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The Scholar as Collector | |||
| Chinese Art at Yale | Eastern Studies | |||
| David Ake Sensabaugh | ||||
| Yale Art Gallery 2004 48 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0894679589 279x217mm | ||||
| Published Price $18.50 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| In the 9th century CE, Zhang Yanyuan wrote of his passion for art-collecting: 'If one does not do such useless things, how can one take pleasure in this mortal life?' Drawing on the holdings of Yale University Art Gallery, this illustrated guide discusses 29 items associated with aristocratic collectors who, from the 4th century, began to produce their own artworks - calligraphy, ceramics and paintings - without having to rely on craftsmen. | ||||
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The Analects of Confucius: With a Selection of the Sayings of Mencius | |||
| The Way and its Power of Laozi | Eastern Studies | |||
| James Legge (Translated by) | ||||
| Signature 2008 196 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1572152885 | ||||
| Published Price $9.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| "The Master said, 'It is all over! I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.'" The Analects is a collection of aphorisms and anecdotes from Confucius' life, compiled by pupils after his death. This edition also includes excerpts from two works by other philosophers who built on his wisdom. The three texts appear in a reprint of James Legge's 1861 translation, with a new preface by John S Bowman. | ||||
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The New I Ching | |||
| Discover the Secrets of the Plum Blossom Oracle | Eastern Studies | |||
| Lillian Too | ||||
| Hamlyn 2004 160 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0600609170 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Compiled over 5000 years ago, the I Ching (Book of Changes) is revered as an oracle and guide to choosing the right time to act. This book offers an accessible route to the I Ching by teaching a method of divination called the Plum Blossom Oracle, based on the idea that there are no coincidences: attuning one's mind to receiving signals from the Cosmos is the key to unlocking the meaning of phenomena like chance encounters and unexpected phone calls. | ||||
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Chen-Chiu: The Orignal Acupuncture | |||
| A New Healing Paradigm | Eastern Studies | |||
| Claus C Schnorrenberger | ||||
| Wisdom 2004 413 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0861711378 | ||||
| Published Price £17.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| Based on the Ling-Shu-Jing, a classic acupuncture text, this work uses Dr Schnorrenberger's extensive experience in both Western and Chinese medicine to examine concepts such as Chi, the meridians and even acupuncture itself. Whether discussing the philosophical basis of Eastern medicine, needle techniques or the application of chen-chiu in clinical practice, the study emphasizes the importance of understanding the contrast between the Chinese and Western traditions. | ||||
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Journey Through Asia | |||
| Masterpieces in the Brooklyn Museum of Art | Eastern Studies | |||
| Amy G Poster | ||||
| Brooklyn Museum of Art 2003 256 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0856675644 305x258mm | ||||
| Published Price £35.00 | Sale Price £8.99 | |||
| A celebration of one of America's foremost collections of paintings, sculptures, calligraphy and artefacts from across Asia, this book marks the centenary of the Department of Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It presents 104 particularly fine works from China, Korea, Japan, India, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas and the Islamic world, with detailed commentary on each exhibit and essays describing the history behind the collection and tracing the development of the Museum's criteria of excellence over the course of a century. | ||||
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Chinese Blue and White Porcelain | |||
| Third edition | Eastern Studies | |||
| Duncan Macintosh | ||||
| Book Marketing 1997 236 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 9622110673 285x213mm | ||||
| Published Price | Sale Price £12.99 | |||
| Duncan Macintosh traces the history of Chinese blue and white porcelain from its uncertain origins in the 14th century to the end of the Qing Dynasty. He pays considerable attention to social and political events, revealing something of the purely human conditions that were contemporary with the production of the porcelain. A final chapter is devoted to 'blue and white' in the West, where it has had an immense effect on ceramic production. With photographs of over 120 pieces and decorative motifs and marks shown in appendices. | ||||
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Exotics and Retrospectives | |||
| Eastern Studies | ||||
| Lafcadio Hearn | ||||
| ICG Muse 2001 224 pages | ||||
| Paperback 4925080512 | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Sale Price £5.99 | |||
| Originally published in 1898, this collection of essays by Hearn, with examples of his work demonstrating the evolution of his style and subject matter, shows him to be a personable and entertaining traveller. Hearn describes the virtue of Japanese sense and people, such as the beauty of sounds made by insects. | ||||
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Kawada Ryokicki: Jeanie Eadie's Samurai | |||
| The Life and Times of a Meiji Enterpreneur and Agricultural Pioneer | Eastern Studies | |||
| Andrew Cobbing; Itami Masataro | ||||
| Global Oriental 2006 288 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1901903028 | ||||
| Published Price £40.00 | Sale Price £22.00 | |||
| Kawada Ryokicki (1856-1951) was one of many samurai who studied overseas as part of the Meiji-era modernization of Japanese industry. While he was training at a Clydeside shipyard he met and fell in love with local girl Jeanie Eadie, who corresponded with him followed his return to Japan. Jeanie's 89 surviving letters, all reprinted here with commentary, document both the details of daily life in Glasgow during the 1880s and the social and cultural changes taking place in the new Japan. | ||||
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The Asian Mystique | |||
| Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient | Eastern Studies | |||
| Sheridan Prasso | ||||
| PublicAffairs 2005 439 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1586482149 | ||||
| Published Price $27.95 | Sale Price £6.99 | |||
| Race, sex, fantasy and power - these are the issues explored in this highly provocative book. Challenging the cultural and political stereotypes that are still prevalent in the West, Sheridan Prasso offers anecdotes and insights drawn from her extensive experience of the Far East. She combines a sensitive understanding and a strong sense of history in this account of Asian women and Western fallacies about them. Scruffy jacket. | ||||
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The Hmong of China | |||
| Context, Agency, and the Imaginary | Eastern Studies | |||
| Nicholas Tapp | ||||
| Brill 2003 538 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0391041878 | ||||
| Published Price €49.00 | Sale Price £25.00 | |||
| This ethnography of the Hmong in China is based on Nicholas Tapp's extensive fieldwork in a Hmong village in Sichuan. Basing his analysis on the concepts of context and agency, Tapp discusses the "paradoxical ambivalence at the heart of Hmong culture". | ||||
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Tai-Chi Chuan in Theory and Practice | |||
| Eastern Studies | ||||
| Kuo Lien-Ying | ||||
| North Atlantic 1999 124 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1556432984 | ||||
| Published Price £10.99 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| Kuo Lien-Ying (1890-1984) was one of the most revered martial artists of the 20th century, whose manual of Tai Chi was first published before he left China in 1966. The book provides explanations of the meaning of this ancient martial art, keys to understanding the Thirteen Movements and archive photographs of Lien-Ying performing the movements. This later edition includes new material on the I Ching and the origins of Tai-Chi philosophy by Lien-Ying's widow. | ||||
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Japanese Religions | |||
| Eastern Studies | ||||
| Michiko Yusa | ||||
| Routledge 2002 128 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0415262844 | ||||
| Published Price £10.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Focusing on Shinto, Buddhism and popular modern movements. | ||||
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Hidden Faces of India | |||
| Eastern Studies | ||||
| Palani Mohan | ||||
| New Holland 2002 160 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1864367512 280x285mm | ||||
| Published Price £24.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| Palani Mohan's lavish photographic study captures the bewildering diversity of life in India. From the middle classes at play in the Bay of Bengal and the tumultuous scenes at 2001's Maha Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of people in history, to the remote polyandrous community of Olsa, these memorable images reveal a changing society rooted in tradition but eagerly incorporating many of the newest aspects of our shared global culture. | ||||
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