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A Different Chinese - CQ
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...
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Chinese Ceramics from the Gulexan Collection - Regina Krahl with C von Spee
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...
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Chinese Ceramics Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911 - Rose Kerr
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...
Price: $56.00
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Chinese Ceramics: The New Standard Guide - He Li
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...
Price: $26.00
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Chinese Folk Designs - W.M. Hawley
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...
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Dragon's Almanac: Chinese, Japanese and Other Far Eastern Proverbs
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...
Price: $20.00
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Imperial Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum - Lu Minghua & Others
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...
Price: $66.00
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Later Chinese Porcelain: The Ch'ing Dynasty 1644-1912
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...
Price: $16.00
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Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
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...
Price: $15.00
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Princes of Jade - Edmund Capon and William MacQuitty
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...
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Secrets of the Chinese Palace - Tian Hengyu
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 &...
Price: $10.00
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Southeast Asian personalities of Chinese Descent - 2 Volumes - Leo Suryadinata (ed)
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...
Price: $193.00
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Splendors of Imperial China - Maxwell K. Hearn
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...
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Style in the East Asian Tradition - Rosemary Scott & Graham Hutt (eds)
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...
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Tembikar China Berunsur Islam /Chinese Islamic Wares - Othman Mohd Yatim
Tembikar China Berunsur Islam /... Chinese Islamic Wares... in... the Collection of Muzium Negara... --... Othman Mohd Yatim... Although Chinese ceramic exports to Western markets are better known internationally, Chinese manufacurers simultaneously were catering for the Malayan Archipelago market as well. This book contains descriptions and colour plates of some of the...
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The Beauty of Chinese Yixing Teapots - Lim Kean Siew
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...
Price: $148.00
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The Ugly Chinaman and the Crisis of Chinese Culture - Bo Yang
The Ugly Chinaman and the Crisis of Chinese Culture... --... Bo Yang... A collection of the Chinese intellectual, Bo Yang's, speeches and writings and interviews with him, also included samples of reactions which Bo Yang's thoughts have provoked... 162 pages. * Post free within Malaysia. Outside Malaysia postage is charged by...
Price: $50.00
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