‎Chine‎

‎Chang, Leo S., Yu Feng‎

‎The Four Political Treatises of the Yellow Emperor‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 230pp.‎

‎Kim Hodong‎

‎Holy War in China : The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877‎

‎8vo; 9.5x6.6. 304 pp.A detailed, scholarly history of Ya'qub Beg's rebelliion and short-lived state in northwest China (present-day Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region) based on extensive archival research.‎

‎Meskill John‎

‎The Pattern of Chinese History: Cycles, Development, or Stagnation?‎

‎8vo, br. ed. Wear to cover yellowed paper 108 pages.‎

‎Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel‎

‎The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.400. Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives on imperial state formation prior to the European colonial expansion. The world's first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained imperial growth, bringing a growing share of humanity under the control of ever-fewer states. Two thousand years ago, just four major powers-the Roman, Parthian, Kushan, and Han empires-ruled perhaps two-thirds of the earth's entire population. Yet despite empires' prominence in the early history of civilization, there have been surprisingly few attempts to study the dynamics of ancient empires in the western Old World comparatively. Such grand comparisons were popular in the eighteenth century, but scholars then had only Greek and Latin literature and the Hebrew Bible as evidence, and necessarily framed the problem in different, more limited, terms. Near Eastern texts, and knowledge of their languages, only appeared in large amounts in the later nineteenth century. Neither Karl Marx nor Max Weber could make much use of this material, and not until the 1920s were there enough archaeological data to make syntheses of early European and west Asian history possible. But one consequence of the increase in empirical knowledge was that twentieth-century scholars generally defined the disciplinary and geographical boundaries of their specialties more narrowly than their Enlightenment predecessors had done, shying away from large questions and cross-cultural comparisons. As a result, Greek and Roman empires have largely been studied in isolation from those of the Near East. This volume is designed to address these deficits and encourage dialogue across disciplinary boundaries by examining the fundamental features of the successive and partly overlapping imperial states that dominated much of the Near East and the Mediterranean in the first millennia BCE and CE. A substantial introductory discussion of recent thought on the mechanisms of imperial state formation prefaces the five newly commissioned case studies of the Neo-Assyrian, Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Roman, and Byzantine empires. A final chapter draws on the findings of evolutionary psychology to improve our understanding of ultimate causation in imperial predation and exploitation in a wide range of historical systems from all over the globe. Contributors include John Haldon, Jack Goldstone, Peter Bedford, Josef Wiesehofer, Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel, and Keith Hopkins, whose essay on Roman political economy was completed just before his death in 2004.‎

‎SICKMAN L. SOPER A.‎

‎L'ARTE E L'ARCHITETTURA CINESE‎

‎Trad.di V.Defendi. cm.17x26,5, pp.XXII-398, 31 figg.bn.nt.e 300 in tavv.ft.,2 cartine in tav.ripieg.ft., leg.ed.in t.tela,soprac.fig. Bibl.di Storia dell'Arte. come nuovo.‎

‎Arkush, R. David and Leo O. Lee‎

‎Land without ghosts : Chinese impressions of America from the mid- nineteenth century to the Present‎

‎8vo, cloth in dj, xvii, 309 pp. 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

‎Yang Lian. Postf. Claudia Pozzana e Federico Piverni‎

‎In Simmetria Con La Morte, Edizione In Cinese e Italiano‎

‎quarto quadrato, br. ed. 224pp. Yang Lian scrive in versi innumerevoli osservazioni, mostra i particolari, produce sguardi ravvicinati, immagini concatenate, solo apparentemente scollegate, stridenti ma ritmate, musicalmente intonate nei più vari registri. Queste di Yang Lian sono cose vocianti, sprizzano colori e, in ondate di versi sbattono sulla risacca della pagina-battigia una molteplicità di figure di pensiero. Figure in perpetuo movimento, ben calibrate, pur nella loro asprezza, e comunque necessarie alla forma stratificata delle sue architetture compositive.‎

‎Documents Chinois‎

‎Resolution sur l'histoire du Parti Communiste Chinois (1949-1981). Appréciation officielle sur: Mao Zedong; la "révolution culturelle"; les réalisations de la République populaire de Chine.‎

‎In-16°, pp. 143. Bross. edit.‎

‎Bettini Maurizio‎

‎Roma, città della Parola‎

‎8vo, ril. ed. sovrac, 424pp. Secondo Plinio il Vecchio, se la 'vitalitas' dell'uomo risiede nelle ginocchia, la memoria risiede «nell'orecchio». Relegare questa affermazione nello sgabuzzino delle curiosità sarebbe un errore. «La memoria dell'orecchio» infatti ha l'immediato potere di svelarci uno dei fattori determinanti nella formazione della cultura romana, la parola parlata. I Romani cioè, e molte altre testimonianze ce lo confermano, sono ancora consapevoli del fatto che i costumi, le norme, i rituali, il ricordo del passato si tramandano (e si ricostruiscono) per via aurale. Come recita un proverbio ghanese «le cose antiche stanno nell'orecchio». A Roma non solo la produzione letteraria, ma anche il diritto, la pratica dello 'ius', viveva di «parola parlata», tanto che ai caratteri dell'alfabeto essa oppose spesso un'abile resistenza. E che dire del destino, concepito non come una «porzione» di vita ('móira'), alla maniera dei Greci, ma come una «parola», 'fatum', pronunziata dall'una o l'altra divinità? Perfino la norma indiscutibile e suprema che regolava il giusto e l'ingiusto, il lecito e l'illecito, ossia il 'fas', traeva origine da questa sfera: 'fas est', celebre e solenne locuzione romana, altro non significava se non «è parola che», proprio come molti secoli dopo si dirà «sta scritto che». Anche a Roma, però, la parola è soprattutto un evento sonoro. Come rivela la meravigliosa tessitura di «armonie foniche» che avvolgeva gli enunciati della produzione poetica, religiosa e giuridica di Roma arcaica: «armonie foniche», così le definì il grande Ferdinand de Saussure, che fu tra i primi ad appassionarsene.‎

‎Arrighi Giovanni‎

‎Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the 21st Century‎

‎8vo, br. ed. Giovanni Arrighi (1937–2009) was Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Long Twentieth Century, Adam Smith in Beijing, and, with Beverly Silver, Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System. His work has appeared in many publications, including New Left Review—who published an interview on his life-long intellectual trajectory in March–April 2009, and an obituary in Nov–Dec 2009—and there are more accounts on his memorial website.‎

‎River Charles‎

‎The Golden Horde: The History and Legacy of the Mongol Khanate‎

‎4to, br. ed. Though history is usually written by the victors, the lack of a particularly strong writing tradition from the Mongols ensured that history was largely written by those who they vanquished. Because of this, their portrayal in the West and the Middle East has been extraordinarily (and in many ways unfairly) negative for centuries, at least until recent revisions to the historical record. The Mongols have long been depicted as wild horse-archers galloping out of the dawn to rape, pillage, murder and enslave, but the Mongol army was a highly sophisticated, minutely organized and incredibly adaptive and innovative institution, as witnessed by the fact that it was successful in conquering enemies who employed completely different weaponry and different styles of fighting, from Chinese armored infantry to Middle Eastern camel cavalry and Western knights and men-at-arms. Likewise, the infrastructure and administrative corps which governed the empire, though largely borrowed from the Chinese, was inventive, practical, and extraordinarily modern and efficient. This was no fly-by-night enterprise but a sophisticated, complex, and extremely well-oiled machine. While the Golden Horde technically refers to part of the Mongol Empire, today the Golden Horde is often used interchangeably with the Mongol forces as a whole. As such, the Golden Horde conjures vivid images of savage, barbarian horsemen riding across the steppes, an unstoppable force mindlessly slaughtering and burning. It is often imagined that they conquered by sheer brutality and terror, and that they epitomized everything that came from the east: uncivilized, brutal and undisciplined. This sensationalized image, impressed upon the West by Hollywood and by the perception of the "Yellow Peril" that has colored Western views toward Asia for a long time, began almost from the beginning. The Mongols treasured art and literature and protected religion, that of their subjects as well as their own, and trade, commerce, and cultural exchanges flourished under the Golden Horde and the other Mongol khanates, but that escaped the notice of their contemporaries. Giovanni de Plano Carpini, a papal envoy journeying through Russia on his way to the Khan of the Golden Horde, noted, "They [the Mongols] attacked Rus', where they made great havoc, destroying cities and fortresses and slaughtering men; and they laid siege to Kiev, the capital of Rus'; after they had besieged the city for a long time, they took it and put the inhabitants to death. When we were journeying through that land we came across countless skulls and bones of dead men lying about on the ground. Kiev had been a very large and thickly populated town, but now it has been reduced almost to nothing, for there are at the present time scarce two hundred houses there and the inhabitants are kept in complete slavery." What can't be disputed is that the Golden Horde directly affected Eastern Europe for nearly 250 years, and even after its rapid rise brought about a long, tortuous decline, it has continued to shape the destiny of that region. The Golden Horde: The History and Legacy of the Mongol Khanate examines the events that led to the rise of the khanate, what life was like there, and how the Mongols fought. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Golden Horde like never before.‎

‎Kin.mind Liu Editor‎

‎My First Trip to China: Scholars, Diplomats, and Journalists Reflect on Their First Encounters With China‎

‎square 8vo, br., ed. pp.334. Thirty leading China experts, including Perry Link (Princeton Univeristy), Andrew Nathan (Columbia University), Jonathan Mirsky (Times of London), W. J. F. Jenner, Lois Wheeler Snow, and Morton Abramowitz (The Century Foundation), recount their first visit to China, recalling their initial observations and impressions. Most first traveled to China when it was still closed to the world, or was just beginning to open. Their subsequent opinions, writings, and policies have shaped the Western relationship with China for more than a generation. This is essential reading for those who want to understand the evolution of Western attitudes toward modern China. At the same time, the collection provides a vivid, personal window onto a fascinating period in Chinese history.‎

‎Parks M. Coble‎

‎China's War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance Against Japan‎

‎8vo, hardcover in dj pp.267. When Japan invaded China in the summer of 1937, many Chinese journalists greeted the news with euphoria. For years, the Chinese press had urged Chiang Kai-shek to resist Tokyo's aggressive overtures. This was the war they wanted, convinced that their countrymen would triumph. Parks Coble recaptures the experiences of China?s war correspondents during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937?1945. He delves into the wartime writing of reporters connected with the National Salvation Movement?journalists such as Fan Changjiang, Jin Zhonghua, and Zou Taofen?who believed their mission was to inspire the masses through patriotic reporting. As the Japanese army moved from one stunning victory to the next, forcing Chiang?s government to retreat to the interior, newspaper reports often masked the extent of China?s defeats. Atrocities such as the Rape of Nanjing were played down in the press for fear of undercutting national morale. By 1941, as political cohesion in China melted away, Chiang cracked down on leftist intellectuals, including journalists, many of whom fled to the Communist-held areas of the north. When the People?s Republic was established in 1949, some of these journalists were elevated to prominent positions. But in a bitter twist, all mention of their wartime writings disappeared. Mao Zedong emphasized the heroism of his own Communist Revolution, not the war effort led by his archrival Chiang. Denounced as enemies during the Cultural Revolution, once-prominent wartime journalists, including Fan, committed suicide. Only with the revival of Chinese nationalism in the reform era has their legacy been resurrected.‎

‎A cura di Frank Meinshausen‎

‎Cina. Undici Scrittori Della Rivoluzione Pop‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.222‎

‎DIENY Jean-Pierre‎

‎Pastourelles et magnanarelles. Essai sur un thème littéraire chinois. Hautes etudes orientales.‎

‎8vo, br. ed. Centre de recherche d'histoire et de philologie. Broché. 141 pages. Marques de bibliothèque. Sciences humaines.‎

‎Liu Xin (Auteur), Anne Cheng (Series Editor), Marc Kalinowski (Series Editor))‎

‎Notes diverses sur la capitale de l'Ouest‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 207pp. Les Notes diverses sur la capitale de l'Ouest (Xijing zaji) nous offrent, sous la forme fragmentaire de brèves scènes et de descriptions sans organisation apparente, une vision éclatée, précise et étrange à la fois, de la glorieuse cité de Chang’an, capitale des Han occidentaux. Elles sont traditionnellement considérées comme une part des notes historiques rédigées par un grand lettré de l’époque des Han, Liu Xin (46 av. J.-C.-23 ap. J.-C.), c’est-à-dire celles qui, s’écartant trop de l’écriture orthodoxe de l’histoire, ne furent pas intégrées dans l’Histoire des Han (Han shu) rédigée par Ban Gu. De fait, cet ouvrage appartient au genre livre de notes, genre important dans l’histoire littéraire chinoise, dont il est un des fleurons. Il est un complément essentiel aux livres d’Histoire par son souci de véridicité et de détails, et il contient des anecdotes qui sont la première mention de faits qui seront ensuite repris et développés dans des ballades, des romans et plus tard à l’opéra. Au sein de la description fascinante des richesses et des fastes de la capitale, sont aussi évoqués des drames dans le gynécée impérial. Prise dans les tourments politiques de l’époque, la capitale de l’Ouest sera abandonnée en 23 de notre ère, l’année même de la mort de Liu Xin et les Han orientaux déplaceront leur capitale plus à l’Est, à Luoyang. Avec cette traduction par Jacques Pimpaneau, ce texte est pour la première fois accessible au lecteur français, qui est ainsi invité à parcourir les palais, les jardins et les tombes de la capitale disparue. Liu Xin (46 avant J.-C. - 23 après J.-C.), fils du grand bibliographe Liu Xiang, participa avec son père à l'édition des Classiques, qu’il fallait reconstituer après leur autodafé par Qin Shi Huangdi et l’incendie de la bibliothèque impériale à la chute de la dynastie Qin. Il réunit aussi toute une documentation sur la dynastie Han en vue d’en écrire l’histoire, mais ne put réaliser ce projet. Ses notes furent utilisées par l’historien Ban Gu, et le présent ouvrage est constitué des anecdotes non reprises par ce dernier. Nommé docteur, mais en butte aux calomnies de ses chers collègues, il demanda à être nommé en province. Rappelé ensuite à la capitale, il se suicida quand Wang Mang, après avoir usurpé le pouvoir, fit exécuter tous ses fils. Jacques Pimpaneau a enseigné la langue et la littérature chinoises à l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO ou plus communément Langues O’) de 1965 à 1999. Il a créé le musée Kwok On, dont les collections sont maintenant au Musée de l’Orient à Lisbonne. Il a écrit plusieurs livres sur la littérature chinoise, a traduit notamment la seconde moitié des Mémoires historiques de Sima Qian, et réalisé quelques documentaires sur les liens en Asie entre religion et théâtre. Co-directeur de la collection « Bibliothèque chinoise », Marc Kalinowski est directeur d'études à l’École pratique des hautes études de Paris où il enseigne l’histoire et la pensée de la Chine ancienne. Parmi ses publications récentes en rapport avec la présente anthologie, on peut citer Divination et société dans la Chine médiévale. Étude des manuscrits de Dunhuang de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2003). Son travail sur Wang Chong s’inscrit dans le cadre du Programme de recherche international actuellement dirigé d’Allemagne par M. Michael Lackner de l’université d’Erlangen-Nürenberg : « Destin, liberté et divination. Techniques de gestion du futur en Asie orientale et en Europe ».‎

‎Vandermeersch Léon‎

‎La littérature chinoise, littérature hors Norme‎

‎8vo, br, ed. la spécificité de la littérature chinoise fondée sur une écriture idéographique, à la différence de toutes les écritures indo-européennes de la sphère occidentale où l'écriture est de type alphabétique. De notre côté donc, une écriture d'origine orale de l'autre, une écriture oraculaire monopolisée à la fin du XII ? siècle avant notre ère par les spécialistes de la divination.Léon Vandermeersch en développe les conséquences et les transformations depuis celles qui découlent de Confucius et du confucianisme, puis de la conversion en logographie quand s'impose le bouddhisme, jusqu'à la révolution culturelle du 4 mai 1929 qui abolit la langue graphique et universalise l'écriture en langue parlée. 185x117x10mm 200g‎

‎Shankman Steven‎

‎The Siren and the Sage: Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.268. The cultures of ancient China and ancient Greece have exerted immeasurable influence on later civilizations. The texts and cultural values of classical China spread throughout East Asia and became the foundation of learning in Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Greek learning and culture receive credit for many of the intellectual paradigms of the West. Probably the one which is most distinctly Western is the tradition of logical proof and the related assumption that, as Aristotle put it in 'Metaphysics' 980, 'we all desire to know.' In contrast, the Chinese tradition, as exemplified by Laozi's 'Dao de jing,' cautions that through our desire to know we may forfeit wisdom, thus engendering a split between knowledge and wisdom. 'The Siren and the Sage' is a comparative study of what some of the most influential writers of ancient China and ancient Greece thought it meant to know and whether they distinguished knowledge from wisdom. It surveys selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from roughly the eighth through the second centuries BCE, focusing on the 'Odyssey,' the ancient Chinese 'Classic of Poetry,' Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War,' Sima Qian's 'Records of the Historian,' Plato's 'Symposium,' Laozi's 'Dao de jing' and the writings of Zhuangzi. The intention, through such juxtaposition, is to introduce foundational texts of each tradition, texts which continue to influence most of the world's peoples. It is intriguing to ask what awareness, if any, these distinctive cultures had of each other. A considerable body of scholarship comparing ancient Greece and ancient China now exists. Scholars are presenting evidence that the two cultures may actually have been aware of each other's presence, even though that awareness was presumably indirect, perhaps mediated by the nomadic peoples of Central Asia. While not directly contributing evidence, the authors argue that comparing the cultures of Greece and China will continue to be an irresistible and important scholarly debate. The book offers a provocative study which is accessible to students and general readers and at the same time contributes to the debate.‎

‎Gustaffson Jan-erik‎

‎Water Resources Development in the People's Republic of China, Dissertation‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.188, softbound.‎

‎Giuliani Federico, Emanuel Pietrobon‎

‎L'orso e il dragone. Russia e Cina, un'intesa per cambiare il Mondo‎

‎8vo, br. ed. Il XXI secolo avrebbe dovuto spianare la strada al Millennio della "fine della storia", della democratizzazione e dell’americanizzazione del mondo. Il momento unipolare, però, è durato meno del previsto. Due giganti dormienti e inizialmente non troppo reticenti a un ordine stabile a guida americana, Russia e Cina, hanno cominciato a percepirsi in pericolo. Il punto di svolta sarebbe stato Euromaidan secondo i più, ma la verità è che Euromaidan fu foce, non sorgente, e fu fine, non principio. La storia del partenariato strategico che sta cambiando il mondo, combattendo il sogno neoconservatore e liberale del Duemila quale secolo americano, non nasce nel 2014. Il 2014 è tappa di un percorso più lungo, sfaccettato, che ha avuto inizio al capolinea del Novecento: il dimenticato ma importante 1999. Un anno, per questo motivo, ivi ribattezzato "anno del destino". Prefazione di Salvatore Santangelo. Postfazione di Tiberio Graziani.‎

‎Bartoli Daniello, Intr. Adriano Prosperi‎

‎L'Asia. Istoria della Compagnia di Gesù Volume I e II‎

‎2 volumi in cofanetto 8vo, tela ed, in sovracoperta e sovcracop. trasp pp. 1464, ill. (I Millenni). “Alla penna di Daniello Bartoli si dovette la prima grande storia dell'Asia pubblicata in Europa, l'unica ad abbracciare in un solo disegno e in lingua italiana una vicenda destinata a rimanere in ombra nel bilancio storiografico dei secoli successivi che vide solo il versante atlantico dell'Europa trionfare oltre le colonne d'Ercole dello Stretto di Gibilterra. Quanto a Bartoli, il suo si può definire un merito involontario. L'aspirazione profonda che condusse l'autore a diventare gesuita fu simile a quella di tanti altri prima e dopo di lui, un indipeta, un adolescente attirato dal sogno di «andare alle Indie» e di morirvi martire della fede. Come molti adolescenti formati nelle scuole dei gesuiti, anche il quindicenne Daniello che bussò alla porta del noviziato di Novellara nel 1623 vi fu condotto dal desiderio di una missione tra i pagani, dalla volontà di diventare un apostolo e di trovare magari il premio supremo del sacrificio nelle remote terre d'oltreoceano. Ma anche nel suo caso, come in tanti altri, i superiori decisero altrimenti. E a giudicare dal risultato, l'averlo destinato al compito di scrivere non fu l'ultima delle scelte giuste che fecero.” (dall'Introduzione di Adriano Prosperi)‎

‎Auden W.H, Cristopher Isherwood‎

‎Viaggio in Una Guerra‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 349pp. Il contratto preparato nell'estate del 1937 da Faber and Faber e da Random House riguardava un generico "libro di viaggio sull'Estremo Oriente" e lasciava alla discrezione di Auden e Isherwood la scelta dell'itinerario e il taglio del resoconto. Ma è certo che la decisione, da parte della strana coppia di reporter, di partire per la Cina - allora in guerra col Giappone non fu delle più ovvie. Di fatto, per quanto in quegli anni l'intelligencija europea frequentasse con una certa assiduità trincee e teatri d'operazioni, nessuno aveva rivolto lo sguardo a quello che - nonostante le dimensioni, la ferocia e le implicazioni che avrebbe avuto per la storia non solo regionale era un conflitto quasi dimenticato. Che Auden e Isherwood ci fanno invece rivivere nel momento stesso in cui accade, con un'immediatezza, una precisione e un'efficacia tanto più sbalorditive se si considera che del Paese in cui soggiornarono dal gennaio al luglio del 1938 i due, per loro stessa ammissione, sapevano molto poco, e soprattutto che la forma da loro adottata un ibrido di prosa, versi e fotografie - era, ed è rimasta, un unicum.‎

‎Appelius‎

‎AL DI LA DELLA GRANDE MURAGLIA: Mongolia, Geol, Manciuria, Frontiera della Siberia, Corea, Kurili E Sakhalin Con 58 Illustrazioni Fuori Testo‎

‎8vo, 204pp. brisura editoriale, con sovracoperta originale, però con strappi e perdite. foto b&n. manciuria, giappone, ecc. , Italian text, 58 b.w. photos. RARE As part of the Axis powers, Japan was fascinationg to the Italians. This work documents the Japanese military role in the Far East, and introducted to the Italians the prowess of new Japan. It covers the Japanese clash on the frontier with the Russians. It devotes several chapters to each of the countries cited, with good description of the land, people and cultures. It also documents the Japanese military role, and their progress, as part of the Axis. Mongolia: Kalgan, Yun Kang grotto, Japanese vs Russians in this area. Geol: imperial palace, the Lamas. Manchuria: the new metropolitian of Hsinking, grand industrial system, dramatic story of Har- bin, the city of the "dead." The frontier of Siberia, of Baron Unzern-Stenbreg. Corea: Keijo [Seoul], travels in the land of the Morning, social and political structure. On to N. Japan: visit to Kuriles and Sakhalin islands, home of the Ainu. A fascinating perspective with large number of very good photographs‎

‎Segalen Victor‎

‎Lettere Di Cina‎

‎n - 8. Brossura edit. con alette; firma di app., altrimenti ottimo es. Un volume (20 cm) di 191 pagine; un ritratto in antiporta e 6 pp di foto fuori testo. A cura di Lucia Sollazzo‎

‎Gewirtz Julian‎

‎Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China‎

‎8vo, hardcover in dj. pp.384. Unlikely Partners</i> recounts the story of how Chinese politicians and intellectuals looked beyond their country’s borders for economic guidance at a key crossroads in the nation’s tumultuous twentieth century. Julian Gewirtz offers a dramatic tale of competition for influence between reformers and hardline conservatives during the Deng Xiaoping era, bringing to light China’s productive exchanges with the West.<br><br>When Mao Zedong died in 1976, his successors seized the opportunity to reassess the wisdom of China’s rigid commitment to Marxist doctrine. With Deng Xiaoping’s blessing, China’s economic gurus scoured the globe for fresh ideas that would put China on the path to domestic prosperity and ultimately global economic power. Leading foreign economists accepted invitations to visit China to share their expertise, while Chinese delegations traveled to the United States, Hungary, Great Britain, West Germany, Brazil, and other countries to examine new ideas. Chinese economists partnered with an array of brilliant thinkers, including Nobel Prize winners, World Bank officials, battle-scarred veterans of Eastern Europe’s economic struggles, and blunt-speaking free-market fundamentalists.<br><br>Nevertheless, the push from China’s senior leadership to implement economic reforms did not go unchallenged, nor has the Chinese government been eager to publicize its engagement with Western-style innovations. Even today, Chinese Communists decry dangerous Western influences and officially maintain that China’s economic reinvention was the Party’s achievement alone. <i>Unlikely Partners</i> sets forth the truer story, which has continuing relevance for China’s complex and far-reaching relationship with the West‎