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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 £4.99 | |||
| 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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Japan | |||
| Nature, Artifice and Japanese Culture | Eastern Studies | |||
| Augustin Berque | ||||
| Pilkington 1997 232 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1899044159 | ||||
| Published Price £35.00 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| To the outsider, the relationship between the Japanese people and their natural environment seems contradictory. On the one hand they seem to ignore and even devastate it, while on the other their art and literature extol unspoilt nature as a national treasure. Professor Berque, France's most respected commentator on Japanese culture, argues that this apparent ambiguity is evidence of a subtly holistic, unitary logic, and takes the natural environment as a starting point to penetrate to the heart of Japanese society. | ||||
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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 £22.00 | |||
| 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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A Bitter Revolution | |||
| China's Struggle with the Modern World | Eastern Studies | |||
| Rana Mitter | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2004 384 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0192803417 | ||||
| Published Price £18.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early 20th century the situation was very different. Rana Mitter returns to a pivotal moment in Chinese history - the patriotic demonstration against the Paris Peace Conference at the Tian'anmen Gate, Beijing, on 4 May 1919 - and traces 'the ghosts' of what happened that day through the 20th century. Eschewing the rise of the Communist Party as his narrative focus, Mitter argues for a more diverse way of looking at Chinese politics, past and future. | ||||
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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 £6.99 | |||
| 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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The Life of Ancient Japan | |||
| Eastern Studies | ||||
| Kurt Singer (Edited by) | ||||
| Routledge 2001 320 pages | ||||
| Paperback 1903350018 | ||||
| Published Price £17.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| The Life of Ancient Japan brings together over 50 translated texts which illuminate aspects of Japanese society and customs up until the Tokugawa age (16th century CE). Chronicles, stories, poetry and legal writings discuss topics including table manners, loans for flood relief, the illness and death of an Emperor, a song contest and laws concerning monks and nuns. The texts are complemented by photographs of a selection of artworks. First published in 1939. | ||||
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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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Visions from the Golden Land | |||
| Burma and the Art of Lacquer | Eastern Studies | |||
| Ralph Isaacs; T Richard Blurton | ||||
| British Museum 2000 240 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0714114901 276x219mm | ||||
| Published Price £24.99 | Sale Price £9.99 | |||
| The techniques of lacquering have been practised in Burma since at least the 13th century and are still used to produce magnificent works today. This British Museum study presents over 200 of the finest pieces from British collections. | ||||
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