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Pu Ning (Wu Ming shih)
Red in Tooth and Claw: Twenty-Six Years in Communist Chinese Prisons
8vo, hardcover in dj. ex library with usual stamps cards and paste down, ow very good,.xxvii, 228 p. ; 22 cm. cloth with gold lettering, in gold, black, white and red colored dustjacket ; "Han Wei T'ien, a man who spent twenty-six years in the prison camps of Communist China, recalls spending two years down a well, mass executions in the Tilan prison, and braving temperatures as low as fifty degrees below zero" Ex-Library
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Wang Ruowang
Hunger Trilogy
8vo, br. ed. This autobiographical novella was written in 1980 by one of China s leading dissidents, who was released from jail in late October 1990 again after being imprisoned as a pro-democracy activist in the wake of the Tiananmen incident of spring 1989. Wang recounts three episodes of extreme hardship in his life: incarceration in a Guomindang jail during the 1930s for his communist activism, on the run from Japanese troops during the 1940s in a bleak part of Shandong Province, and imprisonment as a rightist in Shanghai during the 1960s cultural revolution. The central theme of the three stories is extreme deprivation and Hunger .
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Huang Jing
Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics
8vo, cloth in dj. 458 pages. ex library working copy with considerable highliting at some chapters. ow. still good. Factionalism is widely understood to be a distinguishing characteristic of Chinese politics. In this book, first published in 2000, Jing Huang examines the role of factionalism in leadership relations and policy-making. His detailed knowledge of intra-party politics offers an alternative understanding of still-disputed struggles behind the high walls of leadership in Zhongnanhai. Huang traces the development of factional politics from its roots in the mountaintops and the enduring impact of the personal bonds formed between Mao and his supporters at the Yan an Round Table. Critiquing the predominant theories on leadership and decision-making, he explains that it is not power struggles that give rise to factionalism, but rather the existence of factionalism that turns power into an overriding goal in CCP politics . Huang explains why policy outcomes switched constantly between Left-adventurism and Right-conservatism under Mao s reign and between emancipation of mind and socialist spiritual civilization in the Deng era Ex-Library
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Andrew, Anita M.; Rapp, John A.
Autocracy and China's Rebel Founding Emperors: Comparing Chairman Mao and Ming Taizu
8vo, br, ed. What kind of ruler was Mao Zedong? Utilizing a rich mix of analysis and new translations, this book examines other imperial predecessors and the elements linking Mao and Ming Taizu, the fourteenth-century peasant rebel who founded the Ming dynasty, as well as critiques of Western and Chinese scholarship. The book then presents translations with commentary of PRC scholars on Taizu and Mao, showing the evolution in Chinese though toward both rulers from the Cultural Revolution to the Deng Xiaoping reform era.
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Lipman Jonathan N. & Stevan Harrell, eds.
Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture (Suny Series in Chinese Local Studies)
8vo, br. ed. Ex-library withdrawn from a university library. Usual library markings including library stickers on front cover and on spine, and library stamps inside front cover. Minor shelfwear.
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Link Perry
Stubborn Weeds: Popular and Controversial Chinese Literature After the Cultural Revolution
8vo, br. ed.pp.x + 292
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Teiwes, Frederick C.
Politics at Mao's Court: Gao Gang and Party Factionalism in the Early 1950s (Studies on Contemporary China)
8vo, cloth, xvi, 326 pages + biographical note; index, notes, appendices, tables, couple of b/w photos. ex-library with usual marks and paste downs, otherwise very good.The investigation of the rise and fall of Gao Gang suggests broader implications on the nature of elite politics in the Maoist era. The illumination of basic issues in Chinese politics in the context of this case, especially as regards the role of Mao Zedong, is relevant not only to the initial post-1949 period of comparative, but flawed, party unity, but also to the structural fault lines of the political system which were later to contribute so significantly to the Cultural Revolution. Ex-Library
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Williams Philip F. Yenna Wu
The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp Through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage
8vo, br. ed. 225 x 150 mm. xii, 248 pp. Pictorial card covers.
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Iris Versari
L'uomo Che Non Conosceva La libertà. Voci Inascoltate Dalla Cina Moderna
8vo, br. ed. una storia uigura dal Turkesan cinese (Xinjiang)
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Clunas Craig
Chinese Painting and Its Audiences
4to, hardcover Bollingen Series XXXV, national gallery of art washington: What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them discussed here in English for the first time, to show how Chinese painting has been understood by a range of audiences over five centuries, from the Ming Dynasty to today. Richly illustrated, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences demonstrates that viewers in China and beyond have irrevocably shaped this great artistic tradition. Arguing that audiences within China were crucially important to the evolution of Chinese painting, Clunas considers how Chinese artists have imagined the reception of their own work. By examining paintings that depict people looking at paintings, he introduces readers to ideal types of viewers: the scholar, the gentleman, the merchant, the nation, and the people.In discussing the changing audiences for Chinese art, Clunas emphasizes that the diversity and quantity of images in Chinese culture make it impossible to generalize definitively about what constitutes Chinese painting. Exploring the complex relationships between works of art and those who look at them, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences sheds new light on how the concept of Chinese painting has been formed and reformed over hundreds of years.
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Grescoe Taras
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War
8vo, br. ed.
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Kung-chuan Hsiao, Mote F. W. Transl.
A History of Chinese Political Thought, Volume One: From the Beginnings to the Sixth Century A.D
8vo, br. xxi + 778 pages. Index. This volume launches the translation of a work that describes the development of Chinese political thought from the time of Confucius in the late Chou era into the twentieth century. The author systematically treats leading thinkers, schools, and movements, displaying a consummate mastery of traditional Chinese learning, and of Western analytical and comparative methods. This first complete translation includes prefatory remarks by Kung-chuan Hsiao and notes prepared by the translator to assist the Western reader. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
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Liu Cixin, Xia Jia, Chen Qiufan e Wu Yan
Nebula. Fantascienza contemporanea cinese. Ediz. italiana e Cinese
8vo, br. ed. "Una selezione di alcune delle voci più importanti della fantascienza cinese contemporanea che di certo delizieranno i lettori di tutto il mondo. Le visioni e le questioni presentate in questo libro sono importanti non solo per la Cina, ma per tutta l'umanità". Ken Liu, vincitore dei premi Hugo, Nebula e World Fantasy Dall'invecchiamento della popolazione ai cambiamenti climatici, dall'istruzione di massa all'impatto dei social network, le storie immaginate da Liu Cixin, Xia Jia, Chen Qiufan e Wu Yan mostrano una Cina lontana dall'Occidente per costume e sensibilità, ma simile nelle realtà economico-sociali e così tecnologicamente avanzata da restituire uno sguardo sul futuro che attende il mondo intero. L' immagine di copertina è stata selezionata tra le proposte degli allievi della Scuola Internazionale di Comix, così come le immagini scelte per introdurre all' interno del volume ogni racconto
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Liang Chi-chao
History of Chinese Political Thought During the Early Tsin Period
Small octavo. viii + 210pp. + 20pp. ads. Gilt-lettered red cloth spine, black cloth boards. B/w frontis. portrait. B/w illustration. Glossary & index.
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Maxwell Hamilton John
Edgar Snow. a Biography
8vo, hardcover in dj.
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Creel, Herrlee Glessner
Origins of Statecraft in China: The Western Chou Empire v. 1
8vo, xiv, 559pp. Very good copy in very good dustjacket. Almost as new. This is Volume 1 but Volume 2 was never published. This is a significant study of the Western Chou (1122-771 B.C.
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Lai David , Strategic Studies Institute
Learning from the Stones: A Go Approach to Mastering China s Strategic Concept, Shi
4to, br,ed. Most of the ideas that form of the foundation of American defense policy and military strategy today were once new and untested concepts at the far edge of strategic thought. It took thinkers of vision and creativity to give them life and refine them to the point they could be adopted by the defense community and used for strategy and force development. This is a never ending process: new strategic concepts constantly emerge, some fade away, a few pass the tests of suitability, feasibility, and acceptability and make it into the mainstream. To help with this process of identifying those new and untested strategic concepts that merit further examination, the Strategic Studies Institute is publishing a special series called Advancing Strategic Thought. This provides a venue--a safe haven--for creative, innovative, and experimental thinking about national security policy and military strategy
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RUSSELL Bertrand
The Problem of China
8vo, br. ed. pp. 107.
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Yang Jiang
A Cadre School Life Six Chapters
8vo, br. ed. Translated by Geremie Barme and bennett Lee. The author was one of China's leading intellectuals at the tiem of The Cultural Revolution in China, She was sent to a cadre school for "re-education" and this short memoir, told with gentle humour and simplicity, is an account of this time of national upheaval.
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Pye Lucian W.
The Spirit of Chinese Politics. New Edition
8vo, br. ed. Lucian Pye, one of the most knowledgeable observers of China, unfolds in this book a deep psychological analysis of Chinese political culture. The dynamics of the Cultural Revolution, the behavior of the Red Guards, and the compulsions of Mao Tse-tung are among the important symptoms examined. But Pye goes behind large events, exploring the more enduring aspects of Chinese culture and the stable elements of the national psychology as they have been manifested in traditional, Republican, and Communist periods. He also scans several possible paths of future development. The emphasis is on the roles long played by authority, order, hierarchy, and emotional quietism in Chinese political culture as shaped by the Confucian tradition and the institution of filial piety, and the resulting confusions brought about by the displacements of these traditions in the face of political change and modernization. In this new edition Pye adds a chapter on the basic tension between consensus and conflict in the operation of Chinese politics, illustrating the "spirit" in action, and another discussing the great gap that persists between the worlds of the political leadership and of society at large in post-Tiananmen China. About the Author: Lucian W. Pye was Ford Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Mao Tse-Tung: The Man in the Leader.
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Scott Michael
Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West
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Li Kunwu
Ma génération, celle d'un vie chinoise, Tome 1, Tome 2
2 volumes 4to, br. ed. 255,255. Ils ont connu le Grand Bond en avant, la Révolution culturelle, lenthousiasme et le désespoir. Ils se souviennent tous de ce quils faisaient le jour de la mort du président Mao. «Ils», cest la génération dUne vie chinoise. A lheure de la révolution Internet, que sont devenus les femmes et les hommes de la révolution maoïste Li Kunwu nous offre un témoignage sur cette génération qui a construit la Chine daujourdhui. bande dessiné, graphic novel, fumetti cinesi
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Jun Jing
Feeding China's Little Emperors: Food, Children, and Social Change.
8vo, br. ed. pp.249. Until recently, Chinese children ate what their parents fed them and were not permitted to influence, much less dictate, their own diet. The situation today is radically different, especially in cities and prosperous villages, as a result of a notable increase in people's income and a fast-growing consumer culture. Chinese children, with spending money in their pockets, arguably have become the most determined consumers-usually of snack foods, soft drinks, and fast foods from such Western outlets as McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken. With many children, especially pampered only children, now controlling not only their own but also their family's choice of staples, snacks, and restaurants, a major reformation in the concept of childhood is occurring in China. This book focuses on how the transformation of children's food habits, the result of China's transition to a market economy and its integration into the global economic arena, has changed the intimate relationship of childhood, parenthood, and family life. Since the early 1980s, a drastic decline in fertility and a steady rise in family income have been accompanied by a profusion of new products successfully advertised on television and in other media as "children's food." This commercialization of children's diet has become so pervasive that even children in remote villages surprise their parents with demands for particular trendy foods and soft drinks. Many Chinese parents, reared very differently, anxiously question whether their children are eating well and growing up healthy. The contributors to this book, drawn from the fields of anthropology, sociology, political economy, and nutrition, examine a wide variety of topics: the effects of new foods on children's health; the consumption of "prestige" foods; the social implications of commercialized children's food on a Chinese Islamic community; the adaptations of Kentucky Fried Chicken in response to indigenous fast-food companies; the generation gap in attitudes toward food consumption; the significance of religion and nutrition in feeding and healing children; the creation of baby-friendly hospitals to promote breastfeeding and scientific childcare methods; the special role of nationalism and traditional Chinese medicine in children's food production; and the business promotion of having fun as an aspect of eating well.
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Dunlop Fuchsia
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A sweet-sour memoir of eating in China
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.320. british edition.
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Goody Jack
Cooking, Cuisine and Class: A Study in Comparative Sociology (Themes in the Social Sciences)
8vo, br. ed. The preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have been the focus of study for numerous anthropologists - from Sir James Frazer onwards - from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. It is in the context of this previous anthropological work that Jack Goody sets his own observations on cooking in West Africa. He criticises those approaches which overlook the comparative historical dimension of culinary, and other, cultural differences that emerge in class societies, both of which elements he particularly emphasises in this book. The central question that Professor Goody addresses here is why a differentiated 'haute cuisine' has not emerged in Africa, as it has in other parts of the world. His account of cooking in West Africa is followed by a survey of the culinary practices of the major Eurasian societies throughout history - ranging from Ancient Egypt, Imperial Rome and medieval China to early modern Europe - in which he relates the differences in food preparation and consumption emerging in these societies to differences in their socio-economic structures, specifically in modes of production and communication. He concludes with an examination of the world-wide rise of 'industrial food' and its impact on Third World societies, showing that the ability of the latter to resist cultural domination in food, as in other things, is related to the nature of their pre-existing socio-economic structures. The arguments presented here will interest all social scientists and historians concerned with cultural history and social theory. Book Description: This wide ranging book explores the relationship between cuisine and class structure, and examines how cooking in the Third World is changing as a result of the impact of the West. Material discussed is both historical and anthropological, and ranges from China to Britain.
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Yue Isaac, Siufu Tang
Scribes of Gastronomy: Representations of Food and Drink in Imperial Chinese Literature
8vo, br. ed. The culture of food and drink occupies a central role in the development of Chinese civilization, and the language of gastronomy has been a vital theme in literary productions through many different eras and genres. From stanzas on food and wine in the Book of Odes to the articulation of refined dining in The Dream of the Red Chamber and Su Shi s literary recipe for attaining culinary perfection, lavish textual representations help explain the unique appeal of food and its overwhelming cultural significance within Chinese society. These eight essays offer a colorful tour of Chinese gourmands whose work exemplifies the interrelationships of social and literary history surrounding food, with careful explication of such topics as the importance of tea in poetry, the morality of drunkenness , and food s role in the objectification of women in certain classic texts
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Kerr, Douglas (Editor)/ Kuehn, Julia (Editor)
A Century of Travels in China: Critical Essays on
8vo, br. ed. 232pp.
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Swislocki, Mark
Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai
8vo, br. ed. 304pp. Culinary Nostalgia is the first Western-language book to explore the unique significance that the Chinese people attach to their country s many distinct regional foods, as well as the shifting roles that Western food plays in urban life. Author Mark Swislocki focuses on Shanghai-a food lover s paradise-as a rich intersection of urban, regional, and national identities, and examines how tastes registered change and continuity at pivotal moments throughout the city s history. From the earliest accounts of Shanghai s specialty foodstuffs to the dazzling variety of regional cuisines and restaurants in the metropolis of today, this book uncovers how city residents have constructed their relationship to the city itself, to other parts of China, and to the wider world. This new history of Shanghai develops an original framework for studying food culture as an intrinsic part of the way Chinese people connect to the past, live in the present, and imagine a future.
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Mo Yan
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh
8vo, hardcover in dj, excellent copy of the first uk ed.
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Hong Ying
Daughter of the River. An Autobiography
8vo, br. ed. Paperback. 278, [4] pages.he text is illustrated with two inserts, for pages each, of black-and-white photography. first blank page preceding title page torn, ow. very good. First published in Taipei, Taiwan as " Ji'er de Nu'er ", an autobiography which portrays '' the harsh reality of millions of lives at the bottom of Chinese society ".
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Dikotter, Frank
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
br. ed. An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China`s Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People`s Republic of China. Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up and overtake Britain in less than 15 years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives. So opens Frank Dikötter`s astonishing, riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era. Dikötter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world`s superpowers and prove the power of communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of one of the most deadly mass killings of human history, as at least 45 million people were worked, starved or? beaten to death, but also the greatest demolition of real estate in human history, as up to a third of all housing was turned into rubble. The experiment was a catastrophe for the natural world as well, as the land was savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. In a powerful meshing of exhaustive research and narrative drive, Dikötter for the first time links up what happened in the corridors of power?the vicious backstabbing and bullying tactics that took place among party leaders?with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. His magisterial account recasts the history of the People`s Republic of China. Printed Pages: 448
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Santangelo Paolo
L'impero cinese agli inizi della storia globale. Società, vita quotidiana, e immaginario: I, II, III, IV, V, Completo in 5volumi.
5 volumi in 8vo, br. ed. pp. 304. L'impero cinese agli inizi della storia globale offre una serie di immagini della società, delle istituzioni, del pensiero e della vita privata della Cina imperiale, nel momento del suo massimo sviluppo e della sua decadenza, nei secoli che vedono l'avvio e il consolidamento del processo di globalizzazione. Il quinto volume comprende appendici bibliografiche sulla saggistica, le maggiori fonti letterarie e storiche cinesi dell'epoca, un glossario dei termini, dei titoli e dei personaggi citati e alcune tavole di consultazione.
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Map of the Peoples Republic of China. [Chinese Map with Inset of South China Sea Islands].
Large colour folding map of China, 114.5 x 162cm. Features inset maps of South China Sea Islands and a world map showing China's Geographic Location at lower corners. Scale 1:4000,000. Text in Pinyin, English and Chinese characters. Shows administrative regions correct to December 1983; boundaries, water features, capitals, towns, villages, shipping and other transport routes.
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Yu Hua
The Past and the Punishments: Eight Stories (Fiction from Modern China)
content: On the Road at Eighteen , Classical Love , World Like Mist , The Past and the Punishments, 1986 ; Blood and Plum Blossoms ; The Death of a Landlord ; Predestination ; Translators Postscript Synopsis: To travel through these stories is to cross a landscape of stunning beauty and terrific cruelty, where expectations are subverted, where moral certainties are shattered, where gorgeously wrought surfaces beguile at the same time that acts of incredible brutality horrify. It is no wonder that Yu Huas stories caused a sensation when they first appeared in the 1980s. His work represents a sophisticated and often disturbing revolution in the Chinese literary tradition, reminiscent of the fiction of modernists like Kafka, Kawabata, Borges, and Robbe-Grillet, but drawing inspiration from several strains of traditional Chinese narrative as well. This is the first collection of short fiction by Yu Hua to appear in English. It takes us on a haunting and harrowing journey from classical China through the Cultural Revolution and into the new era of economic reform, exploding along the way our preconceived notions of what Chinese literature and culture are all about in the 1990s. Review: That the concept and history of punishment should figure heavily in the artistic sensibility of a young Chinese writer who grew up during the Cultural Revolution is hardly surprising. The main characters in both the title story and in "1986" are scholars specializing in the history of punishment through the ages, and an ancient fortune teller in another story is said to have achieved near-immortality through the deaths of his first four children. Personality and feeling are almost secondary in Yu Hua's cruel world, a world dominated by numerology, prophecy, and the faceless power of the state.
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Pye Lucian W.
The Dynamics of Chinese Politics
8vo. original cloth hardcover, some faint notes in pencil, ow. as new, but no dj. xxii-306pp.
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Chang, Chun-Shu; Chang, Shelley Hsueh-Lun
Redefining History: Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in P'u Sung-ling's World, 1640-1715
8vo. Hard Cover cloth, no dj. xiii (v), 358 (1) pp, acknowledgments, Chronology: The Ch'ing Reigns, a note about Romanization, Introduction: Text, Interpretation, and Methodology; Part I. P'u Sung-ling: Life, Work, and Intellectual Legacy: 1. The Frustrated Intellectual and His World; 2. The Creative Literatus and His Art. Part II. Liao-chai Chih-i: A History and a Culture Mosaic: 3. The Collection of Liao-chai: Structure, Texts, and Contexts; 4. Gender Relations, Individual Fulfillment, and Family Ethics: Fantasy and Realism; 5. Officials, Would-Be Officials, and Class Consciousness: Satires, Allegories, and Crime Stories; 6. Racial Tension, Socioeconomic Conditions, and Country Life. Part III. The Legacy of the Liao-chai: 7. Culture, Tradition, and the Individual in P'u Sung-ling's Creative Consciousness; 8. Passion, Vision, and Historuy: From the "Small Way" to the "Great Way'; Epicogue: Creating and Transmitting Traditions -- Liao-chai and Its Audiences; Appenidx: On the Authorship of Hsing-shih yin-yuan chuan; notes, glossary, bibliography, index, about the authors. First Edition, 1998. "This intimate examination of the career, times, and ideas of P'u Sung-ling (1640-1715) focuses on his magnum opus, Liao-chai chih- i, or Tales of the Unusual from the Studio of Deliberation and Musing. P'u lived through the turbulent period of Ming-Ch'ing dynastic transition in the seventeenth century. While P'u did not attain his goal of becoming a statesman, he was not impeded in his intellectual and literary pursuits. When he died in 1715, he left a body of work including over 500 essays, 1,295 poems, 119 lyrics, 18 encyclopedias and handbooks, 20 operas, 100 folk songs, and 500 short stories, becoming one of the most well-known scholar-writers and the best known short-story author in Chinese history. The 500 stories in Liao-chai chih-i, which P'u composed in his self-styled capacity as historian, had the most lasting influence of any single work on the shaping of popular consciousness in China. It is based on an exhaustive exploration of contemporary Chinese historical and literary sources, including local histories, clan and family records, autobiographical and biographical materials, folklore, essays, poems, and plays: in short, the entire range of literary sources." from the jacket flap. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine.
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Lanxin Xiang
Mao's Generals: Chen Yi and the New Fourth Army
8vo, hardcover.pp.xi-226. Mao s Generals reevaluates the military history of Mao Zedong s seizure of power in China using all original historical materials, confronting the history as recorded by the communist party-influenced historians. It disputes the total invincibility and brilliance of Mao in military affairs by restoring credit to the generals that made significant contributions to the communist victory.The focus falls mainly on a brilliant romantic poet named Chen Yi who founded the New Fourth Army with a group of brilliant young men and led peasant guerrillas to the victory that broke the Kuomintong s backbone. Despite his accomplishments, he could not deter his eventual demise at the hands of Mao. The author uses these incidents, plus the manipulation of the Anti-Japanese War to expose the actual nature of the communist revolution and policy in China under Mao.
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Sheppard Stephen
For all the tea in China
12mo, br. ed.
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Chaozhu Ji
The Man on Mao's Right : From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life Inside China's Foreign Ministry
8vo, hardcover in myler protectd dj, ex library with usual markings, stamps and pastedowns, ow. quite good. internally excellent. No other narrative from within the corridors of power has offered as frank and intimate an account of the making of the modern Chinese nation as Ji Chaozhus The Man on Maos Right. Having served Chairman Mao Zedong and the Communist leadership for two decades, and having become a key figure in Chinas foreign policy, Ji now provides an honest, detailed account of the personalities and events that shaped todays Peoples Republic. The youngest son of a prosperous government official, nine-year-old Ji and his family fled Japanese invaders in the late 1930s, escaping to America. Warmly received by his new country, Ji returned its embrace as he came of age in New Yorks East Village and then attended Harvard University. But in 1950, after years of enjoying a life of relative ease while his countrymen suffered through war and civil strife, Ji felt driven by patriotism to volunteer to serve China in its conflict with his adoptive country in the Korean War. Jis mastery of the English language and American culture launched his improbable career, eventually winning him the role of English interpreter for Chinas two top leaders: Premier Zhou Enlai and Party Chairman Mao Zedong. With a unique blend of Chinese insight and American candor, Ji paints insightful portraits of the architects of modern China: the urbane, practical, and avuncular Zhou, the conscience of the Peoples Republic; and the messianic, charismatic Mao, student of Chinas ancient pasthis countrys stern father figure. In Jis memoir, he is an eyewitness to modern Chinese history, including the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the Nixon summit, and numerous momentous events in Tiananmen Square. As he becomes caught up in political squabbles among radical factions, Jis past and charges against him of "incorrect" thinking subject him to scrutiny and suspicion. He is repeatedly sent to a collective farm to be "reeducated" by the peasants. After the Mao years, Ji moves on to hold top diplomatic posts in the United States and the United Kingdom and then serves as under secretary-general of the United Nations. Today, he says, "The Chinese know America better than the Americans know China. The risk is that we misperceive each other." This highly accessible insiders chronicle of a struggling people within a developing powerhouse nation is also Ji Chaozhus dramatic personal story, certain to fascinate and enlighten Western readers. A riveting biography and unique historical record, The Man on Maos Right recounts the heartfelt struggle of a man who loved two powerful nations that were at odds with each other. Ji Chaozhu played an important role in paving the way for what is destined to be known as the Chinese Century. Praise for The Man on Maos Right "Brave, beautifully written testimony . A true "fly-on-the-wall" account of the momentous changes in Chinese society and international relations over the last century." --Kirkus Reviews "It is a relief to read an account by an urbane and often witty insider who neither idolizes nor demonizes China's top leaders . . . . Highly recommended." Library Journal, starred review About the Author: Ji Chaozhu was born on July 30, 1929, in the Shanxi Province of China. Throughout his decorated career, he has held posts in Chinas Ministry of Foreign Affairs (where he was deputy director of the Department of Translation and Interpretation and deputy director of American and Oceanic Affairs). In 1982, he was appointed minister counselor of the Embassy of the Peoples Republic of China in the United States of America, and has served as Chinas ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Vanuatu, and the Court of St. Jamess. From 1991 to 1996, he served as the under secretary-general of the United Nations.
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Ku-Cheng Li (Autore), Kwok-Sing Li (Compilatore), Mary Lok (Traduttore)
A Glossary of Political Terms of the People's Republic of China
8vo, br. ed. xxix-639pp. This is a collection of over 560 important and frequently-used Chinese political terms and phrases that appeared between 1949 and 1990. Each entry contains an explanation of the term and its origin, a description of how and under what circumstances the term was used, and a discussion of the changes of meaning over the years, as well as the political and social significance of the words.
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Terzani Tiziano
La Porta Proibita. Un giornalista italiano ha vissuto per anni da cinese in Cina
8vo, br. ed. pp.284.
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Staude Terzani Angela a Cura Di
Diverso da tutti e da Nessuno
8vo, br. ed. pp.258 . Mentre non accennano a sbiadire, nella memoria di chi lo ha amato, le immagini di Tiziano Terzani vestito di bianco che parla della pace, della vita e della morte, più lontana si fa nel tempo la sua figura di reporter, di grande protagonista di una stagione irripetibile del giornalismo. Questo libro ce la riporta davanti agli occhi con magnifica evidenza, quella figura, con la sua vitalità dirompente, il suo rigore professionale, la sua curiosità fenomenale, la sua travolgente risata. Ognuno degli amici e dei colleghi che da tutto il mondo hanno risposto generosamente allinvito di Angela Terzani contribuisce qui con un flash, con un ricordo più meditato, con qualche prezioso documento, anche inedito a comporre il ritratto irresistibile di un instancabile cacciatore di storie e di verità. E sono sufficienti soltanto alcuni dei titoli delle testimonianze raccolte in questo volume per capire latmosfera che vi si respira: Monsieur Moustache, Viaggiare per il mondo alla ricerca della verità, Da dove arriva, questo?, Partito senza lasciare indirizzo, Il gigante, Con i piedi più che mai piantati nella vita, Lapprovato dal cielo Completa il volume una ricca sezione di «documenti», con alcune lettere, uno scritto di Saskia Terzani e il Dialogo con il Vecchio di Folco Terzani, dedicato alla mitica figura che Terzani raccontò in Un altro giro di giostra. Testimonianze e ricordi di: Abbas, Mara Amorevoli Elizabeth Becker, Giovanna Botteri Salomon Bouman, Philip Bowring Paolo Breccia, Nayan Chanda Umberto Chapperon, Furio Colombo Charles-Antoine de Nerciat Siegmund Ginzberg, Pham Lan Huong Henry Kamm, Peter R. Kann Nicholas Leung, Leo Manfrini Fernando Mezzetti, Michael Nesselhauf Valerio Pellizzari, Jane Perkins Jean-Claude Pomonti, Philippe Pons James Pringle, Ilaria Maria Sala Orville Schell, William Shawcross Ith Sintahn, Bernardo Valli Willem van Kemenade, Vasu Dev Das Jue Wang, Martin Woollacott Yoichi Yokobori, Giuliano Zincone E con: le lettere ad Alessandro Berti le lettere a Terence Ward e Idanna Pucci una nota di Mukti Datta uno scritto di Saskia Terzani il Dialogo con il Vecchio di Folco Terzani
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Goldin Paul Rakita
The Culture of Sex in Ancient China
8vo, br. ed. pp.244.
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Granet Marcel
Catégories matrimoniales et relations de proximité dans la Chine Ancienne.
in-8, brochure orginale 254 pp., 1 planche à double-page, Publication des Annales Sociologiques serie B sociologie religieuse fascicules 1-3. exemplaire en parfait etat.
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Wetering Van De Janwillem
Van Gulik: Sa Vie Son Oeuvre
16mo, br. ed. pp.159
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Hsieh Daniel
Love and Women in Early Chinese Fiction
8vo, hardcoverin dj pp.330. Synopsis: This book focuses on how women and love are portrayed in chuanqi fiction, a genre of Chinese literature of the Tang dynasty. It argues that the emergence of "love" as a theme in Chinese literature is closely related to the historical background of the Tang dynasty. Daniel Hsieh is an associate professor of Chinese at Purdue University
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Lee Hamrin, Carol, Zhao, Suisheng, Barnett, A. Doak
Decision-making in Deng's China: Perspectives from Insiders (Studies on Contemporary China (M.E. Sharpe Paperback))
8vo, br. ed. xlviii- 256pp. Considers the politics of central decision-making by focusing on senior policy makers and implementing bureaucracies on the one hand, and actors in economic and non-economic arenas on the other. The contributors held significant party and government positions in China up to 1989.
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De Bary Theodore
The Liberal Tradition in China: Ch'ien Mu Lectures (Neo-Confucian studies)
8vo, original cloth . (6),122pp ex-library with stampa and stickers. ow very good. Ex-Library
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Mazurkewich, Karen; Ong, A. Chester
Chinese Furniture: A Guide to Collecting Antiques
The international market for antique Chinese furniture is booming, and masterpieces from the Ming and Qing dynasties are now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Chinese Furniture is a survey of these collectibles from the very best hardwood pieces featured to standard softwood specimens still available on the Asian market. This antique furniture book presents an overview of carving styles, wood types, regional variations, class distinctions and restoration techniques. Detailed chapters on various types of wooden furniture cover chairs, stools and benches, tables and desks, beds, cabinets and bookshelves, doors and screens and household accessories. With this renewed interest in antique furniture, a forgery market has emerged. Thousands of factories in southern China are churning out brand new or refurbished furniture and passing them off as Chinese antiques. Chinese Furniture unearths these forgeries and serves as an indispensable reference guide to collectors of antique wood furniture
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FISCHER Paul
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
8vo, hardcover book was well loved but cared for. Possible ex-library copy with all the usual markings and stickers. Some light textual notes, highlighting and underling
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