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Octavo, original cloth xvi, 248 pages plus 121 plates, a folding facsimile document and a folding colour map. Original black Cloth ; a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. "In August, 1933, was commissioned by the Central Government in Nanking to conduct an expedition to Sinkiang in order to mark out two motor roads between China proper and that remote province. the story of the bloody war which made a desert of Sinkiang from 1931 to 1934"
in-12, 188 p., cartonnage éd. sous jaquette illustrée. Bel exemplaire. [FL-4]
8vo, br. ed. 219pp. Much is known of life during the Han Empire, but the historical evidence remains fragmentary, and nowhere do we find a continuous account of the life of any one individual. In this engaging volume, Michael Loewe mines the written and material records to depict the imagined life of an ordinary person, Bing Wu, from the hardships of his earliest years on a rural farm to his retirement from a respected position in government service. Underlying the tale of Bing is a richly detailed portrait of life during the Han--the arduous tasks of the conscript laborer; military service on the defense lines of the north; the travels of a merchant; the grueling conditions in an iron foundry; the construction of tombs; preparations for entering the civil service; the duties of a junior clerk and the governing of a commandery. Along the way, we are introduced to the operation of a crossbow; methods of telling time; the practice of writing; the rituals of divination; the ceremony of a state occasion, laws and the harsh consequences of breaking them; the workings of the central government and much more. Included are a concise introduction, explanatory endnotes to each chapter, a selection of illustrations, a map of the Han Empire, notes for further reading and an essay by Loewe entitled, A Brief History of the Han Empire
Paris, College de France, Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, 1979, in-8, br. editoriale, pp. [12], 118, 45, [1]. Mémoires de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises.
8vo, br. ed. Summary: In 221 BCE the state of Qin vanquished its rivals and established the first empire on Chinese soil, starting a millennium-long imperial age in Chinese history. Hailed by some and maligned by many, Qin has long been an enigma. In this pathbreaking study, the authors integrate textual sources with newly available archeological and paleographic materials, providing a boldly novel picture of Qin's cultural and political trajectory, its evolving institutions and its religion, its place in China's history, and the reasons for its success and for its ultimate collapse.
230 pages including index plus black and white photographic plates. Subject (1873-1960) had two great careers, first as a missionary in China, and then as a collector and curator of one of the world's greatest museum collections of Chinese archeology. Recounts the history of a rich life that bridged two diverse cultures. Book unmarked, clean and square with minimal wear. Small tear and moderate edgewear to dust jacket. Book
348pp. + 114 ills. and 1 map out-of-text, 24cm., 8th ed., text printed in Gothic German, stamp, cart.cover (spine in cloth), VG, X69122
8vo, br. ed. {Size: 14.34 x 22.59 cms} Lang: - English, Pages 336, Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2013 with the help of original edition published long back [1885]. This book is Printed in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents.
8vo, br. ed. China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. As a result, older people in rural areas have experienced in their lifetimes both extreme deprivation and relative abundance of food. Young people, on the other hand, have a different relationship to food. Many young rural Chinese are migrating to rapidly industrializing cities for work, leaving behind backbreaking labor but also a connection to food through agriculture. Bitter and Sweet examines the role of food in one rural Chinese community as it has shaped everyday lives over the course of several tumultuous decades. In her superb ethnographic accounts, Ellen Oxfeld compels us to reexamine some of the dominant frameworks that have permeated recent scholarship on contemporary China and that describe increasing dislocation and individualism and a lack of moral centeredness. By using food as a lens, she shows a more complex picture, where connectedness and sense of place continue to play an important role, even in the context of rapid change. ISBN: 9780520293526
This is a fine hardcover copy with a near fine dust jacket. The jacket has just faint toning around the top edge. Completely clean. Long considered an indispensable classic on Chinese Blanc de Chine. 6 color plates + 160 black & white plates illustrate over 500 pieces of porcelain. Scarce in any condition, this is the nicest copy we have ever had. 10" high X 6" wide, 407 text pages + plates. Many black & white drawings in the text. Pages of maker marks. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
Broché. 274 pages. Rousseurs.
Signed by author upon title page. 224 pages. Recounts the fourteen years spent by the author as a refugee in Shanghai after she and her German Jewish family fled Europe in 1939. In later years she became a popular book dealer in Canada. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
"Hannelore 's story begins in Berlin on the night of November 9, 1938 .. Kristallnacht ... ..her German-Jewish family fled for a safe haven from the terrot of the Nazis and the impendign Holocaust. Their destination : the port city of Shanghai ... by 1951 Shanghai had become politically dangerous under the Communists .., and her family were forced to leave ... It is the story of a young girl during a time imposed by war, politics and desperation" Memoir of noted St. Catherine's bookseller, her father was a famous Montreal bookseller, Heinz Heinemann. 224p. illus Signed on title page Book
371pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
128 pages. Short Stories: The Curse of the North, Some Women are Nicer, Honor Among Thieves, The Man Who Tipped the Croupiers, Element of Chance, Guns aren't for Gentlemen, The Battlefield of Mind, Suicide Drive. Novelettes: The Coming of the Little People, I was the Target. Articles: The Big Noise, Stocks - America's Fastest Growing Sport, Never Call Him a Shamus, Words Women and Wars, The Wreck of the Old 97. Complete Book-Length Novel - China Coaster - Murder and gold among the Chinese Pirates. And more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
First edition. 8vo, 194pp; ivory boards with black cloth spine stamped in metallic red; photographic dust jacket in beige tones with author and title in red, black and yellow. Fine. The writer's first book and first novel. Ms. Ng was named by Granta as one of its 20 best young American writers. 500 GREAT BOOKS BY WOMEN, pp. 75-76. ISBN: 1562829440
27,5 x 21 cm. 91S. Original Karton mit Rücken- und Deckeltitel. Sehr guter, neuwertiger Zustand. Mit zahlreichen Texten und Abbildungen nach Linolschnitten von Johannes Grützke und Christoph Haupt.
Seuil, 2003. In-12 relié cartonnage éditeur de 255 pages illustrées. Très bon état
pp. 13, 78 + Illustrations. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original priced dust jacket. Hardbound. PA 40 x2
8vo, hardcover. 304pp. n the 1980s, as China transitioned to the post-Mao era, a state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national histories. They took the form of written and transcribed personal testimonies of events that preceded the turmoil of both the Cultural Revolution and, in many cases, the Communist victory in 1949. Known as wenshi ziliao, these publications represent an intense process of historical memory production that has received little scholarly attention. Hitherto unexamined archival materials and oral histories reveal unresolved tensions in post-Cultural Revolution reconciliation and mobilization, informing negotiations between local elites and the state, and between Party and non-Party organizations. Taking the northeast Russia–Manchuria borderlands as a case study, Martin T. Fromm examines the creation of post-Mao identities, political mobilization, and knowledge production in China.
IN 4. BR [BE]. 108 PP. ENV 200 ILL DONT QQS EN COULEURS. [BE]
IN 4 CARRE. BR [BE]. ENV 70 PP. 103 ILL EN NOIR. [BE]
