Plaks, Andrew H. (Ed.); Birch, Cyril

Chinese Narrative. Critical and Theoretical Essays.

Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1977, cloth, 8vo, xii+366 pp., early historical and fictional narrative; Ming and early Ch'ing fiction; middle and late Ch'ing fiction; very good condition. . ISBN: 0691063281.

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Book number: 31925

Catalogue: Chinese language and culture

Keywords: China, literature, Ming

Qian, Sima; Pimpaneau, Jacques

Vies de Chinois illustres. Traduit du chinois et présenté par Jacques Pimpaneau.

Paris, Philippe Picquier, 2002, broché, 12mo, 167 pp., biographie; bon état / good condition (black wrapper glued on original cover; clean, no annotations). . ISBN: 9782877306119.

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Book number: 27697

Catalogue: Chinese language and culture

Keywords: biographie, Chinois

Quincey, Thomas de

Confessions of an English opium-eater 1822.

Oxford, Woodstock Books, 1989, cloth, 12mo, vi+206 pp., facsimile of edition London, 1822; good condition. . ISBN: 1854770209.

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Book number: 21403

Catalogue: Chinese language and culture

Keywords: opium, Quincey

Roth, Harold D.

A Companion to Angus C. Graham's Chuang Tzu. The Inner Chapters [Monograph no. 20 / Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy].

Honolulu, University of Hawai'i (Hawaii) Press, 2003, paperbound, 8vo, x+243 pp., good condition (cover with minor wear). . ISBN: 9780824826437.

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Book number: 25674

Catalogue: Chinese language and culture

Keywords: Chuang Tzu, chinese

Rotours, Robert des

Le Traité des Examens. Traduit de la Nouvelle Histoire des T'ang (Cap. XLIV, XLV) [bibliothèque de l'Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, Volume II].

San Francisco, Chinese Materials Center, 1976, 2ème édition (reprint edition Ernest Leroux 1932), cloth, 8vo, xii+417 pp., very good condition (unused). . .

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Book number: 31935

Catalogue: Chinese language and culture

Keywords: Chine, chinois

Sato, Masayuki

Confucian State and society of Li: A Study on the Political Thought of Xun Zi (doctorate thesis).

Leiden, University of Leiden, 2001, paperbound, 8vo, ix+375 pp., the book of Xunzi and biography of Xun Zi; the intellectual activity of the Jixia Academy; the theory of Li; very good condition. . .

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Book number: 18842

Catalogue: Chinese language and culture

Keywords: China, Chinese, Confucian, Xin Zi, Li

Shadick, Harold; Liu T'ieh-yün

The Travels of Lao Ts'an.

Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1971, paperbound, 8vo, xxiii+277 pp., translated from the Chinese and annotated; good condition (wrapper glued to original cover). . .

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Book number: 28880

Catalogue: Chinese language and culture

Keywords: China, chinese, literature

Shang-jen, K'ung

The Peach Blossom Fan (T'ao-hua-shan).

Berkeley, University of Californai Press, 1976, paperbound, 8vo, xix+312 pp., translated from the Chinese by Chen Shih-Hsiang and Harold Acton; very good condition. . ISBN: 0520029283.

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Book number: 20457

Catalogue: Chinese language and culture

Keywords: poetic drama, chinese

Shen-Yi; Stadelmann, Heinrich

China und sein Weltprogramm.

Dresden, Verlag Friedrich Max Gutewort, 1925, halcloth, 4to, 164 pp., 14 plates, China, Geschichte; good condition. . .

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Book number: 29895

Catalogue: Chinese language and culture

Keywords: China

Specht, Annette

Der Zhuangzi-Kommentar des Zhu Dezhi (fl. 16. Jh.). Zur Rezeption des Zhuangzi in der Ming-Zeit (Schriftenreihe Boethiana, Forschungsergebnisse zur Philosophie, Band 33).

Hamburg, Veralg Dr. Kovac, 1998, paperbound, 8vo, vii+229 pp., der huangzi und seine Geschichte; Zhu Dezhi und das Zhuangzi tongyi; das Verhältnis von Wisen und Welt; good condition (color text marking on 6 pages). . ISBN: 3860645889.

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Book number: 20514

Catalogue: Chinese language and culture

Keywords: Zhuangzi, Ming

Spence, Jonathan D.

Chinese Roundabout. Essays in History and Culture.

New York, W.W. Norton, 1992, cloth, 8vo, xiii+400 pp., the Paris year of Arcadio Huang; the perigrinations of Mendes Pinto; Matteo Ricci and the ascent to Peking; gamble in China; Malraux temptation; very good condition. . ISBN: 3393033554.

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Book number: 29407

Catalogue: Chinese language and culture

Keywords: China, chinese, history

Ssu-Yü Têng; Biggerstaff, Knight

An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Chinese Reference Works. Revised Edition [Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies II].

Cambridge (MA), Harvard University Press, 1950, paperbound, 8vo, x+325 pp., bibliographies, encyclopedias; fair/good condition (red wrappers glued to original cover, binding partly loose). . .

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Book number: 28319

Catalogue: Chinese language and culture

Keywords: chinese, history, sinology

Sze, Mai-mai; ChiehTzu Yüan Hua Chuan

The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. Chieh Tzu Yüan Hua Chuan, 1679-1701 [A facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai edition with the tekst translated from te Chinese and edited by Mai-mai Sze] [Bollingen Series].

Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1978, paperbound, 4to oblong, xvii+624 pp., ills., originally published as the second volume of The Tao of Painting; first translation into English; very good condition (minimal traces of use). . ISBN: 0691018197.

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Book number: 32073

Catalogue: Chinese language and culture

Keywords: Tao, Painting

Trevor-Roper, Hugh

Hermit of Peking. The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse.

London, Macmillan / Papermac, 1986, paperbound, 8vo, 391 pp., biography of Backhouse, distinguished scholar of Chinese who lived quietly in Peking until his death in 1944; based on his voluminous memoirs; ver good condition. . ISBN: 9780333418079.

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Book number: 27339

Catalogue: Chinese language and culture

Keywords: Backhouse, Chinese, biography

Tsien, Tsuen-Hsuin; Shaughnessy, Edward L.

Written on Bamboo & Silk. The Beginnings of Chinese Books & Inscriptions.

Chigago, University of Chicago Press, 2004, second edition, cloth, 8vo, xiv+323 pp., 30 ills., records on bones and shells; inscriptions on metals and clay; engravings on stone and jade; documents on bamboo and wood; silk as writing material; paper and paper manuscripts; very good condition. . ISBN: 0226814181.

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Book number: 31922

Catalogue: Chinese language and culture

Keywords: Chinese, writing, book history