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8vo, br. ed. pp.xvii-199. sticker on spine ow. a very nice copy. This compelling book provides a meticulously documented account of officially sanctioned cannibalism in the southwestern province of Guangxi during the Cultural Revolution. Drawing on his unique access to local archives of the Chinese Communist Party and on extensive interviews with party officials, the victims' relatives, and the murderers themselves, Zheng Yi paints a disturbing picture of official compliance in the systematic killing and cannibalization of individuals in the name of political revolution and "class struggle."The treasure-trove of evidence Zheng Yi has unearthed offers unprecedented insights into the way the internecine, factional struggles of the Cultural Revolution reached a horrifying level of insanity and frenzy among the ethnic Zhuang people of Guangxi. Profoundly moving, acutely observed, and unflinchingly graphic, Scarlet Memorial is a shining example of a genre of investigative reporting that courageously and independently records obscure and officially censored historical events, revealing hidden dimensions of modern Chinese history and politics.
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.
4to. One hundred pieces by the celebrated Chinese Artist Wu Zuoren. Parallel Chinese and English text.110pp, illustrated in color. Excellent copy - very bright and clean with no wear to book or DJ. lmost 'as new' copy. Owner's stamp on half-title.
Hardbound 8vo, 155 pages, cloth, color and b/w illustrations. inscribed by the author on FEP, near fine in dust jacket
8vo, br. ed. 472pp. In The Confucian-Legalist State, Dingxin Zhao offers a radically new analysis of Chinese imperial history from the eleventh century BCE to the fall of the Qing dynasty. This study first uncovers the factors that explain how, and why, China developed into a bureaucratic empire under the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE. It then examines the political system that crystallized during the Western Han dynasty, a system that drew on China's philosophical traditions of Confucianism and Legalism. Despite great changes in China's demography, religion, technology, and socioeconomic structures, this Confucian-Legalist political system survived for over two millennia. Yet, it was precisely because of the system's resilience that China, for better or worse, did not develop industrial capitalism as Western Europe did, notwithstanding China's economic prosperity and technological sophistication beginning with the Northern Song dynasty. In examining the nature of this political system, Zhao offers a new way of viewing Chinese history, one that emphasizes the importance of structural forces and social mechanisms in shaping historical dynamics. As a work of historical sociology, The Confucian-Legalist State aims to show how the patterns of Chinese history were not shaped by any single force, but instead by meaningful activities of social actors which were greatly constrained by, and at the same time reproduced and modified, the constellations of political, economic, military, and ideological forces. This book thus offers a startling new understanding of long-term patterns of Chinese history, one that should trigger debates for years to come among historians, political scientists, and sociologists.
4to. Pp. [4],viii,575, 155 figs., col. map on front end-papers, refs. Orig. lamin. boards. Very good.
4to, cloth in dj and case. 73 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 36 cm
25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition edge-worn
4to 1 portfolio ([24] leaves of plates) : all ill. (some col.) ; 36 cm
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean. 183 pages, many color & b&w photos, sections (each with several chapters) include: Birth and Start of Chinese Cinema 1905 - 1948 Development and Ups and Downs of Chinese Cinema 1949 - 1976, Explorations and Progress of Chinese Cinema 1977 - 1997, Maturing of Chinese Television 1958 - 1997 . Text is in English.
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean. 183 pages, many color & b&w photos, sections (each with several chapters) include: Birth and Start of Chinese Cinema 1905 - 1948 Development and Ups and Downs of Chinese Cinema 1949 - 1976, Explorations and Progress of Chinese Cinema 1977 - 1997, Maturing of Chinese Television 1958 - 1997 . Text is in English.
Broch?. 285 pages. Tr?s bon ?tat.
Fine -. - 270pp. - AS NEW paperback. 10 short stories by authors such as Zhang Xian, Wang Zengqi, He Xiaohu, Ge Wujie, and others. ISBN: 0835110761
First Edition;Fine with a fine d/w,291 pages,brown boards,tan cloth; ISBN: 0060165219
Belfond, 1994, 282 pp., broché, dos insolé, première de couverture partiellement décolorée, état correct
Littérature chinoise, collection Panda, 1986, 321p., broché, couverture légèrement défraîchie, coiffe inférieure un peu fendue.
square 4to, pp.148, illustrations in color and half tones, the graphic work of zhang leping the creator of urchin san mao.
8vo, tela ed. sovrac.
large 8vo, br. ed. pp.495. Zhang Wei second novel. originally published in 1992. September's Fable tells the story of the rise and fall of a Chinese coastal village through its difficult formation, hard existence and inevitable disintegration. Spanning approximately sixty years, the novel is a rich and intriguing tapestry of life and death in rural China. Somewhat in the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, September's Fable weaves history, politics, and folklore close together to bring an enchanting way of storytelling that dexterously touches on such universal themes as love and hate, war and revolution, city and country, the noble and the ugly, and, more importantly, the inevitability of the old superseded by the new and young. About the Author: Born in 1956 in a small seaside town of eastern China, Zhang Wei has published ten novels, over a dozen novellas and numerous short stories, essays and poems. He has won more than thirty important national and international literary prizes. Zhang Wei is regarded as one of the Ten Most Important Chinese Writers of the 1990s, and his novel September s Fable is regarded as one of the Ten Most Important Chinese Literary Works of the 1990s.
4to. copertina rigida. pp.76. Il piccolo Sanmao ha viaggiato in lungo e in largo, dalla Shanghai degli anni '30 sino a oggi, grazie al suo linguaggio universale e innovativo. Attraverso tante storie a fumetti in bianco e nero e senza parole, il suo autore Zhang Leping è riuscito a parlare a intere generazioni di bambini e adulti: dai contadini della Cina di allora, che spesso non sapevano leggere né scrivere, fino ai lettori colti e attenti di oggi. Tra mille avventure e disavventure, questo ragazzino orfano e vagabondo ci porta nelle strade della Parigi d'Oriente per raccontarci la vita e la società cinese di inizio secolo. Ai suoi celebri tre capelli è lasciato il compito di infonderci tutta l'ironia, la sensibilità e persino la denuncia di cui il nostro eroico Sanmao è capace. Età di lettura: da 6 anni.
8vo, original cloth , no dj, viii + 248pp, index, notes, ex-library stamps, ow. a very good copy. This book transcends the boundaries of Chinese studies and scholarship on Western literature and critical theory, bringing together the two fields in a way that questions both the application of Western theory to Chinese materials and the resistance to theory in sinological scholarship. Recognizing that social and historical reality is external to discourse and that knowledge has an inevitable ethical import, the author argues for the importance of reality and lived experience in understanding a culture as well as the moral responsibility of such understanding. The book examines the discrepancies between various Western representations of China and the reality of China; inquires into the cultural, historical, and political contexts within which such discrepancies arise; and points out the distortion of reality in the tendency toward cultural dichotomies, the tendency to view China as the conceptual opposite of the West. Publisher's description. Ex-Library
8vo, br. ed.
