Category: Far Eastern Studies

AUTHORSHIP AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN EARLY GREECE AND CHINA Patterns of Literary Circulation

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 2010

Seller ID: 7335

ISBN-13: 9780521194310

338 pages; In this book, Alexander Beecroft explores how the earliest poetry in Greece (Homeric epic and lyric) and China (the Canon of Songs) evolved from being local, oral, and anonymous to being textualized, interpreted, and circulated over increasingly wider areas. Beecroft re-examines representations of authorship as found in poetic biographies such as Lives of Homer and the Zuozhuan, and in the works of other philosophical and historical authors like Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Confucius, and Sima Qian. Many of these anecdotes and narratives have long been rejected as spurious or motiva...
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THE ANCIENT KHMER EMPIRE

By: Briggs, Lawrence Palmer

Price: $47.00

Publisher: The American Philosophical Society : 1962

Seller ID: 3569

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Glue stains to ffep and back inner cover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Corners bumped. Small abrasions to cloth. ; A history of the ancient Khmers (Cambodians) , on the peninsula of Indo-China, and of the development of their architecture and sculpture, of which the ancient capital, Angkor Thom, and the nearby temple, Angkor Wat, were the culmination. ; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. New Series - Volume 41, Part 1; 295 pages
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THE ANCIENT KHMER EMPIRE

By: Briggs, Lawrence Palmer

Price: $55.00

Publisher: The American Philosophical Society : 1974

Seller ID: 5817

ISBN-13: 9780871694119

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Slight creasing to bottom corner of front wrap and first few pages. Slight wear to spine. ; A history of the ancient Khmers (Cambodians) , on the peninsula of Indo-China, and of the development of their architecture and sculpture, of which the ancient capital, Angkor Thom, and the nearby temple, Angkor Wat, were the culmination. ; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. New Series - Volume 41, Part 1; 295 pages
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DE LA GRÈCE À LA CHINE

By: Grousset, René

Price: $48.00

Publisher: Les Documents D'Art : 1948

Seller ID: 16882

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Browning to endpapers. Small piece of top of spine cover is torn and missing. Stain to heel of spine cover. Tear starting along 1 side of spine cover but holding. Corners a bit edgeworn with mild bumping. Oversized. ; "Orient Et Extrême-Orient"; 104 pages
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CHINA AND THE ROMAN ORIENT Researches Into Their Ancient and Medieval Relations As Represented in Old Chinese Records

By: Hirth, Friedrich

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Ares Publishers : 1975

Seller ID: 3623

ISBN-13: 9780890050934

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very minor shelfwear. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1885 Edition. The most remarkable story of ancient China's commercial and diplomatic relations with the Roman world. Based on numerous Chinese documents uncovered by the author during several years of research in China during the late 19th century. ; 0.8 x 8.3 x 5.4 Inches; 329 pages
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN INDO-CHINA Conducted under the Auspices of the École Française D'Extrême-Orient, the Museums of Paris & the Harvard Yenching Institute

By: Janse, Olov R. T.

Price: $2,550.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : 1947

Seller ID: 2117

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Ex-library set with usual stamps, call numbers and pockets. Text is clean of marks. Volume I is in good condition with half inch tear to cloth at top of spine and moderate edgewear to back board top edge. Bumping to corners. Volume II is in VG- or G+ condition with stamps on textblock deleted with black marker. Minor (1cm) cut to cloth along edge of spine. Minor edgewear. Scuffing to boards. Text is clean of marks. Volume III: is in VG condition with stamps on textblock deleted with black marker. Scratches and scuffing to boards. ; Volume 1: The District of Chiu-Chên during the Han Dynasty: Ge...
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EXTRAORDINARY MUSEUMS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

By: Kelly, Kristin

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams : 2001

Seller ID: 35873

ISBN-13: 9780810929944

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Light wear to corners of wraps. ; 9.4 X 5.5 X 0.7 inches; 224 pages
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SYGCHRONO IAPONO-ELLENIKO LEXIKO (MODERN JAPANESE-GREEK DICTIONARY)

By: Korakianitis, Vasilis (Basili Korakianiti)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Athens, Kastaniotis Editions : 1993

Seller ID: 2411

ISBN-13: 9789600311938

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very minor shelfwear. ; 452 pages
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A HISTORY OF FAR EASTERN ART

By: Lee, Sherman E. ; Naomi Noble Richard (Ed. )

Price: $63.00

Publisher: Prentice Hall & Harry N. Abrams : 1994

Seller ID: 35880

ISBN-13: 9780133933987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Else book is fine. ; Heavy book; 11.4 X 8.6 X 1.9 inches; 576 pages
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ART OF THE FAR EAST

By: Munsterberg, Hugo

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams : 1968

Seller ID: 17348

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Gift inscription in red marker to half-title. Else very minor shelfwear to book. DJ has rubbing, light foxing and light chipping. ; Overview of the art of China, Japan, and Korea; 264 pages
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A HISTORY OF GREEK FIRE AND GUNPOWDER

By: Partington, J. R.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd. : 1960

Seller ID: 2783

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Inner hinges are cracked exposing webbing. Spine is faded. Shelfwear with bumping to top corners. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Former call numbers on spine are effaced leaving faded marks. ; Contents: Incendiaries in Warfare; Book of Fires of Mark the Greek; The Legend of Black Berthold; Miscellaneous Treatises on Military Arts; Gunpowder and Firearms I nMuslim Lands; Pyrotechnics and Firearms in China; Saltpetre. Index on Names, of Places and Nationalities, of Greek Words. ; 381 pages
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COROLLA TORONTONENSIS Studies in Honour of Ronald Morton Smith

By: Robbins, Emmet & Stella Sandahl (Eds. )

Price: $42.00

Publisher: TSAR Publications : 1994

Seller ID: 6821

ISBN-13: 9780920661222

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very minor shelfwear else Fine. ; Contributors: Ann Dooley, T. D. Barnes, Emmet Robbins, John Wm Wevers, Grant Frame, Kirk Grayson, R F G Sweet, Andrew M. Watson, Michael E. Marmura, Eleazar Birnbaum, G. M. Wickens, Roger M. Savory, Rosalind Lefeber, Stella Sandahl, Kamaleswar Bhattacharya, Wayne Schlepp, Eung-Jin Baek, David Waterhouse. ; 295 pages
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JAPANESE CONVERSATION FOR BEGINNERS

By: Takahashi, M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Taiseido Shobo Co.

Seller ID: 20931

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Minor discoloration to rear board, old price inked on ffep. Minor shelfwear. ; N. D. 414pp, illustrated. 1940s to 1950s? ; 414 pages
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THE ART OF WAR Sun Tzu

By: Tzu, Sun & Thomas Cleary (Trans. )

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Shambhala : 1988

Seller ID: 18906

ISBN-13: 9780877734529

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Light creasing and rubbing to wraps. Foxing to textblock. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today, as eagerly studied in Asia by modern politicians and executives as it as been by military leaders since ancient times. As a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict, The Art of War applies to competition and conflict in general, on every level from the interpersonal to the international. Its aim is invinci...
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CENTRALITY AND MARGINALITY OF ANCIENT DOCUMENTS

By: Urano, Satoshi and Yukinori Fukatsu (Eds. )

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Seikokai Shuppan : 2009

Seller ID: 8923

ISBN-13: 9784882742036

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very faint creasing to upper corners of wraps else Fine. ; Contents: Writing the History of Ancient East Asia from Non-Literary Evidence (Ki-Tong Lee) ; Bureaucracy and Documentation in The Roman Empire (Alan K. Bowman) ; World of Ancient Japanese Document (Eiichi Ishigami) ; Culture and Ideas Carried by Chinese Characters in Ancient East Asia: the Japanese Viewpoint (Tokio Shinkawa) ; Public and Private Discourse on Stone in the Inscriptions of the Greek East (Charles Crowther) ; Greeks and thie Names in the Ancient World: Innovation and Tradition (Elaine Matthews) ; Recently Unearthed Laws (...
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Category: Far Eastern Studies