Calcutta. Oxford, 1990. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 276pp, notes, index, paperback, 27.5 x 21.5cm, very good copy. This first volume (of 2) includes 35 articles and some shorter pieces on Calcutta. The chapters include Printing and the Spirit of Calcutta - Nikhil Sarkar; The Jews of Calcutta -..... More
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[Beijing]. 地图戰報.[Di tu zhan bao]. 1967. Chinese Cultural Revolution maps in colour, single sheet printed on both sides, folded, scale not given. Features a photographic portrait of Mao Zedong upper left corner. Includes a street map of central Beijing and an inset map of Beijing with parts of Hebei Province..... More
London. Robert Hale Limited. 1958. Black and white photographic plates, 190pp, appendix, glossary, index, dustjacket worn along extremities, a good hardback copy. Eye-witness account of life in Peking in the period 1950 - 1953 where the author lived while accompanying her British foreign service husband. Peter Lum brings to the..... More
Chichester. John Wiley. 2003. Maps, black and white photographic plates, xxvi + 290pp, index, bibliography, timeline, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "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..... More
Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 2002. Black and white illustrations, 424pp, index, very good copy in dustjacket. The sacred landscape of imperial China was dotted with Buddhist monasteries, Daoist temples, shrines to local deities, and the altars of the mandarinate. Prominent among the official shrines were the temples in every capital..... More
Washington D.C. Potomac Books. 2011. xi + 198pp, index, notes, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. When Peter J. Vernezze took a leave of absence from his position as a philosophy professor to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer in China, he supplemented his main task - teaching English -..... More
London. Routledge. 2001. xvi + 291, index, very good hardback copy. Modern reprint of Trubner's Oriental Series. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 167032). More
Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1957. Second impression. ix + 293pp, index, bibliography, hardback with dustjacket, dustjacket, covers a little marked, stamped "Kirk Hall" on edges, otherwise a very good copy. A study of the development of Chinese thought. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 166866). More
Cambridge. Cambridge University. 1997. Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions series. 302pp, index, bibliography, glossary, little wear extremities, good paperback copy. In this book, Julia Ching offers a magisterial survey of over four thousand years of Chinese civilisation through an examination of the relationship between kingship and mysticism. She investigates the..... More
Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 2000. Paperback edition. 196pp, index, works cited, notes, very good paperback copy. "'Asian Values' is a concept advanced by some authoritarian regimes to differentiate an Asian model of development, supposedly based on Confucianism, from a Western model identified with individualism, liberal democracy, and human rights. Highlighting..... More
Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1979. Second printing. xx + 298pp, index, bibliography, glossary, notes, very good hardback copy despite slightly faded spine. 'In a serious effort to divine the secret of the West's success in achieving wealth and power, Yen Fu, a Chinese thinker, undertook, at the turn of the..... More
Beijing: China Intercontinental Press. 2014. Photographic coloured illustrations, 224pp, appendix, very good paperback copy. 21.5 x 20.5cm. "This book introduces Chinese philosophy along the line of topics instead of the line of history. The book has five topics, including: what is the nature of the world; what are the relationships..... More
[c1910.]. An original hand painted cartoon, signed "Cynicus" Colour illustration laid on stiffened card. Blind-stamped "Hand Painted Copyright" at lower left corner. It depicts a young man burning a candle at both ends and an older man protecting a low flame in candle holder and titled: 'Youth & Age' Overall..... More
[c1910.]. An original hand painted cartoon, signed "Cynicus" Colour illustration laid on stiffened card. Blind-stamped "Hand Painted Copyright" at lower left corner. It depicts a short, ill-looking monarch dressed in finery attended by two footmen who are much taller and much better looking and titled: 'Hereditary Greatness' Overall size approx..... More
[c1910.]. An original hand painted cartoon, signed "Cynicus" Colour illustration laid on stiffened card. Blind-stamped "Hand Painted Copyright" at lower left corner. It depicts a man drinking a large tipple of alcohol on Saturday and it being replaced on Sunday by a book of hymns and titled: 'Saturday. Sunday.' Overall..... More
[c1910.]. An original hand painted cartoon, signed "Cynicus" Colour illustration laid on stiffened card. Blind-stamped "Hand Painted Copyright" at lower left corner. It depicts a very young pretty duchess looking mischievously over her shoulder as the Duke (a stooped, po-faced man) ungracefully escorts her and titled: 'Marriage a la mode..... More
[c1910.]. An original hand painted cartoon, signed 'Cynicus'. Colour illustration laid on stiffened card. Blind-stamped "Hand Painted Copyright" at lower left corner. This print titled 'The murmur of the shell' depicts pacific islanders gathered around a smoking cannonball in curiosity, poking at it with a stick. Overall size approx. 23..... More
[c1910.]. An original hand painted cartoon, signed 'Cynicus'. Colour illustration laid on stiffened card. Blind-stamped "Hand Painted Copyright" at lower left corner. This print titled 'Brothers of the Brush' depicts an artist (which may be Cynicus himself) grumpily holding a book of sketches whilst a shoe boy and a boy..... More
[c1910.]. An original hand painted cartoon, signed 'Cynicus'. Colour illustration laid on stiffened card. Blind-stamped "Hand Painted Copyright" at lower left corner. A continuation from the separate print 'Interposition' which depicts a exasperated mother holding two young boys apart who have clearly gotten into a rough scrap. 'In Disgrace' shows..... More
[c1910.]. An original hand painted cartoon, signed 'Cynicus'. Colour illustration laid on stiffened card. Blind-stamped "Hand Painted Copyright" at lower left corner. It depicts a exasperated mother holding two young boys apart who have clearly gotten into a rough scrap titled: "Interposition" Overall size approx. 23 x 29.5cm, image size..... More
[c1910.]. An original hand painted cartoon, signed 'Cynicus'. Colour illustration laid on stiffened card. Blind-stamped "Hand Painted Copyright" at lower left corner. It depicts a young boy in a Scottish bunnet with a nagging tooth ache standing in front of a dentist's titled: "Hope deferred" Overall size approx. 23 x...... More
New York. Rubin Museum of Art. 2010. Maps, colour and black and white photographic illustration, xxiii + 239pp, notes, bibliography, index, hardback, dustjacket, 30.3 x 25.5cm, veru good copy. This book was published in conjunction with an exhibition at Rubin Museum of Art in New York held between 2010 and..... More
[c1910.]. An original hand painted cartoon, signed "Cynicus" Colour illustration laid on stiffened card. Blind-stamped "Hand Painted Copyright" at lower left corner. It depicts a red-faced Scottish man being grabbed at by his angry wife holding a menacing instrument and titled: "The Warrior bowed his crested head". Overall size approx..... More
New York. Paragon Books. 1969. 316pp, sticker damage front pastedown, light scrape upper cover, otherwise a very good hardback copy. First published in Shanghai in the 1930s this book covers many aspects of China and the Chinese including the Chinese woman, past and present, religion and philosophy, painting and calligraphy..... More
New York. Scribner's. 1947. xii + 186pp, index, lightly browned throughout, original orange cloth little worn at corners, worn dustjacket, good hardback copy. Chapters include: Christianity and Chinese Culture; Confucianism in History; The Development of Confucian Moral Philosophy; Buddhism and its Cultural Effects in China; The Taoist Religion and the..... More
