CHINA
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IS BN 978-974-480-062-6
WL Order Code 22 433
US$21.00
Bangkok 2004, 179 pp., 8 pp., illus., 150 x
210 mm, pbk. |
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Berlie, Jean A.;
Islam in China:
Hui and Uyghurs Between Modernization
and Sinicization
Islam in China defines the Muslims of China, in particular the Hui (Chinese
Muslims) and the Uyghurs.
Concepts of nationality (minzu) and umma (Islamic
community) as well as analysis of Chinese culture or Sinicization enable the
reader to understand the particularities of Islam in China. Mosques, Sufism,
feasts, and family shape the Muslim society and its ethos.
After the reforms of Deng Xiaoping, modernization plays an important
role in the daily life of these Muslims; the impressive development also influences
Islam in this part of the world.
China’s modernization constitutes a model
for Southeast Asia and helps the Yunnanese Hui in Thailand and Burma to be
proud of their country of origin. One chapter portrays the Thai and Burmese
Overseas Chinese, in particular in Chiang Mai and Mandalay.
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IS BN 978-0-9594122-7-1
WL Order Code 4 343
US$21.00
Victoria 1983, 96 pp., illus. in color, 210 x
275 mm, pbk.
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Capon, Edmund; Qin Shihuang : Terra-Cotta Warriors and Horses
Catalog of the exhibition of Qin Dynasty archeological treasures held in Australia
in 1983, including an extensive historical introduction, descriptions of
objects, maps, chronological tables, and bibliography. |
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No IS BN
WL Order Code 875
US$155.00
Ascona 1978, 260 pp., fully illus., 235 x 320
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Erdberg, Eleanor von;
Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Chester Dale
and Dolly Carter
The Chinese Bronzes of the Carter Collection, most of which now belongs to
the Art Museum, Preston University, cover a period of more than two thousand
years, from the earliest bronze vessels known to have been made in China to
the mirrors of the T’ang dynasty.
Some of the vessels are of outstanding artistic
quality and fine workmanship; some have unusual features of shape and décor;
others are interesting variations of well-known types; some may be grouped
together to illustrate the development of a shape or mode of decoration.
Each bronze is described in detail; attention is drawn to all elements in the
design. Questions of style are given careful consideration.
The development
and changes of motifs and shapes are traced from the Shang through the Chou
to the Han dynasty.
An important part of the text is devoted to the problems of
dating. By comparing each bronze in the Carter Collection with other bronzes
of the same type, shape, décor, and/or with vessels and other objects found
in the excavations of the last decades, the author tries to arrive at a—at least
relative—date for each bronze.
In some cases it was even possible to name the
region from which a bronze probably came. |
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IS BN 978-974-480-019-0
WL Order Code 22 313
US$28.00
Bangkok 2002, 332 pp., 8 pp. illus., 135 x
210 mm, pbk.
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Feuchtwang, Stephen; An Anthropological Analysis of Chinese Geomancy
This book was first published in 1974 and became a secret classic behind the
spread of fengshui into the Western world.
Its author, Stephan Feuchtwang, has
now revised it and added a new chapter for this new edition, bringing the material
up to date.
It is a detailed treatment of fengshui as perceived and understood
in Chinese manuals and in Chinese practice, but written for a Western readership.
Feuchtwang also shows how it is related to landscape painting as well as to
Chinese popular religion and ancestor worship.
He adds his own understanding
of fengshui as an aesthetic practice that is also a kind of divination, based on
a model of the Universe.
Readers who are fascinated by fengshui and want to
know about Chinese cosmology, or who are interested in the anthropology of
divination and cosmology, will be richly rewarded by this book.
Eco nom ic, Soc ial, Gender Stud ies |
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