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pp. 759; 738 + Numerous plates, color folding charts and figures. Thick 8vo. Original publisher's cloth bindings. Includes papers by George Sternberg on Transmission of Yellow Fever by Mosquitoes and Malaria. Gilbert H. Grosvenor (Founder of the National Geographic) paper on Geographic Conquests. Thomas E. Curtis's paper on Zeppelins. Plus important papers on: Anthropological Studies in California ; Aboriginal American Harpoons; Ceramic Art in China; Musical Scales and Instruments; Hopi Art; Steelyards; Color Photography; Use of Kites in Meteorological Observations; Life in the Ocean; Ice Breaker Ship in the Arctic; Radiation; Photography of Sound Waves and Cinematograph; Electricity; Zeppelins; Notes on Mars; Nature Pictures; and a valuable Catalogue of the Collection of Gems. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
548p. + Frontis. Illustrated with numerous full page engravings. Title page ruled in red and printed in red and black. Paper beginning to brown at edges. Some soiling. A few leaves torn without loss. Inner hinges cracked. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, decorated and lettered in gold and black. Binding very worn. Hardbound. The author, Isaac W. Wiley, was a pastor, medical and educational missionary, and influential bishop of the former Methodist Episcopal Church. Wiley College, founded in 1873 by the Freemen's Aid Society to educate newly freed slaves, was named for him. He served as a missionary for some years in China and returned to organize missionary activity in the Far East. This account of his travels makes interesting reading. He visited and describes many places, customs, sights, religions. In China: Shanghai; Peking; Kiukiang; Foochow; Hong Kong; Canton - in Japan: Yokohama; Nagasaki; Tokio (Tokyo); among other places. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/3
Very good condition. Clear, bright and tight. Ex - library with stamps on page block and prelims. Ex - Library
Black cloth covers have sharp corners, fading at lower spine, a llittel along the bottom edge. Very light scuffing to boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 255 pages with lavish illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket is tattered at top edge with numerous open tears, none larger than an inch. Jacket at lower spine is chipped away at hinges, general chipping and wear, not price clipped. The story behind the creation of the monumental feminist scuplture The Dinner Party, a project which took years to complete. Illustrated with many full color plates and black and white photographs showing the construction of the component pieces, which included 39 ceramic place settings, embroidered runners and a heritage floor honoring 999 women of achievement (includes brief biographies of all these women). Design by Sheila de Bretteville. Index. Large format. Publisher's page marked "Anchor Press Edition 1979" and "First Editions" Dust jacket wrapped in protective archival cover.
18x14cm, hardcover in dj r, 524pp. 1st ed.
the standard reference work, in chinese. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
P., Plon 1902, (1902) - 1/2 Reliure toile - Dos lisse - in-12, XI-361 pp., accompagné de 22 gravures dont frontispice représentant l'auteur et de plans (dont 2 rempliés) - Mention de deuxième édition Bel ex-libris armorié "bibliothèque du château de Chaumont" ,-Bon exemplaire . Important témoignage sur la révolte des Boxers et la campagne de Chine de 1900. Présentation des belligérants, préparatifs de l'attaque, à Tien-Tsin avant le bombardement, sous le feu des Chinois à Tien-Tsin, combats de Peitsang et de Yangtsoun, prise de Pékin, siège des légations, délivrance, prise du Palais impérial, journal d'un bourgeois de Pékin
8vo revised and exèanded edition. . A comprehensive analysis of the transformations of ancient history in early Chinese texts.
8vo, br. ed. 428pp. This study focussing on narratives about female knights-errant (nüxia) cuts along a thematic line in Chinese literary history, and thus seeks to contribute to understanding and appreciation mainly in three fields of inquiry: the formation of narrative subgenre; the literary representation of gender; and the particularities of the Chinese knight-errantry narrative. It traces the processes of textual collecting, editing, rewriting, and intertextual referencing by which narratives about female knights-errant were invented as, and forged into, a thematic sub-genre. The narratives about a character type who boldly transgresses gender boundaries are studied as an exemplary case for a general inquiry into the subversive significance of images of gender-bending strong female characters in the Chinese narrative tradition. Finally, the present study investigates into representations of the practice of Chinese knight-errantry, which includes assassination for social policing, private vengeance, and banditry.
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.
8vo br. ed. pp.336. Framing China sheds new light on Western relations with and perceptions of China in the first half of the twentieth century. In this ground-breaking book, Ariane Knüsel examines how China was portrayed in political debates and the media in Britain, the USA and Switzerland between 1900 and 1950. By focusing on the political, economic, cultural and social context that led to the construction of the particular images of China in each country, the author demonstrates that national interests, anxieties and issues influenced the way China was framed and resulted in different portrayals of China in each country. The author’s meticulous analysis of a vast amount of newspaper and magazine articles, commentaries, editorials, cartoons and newsreels that have previously not been studied before also focuses on the transnational circulation of images of China. While previous publications have dealt with the occurrence of the Yellow Peril and Red Menace in particular countries, Framing China reveals that these images were interpreted differently in every nation because they both reflected and contributed to the discursive construction of nationhood in each country and were influenced by domestic issues, cultural values, pre-existing stereotypes, pressure groups and geopolitical aspirations.
8vo, hardcover, 300pp. In the 1960s and 1970s, around 17 million Chinese youths were mobilized or forced by the state to migrate to rural villages and China's frontiers. Bin Xu tells the story of how this 'sent-down' generation have come to terms with their difficult past. Exploring representations of memory including personal life stories, literature, museum exhibits, and acts of commemoration, he argues that these representations are defined by a struggle to reconcile worthiness with the political upheavals of the Mao years. These memories, however, are used by the state to construct an official narrative that weaves this generation's experiences into an upbeat story of the 'China dream'. This marginalizes those still suffering and obscures voices of self-reflection on their moral-political responsibility for their actions. Xu provides careful analysis of this generation of 'Chairman Mao's children', caught between the political and the personal, past and present, nostalgia and regret, and pride and trauma.
Macau, Instituto Cultural de Macau, 1988. 4to.; 60 pp., 4 hojas, 252 folios numerados, 6 hojas para el facsímil. Cubiertas originales.
1st Edition 8vo. original coth, spine gilt titled . ex library,usual marks, but overall quite a well preserved copy. Uncommon 288p., index, translated from the French by W. B. Wells. Covering the erotic activities of European women in Asia, their relationships with Chinese and foreigners. The women travelers of Marseilles, Siberian Pearl in the Yellow casket, Singapore marriages, walled gardens. Among contents: With the Colonials, from Malaya to Indo-China. New Saigon "Professionals," Runners, "boys and Malabars." The gates of China open to white women, Hong Kong Yellow Slaves -some times half-white. The author was familiar to Lyndhurst Terrace Hong Kong's red light district in the 1930's. Shanghai: Navy girls, walkers on the Shanghai Bund, Venus Bar. Interviews with dozens of perverts, pimps, pederasts and prostitutes through Southeast Asia, China and Japan.
orig. paper wrappers, 3 de 4 vols.,manque 3eme tome. largely uncut and unperused. v. 1,pp.319: jean de mandeville, v3yage de montferran en chine, travaux historiques sur la chine, debuts de la compagnie royale de suede, le colonel sir henry yule, relations de l'europe et de l'asie avant et apres le voyage de vasco de gama, memoire sur la chine de renouard de sainte-croix, deux documents tirés des papiers du general decaen, relations de la grande bretagne avec la birmanie, la premiere legation de france en chine 1847, l'expulsion de mm. huc et gabet du tibet 1846, les français aux iles lieou kìieou . vol. 2 pp.323, contains: l'asie centrale et orientale et les etudes chinoises, les chinois de turgot, intineraire de marco polo en perse, la situation en chine, delhi, l'islam en chine, a la recherche d'un passage vers l'asie par le nord et le ne, le tibet, la chine et l'angleterre, les fouilles en asie centrale, les douanes imperiales maritimes chinoises, albuquerque, general beylié, invasion mongole au moyen age, scuplture en pierre en chine, baghdad, art bouddhique, turks et ; v. 4, 272p., French text. Contains: Pere Gerbillon S.J.: MISSIONNAIRE FRANCAIS A PE-KING XVII ET XVIII SIECLES. Andre Michaux: UNE LETTRE INEDITE DU VOYAGEUR ANDRE MICHAUS. VOYAGE DE PIERRE DUPRE DE CONSTANTINOPLE A TREBIZONDE 1803. UN ORIENTALISTE ALLEMAND: Jules Klaproth. LA MISSION DUBOIS DE JACIGNY DANS L'EXTREME ORIENT 1841-1846. NOTES SURE EUSEBE DE SALLE. EDOUARD CHAVANNES
in-12, 301 pp., 18 planches, broche, couv. Dos usage avec manques aux coiffes, 1er plat effrange, bon exemplaire. [TX-8] Shanghai, le Fleuve Bleu, Nanking, Hong-Kong, Canton, Saigon, golfe de Siam, Nagasaki, etc.
Entre les caractères typographiés, l'auteur a pris soin d'inscrire manuellement la traduction et la transcription des symboles qu'il évoque en caractères chinois.Il commence par l'"Agaric des immortels", champignon emblème de longévité aux "couleurs éclatantes" et finit par le "Yin-Yang" dont l'opposition exprime l'alternance des principes mâles et femelles, du bien et du mal, du chaud et du froid, du mouvement et du repos, etc." en passant par le bambou, le dragon, le jade, le lotus, la tortue, etc.
Paris, Librairie Orientale & Américaine, E. Guilmoto, s.d. [1911]. In-8, 304 pp. Demi-chagrin, dos lisse, auteur titre en lettres dorées, filets dorés d'encadrement. Une planche en frontispice, une carte repliée en fin d'ouvrage. BEL EXEMPLAIRE comprenant neuf planches photographiques hors-texte (dont la planche en frontispice). Une carte repliée en fin d'ouvrage.
1977 high quality reprint of the 1886 original , including the illustrations with a new introduction by inez de beauclair and harvey molé. reprint scarce as the original.
8vo, hardcover in dj, xlii, 847 p., ill., 24 cm. "In this multidimensional analysis, Benjamin A. Elman uses over a thousand newly available examination records from the Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, 1315-1904, to explore the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the civil examination system, one of the most important institutions in Chinese history. For over five hundred years, the most important positions within the dynastic government were usually filled through these difficult examinations, and every other year some one to two million people from all levels of society attempted them.'
4to, cloth in dj and slipcase. Guo Weiqu(1908.2-1971.12) was born in Weifang, Shandong province. He passed the entrance examination and studied western painting in Shanghai Fine Arts Academy in 1929. Later, he entered Antique Exhibition Institute of Beijing Imperial Palace Museum to study Chinese painting and was directed by Mr. Huang Binhong. He was good at drawing bird and landscape also. His works integrated various styles of other famous artists, with the style of vivid and bright as his own. His work "Guo Weiqu Painting Collection" and "Selection of Guo Weiqu's paintings" were published by People's Fine Arts Press , this edition 1984. He compiled and published "Painting and Calligraphic Artists Chronology of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties", "History of Chinese Engraving", "Miscellaneous Talks About Arts" and "Techniques on Drawing Flower and Bird in 16 Chapters" etc.
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.