Hai, Yen p'ing

The Commercial Revolution in Nineteenth-Century China: The Rise of Sino-Western Mercantile Capitalism

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1986. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with silver lettering; dj is light and dark green with black lettering, white lettering on spine, mylar cover; xv, 394 pp, bw map. "China's economic relations with the West durign the nineteenth century instigated a full-fledged commercial capitalism that constituted a commercial revolution. In this book, Yen-p'ing Hao examines the scope, intensity, and salient features of that revolution, and he evaluates its effect on Chinese economy and society."- dj Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-380) and index. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are otherwise clean and clear.) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 185023

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian History ; Chinese Capitalism; Chinese History ; ;

Hall, Richard

History of the Barbarous Cruelties and Massacres, Committed by the Dutch in the East-Indies

London, Printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1712. Hardcover. Decorative red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, iv, 236 pp. Full title: History of the barbarous cruelties and massacres committed by the Dutch in the East-Indies: To which is added, the proceedings of the Council of Amboyna, which the Dutch sent to the English East-India Company, in defense of the proceedings against the English there. Extremely scarce in any state or condition. VG (missing frontispiece. Light shelfwear to cloth. Previous owner's name on end pages. Age toning as expected but pages are otherwise clean and clear.) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 179504

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian History ; Indonesian History ; ;

Harada, Yoshito; Kingo Tazawa; Jiro Harada; Kenji Kiyoni

Lo-Lang: A Report on the Excavatin of Wang Hsu's Tomb in the "Lo-Lang" Province an Ancient Chinese Colony in Korea

Tokyo, The Toko-Shoin, 1930. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and design on spine, 1 preliminary leaf, xi pages, 1 leaf, 53 pages, 1 3/4. 3, [19] pages, 1 3/4. [100] pages : illustrations (part mounted) plates (some folded, some color) maps, diagrams. Text in Japanese with résumé in English by Jiro Harada; the appendix in Japanese, with résumé in German. Includes bibliographical references. Good (cover needs repaired, spine loose with overall wear to boards, front and back, light foxing to block edges but interior pages are overall good, clean, readable) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 175318

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian History, Korea, Tombs ; Korean Tombs ; ; Asian History, Korea, Tombs

Hsiao, chuan-Kung and F.W. Mote

A History of Chinese Political Thought, Volume One: From the Beginnings to the Sixth Century A.D.

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1979. Hardcover. white linen boards w/ green quarter cloth spine. book xv, 778 pgs. dark green dustjacket w/ tan & white printing; protective plastic cover. From a college library. No removal stamps to due date card. Pages appear clean, but, may have instances of marginalia, notations, etc. VG- (ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges, internal stamps, usual markings, etc. wear to lower cover edges & corners. scuffs/shelf-wear to lower textblock edge. dustjacket taped to cover edges, ID to lower spine; plastic cover scuffed) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 184749

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Chinese Politics, Chinese Political Philosophy ; Chinese Politics, Chinese Political Philosophy ; ;

Jansen, Marius B. and Gilbert Rozman

Japan in Transition, from Tokugawa to Meiji

Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering; red and green dust jacket; ix, 485 pp, bw diagrams and maps. "The four parts of the book, each with its own introduction, focus on four important areas of change: central and local administration, organizations, demography and city growth, and rural life and standards of living." - dust jacket. Includes bibliographical references and index. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are otherwise clean and clear.) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 184269

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian History ; Japanese History and Social Conditions ; ;

K

Burmese Culture: General and Particular

Rangoon, Burma, Sarpay Beikman / Ministry Of Information, 1981. Softcover. yellow & blue illustrated wrappers. 155 pgs of text. A cultural history of Burma from chapters that detail Burmese puppeteering, film, music, clasical music and more. Of 5000 copies. Good+. front cover has heavy speckled foxing; back cover foxed, tanned & spots of soiling. edge-wear to covers. foxing to spine; spine ends chipped. cover endpaper foxed; previous owners name. interior clean .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 181513

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Burmese Culture, Burmese History, Myanmar Culture, Myanmar History ; Burmese Culture, Burmese History, Myanmar Culture, Myanmar History ; ;

Kandell, Alice S. and Charlotte Y. Salisbury

Mountaintop Kingdom: Sikkim

New York, Norton & Company, 1971. Hardcover. red cloth w/ gilt spine printing. yellow pastedowns & flyleafs. 208 pgs w/ color illustrations. black illustrated dustjacket w/ yellow printing. Wonderful color and black and white photographs of the people and culture of Sikkim, India. VG. shelf-wear to cover edges. spine ends creased. ex-libris plate to cover flyleaf. dustjacket has edge-wear & curling to edges; chipping to spine top.

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 179543

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Sikkim, India; History of Sikkim ; Sikkim, India, History of Sikkim ; ;

Kempers, A J Bernet

Ageless Borobudur : Buddhist Mystery in Stone, Decay and Restoration, Mendut and Pawon, Folklife in Ancient Java

Wassenar, The Netherlands, Servire, 1976. Hardcover. Green cloth board with gilt lettering. Dustjacket with photograph, 288 pages : illustrations. "Of all non-European monuments of religious art, only a few equal the fame of Buddhism's greatest creation: Borobudur, on the island of Java. Borobudur is the culminating point of Indonisia's artistic and philosophical genius, with its significant inspiration from the traditions of India"-Cover. VG/G Dustjacket with some tearing. Former owners bookplate on ffep. Pages otherwise clean and white .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 180590

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian History ; Temples ; ;

Koschmann, J. Victor

The Mito Ideology: Discourse, Reform, and Insurrection in Late Tokugawa, Japan, 1790-1864

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1987. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with burgundy lettering; tan dust jacket with burgundy lettering and bw illustrations; ix, 190 pp. TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The problem of method -- Tokugawa ideology -- Tokugawa reformism -- Historiographical perspective -- Rectification and myth -- The plight of the domain -- The Mito historiographical tradition -- Rectification of names -- Natural order through artifice -- The national essence -- History as entropy -- Eternal return through imperial ritual -- The need for action -- Reform as representation -- Demarcating the land -- Grounding the aristocracy -- Spreading the way -- The domain as microcosm -- Recruitment of commoners -- The Tenpo legacy -- The intrusion of national politics -- Education as ideology -- Assassination at Sakurada Gate -- Ritual and action in the Tengu insurrection -- Mobilization and oppression -- Pilgrimage to the origin -- New political space -- Coda: Mito ideology as text -- Gekibun (call to action). VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear.) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 184267

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian History ; Japanese History ; ;

Kremer, Alfred Von

Culturgeschichte Des Orients Unter Den Chalifen (2 Volumes)

Wien, Wilhelm Braumuller, 1877. Leather bound. 1/2 black leather with marbled paper-covered boards and 5 raised bands, patterned endpapers. Vol. I (1875): x, (2), 547, (1) pp. Vol. 2 (1877): ; (4), 516, (2) pp. Text is entirely in German. FOLIOS LIMITED, of the UK, has informed us that "This is Kremer's most important work in which he discusses the history of the Orient under the Caliphate.This set is considered as a main source on Islamic civilization. It provides an account of the rise of the Caliphate followed by a fascinating account of town life and the Omayyad court at Damascus. VG-, minor chaffing to leather extremities indicating wear, but very sold overall. Each title-page has two circular ink stamps, the larger being from the K.u.K. Oest. - Ung. Consulat in Baghdad. These ink stamps are crossed out with a simple inked X, and there is a waxed pencil notation on each title-page as well. No other ownership marks in the books. Bookseller's stamp on rear endpapers from Louis Marchanbd of Paris with a stylized cat sitting on a book .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 175154

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian History ; Islamic History ; ;

Lal, Kanwar

Immortal Khajuraho

New York, Castle Books, 1967. Hardcover. maroon cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. 253 pgs w/ 234 b&w plates. glossy, pictorial dustjacket glued to cover pastedowns. heavy, publisher's slipcase w/ title sticker. A comprehensive study of the erotic sculptural art of the Khajuraho temples in Madhya Pradesh, India. VG. pgs clean; edges lightly tanned. plates have light foxing to fore-edge. dustjacket flaps glued to cover pastedowns; spine sunned; shelf & edge-wear w/ scratches & creases. slipcase veneer rubbed & peeling; edges tanned.

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 176730

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: ; Khajuraho Temples ; ;

Latourette, Kenneth Scott

The Chinese, Their History and Culture (Two Volumes in One)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1946. Third Edition Revised. Hardcover. Navy cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, xvi, 847 pp, bw fold out map. This is the third edition, revised with two volumes in one. Contents include: v. I. Preface to the third edition ; Geography and its influence on the Chinese ; The beginnings of Chinese civilization (to 221 B.C.) ; The formation of the empire : the Ch'in and Han dynasties (221 B.C.-A.D. 220) ; A striking change : divisions, foreign invasions, and cultural innovations from the close of the Han to the beginning of the Sui Dynasty (A.D. 220-589) ; Reunion and renewed advance : the Sui (A.D. 589-618) and T'ang (A.D. 618-907) dynasties ; Political weakness but cultural brilliance : the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms (A.D. 907-960) : the Sung Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279) ; China under the rule of the Mongols (A.D. 1279-1368) ; China again under Chinese rule : the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644) ; The Ch'ing (Manchu) Dynasty : its heyday and the beginning of its decline (A.D. 1644-1838) ; The transformation wrought by the impact of the Occident : I. The empire is shaken by wars with western European powers and the resulting treaties and by internal rebellions (A.D. 1839-1860) ; The transformation wrought by the impact of the Occident : II. Partial recovery from the shocks of the preceding two decades : the restoration of internal order but the slow permeation of the empire by Occidental trade and ideas and the failure to accommodate the old to the new (A.D. 1861-1893) ; The transformation wrought by the impact of the Occident : III. The crumbling of the structure of the old culture and the fore- shadowings of the new (A.D. 1894-1945) ; The transformation wrought by the impact of the Occident : IV. The Communists capture the mainland and undertake the thorough remaking of China (A.D. 1945- ) -- v. II. The Chinese people : racial composition ; Government ; Economic life and organization ; Religion ; Social life and organization ; Art ; Language, literature, and education ; By way of summary ; Proper names and Chinese words used in the text and their corresponding characters. Includes bibliography at the end of each chapter (except the last) and index. VG (light bumping to corners and age tanning but pages otherwise clean) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 176592

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian History ; Chinese History ; ;

Lawton, Lancelot

Empires of the Far East: A Study of Japan and of Her Colonial Possessions, of China and Manchuria and of the Political Questions of Eastern Asia and the Pacific (Volume 2)

London, England, Grant Richards Ltd, 1912. Hardcover. maroon cloth boards w/ silver spine printing. pgs 733-1598 w/ fold-out map. top edge gilt. Pages appear to free of marginalia and underlinig and remain relatively bright. This classic edition would be a candidate for rebinding. Volume two only. Good-. (edge-wear, scratches, scuffs & dampstaining to covers. front hinge severely cracked, still attached. pastedowns foxed & stained. spine split. instances of light foxing to pgs.) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 182002

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian History, World War I Asian History, Asian Culture, Asian Economics ; Asian History, World War I Asian History, Asian Culture, Asian Economics ; ;

Liu, Cary Y and Michael Nylan, et al.

Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines

New Haven / London, Princeton University Art Museum / Yale University Press, 2005. Softcover. grey illustrated wrappers w/ white & orange printing. printed french flaps. 614 pgs w/ bw & color pgs. The Wu Family shrines, one of the most important cultural monuments of early China, comprise approximately 50 stone slabs from the so-called Wu cemetery in Shandong province. This illustrated book examines the stone slabs and their rubbings, as artifactswith a complex cultural history from the second century to the present.--Google Books. VG. shelf-wear, scuffs & marks to lower textblock. crease to back cover. previous owners name to cover french flap.

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 179485

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Wu Family Stones; Asian History ; Wu Family Shrines, Chinese History ; ;

Liu Hongliang

Zhongguo Tulufan = Turpan China

Wulumuqi Shi, Xinjiang Fine Arts Photography Press, 1997. 1st edition. Softcover. Glossy pictorial green wraps. 106 pages : color illustrations, color map. Text in Chinese and English. "China Topan" is the editorial board of The People's Bank of China; Editor-in-Chief Liu Hongliang; English translator Xie Xusheng. Pictures of excavations and manners and customs of the region. VG-, slight rubbing to covers. Spine has ex-library label. Owner's inscription inside. Pages clean and bright.

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 183054

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian History; Turpan China ; Turpan China ; ; Manners and Customs - Asian