Chine

Shi Lu hua Ji

1 portfolio (12 leaves of plates : 12 col. ill.) ; 36 cm.

Commune By the Great Wall

oblong 4to. Soft Cover. First Edition. Photographs by Satoshi Asakawa and Ma Xiaochun. "A private collection of contemporary architecture designed by 12 Asian architects. It was exhibited at the 2002 la Biennale di Venezia." Black wrappers with metallic red lettering and red star on front cover. Includes DVD by "Leading Chinese film director Ning Ying.". architettura privata lungo la grande muraglia, testo in inglese.

Sur les pas de Marco Polo. Photographies de Wang Miao.

Broché. 230 pages.

Watching the Chinese Curtain Fall - A Grim Lesson for Democracy to Study

126 pages. "Recounts the step-by-step infiltration of Communism in China until the time was ripe for the final take-over by force. A story not of a benign agrarian revolution but of the unfolding of a ruthless plot strikingly similar to the Red conquest of other lands that have gone behind the Iron Curtain. The author writes with a sense of urgency in the belief that complacency and lack of wide-spread appreciation as to Communist technique are still handicapping the West in meeting the threat of International Communism both at home and abroad." - from front flap. Author was in charge of the hospital in Chungking for over twenty years. Prior owner's name atop title page else unmarked. Average wear. Book

The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, December [Dec.] 1927, Vol. LX, No. 356: Through Arctic Seas / Hunting the Long-Haired Chinese Tiger

Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The "Goldenburg Coward" - True tale from the headwaters of Spruce River, British Columbia during the gold stampede of summer 1900; Hunting the Long-Haired Chinese Tiger - Lieut.-Commander the Hon. J.M. Kenworthy describes an eventful hunt for this tiger which is larger and more ferocious than the Indian variety; Through Arctic Seas - Part I - The eventful cruise of the Hudson Bay Company's steamer Baychimo to the Western Arctic to study the Eskimos and wild life - with photos; Through Spain in Disguise - Part V - The Count and Countess Malmignati, disguised as Arab beggars, sing and dance for a living; Photo of the smallest teapot in the world, fashioned by Mr. T.A. Vickery, of Main Street, Bantry; Rebecca's Vengeance - An odd story of "Black Man's Magic" in the West Indies from 1903; Looking for Trouble - Alexander MacNab experiences disaster while engaged in a Mexican revolution under General Carranza; ; A Near Thing - A British Intelligence agent arouses suspicion while in German territory; Painting Wild Indians - A. Hyatt Verrill describes his experiences after spending years painting the little-known Indians of Central and South America; Cowboys and Raiders - Jesse C. Carson relates his association with Pancho Villa as a rebel 'general'; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - Grace Sprange describes two years of disappointment, disillusionment, and disaster attempting to grow oranges - with photos; The Last of the Little "Shanghai" - brief update and photo on this trusty craft which had previously sailed from Shanghai to Copenhagen; Trapped in a Flooded Tunnel - The terrible experience which befell a diver near the Hartebeestpoort Irrigation Dam, near Pretoria, South Africa; "For the Hounour of the Mounted Police of Canada" - Herbert Patrick Lee relates an experience from when he was a recruit at Regina. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate external wear. Covers beginning to separate from textblock. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book

For all the tea in China

12mo, br. ed.

Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site , A World's significant site of cultural importance

1 vol. in-8 br., col. cover, color. pictures, IVPP - Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1994, 63 p. Very nice copy of this brochure on the Man of Peking (paleoanthropology). Anglais

Feng Shui

Translation into Greek by Maroula Kontis. First published by Dorling 2001 . 192p. illus glossary index. [NO copies found in WorldCat] Book

Chinese Dishes Zhongguo Cai

1 portfolio ([24] p. of plates) : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm. recepies in chinese and english with artistic photos.

The Chinese Earth

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 292pp. Paperback as new, first published in great britain in 1947, with a new introduction by the author and a biographical essay in good condition. Collection of stories. ISBN: 0231054858

Six Records of a Floating Life

Paperback. Very Good. 163 pp. plus 6 maps.

Nouvelles

The Border Town and Other Stories

Five stories by this 20th century Chinese author. . 195 pages. T4. First Edition. Binding is Softcover. Trade PB. 16mo - 6" to 7" tall ISBN: 083510852X

The New York Times Magazine, February (Feb.) 6, 1972 - Colonel Muammar (Mo'ammar) Mohammed Qadhaffi (Gaddafi) of Libya

88 pages. Features: Cover illustration of Colonel Gaddafi of Libya with Nasser in background; Many fantastic color fashion ads; Colonel Qadhafi - Libya's Mystical Revolutionary - article with photo of Anwar Sadat seated between Quadhafi and Vice-President Mahmoud al-Ayubi of Syria, plus photo of Qadhafi seated with Gamal Abdel Nasser; The Secrecy Dilemma - Schlesinger expounds on the conflict between freedom of the press and government secrecy; The French Connection in Real Life - searching for clandestine heroin labs in Marseilles - article with photos; The American Malaise - a sociologist disagrees with Nixon's suggestion of a parallel with ancitn Greece and Rome; Gold Key Estates real estate development ad; New China Policy in Rock Glad, N.J.; Photos of Jade jewellery; Psychedelic one-page Peter Max ad; Oriental Mix - color photos of Manhattan apartment designed by Winkler-Patino; Many camp ads; and more. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book

Personal History

403p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition, minimal marginalia chipped d.j. fair Illus. by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge

DEMOCRACY AND FINANCE IN CHINA: A Study in the Development of Fiscal Systems and Ideals

8vo, 217 pp.,original publisher's blue cloth, very good gilt titles bright, some pages tape repaired, but overall in excellent state scarce. history of ancient china's economic thought. and fiscal theories,

Tibet, the great game and Tsarist Russia

Octavo in red multicolored DJ (red-black spine); ix, 223 p ; 22 cm. Tibet; China; Foreign relations; Russia; Politics.

China, 1900: The Eyewitnesses Speak.. The Experience of Westerners in China during the Boxer Rebellion, as described by Participants in Letters, Diaries and Photographs. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and plans; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

American in China, an. Thirty Years in the People's Republic

8vo ; 281 pages.

Shao Yu zuo pin xuan ji / [she ying Xiao Shunquan] Paintings Painter Shao Yu

large 4to hardvover in dj and slipcase. 160 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; in chinese with an english catalogue.36 cm. a small tear on the spine top of the dust jacket, ow. fine, book as new. rilegatura tela in sovracoperta e astuccio, piccola mancanza alla sovracoperta, altrimenti come nuovo. cina pittura

Murals in the Tombs of Li Hsien and Li Chung-Jun of the Tang Dynasty / Les Peintures Murales du Tombeaux De Li Hsien et li Tchong-Jouen de la Dynastie des Tang Tang Li Xian mu bi hua / Shanxi sheng bo wu guan, Shanxi sheng wen wu guan li wei yuan hui Bi

large atlas folio 52 x 38 cm. cloth in box - 90 leaves of plates) : chiefly col. ill. ; 22 page abstract in French and English. Fifty tipped-in color plates of the Li Hsien period and forty tipped-in plates of the Li Chung-Jun period -- both are tipped-in on versos (rectos blank), and adjacent facing page also blank. In 1971-1972 Li Chung-Jun's tomb was excavated, one the largest Tang Dynasty tombs found to date, providing documentation regarding the struggle between the Confucian and Legalist schools. The Li Hsien tomb presents murals depicting social and political life of their time as well as insight into the historical development of ancient Chinese painting. scarce, the original edition not a later reprint, very heavy: international shipping please inquire.on shipping. atlas folio rilegato in broccato di seta nella sua scatola protettiva, come nuovo. foto su richiesta. wonderful and unfindable publication.

Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking Through Comparisons (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

8vo, br. ed. 314pp. This pioneering book compares Chinese and Western thought to offer a bracing and unpredictable cross-cultural conversation. The work contributes to the emerging field of Sino-Hellenic studies, which links two great and influential cultures that, in fact, had virtually no contact during the ancient period. The patterns of thought and the cultural productions of early China and ancient Greece represent two significantly different responses to the myriad problems that human beings confront. Throughout this volume the comparisons between these cultures evince two critical ideas. First, that thinking is itself an inherently comparative activity. Through making comparisons, the familiar becomes strange, and the strange somewhat more familiar. Second, since we think through comparisons, we should think them all the way through. How valid and productive are the comparisons and contrasts made between particular works and different styles of thought that emerged from two different, although contemporaneous, cultural contexts? Contributors include Roger T. Ames, Stephen W. Durrant, David L. Hall, David N. Keightley, Michael Nylan, Andrew Plaks, Michael Puett, Lisa Raphals, Haun Saussy, David Schaberg, Steven Shankman, C. H. Wang, and Anthony C. Yu. “The subject matter is timely, exciting—broadening two important traditional fields of inquiry.” — Robert C. Solomon, author of From Rationalism to Existentialism: The Existentialists and Their Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds “This book helps to create and define an important new field: informed, disciplined, and insightful comparative cultural studies for the Greek and Chinese worlds. There is a steadily growing cohort of scholars who work on these types of problems, and they are attracting an increasing audience.” — Willard J. Peterson, Princeton University

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.

The City in Future. 1999 - 2002 [ Shanghai ]

1 vol. in-4 reliure pleine toile éditeur sous jaquette, Shanghai Sanya Information Advertising Co, 2003, 343 pp. Fine copy. Text in english and chinese. Français