Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1992. Black and white illustrations, iv + 142pp, a prior owner's signature title page and occasional notations in red ink, otherwise very good in paperback. 24 x 20cm. Second issue including: Politics and Power in the Tokugawa Period; Shanghai Before Nationalism; 'The Luck of..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1995. Black and white illustrations, iv + 164pp, small quarto, paperback. Tenth issue including: The Ideal Monastery: Daoxuan's Description of the Central Indian Jetavan Vihara; Originating Instrumentally and the Chen Family; The Dorbed; Colonialism and Ethnic Nationalism in the Political Thought of Yanaihara Tadao;..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 2000. Black and white illustrations, iv + 180pp, small quarto, paperback. Nineteenth issue including: Lu Xun's Disturbing Greatness; The Early-Qing Discourse on Loyalty; The Dariyanya, the State of the Uriyanqai of the Altai, the Qasay and the Qamniyan; Edwardian Theatre and the Lost Shae..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1997. Black and white illustrations, iv + 157pp, small quarto, paperback. Double issue including: The Memoirs of H.A. Giles; The Date and Compilation of the Fengdao Kejie, the First Handbook of Monastic Daoism; The Mingyad, the Jaqacin, the Yoryud, the Qosud and the Caqar;..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1998. Black and white illustrations, iv + 158pp, small quarto, paperback. Double issue including: Stopping, Seeing and Language: an interpretation of Zhuangzi's Qi wulan; Temple Lamentation and Robe Burning - Gestures of Social Protest in Seventeenth-Century China; Meeting the Celestial Master; Tradition and Modernity..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1999. Black and white illustrations, iv + 192pp, small quarto, paperback. Double issue including: Whose Strange Stories? P'u Sing-ling (1640-1715), Herbert Giles (1845-1935) and the Liao-chai chih-yi; Nihonbashi: Edo's Contested Centre; Was Toregene Qatun Ogodei's "Sixth Empress"?; Photography and Portraiture in Nineteenth-Century China; Sapajou;..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1996. Black and white illustrations, iv + 158pp, tape mark upper cover, otherwise very good in paperback. 24 x 20cm. Twelth issue including: Tough Guys, Mateship and Honour: Another Chinese Tradition; Chinese Landscape Painting - The Golden Age; China in the Eyes of French..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1993. Black and white illustrations, iv + 182pp, small quarto, paperback. Fifth issue including: The Deer and the Cauldron - Two Chapters from a novel by Louis Cha; Selling Smiles in Canton: Prostitution in the Early Republic; The Formation of the Guomindang Youth Corps..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1994. Black and white illustrations, iv + 148pp, small quarto, paperback. Eighth issue including: Mid-Ch'ing New Tex (Chin-wen) Classical Learning and its Han Provenance: the Dynamics of a Tradition of Ideas; From Myth to Reality: Chinese Courtesans in Late-Qing Shanghai Christian Henriot; The End..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1994. Black and white illustrations, iv + 120pp, small quarto, paperback. Ninth issue including: Creating the Frontier: Border, Identity and History in Japan's Far North; The Search for Korea's Past: Japanese Colonial Archaeology in the Korean Peninsula (1905-1945); Korean Echoes in the No Play..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1995. Black and white illustrations, iv + 142pp, small quarto, paperback. Ninth issue including: A Common People's Literature: Popular Fiction and Social Change in Republican Shanghai; Seven Dialogues from the Zhuangzi; The Thin Horses of Yangzhou; Ku Hung-ming: Homecoming (2); West Meets East: Rewi..... More
Hong Kong: HKUP Hong Kong 2013, 2013. xviii + 348pp, index, paperback. Very good. This book investigates the use of humor in the public sphere and in personal life in China. The contributors cover modern and contemporary forms -- comic films and novels, cartooning, pop-songs, internet jokes, and humor in..... More
USA. Transaction Publishers. 2008. Black and white line illustrations, xix + 221pp, nptes and bibliography, glossary with script, index, paperback. This is the first of two volumes that elucidate the manner in which there emerged, on the North China plain, hierarchically structured, functionally specialized social institutions organized on a political..... More
