China: In Ancient and Modern Maps

Sotheby's Publications by Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd. 1998, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0856674133). Soft cover. Book, English text; Paperback; 22.5 x 28.8 cm; 1.6 Kg; 287 pages with black and white and colour illustrations throughout; Used with signs of wear on the exterior, namely on spine. Edgeworn. Interior as new.; of China is a country with one of the world's earliest civilizations. The ancient Chinese made the world's first maps and in mapping theory and technique, they once led the world. In order to inherit and carry forward Chinese culture, summarize China's ancient mapping techniques and spread Chinese mapping knowledge around the world, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping and the State Bureau for Museums and Archaeological Data organized a study of Chinese maps and mapping history. China: In Ancient and Modern maps is one of the results of this research programme. The map is a second language of geography. Map making is not only an expression of mankind's geographical knowledge but also a necessary means of broadening geographical visions as well as for utilizing and transforming nature. We cannot but feel proud of the glorious cartographic achievements made by our ancestors. In this sense, China: In Ancient and Modern maps has great significance. The maps contained here are carefully selected from the vast repository of maps in China and accompanied by scientific analyses garnered with painstaking efforts by the authors from voluminous historical records and documents. The book presents convincing evidence about China's important position in the history of world surveying and mapping. Good/No Jacket.

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0856674133 warring sttes period,western han dynasty,eastern han dynasty,northern wei dynasty,tang dynasty,five dynasties,northern son dynasty,southern son dynasty,jin dynasty,southern song dynasty,yuan dynasty,ming dynastyqing dynasty

BOYAJIAN, JAMES C.

Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Habsburgs, 1580 - 1640

The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London. 1993, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0801844053). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 0.7 kg.; 16 x 23.5 cm.; 356 pages .; Used with minor signs of wear. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; While Spanish traders of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were mining the riches of the New World, the Portuguese continued to reap the lucrative Asian trade in spices and luxury items. Historians have long considered the Portuguese trade the exclusive enterprise of the kings of Portugal and a few privileged aristocrats, with only minimal participation by private merchants. But in fact, argues James C. Boyajian, actual capital investments by private Portuguese merchants were roughly ten times those of the Portuguese crown - and even exceed those of the far larger Dutch East India Company. In Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, Boyajian reassesses the consequences of Portugal's flourishing private trade with Asia, including increased tensions between the growing urban merchant class and the still-dominant landed aristocracy. He also shows how Portuguese-Asian trade formed part of a global trading network that linked not only Europe and Asia but also - for the first time - Asia, West Africa, Brazil, and Spanish America. And he argues that, contrary to previous scholarly opinion, nearly half of the Portuguese-Asian trade was controlled by New Christians - descendants of Iberian Jews forcibly converted to Christianity in the 1490s. Ironically, Boyajian concludes, the vast wealth that flowed into Portugal between 1580 and 1640 did little to enrich the country. Landed aristocrats who controlled the church, the Inquisition, and the royal administration used their position to deny merchants the social standing that would encourage productive investments in Portugal. And by the seventeenth century, the Portuguese-Asian trade itself was doomed - the result, Boyajian argues, not of the much-heralded Dutch economic successes but of Dutch naval blockades that effectively severed Portugal's trading lifeline with Asia. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0801844053 portugal,asia,history,commerce,marranos,16th century,17th century

DICKINSON, FREDERICK R.

War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919

Harvard University Asia Center. 1999. (ISBN: 0674946553). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 15.9 x 23.4 cm; 0.7 Kg; 363 pages. Used with minor sings of wear. Looks as new. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Japan's Role in the Second World War is an integral part of the history of the twentieth century. By contrast, few historians associate Japan with what is widely recognized as the principal departure point of the century, the First World War. In the first full-length study of Japan in the Great War, Dickinson highlights the profound impact of the 1914 to 1919 years on Japan. Although the Japanese escaped the physical destruction experienced by their European counterparts, evidence of the bankruptcy of the old order spawned political turmoil in Tokyo that would, as in Europe, ultimately invite another war. The disintegration of modern Japan's foremost national model, Imperial Germany, aggravated a tumultuous Japanese domestic debate over national identity that generated a renewed drive for national power in the 1930s. Diplomatic historians have described Japanese imperialism as primarily a strategic calculation in response to external events. By linking the current fascination with cultural "invention" among social and cultural historians with the traditional focus of diplomatic history on the international affairs, Dickinson offers an alternative explanation for Japan's modern wars. Japanese continental aims in the twentieth century become her less a reactive exercise in national defense than an active campaign to "reinvent" the state and Japanese society. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

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FARRIS, WILLIAM WAYNE

Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan's Military, 500-1300

Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University. 1992. (ISBN: 0674387031). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 16 x 23.5 cm.; 0.81 Kg.; 493 pages.; Used with signs of wear, namely on the outside text block. Interior as new. Signs of wear on the dust jacket that is now protected with a clearcover; Harvard East Asian Monographs, 157.; The word samurai suggests the colorful figure of a lightly armored, mounted archer attended by two or three foot soldiers engaging in ritualized one-on-one combat, the aristocracy fighting man of the Kamakura Shogunate (1185-1333). Although some historians have considered the rise of the samurai as analogous to the rather abrupt rise of feudal knights in medieval Western Europe, Farris provides "evolutionary model" for Japan that traces the step-by-step adaptive development of local strongmen over more than half a millennium. Through analyses of military technology and tactics, social organization, economic base, and political skills, mainly based on Japanese primary sources, Farris demonstrates some of the underlying continuities in that development together with the rather late acquisition by warriors of those political capabilities that led to the dominance of the Shogunate over the Court. Japan's original Heavenly Warrior, the Emperor Temmu, declared in 684, "In a government, military matters are the essential thing" Farris's detailed descriptions and maps of major battles from the Korean Wars of the sixth century through the thirteenth-century Mongol Invasions underscore the validity of that judgment. Finally, Minamoto no Yoritomo triumphed as "the chief of all warriors" and established his Shogunate in 1185, giving a firmer political base to Japan's warrior elite. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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FERREIRA, CHRISTOVÃO

Narratio Persecutionis Adversus Christianos Excitatae in Variis Japoniae Regnis Ann M. Dc. XXVIII, M. Dc. XXIX, M. Dc. XXX

Antverpiae, Ioannem Mevrsivm. 1635. Soft cover. Book, Latin text.; Paperback (in green morocco slipcase with gilt lettering).; 11.5 x 17.5 cm; 0.3 kg; 144 pages.; Hand written title on spine.; Used with signs of wear, namely signs of a previous bookplate removed from the rear of the front cover which also shows a pen written number on the top of the page. Slightly soiled throughout. Signs of have been re-cased in the past.; The first edition was published anonymously in Rome in 1635 ("mainly the work of Ferreira and is in fact sometimes quoted under his name, see Sommervogel (Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, Brussels, III, col. 681-2)" excerpt from Hubert Cieslik, The Case of Christovão Ferreira, Monumenta Niponica, vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 1974). After the publication of this latin edition, a French edition was published in Paris, 1635. FIRST LATIN EDITION. SCARCE. Translated from the Italian by Jean Bolland.; Describes the martyrdom of Christians in Japan from 1628-1630. Christovão Ferreira (1580-1654) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary that went to Japan in 1609, in 1633 he was tortured by the Japanese and apostatised, converted to Zen Buddhism and changed his name to Sawano Chuan. In 1652 he was condemned to death in the pit for renouncing his faith. Good/No Jacket.

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Sonstige Stichworte: japan,jesuits,missionaries,portugal

GOLDSMITH, RAYMOND W.

The Financial Development of Japan, 1868-1977

Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 1983, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0300029330). Hardcover. Book, English text.; Hardcover (without dust jacket); 16 x 24.5 cm.; 0.6 Kg.; 231 pages.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior, namely on the front cover and on the exterior test block. Interior as new.; "This survey of Japanese monetary history has been written by a specialist in financial economics who felt that an illustration of his thinking in Asian case studies would be valuable. The study is based on materials supplied to the author in Japan and on English secondary sources. The history gets under way in the Meiji period and takes the story up to 1975. At the conclusion of each historical chapter the author presents a national balance sheet. The analysis throughout is fairly technical which limits the value of the book in the classroom. But for economists interested in the financial background to Japanese economic growth, and to recent developments in Japanese public and private financial markets, this book will be very useful." review by C. Howe published on the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 48, Issue 2, June 1985. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0300029330 finance,japan,history

IKEGAMI, EIKO

The Taming of the Samurai : Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England. 1995. (ISBN: 0674868080). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 17 x 24.5 cm.; 0.78 Kg.; 428 pages.; Used with signs of wear, namely on the outside text block. Interior as new. Signs of wear on the dust jacket that is now protected with a clearcover.; Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures. She accomplishes this by focusing on the diverse roles that the samurai have played in Japanese history. From their rise in ancient Japan, through their dominance as warrior lords in the medieval period, and their subsequent transformation to quasi-bureaucrats at the beginning of the Tokugawa era, the samurai held center stage in Japan until their abolishment after the opening up of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century. This book demonstrates how Japan's so-called harmonious collective culture is paradoxically connected with a history of conflict. Ikegami contends that contemporary Japanese culture is based upon two remarkably complementary ingredients, honorable competition and honorable collaboration. The historical roots of this situation can be found in the process of state formation, along very different lines from that seen in Europe at around the same time. The solution that emerged out of the turbulent beginnings of the Tokugawa state was a transformation of the samurai into a hereditary class of vassal-bureaucrats, a solution that would have many unexpected ramifications for subsequent centuries. Ikegami's approach, while sociological, draws on anthropological and historical methods to provide an answer to the question of how the Japanese managed to achieve modernity without traveling the route taken by Western countries. The result is a work of enormous depth and sensitivity that will facilitate a better understanding of, and appreciation for, Japanese society. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0674868080 samurai,history,japanese,japan,bushido,ethics,civilization

LEWIS, MARK EDWARD

The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England. 2007. (ISBN: 9780674024779). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 16 x 24.5 cm 0.62 Kg.; 321 pages.; Used with minor signs of wear. As new. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; In 221 BCE the first Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia. Mark Edward Lewis highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity of peoples. He traces the drastic measures taken to transcend, without eliminating, these regional differences: the invention of the emperor as the divine embodiment of the state; the establishment of a common script for communication and a state-sponsored canon for the propagation of Confucian ideals; the flourishing of the great families, whose domination of local society rested on wealth, landholding, and elaborate kinship structures; the demilitarization of the interior; and the impact of non-Chinese warrior-nomads in setting the boundaries of an emerging Chinese identity. The first of a six-volume series on this history of imperial China, The Early Chinese Empires illuminates many formative events in China's long history of imperialism . events whose residual influence can still be discern today. As New/Dust Jacket Included.

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Sonstige Stichworte: 9780674024779 china,history,qin dynasty,han dynasty,the geography of empire,a state organized for war,the paradoxes of empire,imperial cities,rural society,the outer world,kinship,religion,literature,law

PHILLIPS, HERBERT P.

Thai Peasant Personality: The Patterning of Interpersonal Behavior in the Village of Bang Chan

University of California Press. 1974, 1st Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text, Hardcover, 15.8 x 23.4 cm, 0.507 Kg; 231 pages with no illustrations.; Standard book number 520-01008-6.; Used with minor signs of wear on the dust jacket and interior. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Readers interested in the psychology of non-western peoples will find this volume provocative in both descriptive and theoretical detail. The first book-length study of Siamese psychological life, it describes the members of an Asian peasant community whose dominant personality traits are aimed at the maintenance of their individuality, privacy, and sense of self-regard. In addition, it offers suggestions for handling many of the theoretical and technical problems crucial to cross-cultural personality research. Basing his research on two years of field work in the Central Plain community of Bang Chan, Mr.Phillips offers a systematic analysis and comparison of two kinds of data: observations of the villagers, overt behaviour in workaday social encounters, and their subjective responses to a special psychological test. Many readers will find particular value in his discussion of the design, translation, and implementation of psychological research methods in non-Western cultures. The author analyses the central role of affability and play in the villager's daily contacts, the use of politeness as a "social cosmetic" and the implications of this cosmetic for the inner lives of the Thai. He examines the villager's readiness to become involved with others in the first place, and the sense of linkage that ties them together over time. He demonstrates how the individualistic tendencies of the Thai intrude of interpersonal relationships and how in the village of Bang Chan all social interaction is set within framework of cosmic unpredictability, with human volition only one of several indeterminate and uncontrollable factors in life. This "loosely structured" system of social relationships is seen to have its roots in early childhood, with strong support from both Hinayana Buddhist doctrine and the sociologically simple and undifferentiated nature of Bang Chan society. In presenting the psychological test results, the author examines the villager's attitudes toward authority, dependency, and aggression, their anxieties and reactions to crises, and their dominant drives and wishes. These various issues are linked to the theoretical problem of "conformity" and to the basic human need for privacy and psychological isolation. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

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Sonstige Stichworte: village of bang chan,thai personality,thai culture

REISCHAUER, HARU MASTSUKATA

Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England. 1986, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0674788001). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 17 x 24.5 cm; 1.1 kg; 371 pages with a few black and white illustrations.; Used book with minor signs of wear. Interior as new. Minor signs of wear on the dust jacket which is now protected with a clearcover.; Samurai and Silk is a rare treasure: a book of penetrating insight into the Japanese character and the forging of modern Japan from the feudal Tokugawa shoguns to its worldwide prestige in the twentieth century. Only Haru Reischaeuer could have written this extraordinary account of ther two illustrious grandfathers; one, a provincial samurai who became a founding father of the Meiji government; the other, scion of a wealthy and enterprising peasant family who almost singlehandedly developed the silk trade with America. Their remarkable stories, and those of their notable descendants, form a saga of unbounded vision and determination that has much to tell us about Japan's legendary success. This is a book to be enjoyed, on one level, as the charming story of two energetic achievers and their many renowned descendants. Even more it offer a first-hand view of Japanese customs and mores and their profound effect during a period of unprecedented modernization. There is also much of interests to specialists: the story of the silk trade with America had never before been studied from this perspective. Copiously illustrated with photographs from the author's personal collection, Samurai and Silk is a unique contribution to our understanding of Japan and the art of biography. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0674788001 japan,samurai,silk,america Asian Art

STOLER, ANN LAURA

Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870-1979

Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 1985, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0300031890). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 16.4 x 24.1 cm; 0.634 kg; 244 pages, including some black and white images.; Used with signs of wear on the dust jacket and on the interior. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover. Very good copy overall.; Over the last century, North Sumatra has been the site of one of the more intensive and successful pursuits of foreign agricultural enterprise in the Third World and of overt, sometimes violent, confrontation between capital and labor. This fascinating ethnographic history by Ann Laura Stoler analyses how popular resistance actively molded both the form of this colonial expansion and the social, economic, and political experience of the Javanese labouring communities on Sumatra's plantation borders. Stoler considers the nature and intensity of labor protest at critical moments of the estate industry's development: from the early pioneering years to the Great Depression, through the wartime Japanese occupation, the post-independence years, and the period since the 1965 coup d'etat. She shows how labor policies impinged on domestic organization, sexual alliances, and community ties, and how the structuring of gender and ethnic conflicts has been embedded in company efforts to enforce, and workers efforts to resist, the industry's hold on the laborers lives. Combining fieldwork and archival research, Stoler places the women and men of global perspective. She argues that the persistence of the part-proletarian, part-peasant status of these Javanese laborers is both a product of the industry's domination and a mode of resistance to it, evident in plantations systems throughout the world. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0300031890 indonesia,agricultural laborers,sumatra,history,plantations

SUZUKI, YOSHIO

Money, Finance, and Macroeconomic Performance in Japan

Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 1986, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0300033877). Hardcover. Book, English text.; Hardcover (without dust jacket); 16 x 24 cm.; 0.55 Kg.; 218 pages.; Used with signs of wear, namely on the outside text block. Interior as new.; "Yoshio Suzuki is well qualified to write on this subject, as he is director of the Bank of Japan's Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies. He has been personally involved in the activities about which he writes, and he knows many of the actors. Much of the book will be of special interest to mathematicians, economists, and bankers. The work also treats several topics of more general interest. Suzuki explains why Japan has built up such extremely high foreign trade surpluses, stating: "Postwar economic policy was constructed with investment/export-led growth as its strategic objective. The important elements in the policy were trade and foreign exchange management, protection of industry, and tax treatment favoring saving and investment." review by Howard F. Van Zandt published at The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 46, Issue 1, Febraury 1987. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0300033877 finance,japan,money supply,monetary policy japan

TENG, EMMA JINHUA

Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895

Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London. 2004, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0674014510). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 16 x 23.5 cm; 0.7 kg; 370 pages with a few illustrations.; Used with minor signs of wear. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Harvard East Asian Monographs 230.; Until 350 years ago, the Chinese considered Taiwan a "savage island" beyond the pale of Chinese civilization. When the Qing conquered the island in 1683, the court debated the value of colonizing this "ball of mud". Yet, two centuries later, in 1895, Chinese writers lamented the island's cession to Japan as a loss of sacred national territory. Taiwan's trajectory from "savage island" to China's "sovereign territory" is the subject of this book. The author argues that colonial travel writing, ethnographic illustrations, and maps were central to this transformation and that traveler's representations of Taiwan played a vital role in expressing and producing Chinese ideologies of imperial expansion and race. At the same time, travel writing and images of the frontiers transformed the imagined geography of the Chinese empire itself, as the Qing doubled the empire's territory. By representing distant lands and frontier peoples to audiences in China proper, these works converted places once considered non-Chinese into familiar parts or the empire. They dramatically changed the idea of the geographic and ethnic boundaries of "China" - creating the imagined geography behind PRC conceptions of China's "sovereign territory" and its claims to places like Taiwan and Tibet. This book challenges prevailing preconceptions of the "colonizer" and "colonized" by examining a non-Western imperial power and its representations of colonial "others" and suggests the possibility of meeting points between Western and Chinese colonial discourses. This work further debunks the notion that Taiwan has been a part of China since antiquity by showing how the Taiwan-China relation emerged from the history of Qing colonialism. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0674014510 taiwan,china,travel