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Betterridge, Margaret: Royal Doulton Exhibition 1979
Book Number: 45260
Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney. 1979 8vo softcover 112pp very good. An exhibition of Doulton ceramics from the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney. October 17 to November 14, 1979. Illustrated throughout with descriptions in colour and b&w.
Keywords: Royal Doulton Exhibition 1979 Betterridge Margaret
Price: $25.00 |
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Becker, Jasper: The Chinese
Book Number: 46499
John Murray Publishers 2002 8vo softcover 464pp index, b/w illus. very good+. Becker has spent 20 years touring through China and meeting people in order to understand this vast and mysterious land. His vignettes on government types, shamans, and businessmen join to present a revealing look at China over time. The Chinese is a captivating and enlightening read for anyone interested in Asian or cultural studies.
Keywords: The Chinese Becker Jasper
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Laidler, Keith: The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China
Book Number: 47212
John Wiley & Sons November 2003 8vo softcover 256pp very good. In 1856 Emperor Hsien Feng turned over an ornately carved jade name-plaque next to his bedchamber, an action with which he brought a much-desired new concubine to his bed and unwittingly sealed the fate of the Manchu dynasty. A centuries-old prophecy had foretold that Manchu rule in China would be brought to ruin by a woman from the Yeho-Nala tribe; in the darkness of the bedchamber those words became reality. The Emperor was entranced with the young woman he had chosen, and from that time her power over him was ensured. Her name was Yehonala. Forced to enter the Forbidden City at the age of sixteen Yehonala lost her family, her betrothed and the life she had sought. She was entering a world of opulence, scholarship, intrigue and power struggles; a world that had remained for centuries untouched by the outside world or the passing of time, ruled by etiquette and tradition but with danger in every word or gesture. The beautiful young girl proved herself equal to all the court. She rose to be one of the greatest female autocrats in history, the most powerful person in China, maintaining her power with a mixture of seduction, intrigue, manipulation and even murder.
Keywords: The Last Empress The She Dragon of China Laidler Keith
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BEURDELEY, Michel, Kristofer SCHIPPER, Chang FU-JUI and Jacques PIMPANEAU: The Clouds And The Rain: The Art of Love in China
Book Number: 48716
Office du Livre, Fribourg Switzerland, 1969 Large 4to. hardcover. 210pp. b/w illus. tipped-in colour plates. Very good+. / Very good d/w.
Keywords: Art Love China sex
Price: $65.00 |
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Yutang, Lin: Lady Wu - A True Story
Book Number: 49870
William Heinemann 1957 8vo. Green cloth in price clipped d/w. Very good. Colour frontispiece. 245pp. I have written this biography of Lady Wu Tsertien rather than empress, as the study of a unique character combining criminality with high intelligence, whose ambitions reached truly maniac proportions, but whose methods were cool, precise and eminently insanity? The amazing success of Lady Wu in proceeding step by step to overthrow her husband’s royal house was possible because she possessed a keen, cool intelligence, combined with boundless ambition and audacity. If her acts were criminal, she always managed to legitimize them. There is no question of her astuteness and tact and daring. Lady Wu, as a woman, was anomaly. It is difficult to compare her with some other notable woman. she was mistress, usurper, empress, and – what is still more confusing – ‘female emperor’, I have here used the term Lady Wu, corresponding to the Chinese Wu she. She shattered more precedents, created more innovations and caused more upsets than any male schemer in history.
Keywords: Empress of china
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Lord, Bette Bao: Legacies - A Chinese Mosaic
Book Number: 50276
Knopf, New York 1990 8vo. hardcover. 245pp. Very good. / Very good d/w. Signed by author.
Keywords: china chinese history social communisim
Price: $18.00 |
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Xueqin, Cao: The Story of the Stone aka The Dream of the Red Chamber The Golden Days Volume 1
Book Number: 50368
Penguin Classics March 30, 1974 8vo softcover 544pp good. "The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of the story, The Golden Days, begins the tale of Bao-yu, a gentle young boy who prefers girls to Confucian studies, and his two cousins: Bao-chai, his parents' choice of a wife for him, and the ethereal beauty Dai-yu. Through the changing fortunes of the Jia family, this rich, magical work sets worldly events - love affairs, sibling rivalries, political intrigues, even murder - within the context of the Buddhist understanding that earthly existence is an illusion and karma determines the shape of our lives. Text: English, Chinese (translation)
Keywords: china chinese lit penguin classics classic east asia chinese kates library needs editor tom The Golden Days Xueqin Cao
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Xueqin, Cao: The Story of the Stone aka The Dream of the Red Chamber Vol. 3: The Warning Voice
Book Number: 50369
Penguin Classics January 29, 1981 8vo softcover 640pp good. "The Story of the Stone (c. 1760)", also known by the title of "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into five volumes, of which "The Warning Voice" is the third, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story which closely accords with the fortunes of the author's own family). The two main characters, Bao-yu and Dai-yu, are set against a rich tapestry of humour, realistic detail and delicate poetry, which accurately reflects the ritualized hurly-burly of Chinese family life. But over and above the novel hangs the constant reminder that there is another plane of existence - a theme which affirms the Buddhist belief in a supernatural scheme of things. About the Author Cao Xueqin (Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in) ca. 1715-1763 Cao is considered to be China's greatest novelist, but little is known of his life. An unconventional, versatile man, he came from an eminent and wealthy family which suffered a reversal of fortune in 1728 after the death of the Kangxi Emperor and a power struggle between his sons. Cao seems to have spent about ten years writing and revising his novel, from roughly 1740 to 1750, but the last 40 of the 120 chapters were completed by a different author, probably after his death. He also worked for a period of time in the Imperial Clan's school for the children of the nobility and bannermen, but eventually settled in the countryside west of Peking. He earned some money by selling his own paintings, but his family seems to have been perpetually in poverty.
Keywords: chinese lit chinese literature chinese culture chinese historical novel fiction china garden haiku world literature The Story of the Stone Vol 3 The Warning Voice Xueqin Cao
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Terrill, Ross: Madame Mao: The White-Boned Demon
Book Number: 50432
Hale & Iremonger Pty Ltd 8vo softcover 466pp very good.
Keywords: Madame Mao The White Boned Demon Terrill Ross
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Hutton, Will: The Writing on the Wall China and the West in 21st Century
Book Number: 53379
Little Brown, 2007. Large 8vo. softcover. 431pp. index. Very good.
Keywords: China West 21st Century
Price: $12.00 |
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