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Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Fundamentals of Chinese Acupuncture 
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  • Fundamentals of Chinese Acupuncture. The Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Paperback
  • 306 pages, with about 132 figures and index
  • Printed in India, 1988
  • original title "an Outline  of Chinese Acupuncture"


Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Ah Cheng: Unfilled Graves. Tragedy and heartbreak in the lives of Chinese women. Paperback 
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  • Unfilled Graves. Tragedy and heartbreak in the lives of Chinese women. Paperback
  • Ah Cheng
  • 170 pages. 1995


0835131459
Ahmed: Tales of Imperial China and Asia. Paperback 
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  • Tales of Imperial China and Asia. Paperback
  • by S.Z. Ahmed
  • 172 pages, including 4 pages with illustrations, with index. 1998


1575026414
Ai Jun: The Manchus. Seeking Eternity. Paperback 
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  • Manchus: Seeking Eternity. Paperback
  • By Ai Jun
  • 40 pages with text and 32 pages with colour illustrations. 1995


754150906x
Albrecht: Auf dem langen Marsch. Taschenbuch 
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  • Auf dem langen Marsch. Taschenbuch
  • Dietmar Albrecht und Dirk Betke
  • 1934/35. Die Wende in der chinesischen Revolution, von Teilnehmern erzählt, in einer Auswahl von Dietmar Albrecht und Dirk Betke
  • 160 Seiten, illustriert. 1976


3803120071
Ariel: K'ung-Ts'ung-Tzu. The K'ung Family Masters' Anthology. Hardcover. (Kung Tsung-Tzu) 
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  • 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


0691067708
Atherton: Hong Kong Rocks. Paperback 
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  • Hong Kong Rocks. Paperback
  • by M.J. Atherton and A.D. Burnett
  • 146 pages, with ca. 100 colour illustrations, glossary, index, maps, bibliography. 1986


30326UC
Bai Shouyi: An Outline History of China 1919-1949. Paperback 
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  • Outline History of China 1919-1949. Paperback
  • Bai Shouyi editor
  • 319 pages. Cover little bit damaged, reduced price. No better one available


7119014996
Bai Zhi: Flower and Bird Painting. Technique of Chinese Painting. Paperback 
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  • Flower-and-Bird Painting. Technique of Chinese Painting. Paperback
  • by Bai Zhi, translated by Huang Zhenhua
  • 83 pages, with a glossary, and 84 text figures in colour or black-white. 1986


962238059x
Bailey: Reform the People: Changing Attitudes towards Popular Education in Early 20th Century China. Paperback 
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  • Reform the People: Changing Attitudes towards Popular Education in Early 20th Century China. Paperback
  • by Paul Bailey
  • x, 296 pages, with 26 tables, 2 figures. 1993


074860281x
Baker: The Flowering of a Foreign Faith. New Studies in Chinese Buddhist Art. Cloth 
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  • 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


8185026424
Barber: The Mummies of Ürümchi: Did Europeans Migrate to China 4,4000 Years Ago? Paperback 
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  • Mummies of Urumchi: Did Europeans Migrate to China 4,4000 Years Ago? Paperback
  • by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
  • 240 pages with text, maps and other text illustrations, 16 pages with colour illustrations, bibliography and 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.


9780393320190

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Bard: In Search of the Past: A Guide to the Antiquities of Hong Kong. Paperback 
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  • 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


30329UC
Barlow: Positions. East Asia Cultures Critique, no. 3-94: Special Issue Modern Sex. Paperback 
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  • 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


0822364247
Barmé: In the Red. On Contemporary Chinese Culture. Paperback 
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  • In the Red. On Contemporary Chinese Culture. Paperback
  • by Geremie R. Barmé
  • xx, 512 pages, with glossary, index, 15 pages with 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


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Barnhart: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. Paperback 
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  • Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. Paperback
  • by Richard M. Barnhart (Editor) / Chongzheng, Nie / Shaojun, Lang / Barnhart, Richard M. / Cahill, James / Hung, Wu
  • 402 pages, with many colour and black and white-illustrations. Drawing on museum collections and archaeological sites in China, many previously closed to Westerners, a group of distinguished scholars chronicles the development of Chinese painting over three millennia and presents three hundred examples reproduced in color


0300094477-2440
Bary, de 1: Sources of Chinese Tradition. Volume 1: From Earliest Times to 1600. Paperback 
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  • 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.


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Bary, de 2: Lufrano: Sources of Chinese Tradition. Volume 2: From 1600 through the Twentieth Century. Paperback 
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  • Sources of Chinese Tradition. Volume 2: From 1600 through the Twentieth Century
  • by Theodore de Bary & Richard Lufrano
  • 636 pages. 2001


9780231112710, 0231112718-1830
Bary, de: Approaches to the Asian Classics. Cloth 
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  • Approaches to the Asian Classics. Cloth
  • by Theodore de Bary & Irene Bloom, editors
  • xii, 394 pages. 1990. Classics of the Islamic, Chinese, Japanese and Indian Traditions


0231070047
Bary, de: Confucianism and Human Rights. Paperback 
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  • 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


9780231109376, 0231109377-1728a
Baumann: Abenteuer Seidenstraße, Auf den Spuren alter Karawanenwege. Gebunden 
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  • Abenteuer Seidenstraße, Auf den Spuren alter Karawanenwege. Gebunden, 28,5 cm.
  • Bruna Baumann
  • 286 Seiten, 150 Farbfotos und Karten. 3. Auflage 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.


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Beal: Buddhist Literature in China. Cloth 
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  • Buddhist Literature in China. Cloth. 14x22cm
  • Samuel Beal
  • xvii, 185 pages, 5 plates, 4 and 5 are fold-outs
  • 1882. Published in India 1988


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


Beal
Bechert: The World of Buddhism: Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Society and Culture. Paperback 
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  • World of Buddhism: Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Society and Culture. Paperback
  • by Richard Gombrich, Etienne Lamotte and Heinz Bechert (Editor)
  • more than 308 pages, with 82 colour and 215 black-white photo's, maps and drawings
  • 1991, new edition


9780500276280220140
Beeson: Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia: Politics, Security and Economic Development. Paperback 
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  • 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


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Benge: Private Hong Kong. Where East Meets West. Cloth 
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  • 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


9780789203427, 0789203421-25
Benn, Stone: Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism. Hardcover 
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  • 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.


9780824829926 48
Bergreen: Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu. Hardcover 
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  • Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu. Hardcover
    by Laurence Bergreen
    415 pages, 24 plates. 2007


9781400043453, 140004345x-29

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Berliner: Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Cloth 
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  • Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Cloth. 22x31cm
  • by Nancy Berliner, with contributions by Craig Clunas, Curtis Evarts, Sarah Handler, and Wang Zhengshu / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Cor)
  • 158 pages, with 64 colour and 68 black-white illustrations, index. 1996


0878464344
Bernhardt: Women and Property in China, 960 - 1949. Cloth 
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  • Women and Property in China, 960 - 1949. Cloth
  • by Kathryn Bernhardt
  • viii, 236 pages, with 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. She argues that this information reveals household division and patrilineal succession as separate historical processes each with their own dynamics.


0804735263
Bernhardt: Women and Property in China, 960 - 1949. Paperback 
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  • Women and Property in China, 960 - 1949. Paperback
  • by Kathryn Bernhardt
  • viii, 236 pages, with tables, character list and index
  • A study that challenges the view that property inheritance in China in the Imperial and Republican periods remained relatively static. 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. She argues that this information reveals household division and patrilineal succession as separate historical processes each with their own dynamics.


0804735271
Bing: The Photograph. Paperback 
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  • Photograph. Paperback
  • By Bing Xin
  • 370 pages (poetry and fiction)


0835120937
Birch: Scenes for Mandarins. The Elite Theater of the Ming. Hardcover 
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  • 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


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Birge: Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960 - 1368) Cloth 
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  • Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960 - 1368) Cloth
  • by Bettine Birge
  • 345 pages, with 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. It describes how after a period during which women’s property rights were steadily improving, and laws and practices affecting marriage and property were moving away from Confucian ideals


9780521573733, 0521573734-3550
Birmingham Museum of Art: Handbook of the Oriental Collection. Paperback