae Decas Prima, prefazione Al Lettore. Il progetto di pubblicare l’Opera Omnia di Martino Martini fu ideato da Franco Demarchi, professore emerito dell’Università di Trento, e da Giuliano Bertuccioli, sinologo dell’Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. Edita dall’Università degli Studi di Trento, l’Opera Omnia presenta tutti gli scritti di Martino Martini integralmente tradotti e annotati criticamente. Ad oggi sono stati stampati i primi quattro volumi, e due sono in via di realizzazione: I volumi realizzati: Volume I Lettere e Documenti: 33 lettere e documenti a firma di Martini o a lui attribuiti, oltre ad altri che si riferiscono alla sua corrispondenza. I temi trattati: descrizioni particolareggiate di viaggi, osservazioni astronomiche, registrazioni di dati scientifici, richieste di sussidi, suggerimenti per progetti da realizzare in Cina, riflessioni antropologiche e storiche, scambio epistolare con i dotti europei del tempo su questioni scientifiche ancora aperte. Inoltre il noto memoriale al Santo Uffizio nel 1655 in difesa della metodologia adottata dai Gesuiti in Cina. Volume II Opere Minori: -Brevis Relatio de Numero et Qualitate Christianorum apud Sinas - Breve relazione sul numero e la qualità dei cristiani in Cina; -Qiuyou Pian - Trattato sull’Amicizia: originale in cinese, edizione del 1661 con successive integrazioni; -Grammatica Sinica: il manoscritto originale in cinese e latino; -passi scelti tradotti dall’opera in cinese Zhenzhu lingxing lizheng - Prove razionali dell’esistenza del vero Signore e dell’immortalità dell’anima intellettiva. Volume III Novus Atlas Sinensis: L’opera, che si può considerare un trattato di geografia moderna, descrive le 15 province di cui si componeva l’Impero Cinese al tempo di Martini. A ciascuna provincia Martini riservò un capitolo -preceduto dalla relativa carta geografica a colori- in cui descrisse i confini e le caratteristiche geografiche ed economiche generali, i nomi che le Province assunsero in varie epoche della storia cinese, nonché la popolazione e la sua indole. La pubblicazione è corredata da un pregevole volume in folio delle Tavole. Volume IV Sinicae Historiae Decas Prima: Nel compilare la Sinicae Historiae Decas Prima, Martino Martini si proponeva e riusciva a realizzare l’obiettivo di narrare la storia della Cina dalle origini mitologiche fino alla nascita di Cristo. L’autore, cercando di presentare un’esatta cronologia degli avvenimenti e della successione degli imperatori, dovette partire dagli eventi storici certi per risalire alle origini mitiche, probabilmente con un calcolo a ritroso, e poterle datare. L’opera fu la prima del suo genere e la tipologia e il numero delle fonti utilizzate da Martino Martini per la compilazione è stata in passato oggetto di riflessione da parte di eminenti sinologi. Nel proporre questa pubblicazione dell’opera si è reso necessario uno studio sistematico e comparativo di ciascuno degli episodi narrati, volto a rintracciarne il corrispettivo nei testi di storia cinese disponibili intorno alla metà del Diciassettesimo secolo. La Sinicae Historiae Decas Prima di Martino Martini fu il primo testo di storia della Cina compilato in una lingua occidentale. Volume V De Bello Tartarico Historia e Altri scritti: il V volume propone la ristampa del De Bello Tartarico Historia di Martini, una testimonianza diretta dell’ultimo cambio dinastico della Cina -la guerra tra Ming e Qing- corredando il testo di un apparato critico arricchito da saggi storici. Volume VI Documentazioni aggiuntive e Indici: il VI volume presenta gli Indici analitici, dei nomi, delle località, degli autori, dei documenti, di tutti i Volumi editi, unitamente a una documentazione biografica martiniana recentemente ritrovata in vari archivi storici.
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Edwards Louise
Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China
8vo, paperback, pp.246. In this compelling new study, Louise Edwards explores the lives of some of China's most famous women warriors and wartime spies through history. Focusing on key figures including Hua Mulan, Zheng Pingru and Liu Hulan, this book examines the ways in which these extraordinary women have been commemorated through a range of cultural mediums including film, theatre, museums and textbooks. Whether perceived as heroes or anti-heroes, Edwards shows that both the popular and official presentation of these women and their accomplishments has evolved in line with China's shifting political values and circumstances over the past one hundred years. Written in a lively and accessible style with illustrations throughout, this book sheds new light on the relationship between gender and militarisation and the ways that women have been exploited to glamorise war both historically in the past and in China today.
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Cohen-Cruz Jan
Radical Street Performance
8vo, br. ed. paperback. fascinating array of writings by activists, directors, performers, critics, scholars and journalists who have documented street theatre around the world. More than thirty essays explore the myriad forms this most public of performances can take: * agit-prop * invisible theatre * demonstrations and rallies * direct action * puppetry * parades and pageants * performance art * guerrilla theatre * circuses These essays look at performaces in Europe, Africa, China, India and both the Americas. They describe engagement with issues as diverse as abortion, colonialism, the environment and homophobia, to name only a few. Introduced by editor Jan Cohen-Cruz, the essays are organized into thematic sections: Agitating; Witnessing; Involving; Imagining; and Popularizing. Radical Street Performance is an inspiring testimony to this international performance phenomenon, and an invaluable record of a form of theatre which continues to flourish in a televisual age.
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Brook Timothy
The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
8vo, br. ed. xxiv-320pp. The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the European voyages of exploration were searching not just for new lands but also for new trade routes to the Far East. In this book, Timothy Brook eloquently narrates the changing landscape of life over the three centuries of the Ming (1368-1644), when China was transformed from a closely administered agrarian realm into a place of commercial profits and intense competition for status. "The Confusions of Pleasure" marks a significant departure from the conventional ways in which Chinese history has been written. Rather than recounting the Ming dynasty in a series of political events and philosophical achievements, it narrates this longue duree in terms of the habits and strains of everyday life. Peppered with stories of real people and their negotiations of a rapidly changing world, this book provides a new way of seeing the Ming dynasty that not only contributes to the scholarly understanding of the period but also provides an entertaining and accessible introduction to Chinese history for anyone.
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Chesneaux Jean, Umberto Eco G. Nebiolo, traduzioni di L. Lanciotti, S. M. Carletti, G. Zucchetti, G. Nebiolo,
I Fumetti Di Mao
n 8o quadrotto, pagg. 284, cartonato, molti fumetti e fotografie nel testo e alcune tavole a colori fuori testo. Contine: La guerra dell'oppio; Distaccamento femminile rosso; Mare blu e cuore rosso; La ragazza della comune popolare; Seguendo le tracce; Lettera dal Vietnam del Sud; Lei Feng (fotoromanzo). Interventi di Jean Chesneaux e Umberto eco. Come nuovo (42663/FUMETTI CINESI - CINA - UMBERTO ECO). Minime toccature alla legatura, bella copia.
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Brook Timothy and Gregory Blue, Editors
China And Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge
8vo, cloth in dj. pp.304. addresses the historical relationship that has arisen between the concept of capitalism and the idea of China. Formulated by European intellectuals in order to identify the social formation in which they found themselves, capitalism was portrayed as unique to Europe and as an organic outgrowth of Western civilization. In this way, China was rejected as a model of civilization, and seen merely as despotic, feudal or stagnant. This Eurocentric judgement has hung over all subsequent thinking about China, even influencing Chinese perceptions of their own history. The aim of this collaborative project is to examine how the experience of capitalism as a European social formation and as a world-system has shaped knowledge of China. In addition the volume aims to establish new foundations on which a theory of Chinese society might be built, in order to perceive and understand Chinese development in less Eurocentric terms.
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Zoe S. Kwok Ed.
The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th Century
4to, hardcover in dj. Feasting was an important social and ritual activity in China beginning in the Bronze Age, and cuisine retains a strong cultural significance to this day. This book focuses on feasting in the 10th through 14th centuries, examining Chinese paintings of feasts from the Song (960–1279), Liao (907–1125), and Yuan (1279–1368) dynasties. Feast images, more so than works from any other painting genre, depict scenes from the past, the present, and the afterlife alike. More specifically, as author Zoe S. Kwok explains in the book’s insightful text, they portray a continuum between life and what lies beyond it; this volume is the first to make such a connection. Full-color plates highlight a rare group of paintings as well as complementary ceramic, metal, stone, and textile objects, and the nearly fifty individual catalogue entries touch on diverse topics—not only food and drink but dance, music, costume, burial practices, artistic patronage, and more.
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Traduzione di Carlo Ou
Il Libro Di Mencio
In 8°, pp. 127, (1). Brossura editoriale. Copia in ottimo stato. Biblioteca sinica, 12 ingiallimento dovuto al tempo.
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Trad Maria Attardo Magrrini
I grandi poeti cinesi: Tu Fu
8vo, br. ed. copertina impolverata, altrimenti intonso.
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Magrini Luciano
Il Buddismo in Cina
8vo, br, ed. cm.15,5x21,5, pp.85, br. Interni ingialliti per il tipo di carta ma buon esempl. Coll. Biblioteca Sinica,7.
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Zhang Kangkang
L'impitoyable. suivi de Tempêtes de Sable
8vo, br. ed.
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HEGEL Robert
The Novel in Seventeenth Century China
8vo, hardcover in dj. pp.331.
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Michael Lackner, Kwok-kan Tam, Monika Gänssbauer, and Terry Siu Han Yip, Eds
Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination
8vo, hardcover, 206pp, The essays collected in Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination deal with the philosophical, psychological, gender and cultural issues in the Chinese conception of fate as represented in literary texts and films, with a focus placed on human efforts to solve the riddles of fate prediction. Viewed in this light, the collected essays unfold a meandering landscape of the popular imaginary in Chinese beliefs and customs. The chapters in this book represent concerted efforts in research originated from a project conducted at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Contributors are Michael Lackner, Kwok-kan Tam, Monika Gaenssbauer, Terry Siu-han Yip, Xie Qun, Roland Altenburger, Jessica Tsui-yan Li, Kaby Wing-Sze Kung, Nicoletta Pesaro, Yan Xu-Lackner, and Anna Wing Bo Tso.See Less. Michael Lackner is Chair Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Director of the International Research Consortium in the Humanities. He is editor of the book series Prognostication in History (Brill). He is a historian-philosopher and an international authority in the study of fate and prognostication. Kwok-kan Tam is Chair Professor of English and Dean of Humanities and Social Science at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. He has held senior positions as Professor and Dean at other universities in Hong Kong. He is formerly Head and currently Member of the International Ibsen Committee, University of Oslo. His research covers Ibsen studies, Gao Xingjian studies, World Englishes, Chinese film, drama, and gender and literature. Monika Gaenssbauer is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Stockholm University. From 2009?2015 she served as Deputy Chair of Chinese Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Her main research areas are Chinese contemporary literature and translation studies. Terry Siu-han Yip is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University. She served as Chair of the Department of English in 1995?2008. Her research interests range from European Romanticism and British Modernism to modern Chinese literature, Chinese-European literary relations and gender studies.
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Crow, Carl
Master Kung, The Story of Confucius
Good+ hardcover with no dustjacket. Pp344. Illustrations. Frontis
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Wood Frances
No Dogs & Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China
8vo, br. ed, Paperback. The first treaty ports in China were opened in 1843. Here, for nearly a century, foreign traders ruled their own settlements, administered their own laws, controlled their own police forces and ran the customs service. Despite typhoons, disease, banditry and riots, merchants and missionary families in the treaty ports led as far as possible a foreign life. In 1943 the treaty ports were returned to China and most of their inhabitants interned by the Japanese. Yet the record of their residency remains in Shanghai's solid office buildings, in Tientsin's mock Tudor facades, and in the Edwardian villas of Peitaiho and Amoy. The last inhabitants of the treaty ports are also still alive: through their reminiscences and the accounts of their predecessors Frances Wood recalls a foreign life lived in a foreign land. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Li Feng
Bureaucracy and the State in Early China: Governing the Western Zhou
8vo, br. ed. pp.400. Ancient Chinese society developed a sophisticated and complex bureaucracy which is still in operation today and which had its pristine form in the government of the Western Zhou from 1045 to 771 BC. Li Feng, one of the leading scholars of the period, explores and interprets the origins and operational characteristics of that bureaucracy on the basis of the contemporaneous inscriptions of royal edicts cast onto bronze vessels, many of which have been discovered quite recently in archaeological explorations. The inscriptions clarify the political and social construction of the Western Zhou and the ways in which it exercised its authority. The discussion is accompanied by illustrations of the bronze vessels and their inscriptions, together with full references to their discovery and current ownership. The book also discusses the theory of bureaucracy and criticizes the various models of early-archaic states on the basis of close reading of the inscriptions.
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Marazzi Ugo a Cura Di
La Conoscenza Dell'asia e Dell'africa in Italia Nei Secoli Xviii e Xix, 2 Vol.
2 volumi in 8vo. pp. xvi-1084 a numerazione continua,(2)
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Mackerras Colin
The Uighur Empire, According to the T'ang Dynastic Histories, A Study in Sino-Uighur Relations, 744-840
One-Quarter Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Limited. Private Press. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. number 693 of an edition of 999, of which nos. 1-900 were for sale, 901-999 were for distribution to various people involved in the research and publication of this book. . 1/4 leather spine, gilt spine titles, red marbled boards, lightly marbled end papers, [viii] 226 pp, in a red marbled slipcase, mint. Scarce edition.
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