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461p.,frontis. Hardcover good condition
FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS - PEKING. 1967. In-8 Carré. Relié. Etat d'usage. Couv. convenable. Agraffes rouillées. Intérieur frais. 21 pages agrafées.2 PHOTOS DISPONIBLES . OUVRAGE EN ANGLAIS
FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS - PEKING. 1967. In-8 Carré. Relié. Etat d'usage. Couv. convenable. Agraffes rouillées. Intérieur frais. 36 pages agrafées.2 PHOTOS DISPONIBLES DONT LE SOMMAIRE OUVRAGE EN ANGLAIS
8vo, cloth in dj. ex-library. In the twenty-first century, China has emerged as the leading challenger to U.S. global dominance. China is often seen as a sleeping giant, emerging out of poverty, backwardness, and totalitarianism and moving toward modernization. However, history shows that this vast country is not newly awakening, but rather returning to its previous state of world eminence. With this compelling perspective in mind, D. E. Mungello convincingly shows that contemporary relations between China and the West are far more like the 1500-1800 period than the more recent past. This fully revised second edition retains the clear and concise qualities of its predecessor, while developing important new social and cultural themes such as gender, sexuality, music, and technology. Drawing from the author's thirty years of experience teaching world history, this book illustrates the importance of history to students and general readers trying to understand today's world. About the Author: D. E. Mungello is professor of history at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Ex-Library
Hard Cover, FIRST Edition, ISBN: 0316809039
Over 240 pages. Black and white illustrations. "Superbly written. Holds your interest from the moment you begin until you lay it down with reluctance." - Mrs. Billy Graham. Above-average wear and some waviness due to past moisture exposure. Worthy reference copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition, one page is dog-eared as the only blemish. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Incredible story of the wholesale butchery by the Japanese military invading the civilian occupied city of Nanking and the Nazi sympathizers who acted in a medical capacity to save large numbers of people.
8.1 x 5.4 x 1 inches 368 pages Used: Very Good with light wear on cover. Pages with light wear w ith no writings and no tear. Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Pri ze - winning novel of a China that was - - now in a Contemporary Cla ssics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained it s popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having alwa ys lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. This moving, clas sic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O - lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the swee ping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese peopl e during this century. Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck trace s the
4to, br. ed. Though history is usually written by the victors, the lack of a particularly strong writing tradition from the Mongols ensured that history was largely written by those who they vanquished. Because of this, their portrayal in the West and the Middle East has been extraordinarily (and in many ways unfairly) negative for centuries, at least until recent revisions to the historical record. The Mongols have long been depicted as wild horse-archers galloping out of the dawn to rape, pillage, murder and enslave, but the Mongol army was a highly sophisticated, minutely organized and incredibly adaptive and innovative institution, as witnessed by the fact that it was successful in conquering enemies who employed completely different weaponry and different styles of fighting, from Chinese armored infantry to Middle Eastern camel cavalry and Western knights and men-at-arms. Likewise, the infrastructure and administrative corps which governed the empire, though largely borrowed from the Chinese, was inventive, practical, and extraordinarily modern and efficient. This was no fly-by-night enterprise but a sophisticated, complex, and extremely well-oiled machine. While the Golden Horde technically refers to part of the Mongol Empire, today the Golden Horde is often used interchangeably with the Mongol forces as a whole. As such, the Golden Horde conjures vivid images of savage, barbarian horsemen riding across the steppes, an unstoppable force mindlessly slaughtering and burning. It is often imagined that they conquered by sheer brutality and terror, and that they epitomized everything that came from the east: uncivilized, brutal and undisciplined. This sensationalized image, impressed upon the West by Hollywood and by the perception of the "Yellow Peril" that has colored Western views toward Asia for a long time, began almost from the beginning. The Mongols treasured art and literature and protected religion, that of their subjects as well as their own, and trade, commerce, and cultural exchanges flourished under the Golden Horde and the other Mongol khanates, but that escaped the notice of their contemporaries. Giovanni de Plano Carpini, a papal envoy journeying through Russia on his way to the Khan of the Golden Horde, noted, "They [the Mongols] attacked Rus', where they made great havoc, destroying cities and fortresses and slaughtering men; and they laid siege to Kiev, the capital of Rus'; after they had besieged the city for a long time, they took it and put the inhabitants to death. When we were journeying through that land we came across countless skulls and bones of dead men lying about on the ground. Kiev had been a very large and thickly populated town, but now it has been reduced almost to nothing, for there are at the present time scarce two hundred houses there and the inhabitants are kept in complete slavery." What can't be disputed is that the Golden Horde directly affected Eastern Europe for nearly 250 years, and even after its rapid rise brought about a long, tortuous decline, it has continued to shape the destiny of that region. The Golden Horde: The History and Legacy of the Mongol Khanate examines the events that led to the rise of the khanate, what life was like there, and how the Mongols fought. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Golden Horde like never before.
303pp.+ plates out-of-text (of which 3 in colour) + folding map, hardback (editor's blue cloth, colour somewaht faded and few spots), without dustwrapper, Good, X77469
Ther Dayton Art Institute, 2003. Grand In-4 broché de 251 pages illustrées. Bon état.
4to, 123 pp. Ills. original gilt blue Boards.including a small record on the animal's sounds, almost mint copy of this very scarce.work .incudes a delightful pasted ex-libris of former owner, engraved in the early 1980s by reputed chiese artist. Hua Jungwu Table of contents; List of abbreviations; Introduction; First part: From the earliest Times to the Han dynasty, ca. 1500 to 202 B.C.; Second part: From the Han dynasty to the end of the T'ang period, 202 B.C. to 907 A.D.; Third part: Sung, Yuan and Ming dynasties, 960 to 1644 A.D.; Appendix: The Gibbon in Japan; Key to the Gibbons mentioned in the text and appearing in the plates; Map of China; Folio: Chinese texts; Index; Addenda and corrigenda. Approximately 95 B&W photos and illustrations of Gibbons, paintings, scrolls, designs, drawings, woodblock prints. . Pocket on inside of back cover containing a 45 rpm record of the "Morning calls of a Hylobates Agilis, female 3 1/2 years old". 123 pages. 12 by 8 3/4 inches.
Ex-library marks to title page only, no other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor traces of storage. 192pp. Classic work in a revised edition.
Medium octavo in color photo illus wraps; 118p. numerous full-page color photos. Excellent photos of pandas in captivity and in the wilds of China. Text in English.
316 pages including index. Provides a much-needed introduction to contemporary China and a much-needed survey of the last decade of administrative, demographic, economic and geopolitical development. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Minor warp to book due to improper storage. Binding intact. Good working copy. Book
8vo, 160 pages, illustrated, calligraphy by Kuo Mo-Jo. eng
22x22 cm, bross. ill; pp. 159, 20 tav. a col. e num. tav. in nero; Cat. Londra, sett. 1973 - genn. 1974
8vo, One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the world through a quarter century of bloody revolutions, civil conflict, and wars of resistance against Japanese aggression. In 1949, when he was defeated by Mao Zedong his archrival for leadership of China he fled to Taiwan, where he ruled for another twenty-five years. Playing a key role in the cold war with China, Chiang suppressed opposition with his white terror,controlled inflation and corruption, carried out land reform, and raised personal income, health, and educational levels on the island. Consciously or not, he set the stage for Taiwan's evolution of a Chinese model of democratic modernization. Drawing heavily on Chinese sources including Chiang's diaries, The Generalissimo provides the most lively, sweeping, and objective biography yet of a man whose length of uninterrupted, active engagement at the highest levels in the march of history is excelled by few, if any, in modern history. Jay Taylor shows a man who was exceedingly ruthless and temperamental but who was also courageous and conscientious in matters of state. Revealing fascinating aspects of Chiang?s life, Taylor provides penetrating insight into the dynamics of the past that lie behind the struggle for modernity of mainland China and its relationship with Taiwan. About the Author: Jay Taylor is a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.
8vo, original cloth , no dj, notes in the first blank page, ow. very good. XXIX/298 S./pp. First published in 1968, this volume of essays, posthumously edited by the author's brother Professor Chih-tsing Hsia (a prominent Columbia University professor of Chinese literature), focuses on Chinese literary criticism relating to the work of leftist Chinese writers, including Lu Hsun (Lu Xun), Chiang Kuang-tz'u, the "Five Martyrs," and Chu Ch'iu-po, who were sympathetic to the ideals of the pre-1949 Chinese communist party. As one of the few foundational texts to provide a critical overview of the aesthetics and politics of China's leftist literary movement, The Gate of Darkness examines the conflicting dilemmas between leftist authors' own ideals and the strict ideological frameworks imposed by the propaganda policies of the Chinese communist party in the early twentieth century.
An excellent copy in as-new condition with straight spine, clean covers with sharp corners, spotless text with no marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows very light shelfwear. Comprehensive reference to more than 400 ornamental plants grown in Chinese gardens, their history and their place in art, literature, symbolism and everyday life. Beautiful volume covering a wide variety of plants.
Paper Wrappers (pb). Very good condition. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 182 pages, illustrated with a frontisportrait
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8vo, br. ed. 230pp.
