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Hauser Ernest O.
Shanghai Cité à Vendre. Le Brooklyn De L'empire Céleste 1842-1937 (reprint of the 1945 french translation of chang-hai, city for sale (1940) published as blanxs et jaunes ò chang-ha)
8vo pp.312, relié, neuf, reprint of the 1945 french translation of Shang-hai, city for sale (1940) published as Blancs et jaunes à chang-hai.
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Arlington L.C., Acton Harold
Famous Chinese Plays
4to, First edition. Peking. pp. xxx- 444. Thirty-three plays by various authors of various dynasties. Twenty-nine black and white plates. Various pieces of music transcribed by J. Hope-Johnstone. rebound un light blue hardcover, very good.
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An Illustrated life of Confucius. Late Qing woodblock Edition Kong zi sheng ji Tu
SHENGJI TU. (Illustrated Scenes from the Life of the Sage, Confucius). 30x40 cm. chinese tex,t, maps, illustrations, portraits + 105 woodblock prints depicting the life of confucius, in the original chinese sewn binding. protected in later chinese style blue cloth box, with straps and ivory needles. a very good copy. scarce.A recent article by Chun Shum in the 'East Asian Library Journal' (Vol. 10, no. 1) provides a wealth of information on what amounts to an exemplary sub-genre of Chinese illustrated book production. In fact, scenes from the life of the Confucius are, arguably, at the fountainhead of book illustration in China. Illustrations of Confucius' life exist in three media: as paintings, engraved on stone (typically reproduced in collections of rubbings), and as woodblock printed editions. The earliest painted version were probably produced in during the Eastern Han period; three sets of stone engravings are said to exist; and there have been many woodcut editions of the Sage's illustrated life. The earliest printed versions are thought to date to the 13th century, but no such Song editions survive. There are several Ming editions. The quality of the illustrations and of the prints differ greatly. This one is taken fromt blocks that appear to be the best we have seeen.The present work is a late Qing edition, most likely a later printing from the blocks prepared by Kong Xianlan in 1874. This edition is noted and described in Chun Shum's article (pp. 153-55), and the sample illustration reproduced matches the corresponding images in the present work. All 105 images collated by Chun Shum are present, along with the introductory text taken from the biography of Confucius in the 'Shiji'. Quality of paper and printing indicate that this may be a somewhat later impression from Kong's blocks, impossible to date precisely. the impressions are clear and the book is a rich source of the visual imagery - based on earlier, Ming model - produced at the time. Scanned samples available on request. Confucius - Pictorial works.
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Daubier Jean
Histoire de la révolution culturelle prolétarienne en Chine I & II
2 tomes, ,[poids 300 grammes]
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Lu Hsun, Primerose Gigliesi, Tr.
Fuga Sulla Luna
8vo pp.xi-488, legat. tela edit, con sovracoperta, molto buono
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Mao Tse-toung (tse-tung, zedong)
Intervention a La Conference Nationale Du Parti Communiste Chinois Sur Le Travail De Propagande
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WILKINSON, H.P.
The Family in Classical China
first and only edition 8vo Green lacquered cloth, very good, 239p., errata, index. SCARCE A very unusual resource, covers folk customs, laws, tradit- ional practice &c. With chapter headings: definition of mar- riage, familylife in the legendary amd heroic age, land tenure and tillage, social origins, mother-right, infanticide, infanticide in modern China, marriage by capture, names and their avoidance, a digression as to certain "survivals," avoidance of names of the living, Chinese family nomenclature and its supposed relation to primitive group-marriage, a concurrence and a criticism. Exogamy founded on blood avoidance.
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Powers Martin J.
Art and Political Expression in Early China
First edition. 4to. Cloth. [xiv], 438 pp. With several illustrations in black and white. as new in a as new dust jacket. ISBN: 0300047673 Martin J. Powers examines the art and politics of the Han dynasty (206 b.c.-a.d. 220) and shows that both were shaped by the rise of an educated, non-aristocratic public that questioned the authority of the rich and royal at all levels. His pathbreaking book casts new light on the whole development of early Chinese art and its relationship to issues of society, population, economy, taste, and ideology.
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Gonzalez De Mendoza, Juan & Staunton, Sir George T
The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and The Situation There Two Volumes in One
tall 8vo., 2 volumes bound toegheder, hardcover, orig. printed wrappers of both volumes maintained , lxxxiii, 172; 350pp. a very nice set, rare as the original. This edition is an anastatic exact reprint of the scarce Hakluyt Society edition of 1853, which reprinted the 1588 edition translated from the Spanish by R. Parke. first detailed account of China published in English. This Rare Chinese Reprint is much scarcer than the original.
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P'U SUNG- LING
I RACCONTI FANTASTICI DI LIAO.
2 voll. in-8vo grande , pp. 1903 complessive (numerazione continua), legatura editoriale in seta policroma con raffigurazioni di draghi cinesi spressamente disegnata e fabbricata dalla ditta Rosasco di Como. Titolo in bianco su tasselli dorati ai dorsi. 32 tavv. a colori f.t. riproducenti antiche stampe cinesi impresse su carta Editio delle Cartiere Burgo. elegante Custodia in plexiglass con autore, titolo e casa editrice stampigliati su ambo i lati. perfetto esemplare stampato su carta India. traduzione dal cinese di Ludovico Nicola di Giura, aumentata e riveduta con premesse e note di Giovanni di Giura del "Liao Chai Chih", uno dei grandi classici della letteratura cinese, raccolta di 435 novelle, fiabe e leggende; la presente e' la seconda edizione in lingua italiana dopo una prima apparsa nel 1926 col titolo "Fiabe cinesi". Introduzione di Giuseppe Tucci. "Il volgimento in italiano del di Giura accresce degnamente lo scarso elenco delle traduzioni nella nostra lingua dei capolavori della letteratura cinese" (Tucci).
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Gamble Sidney D.
Chinese village plays (Yang Ke Hsüan) from the Ting Hsien Region. Forty-eight Chinese rural plays as staged by villagers in Northern China, collected, 1926-1932, translated and edited with introduction and Notes
lsge 8vo 793 pp, frontis portrait, 14 plts. Cloth in dj. scarce
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Waldron Arthur
THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA: FROM HISTORY TO MYTH (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions).
Hardback in dj. 296 pages half-tones and maps.Contents: Introduction: What is the Great Wall of China? --Part I: First considerations --Early Chinese walls --Strategic origins of Chinese walls --Part II: The making of the Great Wall --Geography and strategy: the importance of the Ordos --Security without walls: early Ming strategy and its collapse --Toward a new strategy: the Ordos crisis and the first walls --Politics and military policy at the turn of the sixteenth century --The second debate over the Ordos --The heyday of wall-building --Part III: The significances of wall-building --The Great Wall and foreign policy: the problem of compromise --The Wall acquires new meanings
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Waldron Arthur
La Grande Muraglia Dalla Soria al Mito
8vo br con sovracoperta, stato nuovo.
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Wieger Leon S. J.
La Chine à travers les ages. Précis. Index biographique. Index bibliographique.
large In-8vo, 531pp. recent cloth vg. tres rare. extremely scarce. [extrait du préface: "Le présent ouvrage résume et complète mon Histoire politique de la Chine (Textes historiques), et mon Histoire des Croyances religieuses et des Opinions philosophiques en Chine Le Précis expose succinctement la suite des événements arfivés en Chine au cours des ages, depuis le commencement de son histoire jusqu'en 1911 , L'index biographique contient plus de quatre mille notices , L'index bibliographique contient un millier de fiches . Ce livre termine la série des ouvrages qui me furent demandés jadis pour mes confrères missionnaires photos on request.
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Petit Karl
Le Monde Des Symboles Dans L'art De La Chine
pp.v-153, 4to br, tres bon etat.
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Grousset René
La Chine et Son Art
ix + 249 pp. small 4to. Numerous plates. Original stiff wrappers, in protective mylar, excellent state. 240x180mm, 249 pages, orné de 100 illustrations hors-texte, broché sous jaquette. Définition de la Chine. Archaismes. Le fils de Han. Révolutions, Invasions, religions nouvelles. L'époque T'ang, l'époque Song. Des Mongols aux Mandchous.
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Dainelli Giotto
Missionari e Mercadanti rivelatori dell'asia Nel Medio evo, Con 178 Figure Nel Testo. Viaggiatori Del Medioevo in Asia
unione tipografico-editrice torinese, utet, , pp.387, tela edit, con sovracoperta, esemplare perfetto,
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Munsterberg Hugo
SYMBOLISM IN ANCIENT CHINESE ART
Decorated cloth, 8vo, 263 pp., 91 b&w illustrations, no dj, fine ISBN: 087817303X
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Perkins Franklin
Leibniz and China a Commerce of Light
8vo, br. ed. Why was Leibniz so fascinated by Chinese philosophy and culture? What specific forms did his interest take? How did his interest compare with the relative indifference of his philosophical contemporaries and near-contemporaries such as Spinoza and Locke? In this highly original book, Franklin Perkins examines Leibniz s voluminous writings on the subject and suggests that his interest was founded in his own philosophy: the nature of his metaphysical and theological views required him to take Chinese thought seriously. Leibniz was unusual in holding enlightened views about the intellectual profitability of cultural exchange, and in a broad-ranging discussion Perkins charts these views, their historical context, and their social and philosophical ramifications. The result is an illuminating philosophical study which also raises wider questions about the perils and rewards of trying to understand and learn from a different culture.
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Beurdeley, Michel; Bataille, Georges, Schipper, Kristofer; Fou-Jouei, Tchang; Pimpaneau, Jacques
Jeux Des Nuages et De La Pluie
grand 4to, toile editeur en jacquette. 223 pages. Reliure éditeur pleine toile ocre sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs. 103 illustrations en noir et 28 en couleurs certaines à pleine page. Avec la collaboration de Madame Georges Bataille qui a traduit les passages du roman érotique chinois, le ''Kin P'ing Mei'', Kristopher Schipper, auteur du chapitre ''Science, Magie et Mystique du Corp'', Jacques Pimpaneau qui a traité le sujet du sadisme, Tchang Fou-Jouei, traducteur des poèmes, et Franklin Chow, adaptateur de la nouvelle ''Le Pavillon de Tsouei-ya''. l'art d'aimer en chine. Iconographie comporte des peintures des grands maîtres et des estampes rares tirées de romans publiés sous les Ming, ainsi que quelques gouaches provenant d'albums et de rouleaux des 18 et 19è siècle. Tout un chacun connaît les fameuses "estampes japonaises " ou le non moins réputé " Kama Soutra " qui, jusqu'à une époque encore fort récente, étaient vendus sous le manteau et représentaient l'image que l'on se faisait de la sexualité orientale. frais exp. extra pour les clients internationales.
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Allan Sarah
Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Early Chinese Bamboo-slip Manuscripts
8vo, Four Warring States texts discovered during recent decades challenge longstanding understandings of Chinese intellectual history
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Gardiner, James
IN AND OUT OF CHINA CITIES (second Three: Hankow-Pingyao-Shanghai)
8vo 22x14cm, original red cloth, 251pp, i Maps, black and white photographic plates, 251pp.The author spent 26 years in China. .Subtitle: China Life and Experiences. Tales of the People. Life Stories of Men and Women. Information Regarding Confucianism. Historical Data. Pottery Manufacture. Extraterritoriality. Treaty Ports. Coinage. Food. Tea. The Schroff. The Compredor. Amazing Bamboo. The Clashes with the Japanese.
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Farquhar Judith
Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China, by Farquhar
8vo, br. ed. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily life in Beijing? Appetites challenges the assumption that the mundane enjoyments of bodily life are natural and unvarying. Farquhar analyzes modern Chinese reflections on embodied existence to show how contemporary appetites are grounded in history. From eating well in improving economic times to memories of the late 1950s famine, from the flavors of traditional Chinese medicine to modernity?s private sexual passions, this book argues that embodiment in all its forms must be invented and sustained in public reflections about personal and national life. As much at home in science studies and social theory as in the details of life in Beijing, this account uses anthropology, cultural studies, and literary criticism to read contemporary Chinese life in a materialist and reflexive mode. For both Maoist and market reform periods, this is a story of high culture in appetites, desire in collective life, and politics in the body and its dispositions. Judith Farquhar is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine
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Lu Wenfu
A World of Dreams, Short Stories, Including the Gourmet
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Reichert Folker E.
Incontri con la Cina. La scoperta dell'Asia orientale nel Medioevo
8vo, br. ed. 408pp.
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Lum Chan Kei (Autore), Fong Chan Diora (Autore)
The China Cookbook
4to, hardcover, The definitive cookbook bible of the world's most popular and oldest cuisine "China The Cookbook is a magnificent insight into the history of Chinese cuisine. I will treasure it in my collection and it will be no doubt be used as valuable reference for many years to come." -Ken Hom OBE,Chef, author and tv presenter In the tradition of bestsellers including Mexico and The Nordic Cookbook comes the next title in the multimillion-selling national cuisine series, China: The Cookbook. Featuring more than 650 recipes for delicious and authentic Chinese dishes for the home kitchen, this impressive and authoritative book showcases the culinary diversity of the world's richest and oldest cuisines with recipes from the 33 regions and sub-regions. China: The Cookbook celebrates popular staples such as Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs and Dim Sum, as well as lesser-known regional classics like Fujian Fried Rice and Jiangsu's Drunken Chicken, and features additional selected recipes from star chefs from around the world. enciclopedica complazione di ricette della cucina cinese. in inglese.
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Hughes E. R.
La Cina e Il Mondo Occidentale
In-8; pp. XII-232. Note bibliografiche (su alcuni moderni scrittori cinesi).
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Fortune Robert
Three years' wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China, including a visit to the tea, silk and cotton countries: with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc.
8vo hard rebound in black boards witn silver lettering., xvi-375pp. Frontis map, in text line drawings and full-page tinted plates. front and end papers in delicate orange ink showing marriage procession and chinese funeral (tape repair to last page of the one at the end, identical to the ones in front). Includes publisher's biographical foreword, absent in earlier editions. Special Limited Edition of 1,000 copies, this copy not numbered. high quality paper, printing and plate reproductions, quite rare. even scarcer than the original 1847 London edition. Fortune was the first plant collector to travel in China after the conclusion of the Opium War, as a botanical collector for the Horticultural Society of London starting in 1843. Travel was not allowed for more than 30 miles past Shanghai, but he set off by boat from Shanghai, in Chinese costume complete with shaved head and pigtail and was the first westerner to reach Soochow and many other parts of China, collecting large numbers of plants and seeds. The book contains two chapters on the cultivation and manufacture of tea with suggestions on the possibilities of developing a tea industry in India.
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De Groot, J. J. M. (Jan Jacob Maria )
The Religious System of China, 6 Vols.
quality reprint in green gilt buckram, 6 volumes, complete, very scarce even in reprint.
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Tretiakov
A Chinese Testament: The Autobiography of Tan Shih-Hua
8vo xii,316p., first ed. original yellow cloth dry embossed in red and black. Personal story of a Chinese student in the turmoil of the 1920's. Yuan p.82. Tan Shih-hua was one of S. Tretiakov's students in the Russian Section of the National University in Peking. This autobiographical account tells the story of an intelligent young man from the days of the first revolution organised by Sun Yat-sen to the 1930s
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Jia Pingwa
Turbulence
8vo, hardcover in dj Landmark novel about the devastating effects on rural China of the Cultural Revolution. A massive historical novel. Published in a small and limited print run. Regarded as Jia Pingwa's masterpiece, it is beautifully translated by the Sinologist Howard Goldblatt. Praised by Jonathan Spence, the greatest living Western scholar on China, as a stunning and powerful voice, Jia Pingwa is now one of the most established writers of our time. This title has been out-of-print for a very long time. This copy has no flaws. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature in 1987. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A flawless copy. . ISBN 0807116874
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Lilley James and Jeffrey
China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia
8vo, br. ed. 417 pages. James Lilley's life has been entwined with China's fate since 1917, when his father started selling kerosene for Standard Oil along the Yangtze River. China Hands recounts his adventures as well as those of three generations of his family - all of them absorbing, many of them exciting, and one unduly tragic. It is a fascinating and moving look at America in Asia, Asia itself, and the remarkable life of one especially capable American. Includes an Index. ". . . a splendid memoir - as engaging as it it informative." - James Schlesinger, Former Director of the CIA (Key Words: Memoirs, James Lilley, China, Jeffrey, Asia, Foreign Relations, Tiananmen Square, Taiwan, Ronald Reagan, South Korea, North Vietnam, North Korea, Kaos, Hong Kong, Den Xiaoping, Chou En-lai, Cambodia, George H. W. Bush).
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Pantsov Alexander V. With Steven Leviine
Mao: The Real Story
8vo . First Edition. This major new biography of Mao uses extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to biographers to reveal surprising details about Mao's rise to power and his leadership in China. Mao Zedong was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, the most important in the history of modern China. A complex figure, he was champion of the poor and brutal tyrant, poet and despot. Mao brought his country from poverty and economic backwardness into the modern age and onto the world stage. But he was also responsible for an unprecedented loss of life. The disastrous Great Leap Forward with its accompanying famine and the bloody Cultural Revolution were Mao's creations. Internationally Mao began to distance China from the USSR under Khrushchev and shrewdly renewed relations with the U.S. as a counter to the Soviets. He lived and behaved as China's last emperor. - dust jacket blurb Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XXVIII, 754 pages, bibliography, index, illustrated with black-and-white photographs,
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Bush George H.w. Edited By Jeffrey A. Engel
The China Diary of George H. W. Bush. The Making of a Global President
8vo, hardcover in dj, this day-by-day diary of George H. W. Bush s life in China opens a fascinating window into one of the most formative periods of his career. As head of the United States Liaison Office in Beijing from 1974 to 1975, Bush witnessed high-level policy deliberations and daily social interactions between the two Cold War superpowers. The China Diary of George H. W. Bush offers an intimate look at this fundamental period of international history, marks a monumental contribution to our understanding of U.S.-China relations, and sheds light on the ideals of a global president in the making. In compelling words, Bush reveals a thoughtful and pragmatic realism that would guide him for decades to come. He considers the crisis of Vietnam, the difficulties of detente, and tensions in the Middle East, while lamenting the global decline in American power. He formulates views on the importance of international alliances and personal diplomacy, as he struggles to form meaningful relationships with China s top leaders. With a critical eye for detail, he depicts key political figures, including Gerald Ford, Donald Rumsfeld, Deng Xiaoping, and the ever-difficult Henry Kissinger. Throughout, Bush offers impressions of China and its people, describing his explorations of Beijing by bicycle, and his experiences with Chinese food, language lessons, and Ping-Pong. Complete with a preface by George H. W. Bush, and an introduction and essay by Jeffrey Engel that place Bush s China experience in the broad context of his public career, The China Diary of George H. W. Bush offers an unmediated perspective on American diplomatic history, and explores a crucial period s impact on a future commander in chief
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Wen Chihua
The Red Mirror: Children Of China's Cultural Revolution
8vo, hardcover in dj, ex-library ow very good. These evocative stories bring to life the tragic personal impact of the Cultural Revolution on the families of China s intellectuals. Now adults, survivors recall their childhood during the tumultuous years between 1965 and 1976, when Mao s death finally drew a curtain on a bitterly failed social and political experiment. Ex-Library
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Whitfield Susan
Life Along the Silk Road
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Wang Der-wei David
The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China
8vo, br. ed. ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. Moving effortlessly across the entire twentieth-century literary landscape, David Der-wei Wang delineates the many meanings of Chinese violence and its literary manifestations. Taking into account the campaigns of violence and brutality that have rocked generations of Chinese - often in the name of enlightenment, rationality, and utopian plenitude - this book places its arguments along two related axes: history and representation, modernity and monstrosity. Wang considers modern Chinese history as a complex of geopolitical, ethnic, gendered, and personal articulations of bygone and ongoing events. His discussion ranges from the politics of decapitation to the poetics of suicide, and from the typology of hunger and starvation to the technology of crime and punishment
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Ying Ruocheng Claire Conceison
Voices Carry: Behind Bars and Backstage During China's Revolution and Reform
8vo, br- ed. pp.245. Voices Carry is the moving autobiography of one of China's most prominent citizens of the twentieth century. Beginning with his imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution, Ying Ruocheng's narrative takes us through unexpectedly amusing adventures during his incarceration before flashing back to his childhood and the legacy of his elite Manchu Catholic family. An internationally renowned actor, director, and translator, Ying also held a high government post as vice minister of culture before and during the events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Detailing his experiences in the 1930s and 1940s during China's civil war and revolution, as well as his theatrical work in the reform era-episodes ranging from his partnership with Arthur Miller on Death of a Salesman to his roles in the films The Last Emperor and Little Buddha-Ying Ruocheng's memoir provides a rare glimpse behind the scenes of contemporary Chinese culture and politics.
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Wong Kam C.
Chinese Policing: History and Reform
8vo, br. ed. 263pp.
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Teiwes, Frederick C
Politics & Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms 1950-1965
8vo, original cloth, not issued with jacket, xiii,730 pp. ISBN: 1563242265
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Barmé Geremie and Linda Jaivin
New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices
Black and white illustrations, 515pp, index, as new copy in as new dustjacket. "New Ghosts, Old Dreams reveals the world of rebellion and dissent inside China like no other book before it. It is China as seen by the Chinese - with all of its passion, humour and raw energy. Many of the articles, speeches, stories, poems and sketches that appear in this volume were banned in China and smuggled out of the country after the crackdown in 1989.". heavy: might need extra charge for international shipping.
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Fung Yu-lan, Tr. Derk Bodde
A History of Chinese Philosophy Volume 1 The Period of the Philosophers from the Beginnings to Circa 100 B.c
Imp.8vo. r xx,455pp. Notes Bibliography and Index folding map, biblio., index. First original chinese edition (only volume 1 was ever published in this edition). A very nice copy in later hardback. w. gilt titles in chinese and english. scarce in this orginal Henri Vetch edition.
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O'Connor Kaori
The Never-Ending Feast: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Feasting
8vo, br. ed. Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts - dishes that once bore rich meats, pitchers used to pour choice wines, tall jars that held beer sipped through long straws of gold and lapis, immense cauldrons from which hundreds of people could be served. Why were feasts so important, and is there more to feasting than abundance and enjoyment? The Never-Ending Feast is a pioneering work that draws on anthropology, archaeology and history to look at the dynamics of feasting among the great societies of antiquity renowned for their magnificence and might. Reflecting new directions in academic study, the focus shifts beyond the medieval and early modern periods in Western Europe, eastwards to Mesopotamia, Assyria and Achaemenid Persia, early Greece, the Mongol Empire, Shang China and Heian Japan. The past speaks through texts and artefacts. We see how feasts were the primary arena for displays of hierarchy, status and power; a stage upon which loyalties and alliances were negotiated; the occasion for the mobilization and distribution of resources, a means of pleasing the gods, and the place where identities were created, consolidated - and destroyed. The Never-Ending Feast transforms our understanding of feasting past and present, revitalising the fields of anthropology, archaeology, history, museum studies, material culture and food studies, for all of which it is essential reading.
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Hsiang Ju Lin
Slippery Noodles: A Culinary History of China
8vo, br. ed. China is a big country and its cuisine is one of the world s greatest. In the last century all nations everywhere have been introduced to its tastes, flavours and cooking methods. But an understanding of Chinese food history is hard to come by: the country is large and the history is long. Hsiang Ju Lin has interrogated the written record, some of it dating back to the 5th century BC, and most recently from books current in the People s Republic today; she has translated it and set it into culinary context and thereby allows the modern reader to enter into some of the breadth and depth of literature available.In a sequence of chronological chapters Hsiang Ju Lin plunges into specific topics as diverse as the influence of the Silk Road, the administration of the Imperial palace, the role of tea and sugar, many of the grand banquets of which we have record, the differences witnessed in the southern provinces, vegetarianism, bean curd and soy sauce, birds eggs and birds nests, the role of salt, the impact of the Western missions, noodles, and the relationship of food and medicine.The reader is able to taste the richness of the heritage, to read for him or herself the words as diverse as the Essential Skills for Common Folk by Jia Sixie (6th cent. AD), Food and Drink by Shen Zinan (7th cent. ), Tao Gu; Zhu Yizun, and Yuan Mei (17th and 18th), the diary of a salt merchant on the east coast and Madame Wu s Home Cooking from the late Song dynasty.
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Constable, Nicole Ed. StudiesNicole Constable is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. Other contributors are Sharon A. Carstens, Myron L. Cohen, Mary S. Erbaugh, Elizabeth Lominska Johnson, Howard J. Martin; and Ellen Oxfel
Guest People: Hakka Identity in China and Abroad
8vo, br. ed. 294pp. The essays in this volume analyze and compare what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, political, geographical, and historical contexts including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Taiwan, and contemporary China. StudiesNicole Constable is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. Other contributors are Sharon A. Carstens, Myron L. Cohen, Mary S. Erbaugh, Elizabeth Lominska Johnson, Howard J. Martin; and Ellen Oxfeld.
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Wang Edward Q.
Chopsticks: A Cultural and Culinary History
8vo, hardcover in dw. In this vibrant, highly original account of the history of chopsticks, the author charts their evolution from a simple eating implement in ancient times to their status as a much more complex, cultural symbol today. The book surveys their use through Chinese history before exploring their transmission in the fifth century to other parts of Asia. With a striking selection of artwork he illustrates how chopstick use has influenced Asian cuisine and how, in turn, Asian cuisine continues to influence chopstick use, both in Asia and across the globe
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Cong Dachang
When Heroes Pass Away: The Invention of a Chinese Communist Pantheon
8vo, br. ed. pp.197. This book studies the treatment of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and other Communist leaders from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. It also unravels the complex political culture in the last phase of Deng s China. The author explores why and how a Chinese Communist pantheon has risen at a time when Communist ideology is fading and the current Chinese leaders are coming to grips with a wide array of moral, social, and economic maladies. The Party has been marred by corruption and the whole society poisoned by greed. Thus, the invention of the pantheon is an important part of the official plan to preserve Communist rule.By highlighting patriotism, riding economic successes, manipulating public sentiment, and re-creating symbols, the state and power elite have skillfully promoted the pantheon to mitigate a legitimacy crisis and to relieve succession pangs. Jiang Zemin and his colleagues, who do not have the charisma of the Communist leaders of the older generation, need to link themselves to the top pantheon with the trinity of Mao, Zhou, and Deng at the top. Yet the pantheon is not merely an official product. Behind the facade of the great worship lies a multitude of intentions, purposes, and meanings, the work of a confluence of different interest groups.
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Zheng Yi
Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China
8vo, br. ed. pp.xvii-199. sticker on spine ow. a very nice copy. This compelling book provides a meticulously documented account of officially sanctioned cannibalism in the southwestern province of Guangxi during the Cultural Revolution. Drawing on his unique access to local archives of the Chinese Communist Party and on extensive interviews with party officials, the victims' relatives, and the murderers themselves, Zheng Yi paints a disturbing picture of official compliance in the systematic killing and cannibalization of individuals in the name of political revolution and "class struggle."The treasure-trove of evidence Zheng Yi has unearthed offers unprecedented insights into the way the internecine, factional struggles of the Cultural Revolution reached a horrifying level of insanity and frenzy among the ethnic Zhuang people of Guangxi. Profoundly moving, acutely observed, and unflinchingly graphic, Scarlet Memorial is a shining example of a genre of investigative reporting that courageously and independently records obscure and officially censored historical events, revealing hidden dimensions of modern Chinese history and politics.
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Haynes, John earl, Klehr, Harvey
In Denial Historians, Communism and Espionage
8vo, cloth in dj, ex-library with usual marks. Synopsis: Focusing on what they call lying about spying the authors reveal how revisionist scholars have ignored or distorted documents from Russian archives that point to espionage links between Moscow and the CPUSA. About the Author: John Haynes and Harvey Klehr co-authors of "The Secret World of American Communism" and "Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America." Ex-Library
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Chang K. C.
Food in Chinese Culture : Anthropological & Historical Perspectives
1st Edition. large 8vo.pp.429, 32 illustrations. An analysis of Chinese culture through its eating habits.
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