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Dutton, Michael Streetlife China
Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1999 0521637198 / 9780521637190 First Australian Paperback Very Good Octavo
xiii, 304 pp. Corners lightly curled. All else as new. Cambridge Modern China Series.
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20.00 AUD
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Hejzlar, Josef Chinese Watercolors
New York Gallery Books 1990 0831712872 / 9780831712877 Reprint Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Quarto
70 pp + colour plates. Describes the Shanghai School. Over 100 colour reproductions, all bright and clean. Chronological Table of Dynasties, Bibliography, Index of Names, Table of Chinese Characters.
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21.00 AUD
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Mao Tsetung Mao Tsetung Poems
Peking (Beijing) Foreign Languages Press 1976 First Paperback Good Octavo
53 pp. Light edgewear and general wear to illustrated wraps w/gatefold flaps. Light foxing to edges of text block. Internally bright and clean, uncreased, solidly bound. Frontis -- b/w photo of Mao. Fold-out facsimile poem in the poet's own handwriting. (Unnamed) translators' "Note on the Verse Form". The book is small and light; within Australia postage will be lowered to $3.50 upon receipt of order.
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15.00 AUD
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Nien Cheng Life and Death in Shanghai
London Grafton / Collins Publishers 1986 0246129484 / 9780246129482 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Octavo
496 pp. A few small creases to unclipped dustwrapper. A few faint scuffs and splotches to edges of text block. Prev. owner's inked gift inscr. to ffep. Memoir of the Cultural Revolution.
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26.00 AUD
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Schafer, Edward H. The Divine Woman: Dragon Ladies and Rain Maidens in T'Ang Literature
San Francisco North Point Press 1980 086547009x / 9780865470095 First Thus Paperback Good Good 12 mo
xvi, 239 pp. General and edgewear to illustrated dustwrapper; intractable sticker residue to back panel of dw; backstrip panel sunned. Paper covers have a little wear to corners and a bump to the upper front corner near the top of the spine, which is uncreased. Creases to first few pages behind the bump. Foxing to edges of text block and first page; a little scuffing to lower edge of text block. Internally clean and solidly bound. "...illuminates a lesser known side of Chinese poetic tradition, and is another step toward getting the energies back in balance." -- from the Preface by Gary Snyder.
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Sproat, Robert Chinese Whispers
London Faber & Faber 1988 0571150276 / 9780571150274 First Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Octavo
239 pp. Light general and edgewear to unclipped dustjacket; a little foxing to reverse of dustjacket. Yellowing to edges of text block and outer page margins. Internally clean, bright, solidly bound. Fictionalization of the life of Genghis Khan.
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Walters, Derek Chinese Astrology: Interpreting the Revelations of the Celestial Messengers
London HarperCollins / Aquarian Press 1992 1855382326 / 9781855382329 Revised and Expanded Paperback Good Remainder Octavo
381 pp. Light general and edgewear to illustrated covers. Edges of text block yellowing, faintly foxed. Shallow dent in lower edge of text block, leading to a little creasing at base of pages. Internally unmarked, solidly bound. "Among the many astrological texts which are quoted is the complete 2000-year-old treatise written by the Grand Astrologer, Ssu Ma Ch'ien. This new revised and updated edition includes a brand new chapter on the Tzu Wei system and has brought the historical survey of Chinese astrology right up to date to include the new computerized Chinese horoscopes now emerging from Taiwan and elsewhere, making this a valuable guide for both the newcomer and those who have read the previous edition."
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