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TANG, Peter S. H.MareMagnum
COMMUNIST CHINA TODAY. VOL. 2. DOCUMENTARY AND CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX.
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pp. 76, large 8vo, original hardcover, slightly soiled, quite scarce.
23x16. 137p. Enc. tela ed.
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30 pages. 7.25" x 5.6". Text in English. Each page charmingly illustrated in colour. Ten-year-old Ah-wu, his dog Blackie, and friend Ah-hsiao live on Hainan Island which has been occupied by the Japanese Army in 1939. Tells the dramatic tale of how the trio captures a Japanese soldier, then delivers him and his rifle to the guerrillas. Unmarked with light wear and soiling. A quality copy of this charming vintage work. Book
96 pages with artist's calligraphy presented on the left page with English, French and Chinese translation on the right. Perfect condition. 8 3/8"w x 11 1/8"h.
With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americanized daughter. Book
Broch?. 323 pages. Rousseurs.
The Title 'Triton and Dragon written/authored/edited by Tan Chung', published in the year 2014. The ISBN 9788121212762 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 672 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History / China Studies. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-
8vo, hardcover in dj, 494pp. Recreating the journey of Carl Mannerheim, a Finnish envoy sent by the last Russian tsar to study China in 1906, the author presents insights into modern China and examines the tensions between the Communist government's need for control and the Western ideals of democracy and personal freedom.
8vo, br. ed. pp.232. Taking aim at the conventional narrative that standard, national languages transform 'peasants' into citizens, Gina Anne Tam centers the history of the Chinese nation and national identity on fangyan - languages like Shanghainese, Cantonese, and dozens of others that are categorically different from the Chinese national language, Mandarin. She traces how, on the one hand, linguists, policy-makers, bureaucrats and workaday educators framed fangyan as non-standard 'variants' of the Chinese language, subsidiary in symbolic importance to standard Mandarin. She simultaneously highlights, on the other hand, the folksong collectors, playwrights, hip-hop artists and popular protestors who argued that fangyan were more authentic and representative of China's national culture and its history. From the late Qing through the height of the Maoist period, these intertwined visions of the Chinese nation - one spoken in one voice, one spoken in many - interacted and shaped one another, and in the process, shaped the basis for national identity itself.
Broch?. 255 pages.
Bi-lingual texts in English and Japanese. Table of contents in English.159 + 155p.illus.maps. Book
in-8, 295 pp., broche, couverture illustree.- 9782259027779 Bel exemplaire. [TX-14]
intonso, primera edición.
pp.222.qian jing
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Oblong small 4to. (22 x 23 cm). In English, Turkish, and Chinese. 72 p. B/w photos. Xinjiang: Ancestral land.= Xinjiang. Ata yurdu. [Album of photographs].
Hardcover, 8vo, xiv+207pp, maps, tables, b/w plates, index.
8vo, br. ed. pp.281. The complete disappearance by the tenth century of the medieval Chinese aristocracy, the "great clans" that had dominated China for centuries, has long perplexed historians. In this book, Nicolas Tackett resolves the enigma of their disappearance by using new, digital methodologies to analyze a dazzling array of sources. He systematically exploits the thousands of funerary biographies excavated in recent decades--most of them never before examined by scholars--while taking full advantage of the explanatory power of Geographic Information System (GIS) and social network analysis. Tackett supplements these analyses with an extensive use of anecdotes culled from epitaphs, prose literature, and poetry, bringing to life the women and men of a millennium ago.The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy demonstrates that the great Tang aristocratic families were far more successful than previously believed in adapting to the social, economic, and institutional transformations of the seventh and eighth centuries. Their political influence collapsed only after a large proportion of them were physically eliminated during the three decades of extreme violence that followed Huang Chao's sack of the capital cities in 880 CE.
Very Good Swedish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Swedish with small abstract in German. 107-113 pp., 9 numerous b/w plates. En Sino-Iransk kopp.= Eine sino-iranische Tasse. [Separatum].
Very Good Russian Original bdg. HC. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Russian. 255 p. First edition of this Russian study of Uyghur phonetics, published in Soviet Kazakhstan. One of 1000 copies. OCLC 573788655, 20110335, 762538612.
8vo, br. ed. An innovative look at how families in Ming dynasty China negotiated military and political obligations to the state How did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families fulfilled their obligations to provide a soldier to the army. The complex strategies they developed to manage their responsibilities suggest a new interpretation of an important period in China’s history as well as a broader theory of politics. Using previously untapped sources, including lineage genealogies and internal family documents, Szonyi examines how soldiers and their families living on China’s southeast coast minimized the costs and maximized the benefits of meeting government demands for manpower. Families that had to provide a soldier for the army set up elaborate rules to ensure their obligation was fulfilled, and to provide incentives for the soldier not to desert his post. People in the system found ways to gain advantages for themselves and their families. For example, naval officers used the military’s protection to engage in the very piracy and smuggling they were supposed to suppress. Szonyi demonstrates through firsthand accounts how subjects of the Ming state operated in a space between defiance and compliance, and how paying attention to this middle ground can help us better understand not only Ming China but also other periods and places. Combining traditional scholarship with innovative fieldwork in the villages where descendants of Ming subjects still live, The Art of Being Governed illustrates the ways that arrangements between communities and the state hundreds of years ago have consequences and relevance for how we look at diverse cultures and societies, even today. From the Back Cover: "This astute and powerful blend of micro- and macrohistory pursued over the longue durée explores how resistance infuses apparent compliance. The magnifying lens of this book focuses on conscription throughout the Ming Dynasty, but the intellectual quarry is nothing less than the illumination of the strategic maneuvering between subject and state."--James C. Scott, Yale University "This is state-of-the-art Sinology: a work that combines the old-school erudition needed to sift through thousands of pages of documents and decipher obscure stele, with the ability to sit down and talk to people in a remote part of China, listen to their stories, and triangulate this oral history with the written record. Szonyi gives us not only an absorbing new take on Ming military history, but also a parable for how the Chinese have dealt with the state for centuries--through negotiation."--Ian Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Souls of China "In this pioneering book on military service during the Ming dynasty, Szonyi opens a window on life during imperial China, revealing a fascinating world where families creatively bent the government's rules in order to survive. This ground-up view of how the Chinese coped constitutes an enormously significant and relevant contribution to the field."--John Pomfret, author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom "The Art of Being Governed looks at the relationship between the military households of southeastern China and the Ming state, with an emphasis on how individuals negotiated their obligations to the government. With a brilliant use of sources, this illuminating book links the past to the present in creative ways and is one of the most sophisticated and vivid descriptions of social relations in late imperial China published in recent years."--Peter C. Perdue, Yale University "This ambitious book probes the ways in which military households engaged the state. Szonyi shows how people registered in these households used their status to take advantage of differing regulatory schemes in Ming China, and how these efforts shaped social relations, politics, and culture--in some cases even down to the present. Based on extensive fieldwork, primary sources, and engaging scholarship, this is a major contribution to the field."--Joe Dennis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vg/Vg (protective transparent wrapper over price clipped dj lightly rubbed at edges, clean green cloth with bright gilt titles on spine, internally no fault) octavo 281pp. First edition. Biography of Lobsang Thondup. Describes how the civil war in China was lost and won, what Tibet was really like in the twilight of its independence, and why India guards her Himalayan borders so jealously. Maps to endpapers, b/w photographs.
Vg/Vg (protective transparent wrapper over price clipped dj lightly rubbed at edges, clean green cloth with bright gilt titles on spine, internally no fault save for slight speckling top edge) octavo 281pp. First edition. Biography of Lobsang Thondup. Describes how the civil war in China was lost and won, what Tibet was really like in the twilight of its independence, and why India guards her Himalayan borders so jealously. Maps to endpapers, b/w photographs.
Vg/Vg (protective transparent wrapper over. not price clipped clean green cloth with bright gilt titles on spine, internally no fault) octavo 281pp. First edition. Biography of Lobsang Thondup. Describes how the civil war in China was lost and won, what Tibet was really like in the twilight of its independence, and why India guards her Himalayan borders so jealously. Maps to endpapers, b/w photographs.
