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The Troubled Empire. China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties.

Timothy Brook

Paperback, 336 pages, 18 halftones, 7 maps, 3 tables, 235 x 155 mm

The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature.

Bender, Mark; Mair, Victor H.

Paperback, 800 pages, 235 x 155 mm

Unfilled Graves. Tragedy and heartbreak in the lives of Chinese women. Paperback

Ah Cheng

170 pages. 1995

Tales of Imperial China and Asia. Paperback

by S.Z. Ahmed

172 pages, including 4 pages with illustrations, with index. 1998

Manchus: Seeking Eternity. Paperback

By Ai Jun

40 pages with text and 32 pages with colour illustrations. 1995

Book of Songs. Paperback

edited by Joseph R. Allen. Translated by Arthur Waley

xxv, 388 pages. 1996

K'ung-Ts'ung-Tzu. The K'ung Family Masters' Anthology. Hardcover. (Kung Tsung-Tzu)

A Study and Translation of Chapters 1-10, 12-14

by Yoav Ariel

xi, 220 pages, with notes, glossary, bibliography and index. 1989

Hong Kong Rocks. Paperback

by M.J. Atherton and A.D. Burnett

146 pages, with ca. 100 colour illustrations, glossary, index, maps, bibliography. 1986

Outline History of China 1919-1949. Paperback

Bai Shouyi editor

319 pages. Cover little bit damaged, reduced price

Reform the People: Changing Attitudes towards Popular Education in Early 20th Century China. Paperback

by Paul Bailey

x, 296 pages, 26 tables, 2 figures. 1993

Flowering of a Foreign Faith. New Studies in Chinese Buddhist Art. Cloth. ca. 25x33 cm

edited by Janet Baker

148 pages, index, with many black-white and colour photographs, linedrawings

Mummies of Urumchi: Did Europeans Migrate to China 4,400 Years Ago? Paperback

by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

240 pages, maps and other text illustrations, 16 pages colour illustrations, bibliography, index. 2000. A look at the incredibly well-preserved ancient mummies found in Western China describes their clothing and appearance, attempts to reconstruct their culture, and speculates about how Caucasians could have found their way to the feet of the Himalayan mountains.

In Search of the Past: A Guide to the Antiquities of Hong Kong. Ca. 4o. Paperback

by Dr. Solomon Bard

114 pages with text and with photographs and illustrations of the architecture of Old Hong Kong, excluding 69 pages with maps and plans. 1988

Positions. East Asia Cultures Critique, no. 3-94: Special Issue: Modern Sex. Paperback

Tani E. Barlow, editor

243 pages, illustrated. Published by Duke University. Reduced price

In the Red. On Contemporary Chinese Culture. Paperback

by Geremie R. Barmé

xx, 512 pages, index, 15 pages illustrations. An investigation on what goes on behind the rhetoric of the official Chinese government and the dissident community, this text provides a perspective on mainstream Western perceptions of cultural developments, artistic freedom and popular lifestyles in China

Sources of Chinese Tradition. Volume 1: From Earliest Times to 1600. Paperback.

by Wm. Theodore de Bary. 998 pages. 2000. A collection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, this text provides a resource for scholars and students and an introduction for general readers.

Sources of Chinese Tradition. Volume 2: From 1600 through the Twentieth Century

by Theodore de Bary & Richard Lufrano. 636 pages. 2001

Confucianism and Human Rights. Paperback

Theodore de Bary & Tu Weiming

354 pages. 1999. In essays exploring the relationship of contemporary human rights doctrine to the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, this volume explores concepts of the individual in relation to community, state, and society

Sources of East Asian Tradition. Volume 1: Premodern Asia. Paperback

Edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary

936 pages, 2007. Volume 1 samples writings from the earliest times to 1600, illuminating life in early China and the first imperial age, as well as the profound impact of Daoism, Buddhism, the Confucian revival, and Neo-Confucianism; the origins of Korean culture and political structures, up through the Choson dynasty; and major developments in early and medieval Japan.

Sources of East Asian Tradition. Volume 2: The Modern Period. Paperback

Edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary

1192 pages, 2007. 

Abenteuer Seidenstraße, Auf den Spuren alter Karawanenwege. Gebunden, 28,5 cm.

Bruna Baumann

286 Seiten, 150 Farbfotos und Karten. 2001. 10 Jahre lang reiste Bruno Baumann auf den Spuren der alten Karawanenwege durch Zentralasien und China. Einmalige Fotos, ausführliche Karten sowie das profunde Wissen des Autors entführen Sie in die Welt der Seidenstraße zwischen Alexandria und Xian, in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.

Buddhist Literature in China. Cloth. 14x22cm

Samuel Beal

xvii, 185 pages, 5 plates, 4 and 5 are fold-outs. 1882. Published in India 1988

Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King. A Life of Buddha: Sacred Books of China, volume 19. Hardback

Written by Asvaghosha Bodhisattva,  translated from Sanskrit into Chinese by Dharmaraksha, A.D. 420, and from Chinese into English by Samuel Beal

380 pages, with notes and index

World of Buddhism: Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Society and Culture. Paperback

by Richard Gombrich, Etienne Lamotte and Heinz Bechert (Editor)

over 308 pages, 82 colour and 215 black-white photo's, maps, drawings. 1991, new edition

Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present

Bush and Asia: America's Evolving Relations with East Asia. Paperback

Edited by Mark Beeson. 288 pages. 2007

Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia: Politics, Security and Economic Development. Paperback

by Mark Beeson

336 pages. 2007. Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia" examines the distinctive character and evolution of political systems, economic structures, and security relationships of East Asia, a dynamic region that will profoundly influence global developments in the twenty-first century.

Private Hong Kong. Where East Meets West

by Sophie Benge, Photography by Fritz von der Schulenburg

216 pages, with an index and with numerous colour illustrations. 1997. Interior decoration: Explores the interior design style of the island of Hong Kong, and includes a visitor's guide to the city

Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism. Hardcover

by James A. Benn, Jacqueline Ilyse Stone

xiii, 360 pages. 2007. Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of “abandoning the body”(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context.

Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu. Hardcover

by Laurence Bergreen

415 pages, 24 plates. 2007. As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. In this masterly work, Marco Polo’s incredible odyssey is chronicled in sumptuous and illuminating detail.

Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Cloth. 22x31cm

158 pages, with 64 colour and 68 black-white illustrations, index. 1996

Women and Property in China, 960 - 1949. Cloth

by Kathryn Bernhardt

viii, 236 pages, tables, character list and index. 1999. Focusing on women's claims on inheritance rights, Bernhardt argues that while the consolidation in law of patrilineal succession in the Ming and Qing dynasties curtailed women's claims, the coming of the 20th century greatly strengthened women's rights to inherit property.

Women and Property in China, 960 - 1949. Paperback

by Kathryn Bernhardt

viii, 236 pages, tables, character list, index. A study that challenges the view that property inheritance in China in the Imperial and Republican periods remained relatively static.

History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film. Cloth

Michael Berry

432 pages, 100 illustrations. 2008. Michael Berry takes an innovative look at the representation of six specific historical traumas in modern Chinese history: the Musha Incident (1930); the Rape of Nanjing (1937-38); the February 28 Incident (1947); the Cultural Revolution (1966-76); Tiananmen Square (1989); and the Handover of Hong Kong (1997).

Photograph. Paperback

By Bing Xin

370 pages (poetry and fiction)

Scenes for Mandarins. The Elite Theater of the Ming. Hardcover

by Cyril Birch

262 pages, with 9 illustrations, notes, suggested readings. 1995. Describes the rise and development of Ming theater, the height of classical Chinese theater, developed between 1368 and 1644. Translated highlights from six representational plays of the period are set in historical and cultural context, and fictionalized reenactments show how the plays might have been staged

Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960 - 1368) Cloth

by Bettine Birge

345 pages, 5 maps, 6 figures, 6 tables, chronology of Chinese dynasties, conclusion, bibliography, glossary-index. 2002. This book argues that the Mongol invasion of the thirteenth century precipitated a transformation of marriage and property law in China that deprived women of their property rights and reduced their legal and economic autonomy.

Philosophy of Tai Chi Chuan: Wisdom from Confucius, Lao Tzu, & Other Great Thinkers. Hardcover

by Freya and Martin Boedicker. xvi, 98 pages, glossay. 2009

Ancestors and Anxiety: Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China. Hardcover
by Stephen R. Bokenkamp

xi, 220 pages. 2007. One of the most important periods in the history of Chinese religion, the third through sixth centuries C.E., when social and political changes were matched by innovation and an outpouring of textual production in Daoism and Buddhism

Ancestors and Anxiety: Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China. Paperback
by Stephen R. Bokenkamp

xi, 220 pages. 2009. One of the most important periods in the history of Chinese religion, the third through sixth centuries C.E., when social and political changes were matched by innovation and an outpouring of textual production in Daoism and Buddhism

Neo-Confucianism in History. Hardcover

Peter K. Bol

450 pages. 1 halftone; 2 maps. 2008. Where does Neo-Confucianism, a movement that from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries profoundly influenced the way people understood the world and responded to it, fit into our story of China’s history?

Witness Against History. Literature, Film, and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China. Paperback

Yomi Braester. 288 pages, 3 illustrations. 2003. It offers fresh readings of milestones in twentieth-century Chinese literature and cinema. The book reveals how these texts and films, which seem to proclaim faith in modernity, nevertheless doubt the possibility of changing the course of history.

Taxation in Modern China. Paperback

Edited by Donald J.S. Brean

320 pages, index. 1998. This text explores the tax and public finance issues arising from China's economic transition. The contributors, authorities on public finance, transitional economics and policy reform in China, direct attention to a comprehensive fiscal reform program

Women’s Working Lives in East Asia. Paperback

Edited by Mary C. Brinton

400 pages. 2001. This volume examines the nature of married women’s participation in the economies of three East Asian countries, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.

Ledgers of Merit and Demerit. Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China. Hardcover

Cynthia J. Brokaw

x, 287 pages, with glossary, bibliography and index. 1991

Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius and his Successors. Paperback

E. Bruce Brooks

356 pages. 2001. The Analects, the 497 sayings of Confucius's conversations and activities, compiled by disciples and their disciples, are examined in this text in the context of their historical, cultural and intellectual setting.

Marco Polo: The Incredible Journey. Hardcover
by Robin Brown

viii, 230 pages. 2005. All who now enjoy the fruits of Marco Polo's incredible journey through Asia will find in Robin Brown-Lowe's book a fascinating portrait of a man who made history happen by bringing about the meeting of East and West.

Chinese Femininities, Chinese Masculinities. A reader. Paperback

edited by Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

xiv, 460 pages. 2002. At the level of everyday life, some significant transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. This is a historical and ethnographic study of gender from the 1700s to the present

Politics, Economy and Society in Contemporary China. Paperback

by Bill Brugger and Stephen Reglar

vii, 367 pages, bibliography and index. 1994