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8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.320. In a public square in Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin was executed before a crowd of onlookers. He was among the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi. Called by Western observers ?death by a thousand cuts? or ?death by slicing,? this penalty was reserved for the very worst crimes in imperial China. A unique interdisciplinary history, Death by a Thousand Cuts is the first book to explore the history, iconography, and legal contexts of Chinese tortures and executions from the tenth century until lingchi?s abolition in 1905. The authors then turn their attention to an in-depth investigation of ?oriental? tortures in the Western imagination. While early modern Europeans often depicted Chinese institutions as rational, nineteenth- and twentieth-century readers consumed pictures of lingchi executions as titillating curiosities and evidence of moral inferiority. By examining these works in light of European conventions associated with despotic government, Christian martyrdom, and ecstatic suffering, the authors unpack the stereotype of innate Chinese cruelty and explore the mixture of fascination and revulsion that has long characterized the West?s encounter with ?other? civilizations. Compelling and thought-provoking, Death by a Thousand Cuts questions the logic by which states justify tormenting individuals and the varied ways by which human beings have exploited the symbolism of bodily degradation for political aims.
Reliure toile de l'éditeur. 160 pages. 22x28cm. Couverture tachée.
Book in as new condition. 176pp. Blue padded covers. Includes The Odyssey of Alexander the Great; The Grandeur of Imperial Rome; The Quest for Power in the East; The Flowering of China etc.
8vo, hardcover in dj, 339pp. A widespread conviction in the need to rescue China?s children took hold in the early twentieth century. Amid political upheaval and natural disasters, neglected or abandoned children became a humanitarian focal point for Sino-Western cooperation and intervention in family life. Chinese academics and officials sought new scientific measures, educational institutions, and social reforms to improve children?s welfare. Successive regimes encouraged teachers to shape children into Qing subjects, Nationalist citizens, or Communist comrades. In Raising China?s Revolutionaries, Margaret Mih Tillman offers a novel perspective on the political and scientific dimensions of experiments with early childhood education from the early Republican period through the first decade of the People?s Republic. She traces transnational advocacy for child welfare and education, examining Christian missionaries, philanthropists, and the role of international relief during World War II. Tillman provides in-depth analysis of similarities and differences between Nationalist and Communist policy and cultural notions of childhood. While both Nationalist and Communist regimes drew on preschool institutions to mobilize the workforce and shape children?s political subjectivity, the Communist regime rejected the Nationalists? commitment to the modern, bourgeois family. With new insights into the roles of experts, the cultural politics of fundraising, and child welfare as a form of international exchange, Raising China?s Revolutionaries is an important work of institutional and transnational history that illuminates the evolution of modern concepts of childhood in China.
144 pages. Exhibition catalogue. Extensively illustrated with colour and black and white photos. Usual library markings. Heavily worn. Reading copy only. Book
Exhibition catalog for the show at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in '83 and the Vancouver Art Gallery in '85. Unpaginated, about 55 pages with a Historical Background with sections: Porcelain of the Kangxi period (1662 - 1722), .. of the Yongzheng period (1728 - 35), the Qianlong period (1736 - 95), followed by 188 photos of examples of the various types, most in b&w. Bibliography at back. Covers show very light shelf wear only, interior/text is clean and free of marking of any kind.
160 pages. Suggested Reading List. Printed upon glossy stock. Gloriously illustrated with colour photography. "Illustrates court garments reflecting the pomp and ceremony of Manchu court life and the Chinese aristocracy of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) from the Chinese textile collection of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A gift quality copy of this sumptuously presented work. Book
64 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Illustrated with photos in colour and black and white. "Explores the diversity of media and art forms from Neolithic time to the Han Dynasty (201 B.C. - A.D. 220)." - from Foreword. Prior owner's ink stamp upon title page, otherwise unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
pp.244, softcover, very good.
8vo original red cloth in pictorial dj. as new/ as new. An overview of chinese rugs, with chapters on history, materials, designs, colors and classifications. A reprint of the 1908 publication by Tiffany Studios.
Neuchâtel, Éditions de la Baconnière, s.a. (1946). 4to.; 416 pp. Láminas y mapas. Cubiertas originales. "Here is the East explained to the West by one who knows both intimately".
Title also in Chinese. Published simultaneously as vol. X, no. 1 of International journal of politics. with an introd. by H. Yuan Tien. x-129 pp. Publisher's green cloth. A very good copy, as new.
8vo, br. ed. 352pp. ex-library stamps and labels, ow. very good. Ex-Library
No marks or inscriptions. Faint creasing to lower corners of covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight wavyness adjacent to spine edge and no bumping to corners. 112pp. A lavish work showing the Terracotta Warriors of the first Emperor of China's Qin Dynasty who reigned from 221-206 BC.
8vo, cloth in dj. A discharged official in mid-Ming China faced significant changes in his life. This book explores three such officials in the sixteenth century-Wang Jiusi, Kang Hai, and Li Kaixian-who turned to literary endeavors when forced to retire. Instead of the formal writing expected of scholar-officials, however, they chose to engage in the stigmatized genre of qu (songs), a collective term for drama and sanqu. As their efforts reveal, a disappointing end to an official career and a physical move away from the center led to their embrace of qu and the pursuit of a marginalized literary genre.This book also attempts to sketch the largely unknown literary landscape of mid-Ming north China. After their retirements, these three writers became cultural leaders in their native regions. Wang, Kang, and Li are studied here not as solitary writers but as central figures in the “qu communities” that formed around them. Using such communities as the basic unit in the study of qu allows us to see how sanqu and drama were produced, transmitted, and “used” among these writers, things less evident when we focus on the individual. About the Author: Tian Yuan Tan is Lecturer in Traditional Chinese Literature and Culture at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
square 8vo, purple pasted-down paper covers with gilt lettering and a color illustration on the cover75 color drawings by the author / artist. Charming colorful drawings of cchinese children's toys, games and dolls.
8vo, hardcover in dj. 868pp. The turn of the third century CE-known as the Jian’an era or Three Kingdoms period-holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition. Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and literary criticism. Its historical personages and events have also inspired works of poetry, fiction, drama, film, and art throughout Chinese history, including Internet fantasy literature today. There is a vast body of secondary literature on these two subjects individually, but very little on their interface. The image of the Jian’an era, with its feasting, drinking, heroism, and literary panache, as well as intense male friendship, was to return time and again in the romanticized narrative of the Three Kingdoms. How did Jian’an bifurcate into two distinct nostalgias, one of which was the first paradigmatic embodiment of wen (literary graces, cultural patterning), and the other of wu (heroic martial virtue)? How did these largely segregated nostalgias negotiate with one another? And how is the predominantly male world of the Three Kingdoms appropriated by young women in contemporary China? The Halberd at Red Cliff investigates how these associations were closely related in their complex origins and then came to be divergent in their later metamorphoses.
8vo, hardcover in dj pp.380. This book explores the parallel and yet profoundly different ways of seeing the outside world and engaging with the foreign at two important moments of dislocation in Chinese history, namely, the early medieval period commonly known as the Northern and Southern Dynasties (317–589 CE), and the nineteenth century. Xiaofei Tian juxtaposes literary, historical, and religious materials from these two periods in comparative study, bringing them together in their unprecedentedly large-scale interactions, and their intense fascination, with foreign cultures. By examining various cultural forms of representation from the two periods, Tian attempts to sort out modes of seeing the world that inform these writings. These modes, Tian argues, were established in early medieval times and resurfaced, in permutations and metamorphoses, in nineteenth-century writings on encountering the Other. This book is for readers who are interested not only in early medieval or nineteenth-century China but also in issues of representation, travel, visualization, and modernity.
xi + 307 pages, map, index. eng
128pp.richely illustrated with photographs in colour, 29cm., cart.cover, dustwrapper, VG, X69079
8vo., First Edition; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Redmond's O'Hanlon's article 'Amazon Adventure' is also signed on title.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 24 pages of coloured plates and a map in the text; pictorial boards, red buckram back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's slip-case.
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous fine coloured photographs (a number double- or full-page) and endpaper maps; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, ribbon marker, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. SIGNED COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE.
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 98 pages. Pictorial cover. Illustrated. Contents: The Ancient Heritage; Han Literati and the Qin; Common-Practice Instruments in Historic Perspective; Sizhu Instruments; Chuida Instruments; Postscript: Twentieth-Century Developments; Selected Bibliography; Index.
Stock. 1969. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur acceptable. 319 pages. Illustré de nombreux dessins en noir et blanc hors texte. Etiquette de code sur le dos. Tampon et annotations de bibliothèque en page de titre. Annotations en pages de garde et de titre. Trad. de l'américain par Francis Ledoux. La légende du commencement. Khabachen, la terre des neiges. Incarnation et succession...
