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276 pages including index. Describes the domestic sources of conflict and change which influenced China's response to the coming of the West. Minimal quantity of light pencil markings. Bright clean copy with very light wear. Book
8vo, br. ed.
Features: The Black Caiman of Zancudo Cocha; Solo in the Arctic; Explorations Among the Stars; In Search of Hypercharge - A Matter of Some Gravity; Huautla; Yamantaka - Tibet's Yak-headed Deity; Soko Islands, South China Sea. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Once around Lesotho; 1990 Cueva de Aqua Carlota Expedition; Early Lamellar Body Armor in China and Tibet; The Way to Shangri-La in the Alps; The Ria Deseado - a Mosaic of Marine Life. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
8vo, hardcover, 388pp. Chinese storytelling has survived through more than a millennium into our own time, while similar oral arts have fallen into oblivion in the West. Under the main heading of 'The Eternal Storyteller', in August 1996 the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies hosted an International Workshop on Oral Literature in Modern China. To this meeting, the first of its kind in Europe, five special guests were invited - master tellers from Yangzhou: Wang Xizotang, Li Xintang, Fei Zhengliang, Dai Buzhang and Hui Zhaolong. The volume derived from this meeting includes an introductory article written by John Miles Foley entitled 'A Comparative View on Oral Traditions'. Thereafter, a wide range of topics relating to Chinese oral literature is covered under the headings: 'Historical Lines', 'A Spectrium of Genres', 'Studies of Yangzhou and Suzhou Story- telling' and 'Performances of Yangzhou Storytelling'. However, the present volume does more than include papers derived from the meeting. It is also lavishly illustrated in word and picture from performances by the guest-storytellers. In so doing, the world of Chinese story telling is not just described and analysed - it is also brought to life.
4to, hardcover in dj. Feasting was an important social and ritual activity in China beginning in the Bronze Age, and cuisine retains a strong cultural significance to this day. This book focuses on feasting in the 10th through 14th centuries, examining Chinese paintings of feasts from the Song (960–1279), Liao (907–1125), and Yuan (1279–1368) dynasties. Feast images, more so than works from any other painting genre, depict scenes from the past, the present, and the afterlife alike. More specifically, as author Zoe S. Kwok explains in the book’s insightful text, they portray a continuum between life and what lies beyond it; this volume is the first to make such a connection. Full-color plates highlight a rare group of paintings as well as complementary ceramic, metal, stone, and textile objects, and the nearly fifty individual catalogue entries touch on diverse topics—not only food and drink but dance, music, costume, burial practices, artistic patronage, and more.
Two volumes. Paginated consecutively. Quarto. Pp. 296; 297-633. Includes Addend & Corrigenda section. Set in double columns. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary three quarter cloth, spines lettered and individually numbered in gilt, cloth inner hinges; paper on boards bit creased in places, minor marking in red pencil on a page or two. In a very good condition, very clean interior. ~ First edition. With the handsome armorial bookplate of Alten Hofer inside cover of first volume and old signature on half-title.
Taipei, Ch'en-Wen Publishing Company, 1973, in-4, legatura editoriale in piena tela con titolo in oro al dorso, pp. VIII, 633, [3]. Ristampa dell'edizione: Shanghai, Kelly and Walsh, 1917.
Black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 90pp, glossary, elegant bookplate tipped in front free endpaper, good copy in dustjacket
8vo pp.461, cloth, as new.
8vo vii + 127pp, bibliography, wrappers trifle soiled. Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies No.43. "An interim research report, a summary and preliminary analysis of findings based on a larger study" which was not completed, and published here are the materials which are referred to in the above-mentioned article. (Author's preface).
Wrappers ( Paperback ). VG Condition. First Edition
8vo, pp.321. In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia. The Qin and Han constitute the 'classical period' of Chinese history - a role played by the Greeks and Romans in the West. Mark Edward Lewis highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity of people. He traces the drastic measures taken to transcend, without eliminating, these regional differences: the invention of the emperor as the divine embodiment of the state; the establishment of a common script for communication and a state-sponsored canon for the propagation of Confucian ideals; the flourishing of the great families, whose domination of local society rested on wealth, landholding, and elaborate kinship structures; the demilitarization of the interior; and the impact of non-Chinese warrior-nomads in setting the boundaries of an emerging Chinese identity. The first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, "The Early Chinese Empires" illuminates many formative events in China's long history of imperialism - events whose residual influence can still be discerned today.
8vo. original cloth hardcover, some faint notes in pencil, ow. as new, but no dj. xxii-306pp.
8vo, br. ed. pp.400. Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives on imperial state formation prior to the European colonial expansion. The world's first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained imperial growth, bringing a growing share of humanity under the control of ever-fewer states. Two thousand years ago, just four major powers-the Roman, Parthian, Kushan, and Han empires-ruled perhaps two-thirds of the earth's entire population. Yet despite empires' prominence in the early history of civilization, there have been surprisingly few attempts to study the dynamics of ancient empires in the western Old World comparatively. Such grand comparisons were popular in the eighteenth century, but scholars then had only Greek and Latin literature and the Hebrew Bible as evidence, and necessarily framed the problem in different, more limited, terms. Near Eastern texts, and knowledge of their languages, only appeared in large amounts in the later nineteenth century. Neither Karl Marx nor Max Weber could make much use of this material, and not until the 1920s were there enough archaeological data to make syntheses of early European and west Asian history possible. But one consequence of the increase in empirical knowledge was that twentieth-century scholars generally defined the disciplinary and geographical boundaries of their specialties more narrowly than their Enlightenment predecessors had done, shying away from large questions and cross-cultural comparisons. As a result, Greek and Roman empires have largely been studied in isolation from those of the Near East. This volume is designed to address these deficits and encourage dialogue across disciplinary boundaries by examining the fundamental features of the successive and partly overlapping imperial states that dominated much of the Near East and the Mediterranean in the first millennia BCE and CE. A substantial introductory discussion of recent thought on the mechanisms of imperial state formation prefaces the five newly commissioned case studies of the Neo-Assyrian, Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Roman, and Byzantine empires. A final chapter draws on the findings of evolutionary psychology to improve our understanding of ultimate causation in imperial predation and exploitation in a wide range of historical systems from all over the globe. Contributors include John Haldon, Jack Goldstone, Peter Bedford, Josef Wiesehofer, Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel, and Keith Hopkins, whose essay on Roman political economy was completed just before his death in 2004.
8.5" x 5.5".illustrations and Folded map of Changan During the Tang Dynasty 100 pages.
Black & White Photography and Drawings Illustrated.
142 pages. Seven pages of sepia-tone photos of the band. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and guitar chords for these songs, several of which have gone on to become classics: Busted Down Around O'Connelly Corners; The Captain and Me; China Grove; Clear as the Driven Snow; Cotton Mouth; Dark Eyed Cajun Woman; Disciple; Don't Start Me Talkin'; Evil Woman; Jesus Is Just Alright; Listen to the Music; Long Train Runnin'; Mamaloi; Natural Thing; Rockin' Down The Highway; Snake Man; South City Midnight Lady; Toulouse Street; Ukiah; White Sun; Without You. Small doodle inside front cover and store stamp upon title page, otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Above-average but not excessive external wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful Doobie Brothers compilation, graced by one of the best album cover photos of all time - band in tophats aboard stagecoach beneath highway to nowhere. Book
Black cloth covers have sharp corners with lower back worn. A little fading at upper and lower spine edge, otherwise very clean with gilt lettering on spine. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 255 pages with lavish illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket is tattered at top spine, is price clipped, has edge wear, chipping at hinge edges; no tears greater than 1/2". The story behind the creation of the monumental feminist scuplture The Dinner Party, a project which took years to complete. Illustrated with many full color plates and black and white photographs showing the construction of the component pieces, which included 39 ceramic place settings, embroidered runners and a heritage floor honoring 999 women of achievement (includes brief biographies of all these women). Design by Sheila de Bretteville. Index. Large format. Publisher's page marked "Anchor Press Edition 1979" and "First Editions" Dust jacket wrapped in protective archival cover.
Black cloth covers have sharp corners, fading at lower spine, a llittel along the bottom edge. Very light scuffing to boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 255 pages with lavish illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket is tattered at top edge with numerous open tears, none larger than an inch. Jacket at lower spine is chipped away at hinges, general chipping and wear, not price clipped. The story behind the creation of the monumental feminist scuplture The Dinner Party, a project which took years to complete. Illustrated with many full color plates and black and white photographs showing the construction of the component pieces, which included 39 ceramic place settings, embroidered runners and a heritage floor honoring 999 women of achievement (includes brief biographies of all these women). Design by Sheila de Bretteville. Index. Large format. Publisher's page marked "Anchor Press Edition 1979" and "First Editions" Dust jacket wrapped in protective archival cover.
Hardback,as new,no dust jacket,132pages.,
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.
First American edition.. 8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xv, 373 pp, frontis, numerous other illus from photos, endpaper maps with route in red, appendix on details of route, index. orig cloth, very good clean copy owner's signature on free fep.. An account of author's 1926 and 1927 travels on a 1,600 mile route, the Jao Lu, following the caravan trails through Mongolia from China to Chinese Turkestan.
