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Simoons, Frederick J.
Food in China: A Cultural and Historical Inqu
large 8vo, hardcver First edition. 559pp + index b/w illustrations large octavo
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Li Ang
La Moglie Del Macellaio
8vo, br. ed. pp.216. Prendendo spunta da un fatto di cronaca realmente accaduto, Li Ang narra la storia di Lin Shi, una povera contadina costretta a sposare un uomo rude e brutale, che per professione macella maiali. L'uomo si fa costantemente beffa delle regole religiose e morali della società in cui vive e non esita ad abusare della moglie, godendo dello stesso perverso piacere che prova sgozzando animali. Lin Shi si ritrova ben presto in una situazione senza via d'uscita: emarginata dalle altre donne del villaggio - che considerano i suoi comportamenti bizzarri e le sue grida di aiuto niente altro che un perverso escamotage sessuale per eccitare il marito - scivola lentamente nella disperazione e nella follia fin quando, una notte, non sarà proprio lei stessa a "macellare" il marito.
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Griffiths John
Tea: The Drink That Changed the World
16mo, hardcover in dj, 384pp, colour & monochrome plate section, sources, index. small former owner's ex-libris sta ow excellent condition. A study of the phenomenon as well as the commodity, this is a comprehensive survey of the drink that is imbibed daily by more than half the population of the world. After water, tea is the second most-consumed drink in the world. Almost every corner of the globe is addressed in this comprehensive look at 4,500 years of tea history. Tea has affected international relations, exposed divisions of class and race, shaped the ethics of business, and even led to significant
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Lee Erika
At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
8vo, br. ed. pp.348. With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a "gatekeeping nation." Immigrant identification, border enforcement, surveillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that had existed in the United States before. Drawing on a rich trove of historical sources--including recently released immigration records, oral histories, interviews, and letters--Lee brings alive the forgotten journeys, secrets, hardships, and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. Her timely book exposes the legacy of Chinese exclusion in current American immigration control and race relations.
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Zheng Tiantian
Red Lights : The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China
8vo, br. ed. used, labels. In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, the entertainment industry, and state power. In Red Lights, Tiantian Zheng highlights the urban karaoke bar as the locus at which these three factors intersect and provides a rich account of the lives of karaoke hostesses-a career whose name disguises the sex work and minimizes the surprising influence these women often have as power brokers.Zheng embarked on two years of intensely embedded ethnographic fieldwork in her birthplace, Dalian, a large northeastern Chinese seaport of over six million people. During this time, Zheng lived and worked with a group of hostesses in a karaoke bar, facing many of the same dangers that they did and forming strong, intimate bonds with them. The result is an especially engaging, moving story of young, rural women struggling to find meaning, develop a modern and autonomous identity, and, ultimately, survive within an oppressively patriarchal state system.Moving from her case studies to broader theories of sex, gender, and power, Zheng connects a growth in capitalist entrepreneurialism to the emergence of an urban sex industry, brilliantly illuminating the ways in which hostesses, their clients, and the state are mutually created in postsocialist China.
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Manion Melanie
Retirement of Revolutionaries in China: Public Policies, Social Norms, Private Interests
8vo, hardcover in dj, In this book Melanie Manion analyzes the largest bloodless circulation of elites in history--the massive retirement of officials in the People's Republic of China. Beginning in 1978 and continuing through the 1980s, Chinese leaders in Beijing replaced millions of old cadres, including veterans of the communist revolution, with younger generations of better educated and less generalist officials. How were the elders persuaded to retire? Manion shows how a norm of age-based exit from office, historically novel in the Chinese communist setting, was engineered by top policymakers and aided by younger cadres. Manion's research combined a wide variety of sources and methods, many new to the study of Chinese politics. The author examined hundreds of party and government documents, surveyed articles in newspapers and journals, and interviewed officials in charge of supervising cadre retirement policy. She first conducted long exploratory interviews with retired cadres, and then designed questionnaires distributed to hundreds of others for quantitative analysis. Finally, to understand the viewpoints of those with the most to gain, she interviewed younger, employed cadres.The result is a rich portrayal of manipulative leadership in post-Mao China, which reveals the key role of the private interests of all the parties involved.
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Wang Jing
The Story of Stone: Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism in Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and The Journey to the West (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
8vo br. ed. In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition-all concerning stones endowed with magical properties-Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore. Wang's thorough and systematic comparison of these classic works illuminates the various tellings of the stone story and provides new insight into major topics in traditional Chinese literature.Bringing together Chinese myth, religion, folklore, art, and literature, this book is the first in any language to amass the sources of stone myth and stone lore in Chinese culture. Uniting classical Chinese studies with contemporary Western theoretical concerns, Wang examines these stone narratives by analyzing intertextuality within Chinese traditions. She offers revelatory interpretations to long-standing critical issues, such as the paradoxical character of the monkey in The Journey to the West, the circularity of narrative logic in The Dream of the Red Chamber, and the structural necessity of the stone tablet in Water Margin.By both challenging and incorporating traditional sinological scholarship, Wang's The Story of Stone reveals the ideological ramifications of these three literary works on Chinese cultural history and makes the past relevant to contemporary intellectual discourse. Specialists in Chinese literature and culture, comparative literature, literary theory, and religious studies will find much of interest in this outstanding work, which is sure to become a standard reference on the subject.
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Anderson E. N.
Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.338. Chinese food is one of the most recognizable and widely consumed cuisines in the world. Almost no town on earth is without a Chinese restaurant of some kind, and Chinese canned, frozen, and preserved foods are available in shops from Nairobi to Quito. But the particulars of Chinese cuisine vary widely from place to place as its major ingredients and techniques have been adapted to local agriculture and taste profiles. To trace the roots of Chinese foodways, one must look back to traditional food systems before the early days of globalization. Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China traces the development of the food systems that coincided with China's emergence as an empire. Before extensive trade and cultural exchange with Europe was established, Chinese farmers and agriculturalists developed systems that used resources in sustainable and efficient ways, permitting intensive and productive techniques to survive over millennia. Fields, gardens, semiwild lands, managed forests, and specialized agricultural landscapes all became part of an integrated network that produced maximum nutrients with minimal input—though not without some environmental cost. E. N. Anderson examines premodern China's vast, active network of trade and contact, such as the routes from Central Asia to Eurasia and the slow introduction of Western foods and medicines under the Mongol Empire. Bringing together a number of new findings from archaeology, history, and field studies of environmental management, Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China provides an updated picture of language relationships, cultural innovations, and intercultural exchanges.
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Wilson Andrew
The 'Ever-Victorious army': a History of the Chinese Campaign Under Lt-Col C.G. Gordon, CB, RE, and of the Suppression of the Tai-Ping Rebellion
8vo, br. ed. Journalist and traveller Andrew Wilson (1831-1881) was born in India to colonial missionaries. Educated in Europe, he later edited the China Mail in Hong Kong, and the Bombay Times. This, his best known work, was published in 1868, and recounts the suppression of the Taiping uprising in 1863-1864 by Colonel Charles G. ('Chinese') Gordon, leading a small multinational force. The Taiping rebellion against the Qing dynasty lasted from 1850 to 1864, and it is estimated that some 20 million people died as a result. Wilson was given access to Gordon's journals to write the book. Wilson was very pro-Chinese, and was quite critical of British colonial policy towards China. Despite this bias, the work contains much fascinating information on nineteenth-century China, and sheds light on the early career of one of Britain's greatest Victorian military heroes.
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Dorina Marlen Heller
China - A Country of Cannibals? The Motif of Cannibalism in Lu Xun's "A Madman's Diary"
8vo, brochure. Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Literature - Asia, grade: 1.0, University of Heidelberg (Institut für Sinologie), course: PS Einführung in die Chinesische Literatur, language: English, abstract: In this essay the focus will be on the motif of cannibalism in "A Madman's Diary" (Kuangren riji), which is the central image of this short-story. I will examine it in the socio-political context the story was written in and analyse possible readings. Furthermore since the meaning of the image of cannibalism in this text has been thoroughly discussed over the last century, I want to go on briefly exploring the choice of this motif itself. Why has Lu Xun chosen this very image of cannibalism and what could we learn from this about the author's view of (traditional) Chinese society? Lu Xun's story has already been interpreted many times and in different ways. However it is and remains a significant and complex literary piece that should be read and interpreted again and again. First of all because of its importance for the history of modern Chinese literature, generally being considered to be the first modern Chinese short-story (Hsia 33) and even more to mark the beginning of modern Chinese literature itself (Chou 1042). Despite this evident contribution to the genre of modern Chinese fiction, Lu Xun's story can also be viewed as a "prototypical text of social protest and criticism in modern Chinese literature" (Tang).
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Jun Jing
The Temple of Memories: History, Power, and Morality in a Chinese Village
8vo, br. ed. This study focuses on the politics of memory in the village of Dachuan in northwest China, in which 85 percent of the villagers are surnamed Kong and believe themselves to be descendants of Confucius. It recounts both how this proud community was subjected to intense suffering during the Maoist era, culminating in its forcible resettlement in December 1960 to make way for the construction of a major hydroelectric dam, and how the village eventually sought recovery through the commemoration of that suffering and the revival of a redefined religion.Before 1949, the Kongs had dominated their area because of their political influence, wealth, and, above all, their identification with Confucius, whose precepts underlay so much of the Chinese ethical and political tradition. After the Communists came to power in 1949, these people, as a literal embodiment of the Confucian heritage, became prime targets for Maoist political campaigns attacking the traditional order, from land reform to the ?Criticize Confucius? movement. Many villagers were arrested, three were beheaded, and others died in labor camps. When the villagers were forced to hastily abandon their homes and the village temple, they had time to disinter only the bones of their closest family members; the tombs of earlier generations were destroyed by construction workers for the dam.
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Peh-T'i Wei Betty
Shanghai Crucible of Modern China
8vo, br. ed. 299 pp. 16 pp. of historical photos and illustrations, glossary, bibliography. Glossy stiff wraps showing a color cartoon of Chinese and British negotiating at Tientsin in 1858. Light wear, Previous owner's name on endpaper. Light creasing of spine. A few notes and marks in red ink in margins of a few pages toward the rear, text mostly clean. A short political and economic history of a key Chinese trading center, as it dealt with western nations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Maps of Shanghai and China on the endpapers. ".[A] good story told with wit, verve and a sharp eye for the details of compelling local history, such as a British geological survey that found that the subsoil of Shanghai could only stand buildings of six floors, whereas London could take sixty, and New York and Hong Kong any number, a fetching snapshot of Daisy Wang, Miss Shanghai 1947, the price of rice, or the pseudo-urbanization that happened when a lumpen proletariat descended on Shanghai.She gives a sanitized version [of Chiang Kai-shek's 12 April 1927 massacre of communists and leftists] in which a total of 16 5 people were executed. There is no sense here that Chiang's men butchered for an eight-hour day and bled trade unionism dry."--Herman Mast III (University of Connecticut) ; "A Chinese city which owes a great debt to Western influence, Shanghai is the largest city in Asia, and one of its most fascinating. Complete with anecdotes and vignettes of everyday life, this vivid biography traces the city's transformation from treaty port to the commercial, industrial, and financial centre that played a vital role in the development of China's political and social consciousness."
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Wu Qingyun
Female Rule in Chinese and English Literary Utopias
8vo, br. ed. This comparative study of paired English and Chinese works presenting female rule, spans texts from the 16th to the 20th century. The works examined include Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen. .240 pages
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Edgerton Tarpley Kathryn
Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.338. This multi-layered history of a horrific famine that took place in late-nineteenth-century China focuses on cultural responses to trauma. The massive drought/famine that killed at least ten million people in north China during the late 1870s remains one of China's most severe disasters and provides a vivid window through which to study the social side of a nation's tragedy. Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley's original approach explores an array of new source materials, including songs, poems, stele inscriptions, folklore, and oral accounts of the famine from Shanxi Province, its epicenter. She juxtaposes these narratives with central government, treaty-port, and foreign debates over the meaning of the events and shows how the famine, which occurred during a period of deepening national crisis, elicited widely divergent reactions from different levels of Chinese society.
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N. Harry Rothschild (a cura di), Leslie V. Wallace
Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China
8vo, br. ed. Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China presents a rogues’ gallery of treacherous regicides, impious monks, cutthroat underlings, ill-bred offspring, and disloyal officials. It plumbs the dark matter of the human condition, placing front and center transgressive individuals and groups traditionally demonized by Confucian annalists and largely shunned by modern scholars. The work endeavors to apprehend the actions and motivations of these men and women, whose conduct deviated from normative social, cultural, and religious expectations. Early chapters examine how core Confucian bonds such as those between parents and children, and ruler and minister, were compromised, even severed. The living did not always reverently pay homage to the dead, children did not honor their parents with due filiality, a decorous distance was not necessarily observed between sons and stepmothers, and subjects often pursued their own interests before those of the ruler or the state. The elasticity of ritual and social norms is explored: Chapters on brazen Eastern Han (25–220) mourners and deviant calligraphers, audacious falconers, volatile Tang (618–907) Buddhist monks, and drunken Song (960–1279) literati reveal social norms treated not as universal truths but as debated questions of taste wherein political and social expedience both determined and highlighted individual roles within larger social structures and defined what was and was not aberrant. A Confucian predilection to “valorize [the] civil and disparage the martial” and Buddhist proscriptions on killing led literati and monks alike to condemn the cruelty and chaos of war. The book scrutinizes cultural attitudes toward military action and warfare, including those surrounding the bloody and capricious world of the Zuozhuan (Chronicle of Zuo), the relentless violence of the Five Dynasties and Ten States periods (907–979), and the exploits of Tang warrior priests—a series of studies that complicates the rhetoric by situating it within the turbulent realities of the times. By the end of this volume, readers will come away with the understanding that behaving badly in early and medieval China was not about morality but perspective, politics, and power.
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Finn James
The Jews in China: their synagogue, their scriptures, their history &c.
8vo. 130 x 189 mm. viii, 86, [1] pp.Cloth. Fine. Documenting the Jewish community in Kai Feng Fu, from over a millenia of steady residence. Fascinating study of ancient jewish residents in China from over 1000 years ago
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Katz Paul R.
Demon Hordes and Burning Boats: The Cult of Marshal Wen in Late Imperial Chekiang
8vo, br. ed. 284pp. Provides a lively description of how the cult of a popular plague-fighting deity named Marshal Wen arose and spread in late imperial China. Paul R. Katz is a Assistant Professor in the Institute of History at National Central University in Taiwan.
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Freedman Paul
Food: The History of Taste
8vo, br. ed. 336pp. Since earliest times food has encompassed so much more than just what we eat – whole societies can be revealed and analysed by their cusines. In this wide-ranging book, leading historians from Europe and America piece together from a myriad sources the culinary accomplishments of diverse civilizations, past and present, and the pleasures of dining. Ten chapters cover the food and taste of the hunter-gatherers and first farmers of Prehistory; the rich Mediterranean cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome; the development of gastronomy in Imperial China; Medieval Islamic cuisine; European food in the Middle Ages; the decisive changes in food fashions after the Renaissance; the effect of the Industrial Revolution on what people ate; the rise to dominance of French cuisine in the 19th and 20th centuries; the evolution of the restaurant; the contemporary situation where everything from slow to fast food vies for our attention. Throughout, the entertaining story of worldwide food traditions provides the ideal backdrop to today’s roaming the globe for great gastronomic experiences.
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Johnston, Alastair Iain
Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Ming China: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History
8vo, br. ed. 368pp. Cultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances rigorous procedures for testing for the existence and influence of "strategic culture." Johnston sets out to answer two empirical questions. Is there a substantively consistent and temporally persistent Chinese strategic culture? If so, to what extent has it influenced China's approaches to security? The focus of his study is the Ming dynasty's grand strategy against the Mongols (1368-1644). First Johnston examines ancient military texts as sources of Chinese strategic culture, using cognitive mapping, symbolic analysis and congruence tests to determine whether there is a consistent grand strategic preference ranking across texts that constitutes a single strategic culture. Then he applies similar techniques to determine the effect of the strategic culture on the strategic preferences of the Ming decision makers. Finally, he assesses the effect of these preferences on Ming policies towards the Mongol "threat." The findings of this book challenge dominant interpretations of traditional Chinese strategic thought. They suggest also that the roots of realpolitik are ideational and not predominantly structural. The results lead to the surprising conclusion that there may be, in fact, fewer cross-national differences in strategic culture than proponents of the "strategic culture" approach think.
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WANG SHeng-Wei
The Last Journey of the San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He
8vo, br. ed. 400pp. From 1405, in order to maintain and expand the Ming Dynasty’s tributary system, Yongle Emperor Zhu Di (reigning 1402-1424) and Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji (reigning 1425-1435) ordered eunuch Zheng He to lead giant fleets across the seas. But soon after Zheng He’s seventh and last voyage in the 1430s, the Ming emperors put an end to this activity and ordered all records of previous voyages to be destroyed. Chinese writer Luo Maodeng (???), knowing the history of some of these voyages, wished to preserve a record of them, but, conscious of the possible penalty, decided to record the facts “under a veil”, in his 1597 novel, An Account of the Western World Voyage of the San Bao Eunuch («???????»). This is what Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang has concluded after reading and analysing Luo’s novel. Her book, The last journey of the San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He, shows the methodology and evidential arguments by which she has sought to lift the veil and the conclusions she suggests, including the derivation of the complete trans-Atlantic navigational routes and timelines of that last journey and the idea that Zheng He’s last expedition plausibly reached the ancient American Indian city, Cahokia, in the U.S. central Mississippi Valley in late autumn, 1433, long before Christopher Columbus set foot for the first time in the Americas. She supports the hotly debated view that Ming Chinese sailors and ships reached farther than previously accepted in modern times and calls for further research. She hopes this book will become an important step in bridging the gap in our understanding of ancient China-America history in the era before the Age of Discovery. An interesting contribution to an ongoing debate. This edition has 48 scattered b/w illustrations and 8 b/w plates.
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Chesneaux Jean
Jules Verne. Une Lecture Politique
8vo, br. ed. Broché, 202 pages. Bon état.
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Cohen, Paul A.
China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past
8vo, br. ed. contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of such key events in the recent history of China as the boxer rebellion, Mao's ascension to power in 1949, and the process of political and economic reform in the post-Mao era. This is a strong collection which will be of enormous interest to scholars of East Asian history.
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Lee Peter
Opium Culture : The Art And Ritual of the Chinese Tradition
8vo, br. ed. detailed study of the history and usage of opium- Explores the use of opium as a major healing herb and a popular relaxant- Details the opium practices adhered to in the China. 232 pages.
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Fokkema Douwe
Perfect Worlds: Utopian Fiction in China and the West
8vo, br. ed.448pp. Perfect Worlds is an extensive, comparative study of utopian narratives in both the East and the West. Douwe Fokkema provides an elegant argument about the human impulse to imagine new and better worlds, astutely observing that the utopian imagination thrives in the context of secularization. Fokkema also tracks the rise of dystopian narratives, invoking authors as diverse as Margaret Atwood and Lao She, and provides a cogent evaluation of the role of imagined worlds in both Chinese and Euro-American fiction. A shrewd comparison of cultures, as well as a vivid account of cross-cultural influence, this volume is a welcome addition to the scholarly discourse on utopias. Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses, among other things, More?s criticism of Plato, the European orientalist search for utopia in China, Wells?s Modern Utopia and his talk with Stalin, Chinese writers constructing their Confucianist utopia, traces of Daoism in Mao Zedong?s utopianism and politics and finally the rise of dystopian writing ? a negative expression of the utopian impulse ? in Europe and America as well as in China.
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Handler Sarah
Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniturecc
4to, Hardcover. Red cloth, black ill. DJ. 417 pp. first edition first printing. Profuse bw and color plates. Chinese classical furniture is esteemed throughout the world for its beauty, functionalism, and influence on contemporary design aesthetics. Sarah Handler's stunningly illustrated volume traces Chinese hardwood furniture from its earliest origins in the Shang dynasty (c. 1500 to c. 1050 B.C.) to the present. She offers a fascinating and poetic view of Chinese furniture as functional sculpture, a fine art alongside the other Chinese arts of calligraphy, architecture, painting, and literature. Handler, a widely respected scholar of Chinese furniture, uses her knowledge of Chinese social, political, and economic history to provide a backdrop for understanding the many nuances of this art form. Drawing on literary and visual evidence from excavated materials, written texts, paintings, prints, and engravings, she discusses how people lived, their notions of hierarchy, and their perceptions of space. Her descriptions of historical developments, such as the shift from mats to chairs, evoke the psychological and sociological ramifications. The invention of a distinctive way to support and contain people and things within the household is one of China's singular contributions, says Handler. With more than three hundred exquisite illustrations, many in color, Handler's comprehensive study reveals "the magical totality of Chinese classical furniture, from its rich surfaces and shrewd proportions down to the austere soul of art that resides in the hardwood interiors." Austere Luminosity recognizes Chinese classical furniture as one of China's premier arts, unique in the furniture traditions of the world.
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Lu Wenfu
Vita e passione di un gastronomo Cinese
8vo, br. ed. pp.144. in -8 (14 x 22 cm.), brossura editoriale con alette col. beige con illustr. a colori e titoli in nero sul piatto ant., pp. 140, (4). In ottime condizioni. Collana: NARRATORI DELLA FENICE - Traduzione e nota sull'autore di Cristina Pisciotta.
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Huang Shu-min
The Spiral Road: Change In A Chinese Village Through The Eyes Of A Communist Party Leader,
8vo, br. ed. (Conflict and Social Change Series) (ISBN:0813334470)
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Jin Feng
Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways
8vo, br. ed. 216pp. Preparing and consuming food is an integral part of identity formation, which in contemporary China embodies tension between fast-forward modernization and cultural nostalgia. Jin Feng?s wide-ranging exploration of cities in the Lower Yangzi Delta?or Jiangnan, a region known for its paradisiacal beauty and abundant resources?illustrates how people preserve culinary inheritance while also revamping it for the new millennium. Throughout Chinese history, food nostalgia has generated cultural currency for individuals. Feng examines literary treatments of Jiangnan foodways from late imperial and twentieth-century China, highlighting the role played by gender and tracing the contemporary metamorphosis of this cultural landscape, with its new platforms for food culture, such as television and the internet. As communities in Jiangnan refashion their regional heritage, culinary arts shine as markers of ethnic and social distinction. Jin Feng is professor of Chinese and the Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature at Grinnell College. She is the author of Romancing the Internet: Consuming and Producing Chinese Web Romance, The Making of a Family Saga: Ginling College (1915-1952), and The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction. She is also the translator of Chen Hengzhe's Early Autobiography and the editor of Nostalgia and the Modern City.
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Waley Arthur
The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes
8vo, br. ed. 256pp. la guerra dell'oppio vista dalla parte cinese. im english.
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Aresu Alessandro
Le potenze del capitalismo politico. Stati Uniti e Cina
8vo, br. ed. "La difesa è molto più importante della ricchezza". Adam Smith segna così i confini dell'economia politica, nel momento della sua nascita. Anche oggi il mercato ha il suo unico limite nella sicurezza nazionale, dominio arcano dei grandi contendenti dell'arena globale, gli Stati Uniti e la Cina. Le due potenze fondono l'ambito economico e quello politico, attraverso le decisioni del Partito comunista cinese e degli apparati di difesa e sicurezza nazionale degli Stati Uniti. Pechino e Washington vivono un acceso conflitto di geodiritto: una guerra giuridica e tecnologica combattuta attraverso sanzioni, uso politico delle istituzioni internazionali, blocchi agli investimenti esteri. Partendo dalla filosofia, Alessandro Aresu traccia un percorso chiaro che porta il lettore fino alla più recente attualità, descrivendo in dettaglio il conflitto tra diritto ed economia in atto tra Stati Uniti e Cina.
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Pieranni Simone
Red Mirror. Il Nostro Futuro Si Scrive in Cina
8vo, br. ed. Questo libro prefigura il nostro futuro prossimo. Quello quotidiano delle nostre case, delle città in cui abitiamo, fino ai nuovi e pervasivi usi che faremo degli smartphone. Ma questo futuro sta già accadendo in Cina: intelligenza artificiale, veicoli a guida autonoma, tecnologie green, smart city, riconoscimento facciale… Lì, chi progetta il nostro mondo di domani è già all'opera.
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Wang Di
The Teahouse under Socialism: The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 1950-2000
8vo,br. ed. 311pp. To understand a city fully, writes Di Wang, we must observe its most basic units of social life. In The Teahouse under Socialism, Wang does just that, arguing that the teahouses of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, are some of the most important public spaces—perfect sites for examining the social and economic activities of everyday Chinese. Wang looks at the transformation of these teahouses from private businesses to collective ownership and how state policy and the proprietors’ response to it changed the overall economic and social structure of the city. He uses this transformation to illuminate broader trends in China’s urban public life from 1950 through the end of the Cultural Revolution and into the post-Mao reform era. In doing so, The Teahouse under Socialism charts the fluctuations in fortune of this ancient cultural institution and analyzes how it survived, and even thrived, under bleak conditions. Throughout, Wang asks such questions as: Why and how did state power intervene in the operation of small businesses? How was "socialist entertainment" established in a local society? How did the well-known waves of political contestation and struggle in China change Chengdu’s teahouses and public life? In the end, Wang argues, the answers to such questions enhance our understanding of public life and political culture in the Communist state.
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Ter Haar Barend J.
Religious Culture and Violence in Traditional China
8vo, br. ed. The basis of Chinese religious culture, and with that many aspects of daily life, was the threat and fear of demonic attacks. These were inherently violent and could only be counteracted by violence as well - even if this reactive violence was masked by euphemisms such as execution, expulsion, exorcisms and so on. At the same time, violence was a crucial dimension of the maintenance of norms and values, for instance in sworn agreements or in beliefs about underworld punishment. Violence was also an essential aspect of expressing respect through sacrificial gifts of meat (and in an earlier stage of Chinese culture also human flesh) and through a culture of auto-mutilation and ritual suicide. At the same time, conventional indigenous terms for violence such as bao ? were not used for most of these practices since they were not experienced as such, but rather justified as positive uses of physical force.
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Mintz Sidney W.
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions Into Eating, Power, And The Past
8vo, br. ed. 180pp. Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. He demonstrates that our food choices have enormous and often surprising significance.
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Unger Jonathan, Ed.
Chinese Nationalism
8vo, br. ed. 236pp. Provides conceptual insights that put the reader in a position to come to grips intellectually with the complex weave of Chinese nationalist sentiment today and in the future. contents: Introduction / Jonathan Unger 1. Chinese Nationalism / James Townsend 2. De-Constructing the Chinese Nation / Prasenjit Duara 3. The Nationless State: The Search for a Nation in Modern Chinese Nationalism / John Fitzgerald 4. How China's Nationalism Was Shanghaied / Lucian W. Pye 5. Openness and Nationalism: Outside the Chinese Revolution / Wang Gungwu 6. From Nationalism to Nationalizing: Cultural Imagination and State Formation in Postwar Taiwan / Allen Chun 7. 'Special Things in Special Ways': National Economic Identity and China's Special Economic Zones / George T. Crane 8. A Democratic Chinese Nationalism? / Edward Friedman 9. To Screw Foreigners Is Patriotic: China's Avant-Garde Nationalists / Geremie R. Barmé.
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Ch'en Jerome
China and the West, Society and Culture 1815-1937
8vo, hardcover in dj, ex-library stamps pastedown and sticker, ow. good. 23 cm, 488 pp. Ills.: black and white illustrations. "The history of human society" Ex-Library
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Ackerman Elliot, Admiral James Stavridis
2034: A Novel of the Next World War
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.303. From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic, geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major Chris "Wedge" Mitchell is flying an F35E Lightning over the Strait of Hormuz, testing a new stealth technology as he flirts with Iranian airspace. By the end of that day, Wedge will be an Iranian prisoner, and Sarah Hunt's destroyer will lie at the bottom of the sea, sunk by the Chinese Navy. Iran and China have clearly coordinated their moves, which involve the use of powerful new forms of cyber weaponry that render US ships and planes defenseless. In a single day, America's faith in its military's strategic pre-eminence is in tatters. A new, terrifying era is at hand. So begins a disturbingly plausible work of speculative fiction, co-authored by an award-winning novelist and decorated Marine veteran and the former commander of NATO, a legendary admiral who has spent much of his career strategically out maneuvering America's most tenacious adversaries. Written with a powerful blend of geopolitical sophistication and literary, human empathy, 2034 takes us inside the minds of a global cast of characters--Americans, Chinese, Iranians, Russians, Indians--as a series of arrogant miscalculations on all sides leads the world into an intensifying international storm. In the end, China and the United States will have paid a staggering cost, one that forever alters the global balance of power. Everything in 2034 is an imaginative extrapolation from present-day facts on the ground combined with the authors' years working at the highest and most classified levels of national security. Sometimes it takes a brilliant work of fiction to illuminate the most dire of warnings: 2034 is all too close at hand, and this cautionary tale presents the reader a dark yet possible future that we must do all we can to avoid. Admiral Jim Stavridis, USN (Ret.) spent more than thirty years in the US Navy, rising to the rank of four-star admiral. He was Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and previously commanded US Southern Command, overseeing military operations through Latin America. At sea, he commanded a Navy destroyer, a destroyer squadron, and an aircraft carrier battle group in combat. He holds a PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he recently served five years as dean. He has published eight previous books. Admiral Stavridis is Chief International Security and Diplomacy Analyst for NBC News, and a columnist at both Time magazine and Bloomberg Opinion. Based in Washington, D.C., he is an operating executive of the Carlyle Group, an international private equity firm. Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novels Red Dress In Black and White, Waiting for Eden, Dark at the Crossing, and Green on Blue, as well as the memoir Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning. His books have been nominated for the National Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in both fiction and non-fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is both a former White House Fellow and Marine, and served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart.
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Andornino Giovanno B.
Cina. Prospettive di un paese in Trasformazione
8vo, br. ed. 352pp. La Cina sta trasformando le dinamiche della politica globale più di qualsiasi altro paese al mondo, eppure la conosciamo poco. Sovente oggetto di letture stereotipate e quasi assente dai programmi scolastici, la Repubblica Popolare Cinese ambisce a un ruolo da protagonista del Ventunesimo secolo. Stati Uniti e Unione Europea la definiscono partner in alcuni ambiti di interesse comune e concorrente in campo economico, ma anche rivale sistemico in quanto promotrice di un modello di stato e società alternativo a quello liberale e democratico. Ma che cosa caratterizza questo modello? E come si configura la capacità di Pechino di proiettarlo verso il resto del mondo? A un secolo dalla fondazione del Partito Comunista Cinese, questo volume delinea la nuova fisionomia politica e socio-economica della Cina in quella che il suo leader, Xi Jinping, chiama la «nuova era». Comprenderne le implicazioni è decisivo, anche per l'Italia, per impostare relazioni efficaci e sostenibili.
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Brunori Maurizio
Il Grande Eunuco
8vo, br. ed. pp.182
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Arkush, R. David and Leo O. Lee
Land without ghosts : Chinese impressions of America from the mid- nineteenth century to the Present
8vo, paperback, xvii, 309 pp. ex librry stampa and labels, internally fine, no marks. Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-309). Foreword / John K. Fairbank -- George Washington and the American political system / Xu Jiyu - - Trains and treaties / Zhigang -- Strange customs / Zhang Deyi -- Glimpses of a modern society / Li Gui -- Travel in the interior / Chen Lanbin -- How to cope with Western dinner parties / Cai Jun -- Two poems / Huang Zunxian -- Chinese in America / Zhang Yinhuan -- Translator's notes to Uncle Tom's cabin / Lin Shu -- The power and threat of America / Liang Qichao -- Report of an investigation of American education / Huang Yanpei - - The American woman / Hu Shi -- The contradictory American character / Tang Hualong -- "Things about America and Americans" / Xu Zhengkeng -- Presidential elections / Li Gongpu -- The American family : individualism, material wealth, and pleasure-seeking / "Gongwang" -- Alabama : reds and Blacks / Zou Taofen. Impressions on reaching America / Lin Yutang -- Burlesque / George Kao -- The shallowness of cultural tradition / Fei Xiaotong -- Some judgments about America / Xiao Qian -- Betty : a portrait of loneliness / Yang Gang -- A day in the country / Du Hengzhi -- Americans' lack of personal style / Yin Haiguang -- Black ghost / Yu Guangzhong -- Eating in America / Cai Nengying, Luo Lan, and Liang Shiqiu - - A family Christmas / "Jiejun" -- America, America / Zhang Beihai -- A glimpse of America / Wang Ruoshui -- Working students / Xiao Qian -- America revisited / Fei Xiaotong -- I do not regret visiting New York / Zhang Jie -- America, spacious yet confining / Liu Binyan -- Six don'ts for Chinese students in America / Wang Yuzhong -- Private ownership and public ownership / Li Shaomin Ex-Library
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Choy Howard Yuen Fung
Remapping the Past : Fictions of History in Deng's China, 1979-1997 (Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography) (ISBN:9004167048)
8vo, hardcover ex-library with stamps and pastedowns, ow. good, no undelinings or highlighting. Synopsis: The most prominent literary phenomenon in the 1980s and 1990s in China, historical fiction, has never been systematically surveyed in Anglophone scholarship. This is the first investigation into how, by rewriting the past, writers of Deng Xiaoping's reform era undermined the grand narrative of official history. It showcases fictions of history by eleven native Chinese, Muslim and Tibetan authors. The four chapters are organized in terms of spatial schemes of fictional historiography, namely, regional histories and family romances, discourses on diaspora and myths of minorities, nostalgia for the hometown in the country and the city, as well as the bodily text and the textual body, thus broadly covering the eternal themes of memory, language, food, sex, and violence in historical writing. About the Author: Howard Y. F. Choy is assistant professor at Wittenberg University. He received his Ph.D. in comparative literature and humanities from the University of Colorado (2004) and is the assistant author of The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Confucianism (New York: Rosen, 2005). Ex-Library
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Sun Shuyun
The Long March : The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
8vo, hardcover in dj, ex-librarystamps and labels, ow. good. Ex-Library
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Ramazzotti Sergio
La birra di Shaoshan. Viaggio nel paese natale di Mao
8vo, br. ed.
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Raphals Lisa
Wisdom and CunningKnowing Words: Wisdom And Cunning In The Classical Traditions Of China And Greece (Myth And Poetics)
8vo, Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xviii, 304 p., 23 cm. <br> "For the Greeks, the craft of Odysseus and the wisdom of Athena were examples of metis, an elusive cast of mind that ranged from wisdom and forethought to craft and cunning. Although it informed many aspects of Greek society, metis was all but absent from the language of Greek philosophy. Invoking indigenous Chinese debates, Lisa Raphals here examines the role and significance of metic intelligence in classical Chinese philosophy, literature, history, and military strategy."
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Santelli Filippo
La Cina non è una sola. Tensioni e paradossi della superpotenza Asiatica
8vo, br. ed. 258pp. «Ciò che accade in Cina è la nostra quotidianità». Il trauma del coronavirus, dilagato in tutto il mondo dalla lontana metropoli di Wuhan, ha dato una brusca accelerazione a un processo in atto da anni nell'opinione pubblica occidentale. Di Cina non si è mai parlato così tanto: dalla Via della Seta all'antagonismo con gli Stati Uniti, dalla travolgente crescita economica al mancato rispetto dei diritti umani, questo vasto impero è sempre più al centro di sentimenti e previsioni contrastanti, che lo danno di volta in volta destinato al dominio planetario o a un repentino tracollo. È quell'approccio emotivo e «schizofrenico» definito anche «sinofrenia». Per comprendere davvero questo Paese e le sue prospettive bisogna conoscere le «tante Cine» che oggi convivono dietro l'apparente compattezza e che Filippo Santelli racconta in questo libro. Perché la Cina è un inestricabile groviglio di forze e debolezze, di tensioni difficili da comporre che interagiscono lungo linee di faglia geografiche, economiche, sociali e culturali: la ricchezza ostentata delle classi più elevate e la povertà diffusa nelle aree rurali e tra le pieghe delle metropoli; la corsa verso l'innovazione e la visione patriarcale che penalizza le donne in famiglia e nel lavoro; la spietata competizione negli studi e la sua contropartita di ansia, frustrazione, paura del futuro; la diffusione di stili di vita e brand occidentali e un tenace e orgoglioso nazionalismo; le ambizioni di egemonia internazionale che suscitano diffidenza e compromettono le alleanze; la questione ambientale e quella demografica. Il risultato è «un Paese in bilico tra sicurezze e insicurezze, tra evoluzione e involuzione». Ne è un chiaro esempio la gestione dell'epidemia di Covid-19, prima colpevolmente trascurata e nascosta dal governo di Pechino, poi efficacemente gestita con un'inflessibilità che l'autore ha sperimentato in prima persona nella sua quarantena ospedaliera a Nanchino. Un evento emblematico di tutti i chiaroscuri della Cina odierna. Sarà l'equilibrio di queste tensioni a decidere il futuro del Dragone, e il nostro.
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Tianjian Shi
Political Participation in Beijing
8vo, br. ed. 352pp. ex-library stamps and labels, ow. very good. Ex-Library
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Vibeke Boerdahl Ed.
The Eternal Storyteller: Oral Literature in Modern China
8vo, hardcover, 388pp. Chinese storytelling has survived through more than a millennium into our own time, while similar oral arts have fallen into oblivion in the West. Under the main heading of 'The Eternal Storyteller', in August 1996 the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies hosted an International Workshop on Oral Literature in Modern China. To this meeting, the first of its kind in Europe, five special guests were invited - master tellers from Yangzhou: Wang Xizotang, Li Xintang, Fei Zhengliang, Dai Buzhang and Hui Zhaolong. The volume derived from this meeting includes an introductory article written by John Miles Foley entitled 'A Comparative View on Oral Traditions'. Thereafter, a wide range of topics relating to Chinese oral literature is covered under the headings: 'Historical Lines', 'A Spectrium of Genres', 'Studies of Yangzhou and Suzhou Story- telling' and 'Performances of Yangzhou Storytelling'. However, the present volume does more than include papers derived from the meeting. It is also lavishly illustrated in word and picture from performances by the guest-storytellers. In so doing, the world of Chinese story telling is not just described and analysed - it is also brought to life.
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Jullien François
L'inaudito. All'inizio della vita Vera
8vo, br. ed. 160pp. È attorno all'inaudito che, senza saperlo, continuano a ruotare e ad avvolgersi le nostre vite. Solo l'in-audito, in fondo, è degno di interesse, in quanto ciò che è già "udito", registrato e assimilato, non ha, in realtà, niente da apportare, se non qualche aggiustamento e sistemazione. Sul punto, forse non è il caso di continuare a ingannarci. Al contempo, visto che l'inaudito è ciò che in sé sfugge, ne consegue che ciò che di esso si lascia normalmente captare e cogliere sia innanzitutto deludente. La radicale estraneità e stranezza, non essendo pienamente liberata, si volge in banalità e familiarità. Quando non sono all'altezza dell'inaudito, mi annoio: mi stanco di quello che ho appreso o, piuttosto, di ciò che non ne ho appreso. Incontrare l'inaudito, al contrario, sbatterci improvvisamente contro, significa spostare in maniera smisurata la frontiera del possibile, sempre troppo stabile, e la morte stessa, commensurata all'incommensurabile e al vertiginoso dell'inaudito, si ritrova all'improvviso sottratta al suo isolamento. L'immaginazione, come la scienza e la fede, fa tanti sforzi per integrare la morte nella vita, per iscriverla nel suo metabolismo, per assimilarla allo scopo di giustificarla. Ma che ne è di quanto essa conserva di "inaccettabile", come si è soliti dire, ossia di non integrabile da parte del soggetto? Non resta che ricorrere alla categoria riferita a ciò che non si integra, a ciò che è fuori categoria: l'inaudito – meglio che l'"Infinito", la categoria spesso invocata per rendere conto di quel debordare – può finalmente mordere quanto di più refrattario risulta per il pensiero.
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Chicharro Gladys
Le fardeau des petits empereurs : Une génération d'enfants uniques en Chine
8vo, br. ed. pp.319. En lançant la politique de l'enfant unique en 1979 simultanément aux grandes réformes économiques, le gouvernement chinois entendait accélérer la modernisation. Bien qu'il se réclame toujours du marxisme, le " socialisme de marché " est désormais prôné. La population est encouragée à s'enrichir et le pays se trouve de plus en plus intégré dans les processus de la mondialisation. A partir d'une étude de terrain menée dans la ville nouvelle de Langfang (province du Hebei), site d'une modernité utopique, ce livre porte sur le façonnement de la première génération d'enfants uniques. Dans un pays où les, structures familiales sont fondées sur le culte des ancêtres et un système de filiation strictement patrilinéaire, la position d'unique descendant occupée aujourd'hui par tous les enfants uniques les rend particulièrement précieux aux yeux de leur entourage et leur vaut le surnom de " petits empereurs ". Cependant, on évoque aussi souvent leur lourd " fardeau ", car ils se trouvent également seuls pour réaliser les attentes et assurer l'avenir de leurs parents. Ce contexte de profondes mutations (familiales et économiques) place les enfants uniques au coeur du problème que pose la transmission face à une situation radicalement nouvelle. Quc transmettent les familles dans un environnement bouleversé ? Qu'en dire au regard de l'éducation scolaire qui met directement en application les volontés gouvernementales ? En définitive, qui sont les nouveaux sujets chinois, " petits empereurs " d'un pays communiste qui pratique le libéralisme économique ? Force est de constater qu'ils ne sont pas passifs. Acteurs à part entière de leur vie et du monde, ils sont créateurs de culture. Maître de conférences à l'université paris VIII et membre du laboratoire Experice, Gladys Chicharro est ethnologue, docteur de l'Université Paris X-Nanterre. Ses travaux, menés depuis 1999 en Chine, portent sur l'éducation et la transmission aussi bien scolaire que familiale, l'enfance et les pratiques d'écriture. Elle a notamment publié " Qban yumen : Histoire d'un manuel chinois alternatif " (in B. Baptandier & G. Charuty, Du corps au texte. Approches comparatives, Nanterre, Société d'ethnologie, 2008) et " Education physique et incorporation de la morale dans les écoles élémentaires en République populaire de Chine " , Perspectives Chinoises, n°102, 2008.
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Nabhan Gary Paul
Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey
8vo, hardcover in dj, Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family?s history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his expertise as an ethnobotanist, Nabhan describes the critical roles that Semitic peoples and desert floras had in setting the stage for globalized spice trade. Traveling along four prominent trade routes?the Silk Road, the Frankincense Trail, the Spice Route, and the Camino Real (for chiles and chocolate)?Nabhan follows the caravans of itinerant spice merchants from the frankincense-gathering grounds and ancient harbors of the Arabian Peninsula to the port of Zayton on the China Sea to Santa Fe in the southwest United States. His stories, recipes, and linguistic analyses of cultural diffusion routes reveal the extent to which aromatics such as cumin, cinnamon, saffron, and peppers became adopted worldwide as signature ingredients of diverse cuisines. Cumin, Camels, and Caravans demonstrates that two particular desert cultures often depicted in constant conflict?Arabs and Jews?have spent much of their history collaborating in the spice trade and suggests how a more virtuous multicultural globalized society may be achieved in the future.
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