Southeast Asia :... Past and Present... - -... D.R. SarDesai... This, by now, standard work on the history of the region was one of the first to be written from more of an Asio-centric, rather than Western,point of view. In fact the author, an established professor at the University of...
Southeast Asia:... A Critical Bibliography... -... KG Tregonning... The noted Southeast Asian scholar, tregonning, produced this bibliography as a guide to students studying the region, so covers mainly historical, sociological and economic texts. The subject matter is broken down into parts covering each of the component countries of the region. Each...
Southeast Asia:... A Critical Bibliography... -... KG Tregonning... The noted Southeast Asian scholar, tregonning, produced this bibliography as a guide to students studying the region, so covers mainly historical, sociological and economic texts. The subject matter is broken down into parts covering each of the component countries of the region. Each...
Southeast Asian personalities of Chinese Descent... 2 Volumes-... Leo Suryadinata (ed)... New. For several centuries emigrants from China have been at the centre of trade in Southeast Asia. This volume, with nearly 200 contributors, assembles together pithy biographies of hundreds of the principal personalities who have contributed to trade and...
The West in Asia 1850-1914... by... Michael Edwardes... The really active time for Government inspired Western imperialism in Asia was relatively short, less than a century. Before that the bucaneers and tradesmen, often unwittingly, laid the foundations for something bigger to come. World War I showed the West had...
The Short Story in South-East Asia... - -... JHCS Davidson & H Cordell (eds)... This book is a collection of papers presented at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1978-79 highlighting a seldom studied genre, i.e. short story writing in the vernacular in Southeast Asia. So short...
The Short Story in South-East Asia... - -... JHCS Davidson & H Cordell (eds)... This book is a collection of papers presented at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1978-79 highlighting a seldom studied genre, i.e. short story writing in the vernacular in Southeast Asia. So short...
A Dragon Apparent... -... Norman Lewis... The veteran travel writer and novelist, Norman Lewis, decided to explore Indo-China at a time when it was in a considerable state of flux. The Japanese colonists had just left and the French were trying to re-exert their own version of colonial control...
A Different Chinese... -... CQ... New. The author, a Malaysian educated both there and abroad, shares with us his analysis of what the Chinese, both home grown and overseas, are up to. The work is based on his years as a businessman in the Southeast Asian region. The book's a delightful...
Chinese Ceramics from the Gulexan Collection... by... Regina Krahl... with Clarissa von Spee... This is a catalogue of a German collection, assembled in the post World War II era, of Chinese ceramics ranging over 2000 years from the Han to the Qing periods. Approximately 150 pieces have been chosen and...
Chinese Ceramics Porcelain... of... the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911... -... Rose Kerr... The book was produced by the museum to highlight their largest selection of Chinese porcelain, i.e. from the Qing dynasty. Besides a selection of black and white and colour illustrations the 142 page book includes several background chapters...
Chinese Ceramics:... The New Standard Guide... -... He Li... Ceramics have always been one of the principal exports of China because of their beauty and practicality. This review is based on the comprehensive collection in the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and is designed for both the scholar and the...
Chinese Folk Designs... by... W.M. Hawley... New. This is an abridged reprint of Hawley's 1949 work. It collects together 300 of the most commonly used hua yang, or paper designs, that have been cut by Chinese peasants for centuries. The designs were mainly used for embrodery. The book ends...
Dragon's Almanac:... Chinese, Japanese and Other Far Eastern Proverbs... --... Justin Wintle... 226 pages with notes and index... Weight: 0.5 kg. *On request this book will be sent post free by surface mail to any part of the world when it is part of an order weighing at least 2...
Imperial Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum... --... Lu Minghua & Others... This catalogue illustrates by colour photos and text a hundred pieces of the finest Imperial porcelain from the Shanghai museum. These items, which were of a superior quality to the more common export ware, were exhibited at a museum in...
Later Chinese Porcelain:... The Ch'ing Dynasty 1644-1912... by... Soames Jenyns... Chinese porcelain became fashionable in Europe from the late 17th century onwards. However by the 20th century connoiseurs in Europe, now able to visit China more easily, soon discovered that what Europe had considered as the best Chinese porcelain...
Mao's Last Dancer... By... Li Cunxin... New. This is the remarkable story of a Chinese country boy who was chosen to train at the Beijing Ballet Acdemy, sent to the US for further training and who then settled down there to become an international ballet star. Li tells his story...
Princes of Jade... by... Edmund Capon and William MacQuitty... Using as his inspiration the excavation of the Man Ch'eng Tombs in 1968 the author details the lives of the princes, buried in jade casings, of the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD). Capon, an authority on early Chinese history, not only introduces...
Secrets of the Chinese Palace... by... Tian Hengyu... In cartoon form this book gives us an amusing, but also informative, insight into life as a concubine in imperial China through the ages. 199 pages... Weight 0.40 Kg. Airmail postage to Asia Pacific countries: $6, to Central Asia, Europe &...
Southeast Asian personalities of Chinese Descent... 2 Volumes-... Leo Suryadinata (ed)... New. For several centuries emigrants from China have been at the centre of trade in Southeast Asia. This volume, with nearly 200 contributors, assembles together pithy biographies of hundreds of the principal personalities who have contributed to trade and...
Splendors of Imperial China... by... Maxwell K. Hearn... Hearn, the then Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Metropolitan, selected this sample of Chinese objects d'art for the book from a major exhibition held at the museum in the early 1990s. The items on display were chosen from the personal...
Style in the East Asian Tradition... - -... Rosemary Scott & Graham Hutt (eds)... This book contains papers delivered on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor William Watson, one of the leading academics specialising in Chinese Art in Europe in the post war years. The following papers, accompanied by black...
The Beauty of Chinese Yixing Teapots... &... The Finer Art of Tea Drinking... by... Lim Kean Siew... Although there have been many books written about tea, works about the importance of the teapot, essential for the best flavour, are less easily found. In this work the author gives us the...
A Daughter Remembers-... Li Lien Fung... The author was born in China when her father had already set off to the USA to seek his fortune leaving his wife and family behind. He was successful and apparently re-married leaving the family in China to fend for themselves. The author...
Daughter of Shanghai... --... Tsai Chin... The autobiography of Tsai Chin, who came to the world's notice first playing the title role in the stage version of The World of Suzie Wong, shows how she blazed a trail for the many other Chinese actors who have followed her to work in...
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