Chine

L'Europe chinoise. I : De l'empire romain à Leibniz; Tome 2: De La Sinophilie a Sinophobie

2 volumes brochés en 8vo (14 cm x 22.5 cm) couverture cartonnée souple, blanche, 438 et 402 pages, aux éditions Gallimard, "Bibliothèque des Idées", Paris, 1988 premier volume : 1988 - 438 pages - de l'Empire Romain à Leibniz - à la recherche de Cathay - premières réactions de l'Europe aux nouvelles qui lui parviennent de Chine, par l'intermédiaire des missions deuxième volume : 1989 - 402 pages - de la sinophilie à la sinophobie - le Saint Siège refuse l'Europe Chinoise des Jésuites - quelques aspects de la Chine dans le Théâtre Européen du XVII° au XVIII° siècles - Voltaire sinophile - sinophiles et sinophobes

Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China, by Farquhar

8vo, br. ed. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily life in Beijing? Appetites challenges the assumption that the mundane enjoyments of bodily life are natural and unvarying. Farquhar analyzes modern Chinese reflections on embodied existence to show how contemporary appetites are grounded in history. From eating well in improving economic times to memories of the late 1950s famine, from the flavors of traditional Chinese medicine to modernity?s private sexual passions, this book argues that embodiment in all its forms must be invented and sustained in public reflections about personal and national life. As much at home in science studies and social theory as in the details of life in Beijing, this account uses anthropology, cultural studies, and literary criticism to read contemporary Chinese life in a materialist and reflexive mode. For both Maoist and market reform periods, this is a story of high culture in appetites, desire in collective life, and politics in the body and its dispositions. Judith Farquhar is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

Pale green paper-covered boards, paper title label inset front panel and spine in plain paper dust jacket printed in green. Edges of boards slightly worn, ow excellent, in original torn tape repaired dj. Despite dj flaws, a clean, presentable copy handsomely printed by the Kynoch Press, Great Britain ; The Ideogramic Series 1edited by Ezra Pound; Square 8vo; 52 pages. This is one of the Ideogramic Series which was edited by Ezra Pound. At the time of printing, the series had 3 volumes in it of which this is #1. Pound provided the foreword and notes for this edition, subtitled "An Ars Poetica". The notes which were finished by Pound from preliminary work by Fenollosa are commentaries on the ideograms themselves with paraphrased translations. Pound introduces his role in the finishing of the notes as being that of "a very ignorant man." The notes include 5 pages or plates of Chinese characters or ideograms.

Histoire De L'extreme Orient 2 Vols.

8vo toile. original cloth, 2 volumes (xviii,771p.), 32 plates (1 in color), 7 folding maps, Ministere de l Instruction Publique et de Beaux-Arts. Annales du Musee Guimet. Bibliotheque d Etude.

COLLECTION DE J.-C.-M. KROOK. IMPORTANTES SCULPTURES EN PIERRE ET EN BOIS. BRONZES DU XE AU XVIIE. ARTS CAMBODGNIENS. KHMER. SIAMOIS. JAVANIS. INDONESIENS. CERAMIQUE DE LA CHINE ET DU JAPON. SABRES. 17/06/1935-18/06/1935. (78 grams)

SOUVEIRS D'UN VOYAGE DANS LA TARTARIE, LE THIBET ET LA CHINE pendant les années 1844, 1845 et 1846. Tome second seul

P.? Le Clere, 1850. In-8 relié demi basane chagriné, dos à nerfs souligné de filets à froid, 516 pages. quelques rousseurs.

Chinese Houses and Gardens

4 , 148S.,147 photographs, 113 line drawings

Tibetan Trek

8vo original Grey cloth, very good, a little soiled, no dj., 300p.,9bw photos, 2 maps, index.

Soul Stealers the Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768

8vo, br. ed. Midway through the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, in the most prosperous period of China's last imperial dynasty, mass hysteria broke out among the common people. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land, clipping off the ends of men's queues (the braids worn by royal decree), and chanting magical incantations over them in order to steal the souls of their owners. In a fascinating chronicle of this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulstealers that ensued, Philip Kuhn provides an intimate glimpse into the world of eighteenth-century China. Kuhn weaves his exploration of the sorcery cases with a survey of the social and economic history of the era. Drawing on a rich repository of documents found in the imperial archives, he presents in detail the harrowing interrogations of the accused--a ragtag assortment of vagabonds, beggars, and roving clergy--conducted under torture by provincial magistrates. In tracing the panic's spread from peasant hut to imperial court, Kuhn unmasks the political menace lurking behind the queue-clipping scare as well as the complex of folk beliefs that lay beneath popular fears of sorcery. Kuhn shows how the campaign against sorcery provides insight into the period's social structure and ethnic tensions, the relationship between monarch and bureaucrat, and the inner workings of the state. Whatever its intended purposes, the author argues, the campaign offered Hungli a splendid chance to force his provincial chiefs to crack down on local officials, to reinforce his personal supremacy over top bureaucrats, and to restate the norms of official behavior. This wide-ranging narrative depicts life in imperial China as it was actually lived, often in the participants' own words. Soulstealers offers a compelling portrait of the Chinese people--from peasant to emperor--and of the human condition. About the Author: Philip A. Kuhn is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.

Chinesische Novellen. Deutsch von Paul Kühnel. (Meisterwerke orientalischer Literaturen, 2).

Octavo. Pp. xxix, 368. Title-page and Serial-title printed within orange decorative frame. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half calf and lovely floral boards, spine richly gilt, crimson morocco lettering-piece, gilt, cloth inner hinges, red silken ribbon marker, corners and extremities chafed. Inscription to half-title, some underlining in coloured pencil. In a very good condition. Handsome copy. ~ First edition. Meisterwerke orientalischer Literaturen, Bd. 2. From the private library of Atten Hofer with his bookplate.

Mao's Generals: Chen Yi and the New Fourth Army

8vo, hardcover.pp.xi-226. Mao s Generals reevaluates the military history of Mao Zedong s seizure of power in China using all original historical materials, confronting the history as recorded by the communist party-influenced historians. It disputes the total invincibility and brilliance of Mao in military affairs by restoring credit to the generals that made significant contributions to the communist victory.The focus falls mainly on a brilliant romantic poet named Chen Yi who founded the New Fourth Army with a group of brilliant young men and led peasant guerrillas to the victory that broke the Kuomintong s backbone. Despite his accomplishments, he could not deter his eventual demise at the hands of Mao. The author uses these incidents, plus the manipulation of the Anti-Japanese War to expose the actual nature of the communist revolution and policy in China under Mao.

Lao niu po che. Essai autocritique sur le roman et L'humour

Couverture souple. État : Très bon. Introduction , traduction et notes par Paul Bady., in-8, br., LCVIII - 129 - 41 p.

Sino-Iranica, Chinese Contributions to the History of Civilization in Ancient Iran, with Special Reference to the History of Cultivated Plants and Products

8vo, cloth, pp.185-630. . Reprint of the 1919 volume originally published by the Field Museum of Natural History. Includes 5 appendices, a general and botanical index as well as an index of words. INTRRODUCTION l8j 220 The Pistachio 246 The Pomegranate 276 Sesame and Flax 288 The Coriander 397 Gaeden Pea and Broad Bean 35 307 Sat flower 324 Henna 334 The Olive 415 cassia Pods and Carob 420 Narcissus 427 Note on the Language of Fulin Fenugreek 446 aromatics 455 The Malayan Pose and Its Products 468 Persian Textiles 488 Manna 343 satoetida 366 Rice 372 Mysobalan 378 The DatePalm 385 The Spinach 392 Scgah Beet and Lettuce 399 The Almond 405 Iranian Minerals Metals and Precious Stones 503 Titles of the Sasanian Government 531 Iranian Elements in Mongol 572 The Indian Elements in the Persian Pharma 580 The Basil 586 General Index 599 Botanical

Monseigneur Verrolles et la mission de Mandchourie

[vi] + iii + 446pp.avec 40 illustrations & 2 cartes dont 1 dépliante, 24cm., reliure cart. d'amateur, bon état, R84064

China. Das Reich der Mitte einst und jetzt. Nach seinen Reisen und Studien geschildert. [AND:] Die Flucht des Großen Pferdes.

Royal octavo. Pp. vi, 412, (12) illustrated publisher's catalogue. Profusely illustrated throughout. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full ochre cloth, decoration to cover and spine, bevelled edges, decorative endpapers and text-block edges, one corner-tip rubbed. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. TO THIS WE ADD A COMPLIMENTARY COPY: Sven Hedin: Die Flucht des Großen Pferdes. Mit 117 Abbildungen und 1 Karte. (Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1939). Royal octavo. Pp. 262. Plus folding coloured map, frontispiece, and numerous plates. Text illustrations. Set in Gothic type. In a very good condition.

La Conoscenza Dell'asia e Dell'africa in Italia Nei Secoli Xviii e Xix, 2 Vol.

2 volumi in 8vo. pp. xvi-1084 a numerazione continua,(2)

Concordances and Indexes to Chinese Texts. (Chinese Materials and Research Aids Service Center, Occasional Series No. 34).

Octavo. Pp. x, 204, 6. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. In fine condition. ~ First edition. Chinese Materials and Research Aids Service Center, Inc., Occasional Series No. 34. Rare.

Concordances and Indexes to Chinese Texts. (Chinese Materials and Research Aids Service Center, Occasional Series No. 34).

Octavo. Pp. x, 204, 6. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. In fine condition. - - First edition. Chinese Materials and Research Aids Service Center, Inc., Occasional Series No. 34. Rare.

Chang'an 26 BCE: An Augustan Age in China

8vo hardcover, 642 pagine. During the last two centuries BCE, the Western Han capital of Chang'an, near today's Xi'an in northwest China, outshone Augustan Rome in several ways while administering comparable numbers of imperial subjects and equally vast territories. At its grandest, during the last fifty years or so before the collapse of the dynasty in 9 CE, Chang'an boasted imperial libraries with thousands of documents on bamboo and silk in a city nearly three times the size of Rome and nearly four times larger than Alexandria. Many reforms instituted in this capital in ate Western Han substantially shaped not only the institutions of the Eastern Han (25-220 CE) but also the rest of imperial China until 1911. Although thousands of studies document imperial Rome's glory, until now no book-length work in a Western language has been devoted to Han Chang'an, the reign of Emperor Chengdi (whose accomplishments rival those of Augustus and Hadrian), or the city's impressive library project (26-6 BCE), which ultimately produced the first state-sponsored versions of many of the classics and masterworks that we hold in our hands today. Chang'an 26 bce addresses this deficiency, using as a focal point the reign of Emperor Chengdi (r. 33-7 bce), specifically the year in which the imperial library project began. This in-depth survey by some of the world's best scholars, Chinese and Western, explores the built environment, sociopolitical transformations, and leading figures of Chang'an, making a strong case for the revision of historical assumptions about the two Han dynasties. A multidisciplinary volume representing a wealth of scholarly perspectives, the book draws on the established historical record and recent archaeological discoveries of thousands of tombs, building foundations, and remnants of walls and gates from Chang'an and its surrounding area. cina han e roma di augusto.

The Chinese Spirit Road. The Classical Tradition of Stone Tomb Statuary

4to Hardcover in dj. [9x11"] 290pp., 296 black & white plates, 9 tables, 16 charts.22 x 29 cm., large size, as new copy, appendices on foreigners in N. Song spirit roads at Gongxian, Covers the role of sculpture and sculptors in China, Western Han and the emergence of stone tomb statuary, Eastern Han & the establishment of the Spirit Road. Period of disunion, Sui & Tang, N. Song, Ming & Qing dynasties. Shunling, Huang- ling Zuling, tables

L'ART DE L'EXTREME-ORIENT ET DE L'INDE. PREFACE MAX-POL FOUCHET. VOL 9. (1916 grams)

IN 4. REL TOILE EDIT AVEC JAQ ET EMBOITAGE [MOY]. 480 PP. ENV 300 ILL EN NOIR ET EN COULEURS. [BE]

THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF CHINA With Special Reference to Agriculture

8vo pp.461, cloth, as new.

Arts Musulmans - Extrême-Orient. Inde, Indochine, Insulinde, Chine, Japon, Asie Centrale, Tibet

Histoire Universelle des Arts des temps primitifs jusqu'à nos jours, tome 4, 1 vol. grand in-8 carré reliure demi-chagrin maroquiné à coins havane, dos à 4 nerfs, couvertures conservées, Librairie Armand Colin, Paris, 1939, 485 pp. Bel exemplaire très bien relié. Français

Tibetan Thangas (thangkas) [Tibetan / Chinese] Boe gyi thang ga

4to, decorated cloth, clear platic dj and cardboard case, 140 fullpage, full colour plates, 200 numbered pages. Text in Tibetan/Chinese, with preface and list of plates in English. tibet. kin. engl. Zusammenfassung please inquire on extra charges for international orders.