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Zeitlin Judith T.
Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale
8vo, br. ed. pp.332. on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai s Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese
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Gumilev Lev Nikolaevich (Autore), R. E. F. Smith (Traduttore)
Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John
8vo, pp.xix- 405. The so called 'Kingdom of Prester John' was a Christian power thought to exist in Central Asia at the time of the twelfth-century crusades. At a deeper level, for the steppe peoples it constitutes a distant dynamic which led to the world-shattering rise of Mongol power under Chinggis (Genghis) Khan. The book ranges widely in subject matter, space and time. Christian history and ecological, demographic, social and economic history are all interwoven with the politics, religions and literature of the vast and varied area between European Russia and China from c800 to 1300. The author's views are distinctive and stimulating and are not always accepted by western specialists. But his bold synthesis fills in many of the missing links between histories of Europe and medieval China and makes it possible to think of these vast areas as, in some senses, parts of a greater whole.
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Andrieu Jacques
Psychologie de Mao Tsé-toung
8vo, Peu de chefs d'État ont été autant adulés, internationalement, que Mao : de Malraux à Sartre en passant par Alain Peyrefitte et Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, ils ont été nombreux à saluer ce " phare de l'humanité " (Giscard d'Estaing). Pourtant, Mao est responsable de l'une des plus grandes folies meurtrières de l'Histoire du dernier siècle. Pour comprendre ce que fut la " pensée-Mao ", néologisme forgé en l'honneur du grand timonier, Jacques Andrieu tente de cerner la psychologie du personnage au travers de son expression, dans ses écrits et dans ses interventions publiques. L'auteur passe au crible de la biographie de Mao un florilège de citations souvent inattendues, parfois cocasses, et montre quels motifs insoupçonnés ont causé certains des plus grands malheurs de la Chine.
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Hergé
Les Aventures de Tintin 5: Le Lotus Bleu
rel. ed. pp.62. en français.
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Norwich John Julius
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe
Hardcover in dj 8vo, t Edition. Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe 'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent - were born within a single decade. Each looms large in his country's history and, in this book, John Julius Norwich broadens the scope and shows how, against the rich background of the Renaissance and destruction of the Reformation, their wary obsession with one another laid the foundations for modern Europe. Individually, each man could hardly have been more different - from the scandals of Henry's six wives to Charles's monasticism - but, together, they dominated the world stage.
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Bickers Robert
Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination
8vo, cloth in dj. pp.576. The extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful country it is today. Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be one of the handful of countries not to succumb. Invaded, humiliated and looted, China nonetheless kept its sovereignty. Robert Bickers' major new book is the first to describe fully what has proved to be one of the modern era's most important stories: the long, often agonising process by which the Chinese had by the end of the 20th century regained control of their own country. Out of China uses a brilliant array of unusual, strange and vivid sources to recreate a now fantastically remote world: the corrupt, lurid modernity of pre-War Shanghai, the often tiny patches of 'extra-territorial' land controlled by European powers (one of which, unnoticed, had mostly toppled into a river), the entrepôts of Hong Kong and Macao, and the myriad means, through armed threats, technology and legal chicanery, by which China was kept subservient. Today Chinese nationalism stays firmly rooted in memories of its degraded past - the quest for self-sufficiency, a determination both to assert China's standing in the world and its outstanding territorial claims, and never to be vulnerable to renewed attack. History matters deeply to Beijing's current rulers - and Out of China explains why.
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Antonkin Alexei
Les Chiens de Faience. Témpoignage d'un correspondant de l'agence Tass à Pékin pour servir a l'histoire de l'Union soviétique et de la Chine
8vo, br. ed. 14.5x21. 215pp.
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Yang Mei-hui Mayfair
Gifts Favors & Banquets
8vo, br. ed. 23x15cm, viii,370 pp., An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business?all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, indebtedness, and reciprocity. Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's close scrutiny of this phenomenon serves as a window to view facets of a much broader and more complex cultural, historical, and political formation. Using rich and varied ethnographic examples of guanxi stemming from her fieldwork in China in the 1980s and 1990s, the author shows how this "gift economy" operates in the larger context of the socialist state redistributive economy. About the Author: Mayfair Mei-hui Yang isProfessor of Religious Studies,East Asian Languages,Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Feng Jicai, Tsai Feng
Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China's Cultural Revolution
8vo, br. ed 285pp.
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Trevaskes Susan
Policing Serious Crime in China: From 'Strike Hard' to 'Kill Fewer'
8vo, br. ed. pp.240. Despite a resurgence in the number of studies of Chinese social control over the past decade or so, no sustained work in English has detailed the recent developments in policy and practice against serious crime, despite international recognition that Chinese policing of serious crime is relatively severe and that more people are executed for crime in China each year than in the rest of the world combined. In this book the author skilfully explores the politics, practice, procedures, and public perceptions of policing serious crime in China, focusing on one particular criminal justice practice anti-crime campaigns in the period of transition from planned to market economy from the 1980s to the first years of the twenty-first century. Susan Trevaskes analyzes the elements that led to the Hard Strike becoming the preferred method of attacking the growing problem of serious crime in China before going on to examine the factors surrounding the failure of the Hard Strike as a way of addressing the main problems of serious crime in China today, that is drug trafficking and organized crime . Drawing on a rich variety of Chinese sources Serious Crime in China is an original and informed read for scholars of China, criminologists generally and the international human rights community.
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Jia Pingwa
Le Village Englouti
8vo, br. ed. en français. 317pp.
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Miller Donald
Red Earth and Summer Lilies
8vo, 236pp. Map, black and white photo illustrations original cloth in poor dust jacket. flyleaf removed ow very good.
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Fong Mei
One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
8vo, Very Good: a copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. For over three decades, China exercised unprecedented control over the reproductive habits of its billion citizens. Now, with its economy faltering just as it seemed poised to become the largest in the world, the Chinese government has brought an end to its one-child policy. It may once have seemed a shortcut to riches, but it has had a profound effect on society in modern China. Combining personal portraits of families affected by the policy with a nuanced account of China s descent towards economic and societal turmoil, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mei Fong reveals the true cost of this most controversial of policies. Drawing on eight years spent documenting its repercussions, she reveals a dystopian legacy of second children refused documentation by the state, only children supporting their parents and grandparents, and villages filled with ineligible bachelors. An exceptional piece of on-the-ground journalism, One Child humanizes the policy that defined China and warns that the ill-effects of its legacy will be felt across the globe
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Johnson Kay Ann
China's Hidden Children
8vo hardcoveIn the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children mostly girls have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It s generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China s approach to population control, but there is also the underlying belief that the majority of adoptees are daughters because the One-Child Policy often collides with the traditional preference for a son. While there is some truth to this, it does not tell the full story a story with deep personal resonance to Kay Ann Johnson, a China scholar and mother to an adopted Chinese daughter. Johnson spent years talking with the Chinese parents driven to relinquish their daughters during the brutal birth-planning campaigns of the 1990s and early 2000s, and, with "China s Hidden Children, "she paints a startlingly different picture. The decision to give up a daughter, she shows, is not a facile one, but one almost always fraught with grief and dictated by fear. Were it not for the constant threat of punishment for breaching the country s stringent birth-planning policies, most Chinese parents would have raised their daughters despite the cultural preference for sons. With clear understanding and compassion for the families, Johnson describes their desperate efforts to conceal the birth of second or third daughters from the authorities. As the Chinese government cracked down on those caught concealing an out-of-plan child, strategies for surrendering children changed from arranging adoptions or sending them to live with rural family to secret placement at carefully chosen doorsteps and, finally, abandonment in public places. In the twenty-first century, China s so-called abandoned children have increasingly become stolen children, as declining fertility rates have left the dwindling number of children available for adoption more vulnerable to child trafficking. In addition, government seizures of locally but illegally adopted children and children hidden within their birth families mean that even legal adopters have unknowingly adopted children taken from parents and sent to orphanages. The image of the unwanted daughter remains commonplace in Western conceptions of China. With "China s Hidden Children, " Johnson reveals the complex web of love, secrecy, and pain woven in the coerced decision to give one s child up for adoption and the profound negative impact China s birth-planning campaigns have on Chinese families.". r, as new.
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Elvin Mark
Changing Stories in the Chinese World
8vo, br. ed. underlining and notes in pen to some chapters, ow looks externaly as new. book is an innovative attempt to convey something of how it has felt since the early nineteenth century to be Chinese. It is based on the assumption that people live their lives in stories, or as if they themselves were in stories-stories that are largely a social inheritance but are also in some measure self-created or at least continually adapted, edited, or extended. The author describes and interprets some of the most important stories through which the Chinese have lived their lives in the last two hundred years and their understanding of them. He shows how largely forgotten works of popular literature, novels and poems in particular, can admit the reader to a number of different emotional worlds. Together they suggest that there is no such thing as the Chinese story, let alone mind, but rather a historical palimpsest of extraordinary and often internally contradictory complexity. The book begins with an examination of Li Ruzhen s Destinies of the Flowers in the Mirror, which reveals a microcosm of the educated Chinese world predating major Western influences.Balancing this emphasis on the elite are the poems collected by Zhang Yingchang in Our Dynasty s Bell of Poesy, which portray the universe of peasants, women, artisans, soldiers, and prisoners. A bestseller of the 1930 s, Tides in the Human Sea, shows the crisis of absurdity that arises when feelings no longer coincide with inherited patterns of behavior as modernization begins to take hold. Hao Ran s Children of the Western Sands, a popular Communist work of the early 1970 s, allows us to be drawn into at least a momentary empathy with the idealism of the Maoist faithful. Almost as different as can be imagined is The Bastard, by Sima Zhongyuan, one of Taiwan s most widely read writers. Its characters interpret the Communist revolution in terms derived from traditional Chinese religion, as a deserved punishment inflicted on the Chinese for the filthy impropriety of their sexual conduct. The final work considered is a book of essays, A Commonplace Fellow, by Yuan Ze nan, a Chinese-American writer who has reached the point where his Chineseness has all but vanished, and who is consciously exploring its disappearance.
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Lindsay Jon R. Lindsay, Tai Ming Cheung, Derek S. Reveron
China and Cybersecurity: Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain
8vo, trade pb. China s emergence as a great power in the twenty-first century is strongly enabled by cyberspace. Leveraged information technology integrates Chinese firms into the global economy, modernizes infrastructure, and increases internet penetration which helps boost export-led growth. China s pursuit of informatization reconstructs industrial sectors and solidifies the transformation of the Chinese People s Liberation Army into a formidable regional power. Even as the government censors content online, China has one of the fastest growing internet populations and most of the technology is created and used by civilians. Western political discourse on cybersecurity is dominated by news of Chinese military development of cyberwarfare capabilities and cyber exploitation against foreign governments, corporations, and non-governmental organizations. Western accounts, however, tell only one side of the story. Chinese leaders are also concerned with cyber insecurity, and Chinese authors frequently note that China is also a victim of foreign cyber--attacks--predominantly from the United States.China and Cybersecurity: Political, Economic, and Strategic Dimensions is a comprehensive analysis of China s cyberspace threats and policies. The contributors--Chinese specialists in cyber dynamics, experts on China, and experts on the use of information technology between China and the West--address cyberspace threats and policies, emphasizing the vantage points of China and the U.S. on cyber exploitation and the possibilities for more positive coordination with the West. The volume s multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural approach does not pretend to offer wholesale resolutions. Contributors take different stances on how problems may be analyzed and reduced, and aim to inform the international audience of how China s political, economic, and security systems shape cyber activities. The compilation provides empirical and evaluative depth on the deepening dependence on shared global information infrastructure and the growing willingness to exploit it for political or economic gain
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Di Cosmo, Nicola [Editor]; Frank, Allen J. [Editor]; Golden, Peter B. [Editor];
The Cambridge History of Inner Asia . The Cinggisid Age
8vo, hardcover in dj, volume centres on the history and legacy of the Mongol World Empire founded by Chinggis Khan and his sons, including its impact upon the modern world. An international team of scholars examines the political and cultural history of the Mongol empire, its Chinggisid successor states, and the non-Chinggisid dynasties that came to dominate Inner Asia in its wake. Geographically, it focuses on the continental region from East Asia to Eastern Europe. Beginning in the twelfth century, the volume moves through to the establishment of Chinese and Russian political hegemony in Inner Asia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Contributors use recent research and new approaches that have revitalized Inner Asian studies to highlight the world-historical importance of the regimes and states formed during and after the Mongol conquest. Their conclusions testify to the importance of a region whose modern fate has been overshadowed by Russia and China.
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Lynn T. White III
Policies of ChaosPolicies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution
8vo, br. ed. pp.xiii-369
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Allsen Thomas T.
Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
8vo, br. ed. In the thirteenth century the Mongols created a vast, transcontinental empire that intensified commercial and cultural contact throughout Eurasia. From the outset of their expansion, the Mongols identified and mobilized artisans of diverse backgrounds, frequently transporting them from one cultural zone to another. Prominent among those transported were Muslim textile workers, resettled in China, where they made clothes for the imperial court. In a meticulous and fascinating account, the author investigates the significance of cloth and colour in the political and cultural life of the Mongols. Situated within the broader context of the history of the Silk Road, the primary line in East-West cultural communication during the pre-Muslim era, the study promises to be of interest not only to historians of the Middle East and Asia, but also to art historians and textile specialists.
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Tucci Giuseppe, Foto Di Wim SwaanSmith
Tibet Paese Delle Nevi
4to, tela ed. in sovracopetta (quest'ultima con trsppetti, ma nessuna perdita), pp.216. esauritissimo, fuori catalogo
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Dreyfus Paul
Matteo Ricci. Uno scienziato alla corte di Pechino
8vo, ril.ed. sovrac. L'avventura del grande gesuita innamorato della Cina e della espansione cristiana in Oriente. Un libro che guida il lettore nel profondo della cultura cinese del XVI secolo, attraverso gli usi e i costumi dell'epoca in una dimensione esotica lontanissima dal mondo occidentale di allora.
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Carter Tom
China: Portrait of a People
square small 4to, pp.638, photographs
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Colquhoun Archibald r
Across Chryse, Being the Narrative of A Journey of Exploration Through the South China Border Lands From Canton to Mandalay , Vols I e II
2 vols, cloth, volumes. Volume 1: Maps 1 folding, many text illustrations, 14 full page illustrations, xxx + 420pp. Volume II: Folding map, many text illustrations, 12 full page illustrations, xvi + 408pp, appendix, index. Endpapers browned, some light occasional spotting and light even browning, lower endpaper volume I torn with a little loss along the lower edge. A good set in cloth. Archibald R. Colquhoun (1848 - 1914) was a great traveller who later in his career became the First Administrator of Southern Rhodesia. It was for his exploratory work in Southern China, Burma and Indo-China described in this book that he was awarded the Founder's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1884. Chryse as mentioned in the title of this book was a former name for Indo-China and Southern China and it is Colquhoun's travels in the area (the Chinese southern provinces of Guandong, Guangxi and Yunnan Provinces, Laos, northern Thailand and Burma),
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Sokol Edward Dennis , with a Foreword of Frederic S. Starr
The Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia
8vo, br. ed. During the summer of 1916, approximately 270,000 Central Asians-Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks-perished at the hands of the Russian army in a revolt
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Ball Philip
The Water Kingdom
New. 234 x 153 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book. A secret history of China - a fresh new way of thinking about a people, a civilisation, an epic story. The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China s past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to grasp the overwhelming complexity and teeming energy of the country and its people. Water is a key that unlocks much of Chinese history and thought. The ubiquitous relationship that the Chinese people have had with water has made it an enduring metaphor for philosophical thought and artistic expression. From the Han emperors to Mao, the ability to manage the waters - to provide irrigation and defend against floods - became a barometer of political legitimacy, and attempts to do so have involved engineering works on a gigantic scale. Yet the strain that economic growth is putting on its water resources today may be the greatest threat to China s future. The Water Kingdom is an epic, spell-binding story. Our guides are travellers and explorers, poets and painters, bureaucrats and activists, who have themselves struggled to come to terms with living in a world so shaped and permeated by water.epic, spell-binding story. Our guides are travellers and explorers, poets and painters, bureaucrats and activists, who have themselves struggled to come to terms with living in a world so shaped and permeated by water.
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Yu Hua
La Cina in Dieci Parole
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Jeremy Brown (editor), Matthew D. Johnson (editor), Jacob Eyferth (contributions), Wang Haiguang (contributions), Yang Kuisong (contributions), Daniel Leese (contributions), Sha Qingqing (contributions), Sigrid Schmalzer (contributions), Michael Schoenhal
Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era
8vo, Synopsis: Maoism at the Grassroots challenges state-centered views of China under Mao, providing insights into the lives of citizens across social strata, ethnicities, and regions. It reveals how ordinary people risked persecution and imprisonment in order to assert personal beliefs and identities, despite political repression and surveillance. Review: "Maoism at the Grassroots" showcases the exciting new scholarship being produced by the rising generation of historians of the People s Republic of China. These chapters portray Mao-era society and politics with startling intimacy and humanity, drawing on a range of new sources that bring everyday experiences at the grassroots into sharp focus.--Andrew G. Walder, author of "China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed" As a work of cultural history, "Maoism at the Grassroots" seeks to complicate interpretations of China s Mao era (1949 1976) through an examination of diverse and shared experiences of everyday life As in the best edited volumes, each section of this book is nicely linked to the others and the authors make connections across the chapters rather than writing in isolation This book is a must-read for scholars who work on the People s Republic of China and will prove rewarding as well to anyone curious about ordinary life under Communist Party rule. "Maoism at the Grassroots" also makes an important intervention in the larger project of writing modern Chinese history. Until recently, Western books on China were primarily written by white men and the occasional white woman. This volume features scholarship from an impressive array of both Western and Chinese academics, many of the latter being translated into English for the first time. This marks a turning point in the production of historical scholarship on the Mao era, and hopefully is an indication of growing collaboration among scholars in different parts of the West and in China.--Sarah Mellors"Los Angeles Review of Books" (11/23/2015)" As a work of cultural history, Maoism at the Grassroots seeks to complicate interpretations of China's Mao era (1949-1976) through an examination of diverse and shared experiences of everyday life. As in the best edited volumes, each section of this book is nicely linked to the others and the authors make connections across the chapters rather than writing in isolation. This book is a must-read for scholars who work on the People's Republic of China and will prove rewarding as well to anyone curious about ordinary life under Communist Party rule. Maoism at the Grassroots also makes an important intervention in the larger project of writing modern Chinese history. Until recently, Western books on China were primarily written by white men and the occasional white woman. This volume features scholarship from an impressive array of both Western and Chinese academics, many of the latter being translated into English for the first time. This marks a turning point in the production of historical scholarship on the Mao era, and hopefully is an indication of growing collaboration among scholars in different parts of the West and in China.--Sarah Mellors"Los Angeles Review of Books" (11/23/2015) A new generation of Chinese and Western scholars is enriching the history of Mao Zedong's China with material from discarded personnel files, diaries, and unpublished manuscripts purchased from paper recyclers, as well as from recently opened local archives. Their view from below challenges the cliched images of regimented masses fanatically loyal to the revolution.--Andrew J. Nathan"Foreign Affairs" (02/10/2016) For years, Maoist China was opaque from the outside--interpretable only by what a trickle of refugees said or by inference from government references to 'the masses.' That bland term is now passe, but the Western tendency to homogenize the common folk of China persists, especially in fields related to international relations, where scholars and journalists casually refer to 'the Chinese' as
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Whiting Allen
China Crosses the Yalu: The Decision to Enter the Korean War
8vo br ed.
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Pai, Hsiao-Hung
Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants
8vo, hardcover in dj, exlibrary stamps ow very good. Each year, 200 million workers from China?s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China?s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce??scattered sand?, in Chinese parlance?and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country. Ex-Library
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Bradley Camp Davis
Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands
8vo, br. ed.pp.266. The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against other armed migrants and uplands communities for the control of commerce, specifically opium, and natural resources, such as copper. At the edges of three empires (the Qing empire in China, the Vietnamese empire governed by the Nguyen dynasty, and, eventually, French Colonial Vietnam), the Black Flags and their rivals sustained networks of power and dominance through the framework of political regimes. This lively history demonstrates the plasticity of borderlines, the limits of imposed boundaries, and the flexible division between apolitical banditry and political rebellion in the borderlands of China and Vietnam. Imperial Bandits contributes to the ongoing reassessment of borderland areas as frontiers for state expansion, showing that, as a setting for many forms of human activity, borderlands continue to exist well after the establishment of formal boundaries.
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Kang, Minsoo Editor and Translator
The Story of Hong Gildong
16mo, br. ed. The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. Like its English counterpart, Robin Hood, it has been adapted into countless movies, television shows, novels and comics. Its memorable lines are known to virtually every Korean by heart. Until now, this incredible 19th century fable has been all but inaccessible to English readers. Hong Gildong, the brilliant but illegitimate son of a government minister, cannot advance in society due to his secondary status, so he leaves home to become the leader of a band of outlaws who rob the rich to give to the poor. On the way to building his own empire and gaining acceptance from his family, Hong Gildong vanquishes assassins, battles monsters, and conquers kingdoms. Minsoo Kang's expressive and animated new translation finally makes the original text of this classic available in English, re-introducing a noble and righteous outlaw and sharing a beloved hallmark of Korean culture. Half fairy tale, half social protest novel, The Story of Hong Gildong is nothing less than the story of modern Korea itself (Washington Post) L'autore Minsoo Kang is an associate professor of European history at University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the author of Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination and co-editor of Visions of the Industrial Age, 1830 - 1914: Modernity and the Anxiety of Representation in Europe.
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Di Cosmo Nicola and Don J. Wyatt
Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries and Human Geographies in Chinese History
8vo, br. ed. Boundaries - demanding physical space, enclosing political entities, and distinguishing social or ethnic groups - constitute an essential aspect of historical investigation. It is especially with regard to disciplinary pluralism and historical breadth that this book most clearly departs and distinguishes itself from other works on Chinese boundaries and ethnicity. In addition to history, the disciplines represented in this book include anthropology (particularly ethnography), religion, art history, and literary studies. Each of the authors focuses on a distinct period, beginning with the Zhou dynasty (c. 1100 BCE) and ending with the early centuries after the Manchu conquest (c. CE 1800) - resulting in a chronological sweep of nearly three millennia.
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Moskowitz Marc L.
Go Nation : Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China
8vo, br. ed. Go (Weiqi in Chinese) is one of the most popular games in East Asia, with a steadily increasing fan base around the world. Like chess, Go is a logic game but it is much older, with written records mentioning the game that date back to the 4th century BC. As Chinese politics have changed over the last two millennia, so too has the imagery of the game. In Imperial times it was seen as a tool to seek religious enlightenment and was one of the four noble arts that were a requisite to becoming a cultured gentleman. During the Cultural Revolution it was a stigmatized emblem of the lasting effects of feudalism. Today, it marks the reemergence of cultured gentlemen as an idealized model of manhood. Marc L. Moskowitz explores the fascinating history of the game, as well as providing a vivid snapshot of Chinese Go players today. Go Nation uses this game to come to a better understanding of Chinese masculinity, nationalism, and class, as the PRC reconfigures its history and traditions to meet the future
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Davies John Paton
China Hand: An Autobiography
8vo, hardcover dj .At the height of the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s,john Paton Davies,jr., was summoned to the State Department one morning and fired. His offense? The career diplomat had counseled the U.S. government during World War II that the Communist forces in China were poised to take over the country~ which they did, in 1949. Davies joined the thousands of others who became the victims of a political maelstrom that engulfed the country and deprived the United States of the wisdom and guidance of an entire generation of East Asian diplomats and scholars. The son of American missionaries, Davies was born in China at the turn of the twentieth century. Educated in the United States, he joined the ranks of the newly formed Foreign Service in the 1930s and returned to China, where he would remain until nearly the end of World War II. During that time he became one of the first Americans to meet and talk with the young revolutionary known as Mao Zedong. He documented the personal excesses and political foibles of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai~shek. As a political aide to General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, the wartime commander of the Allied forces in East and South Asia, he traveled widely in the region, meeting with colonial India's Nehru and Gandhi to gauge whether their animosity to British rule would translate into support for Japan. Davies ended the war serving in Moscow with George F. Kennan, the architect of America's policy toward the Soviet Union. Kennan found in Davies a lifelong friend and colleague. Neither, however, was immune to the virulent anticommunism of the immediate postwar years. China Hand is the story of a man who captured with wry and judicious insight the times in which he lived, both as observer and as actor. John Paton Davies,Jr. (1908~99) was a Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Department of State from 1931 to 1954. He was also the author of Foreign and Other Affairs and Dragon by the Tail: American, British,Japanese, and Russian Encounters with China and One Another
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Rohsenow Robert S. Ed.
ABC Dictionary of Chinese Proverbs
8vo, br. ed. 272pp. . The introductory chapter explains the proverbs' use as a store of conventional wisdom in a low-literacy culture. So, it's surprising that not all of the proverbs seem inherently memorable. But the book has a sufficiently high proportion of interesting proverbs to make it a worthwhile browser for the non specialist
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Dutton Michael
Policing Chinese Politics: A History
8vo, br. ed. In the first line of his Selected Works, Mao Zedong states, "Who are our enemies, who are our friends, that is the question germane to the revolution." In Policing Chinese Politics, Michael Dutton argues that this friend/enemy dichotomy structured Chinese social order for much of the twentieth century, and the functioning of the Chinese police reflected this. Unlike western policing, which grew out of community efforts to control crime, modern Chinese policing--born in war and revolution--was founded to defend the Communist Party. Analyzing empirical evidence including extensive material from Chinese Public Security sources, Dutton tells the political history of modern China through the history of its policing practices. The deeply political character of the Chinese police was established in the 1920s, when the Communists were fighting against Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists. Despite being surrounded and badly outnumbered by their Nationalist enemies, the Communists dedicated themselves to self-destructive campaigns against "the enemy within"-real and imagined traitors to the Communist cause. Committing the police to ferreting out these internal enemies proved pivotal. For the next fifty years, the pursuit of "counter-revolutionary" enemies provided the governing principle of Chinese policing. This proved a surprisingly flexible mission, ranging from the political purges of the 1920s to the anti-drug and anti-prostitution sweeps of the 1950s to the prosecution of the Gang of Four and their followers in the 1970s. Dutton presents a timeline of this history in each chapter, relating political developments to contemporary policing practices. Political policing began to decline with the economic reforms of the 1970s, as policing stability replaced policing the revolutionary line. The history of the police force as a Party organ, however, continues to limit true reform.
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Unger Jonathan
The Transformation of Rural China
8vo, original red cloth, as new, no dj, titles in black, author of this work has repeatedly interviewed farmers and rural officials from various parts of China in order to keep in close touch with changes that have been sweeping the country-side from the Mao era through the Deng era to the present day Jiang era. The book explores the extraordinary changes of the past forty years from the multiple perspectives of political, social, and economic transformation, showing how each impacts upon the other. The overarching theme is that the Maoist credo penetrated the villages and had a profound influence on village life and mores and attitudes
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Rapp John A.
Daoism and Anarchism: Critiques of State Autonomy in Ancient and Modern China
8vo, br. ed. focuses on anti-statist critiques in ancient and modern China and demonstrates that China does not have an unchallenged authoritarian political culture. Treating anarchism as a critique of centralized state power, the work first examines radical Daoist thought from the 4th century BCE to the 9th century CE and compares Daoist philosophers and poets to Western anarchist and utopian thinkers. This is followed by a survey of anarchist themes in dissident thought in the People s Republic of China from 1949 to the present. A concluding chapter discusses how Daoist anarchism can be applied to any anarchist-inspired radical critique today. This work not only challenges the usual ideas of the scope and nature of dissent in China, it also provides a unique comparison of ancient Chinese Daoist anarchism to Western anarchist. Featuring previously untranslated texts, such as the 9th century Buddhist anarchist tract, the Wunengzi, and essays from the PRC press, it will be an essential resource to anyone studying anarchism, Chinese political thought
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Cohen Paul A.
Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China
8vo, br. ed. The ancient story of King Goujian, a psychologically complex fifth-century BCE monarch, spoke powerfully to the Chinese during China s turbulent twentieth century. Yet most Americans - even students and specialists of this era - have never heard of Goujian. In Speaking to History , Paul A. Cohen opens this previously missing (to the West) chapter of China s recent history. He connects the story to each of the major traumas of the last century, tracing its versatility as a source of inspiration and hope and elegantly exploring, on a more general level, why such stories often remain sealed up within a culture, unknown to outsiders. Labeling this phenomenon insider cultural knowledge , Cohen investigates the relationship between past story and present reality. He inquires why at certain moments in their collective lives peoples are especially drawn to narratives from the distant past that resonate strongly with their current circumstances, and why the Chinese have returned over and over to a story from twenty-five centuries ago. In this imaginative stitching of story to history, Cohen reveals how the shared narratives of a community help to define its culture and illuminate its history.
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Liu Zhenyun
Remembering 1942: And Other Chinese Stories
8vo, hardcover in dj, Sweeping, humorous, and moving tales from one of contemporary China s greatest writers. The bestselling and award-winning author of novels satirizing contemporary China, Liu Zhenyun is also renowned for his short stories. Remembering 1942 showcases six of his best, featuring a diverse cast of ordinary people struggling against the obstacles--bureaucratic, economic, and personal--that life presents. The six exquisite stories that comprise this collection range from an exploration of office politics unmoored by an unexpected gift to the tale of a young soldier attempting to acclimate to his new life as a student and the story of a couple struggling to manage the demands of a young child. Another, about petty functionaries trying to solve a mystery of office intrigue, reads like a survival manual for Chinese bureaucracy. The masterful title story explores the legacy of the drought and famine that struck Henan Province in 1942, tracing its echoes in one man s personal journey through war and revolution and into the present. Each story is rich in wit, insight, and empathy, and together they bring into focus the realities of China s past and present, evoking clearly and mordantly the often Kafkaesque circumstances of contemporary life in the world s most populous nation. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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Billingsley Phil
Bandits in Republican China
in-8, original cloth in dust wrapper, ex library stickers and marks, ow good, xviii+375 pp., 4 pages of illustrations, very good copy. Contents: Introduction - From 'Bandit Kingdoms' to 'Bandit's World': The Growth of Banditry Under the Republic - 'Cradle of Banditry': A Case Study of Henan Province - 'Climbing Mount LIang': Who Became a Bandit? - 'Fierce Democracy': The Creation and Organization of a Bandit Gang - 'Some Men Are Brothers': Bandit Lives and Perspectives - 'Prevailing Winds, Adverse Currents': Bandits, Power, and the People - 'Apotheosis of Banditry': China Becomes a Bandits World - 'Levelers or Liabilities?': Bandits and the Revolutionary Movement - Conclusion - Appendix - Notes - Bibliography - Index
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Li Kunwu e Ôtié, Philippe
Una Vita Cinese Il Tempo Del Padre, Una Vita Cinese Il Tempo Del Partito, 2 Vols.
4to piccolo, br. ed. 2 volumi, "Una vita cinese" è l'autobiografia a fumetti dell'artista Li Kunwu, disegnata da lui stesso e scritta a quattro mani con P. Ôtié. "Il tempo del padre" è il primo di tre volumi che raccontano un viaggio nel tempo e nella storia. 1950. Mao Zedong è al potere da un anno quando sulle montagne dello Yunnan, nel sud della Cina, il segretario Li, irruente quadro comunista, conosce la giovane Xiao Tao. Dal loro matrimonio nasce Li Kunwu. Dall'infanzia rivoluzionaria alla morte di Mao, nei disegni di Li scopriamo la Cina del Grande timoniere attraverso i suoi occhi di bambino che non ha conosciuto altro che il regime comunista: la trama epica è affidata a una narrazione intima, che riflette la vita dell'autore, per più di trent'anni artista di Stato per il Partito comunista. L'autore si racconta rispettando fedelmente i fatti storici della sua vita, inevitabilmente intrecciata alla storia del suo paese: la Rivoluzione culturale, il Grande balzo in avanti. La mano di Li Kunwu, che unisce le tradizioni del pennello ai tratti caricaturali della propaganda maoista, raffigura la vertiginosa follia collettiva e la spirale di alienazione di un popolo ipnotizzato da Mao.
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Dunlop Fuchsia
Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes from Hunan Province
4to, hardcover in dj. Fuchsia Dunlop is the author of the much-loved and critically acclaimed Sichuanese cookbook Land of Plenty, which won the British Guild of Food Writers' Jeremy Round Award for best first book and which critic John Thorne called "a seminal exploration of one of China's great regional cuisines." Now, with Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook, she introduces us to the delicious tastes of Hunan, Chairman Mao's home province. Hunan is renowned for the fiery spirit of its people, its beautiful scenery, and its hearty peasant cooking. In a selection of classic recipes interwoven with a wealth of history, legend, and anecdote, Dunlop brings to life this vibrant culinary region. Look for late imperial recipes like Numbing-and-Hot Chicken, Chairman Mao's favorite Red-Braised Pork, soothing stews, and a myriad of colorful vegetable stir-fries.
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Goodman, Howard L.
Ts'ao P'i Transcendent. The Political Culture of Dynasty-founding in China at the End of the Han
8vo, First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9¼'' x 6''. Contains 249 printed pages of text.
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Jenner W. J. F.
The Tyranny of History: Roots of China's Crisis (Penguin history)
br. ed. Based on a series of lectures given by Professor Jenner in New Zealand shortly after Tianenmen Square in 1989, this book examines the peculiarities of Chinese history, and of the unique burden that history places on present-day China, which the author sees in a state of serious crisis, possibly even of potential collapse.
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Liu Zhenyun
The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon: A Novel of Contemporary China
8vo Hardcover in dj Ex-library book in good condition with typical stamps and markings. Pages are clean and the binding is tight The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corruption. The protagonist, Liu Yuejin, is a work site cook and small-time thief whose bag is stolen. In searching for it he stumbles upon another bag, which contains a flash disk that chronicles high-level corruption, and sets off a convoluted chase. There are no heroes in this scathing, complex, and highly readable critique of the dark side of China?s predatory capitalism, corruption, and the plight of the underclasses. A movie adaptation and TV series appeared in 2008 in China. Ex-Library
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Ah Cheng
The King of Trees: Three Novellas: The King of Trees, The King of Chess, The King of Children
8vo, br. ed.
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Qiu Xiaolong
Il Poliziotto Di Shanghai
br. ed. 235pp.
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Liu Zhenyun
Corridors of Power
Chinese Literature Press (dicembre 1994)
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Farquhar Judith , Zhang Qicheng
Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing
8vo, cloth in dj, pp.347. Ten Thousand Things explores the many forms of life, or, in ancient Chinese parlance "the ten thousand things" that life is and is becoming, in contemporary Beijing and beyond. Coauthored by an American anthropologist and a Chinese philosopher, the book examines the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good life, practice the embodied arts of everyday well-being, and in doing so draw on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media. Farquhar and Zhang show that there are many activities that nurture life: practicing meditative martial arts among friends in a public park; jogging, swimming, and walking backward; dancing, singing, and keeping pet birds; connoisseurship of tea, wine, and food; and spiritual disciplines ranging from meditation to learning a foreign language. As ancient life-nurturing texts teach, the cultural practices that produce particular forms of life are generative in ten thousand ways: they "give birth to life and transform the transformations." This book attends to the patterns of city life, listens to homely advice on how to live, and interprets the great tradition of medicine and metaphysics. In the process, a manifold culture of the urban Chinese everyday emerges. The lives nurtured, gathered, and witnessed here are global and local, embodied and discursive, ecological and cosmic, civic and individual. The elements of any particular life -- as long as it lasts, and with some skill and determination -- can be gathered, centered, and harmonized with the way things spontaneously go. The result, everyone says, is pleasure.
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