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New York: Greenhaven Press, 2005 127 pp. CONDITION: An ex-library, non-circulating copy in excellent overall condition: text neat and clean; minor shelving/handling wear only; library stickers; library markings on title-page; stamped "withdrawn.". First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998 xvi, 340 pp. Reference, appendices, index. Provides summary information for each New Independent State following the collapse of the Soviet Union; the author concentrates almost exclusively on the twentieth century. CONDITION: An ex-library copy in excellent condition (library marks on title-page; call number and barcode stickers; stamped "withdrawn"). Text clean and neat. Light overall shelf rubbing to covers. No dustjacket, as issued.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket (as issued). 24 x 17 cm. more information

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Seoul, South Korea: Minjung, 2003 xiv, 3017 pp. This is the most recent edition of the leading Korean-English dictionary (in Korea as well as abroad). Bound in durable, flexible, leatherette covers. CONDITION: Very light overall handling wear only. Binding firm. OVERSIZED.. Fourth Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 23 x 16 cm. more information

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Elizabeth, NJ: Hollym International / Minjung, 2003 NOTE: This 9th Deluxe American Edition is IDENTICAL to the 10th Edition (2006) published by Hollym (same pagination, same ISBN). xiv, 3246 pp. This is the most recent version of the leading English-Korean dictionary (in Korea as well as abroad). Bound in durable, flexible, leather covers. CONDITION: Very light overall handling wear only. Binding firm. OVERSIZED.. Ninth Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 23 x 16 cm. more information

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Bloomington, IN: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University, 1985 Like new. iv, 305 pp. References. CONTENTS: Introduction. PART ONE: HISTORICAL. 1) Geographical setting. 2) Mongolia before the Mongols. 3) the Mongol conquests 1150-1279. 4) The Mongolian homeland. 5) Age of disintegration, 1350-1691. 6) Mongolia, 1691-1912. 7) Twentieth-century Mongolia. PART TWO: CULTURAL INFLUENCES. 1) Peoples and languages. 2) Lifestyle. 3) Literature and the arts. 4) Lamaist Buddhism. 5) The economy. 6) Sources. CONDITION: Minor shelf rubbing to covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 23 x 16 cm. more information

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966 114 pp. Footnotes, list of contributors. 7 essays and introduction. Contents: Moderates and Extremists: Two Attitudes towards British Rule in India. The Idea of Freedom in the Political Thoughts of Vivekananda and Aurobindo. National Interpretations of Arthasastra in Indian Historical Writing. Lord Curzon and Indian Nationalism, 1898-1905. The Effects of the Russian Revolution on India, 1917-1920. Nehru and Early Indian Socialism. Ex-library copy with usual library markings (stamped "withdrawn"). Moderate sunning to spine and at top of front board. Text free of all marks. Minimal wear and soiling to covers.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 15 x 23 cm. more information

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New Haven, CT: Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) Press, 1956 viii, 230 pp. A total of 1,018 sources are given (approximately half of the entries are annotated in English). Contents: Bibliographies; Books, Pamphlets and Other Separates; Periodicals; Burma Official, Selected Publications by the Government of Burma; Serials Cited; Topical Bibliography [arranged by subheading]. CONDITION: Light overall rubbing to original card covers. Moderate sunning along spine. One small library stamp on top of front cover. Other than this stamp, there are no other indications that this is an ex-library copy. Pages free of all marks.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 15 x 23 cm. more information

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Tokyo: Toyo Bunko, 2004. 766 pp., bibliographical references, loose errata sheet inserted; in cardboard slipcase. Text in Chinese with Japanese translation; added English title-page. This volume contains a Japanese translation with scholarly annotations of the sections from the official history of the Sung Dynasty (the "Sung shi") dealing with fiscal affairs pertaining to salt and tea. CONDITION: Both the book and the plain cardboard slipcase are in fine (like new) condition.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine (Like New)/In Slipcase (Like New). 22 x 16 cm. more information

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Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Very Good. 1983. First Edition. Paperback. 28 x 22 cm 89 pp. Bibliographical notes. Only published in softcover. A scholarly collection of conference papers on various topics dealing with Islamic Central Asia. CONTENTS: Meaning of Central Asia [Richard N. Frye]. What are the most important traditional, reformist, and revolutionary attitudes of Central Asians towards their own societies today? [Timur Kocaoglu]. Notes on the dynamics of religion and national identity in Central Asia [Azade-Ayse Rorlich]. Economic realities and dynamics of Central Asia [Theodore Shabad]. Development in context: Inner Asian trends: the last thirty years [Daniel C. Matuszewski]. Soviet Central Asia and the state [Michael Rywkin]. Soviet nationality research and employment possibilities in the U.S. government [Alvin Kapusta]. Central Asian studies in the university [Denis Sinor]. CONDITION: Light overall wear only; text clean and free of all mark. . more information

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Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1998 xviii, 291 pp. Notes, bibliographical references. A collection of 16 essays. CONDITION: An ex-library copy in excellent overall condition. Text clean and neat; very light overall handling/shelf wear. Library marks to title-page; call number and barcode labels; stamped "withdrawn." No dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007 xii, 411 pp. Appendix, bibliography, index. 18 scholarly essays examine secularism in India.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1969 NOTE: Bound in boards upside down. 148 pp. Editors' introduction, illustrations, bibliography, notes. Contains an English translation followed by the Tibetan text. Allegedly told in 1674, the Tibetan tale presented here has many titles. The formal title, "Being the Secret Biography of the Words and Deeds of the Glorious Lama, the Holy Reverend Blo bZang Ye SHes," which appears on the first leaf of the Tibetan text, is misleading. The story is not a biography of the Second Panchen Lama, who held office during the latter part of the seventeenth century. It is a fanciful allegory and popular folktale with a political purpose as precise and pointed as that of any political pamphlet or propaganda. The story has two themes: the first is political in character and is concerned with intrigue and struggle for power (the play attempts to establish the primacy of the Panchen Lama over the Dalai Lama), the latter is a folk theme of fraternal love between half brothers. CONDITION: Book plate (from a private university men's club) on first free endpaper is stamped "discard." Light discoloration (sunning) to original cloth covers, else in excellent condition.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). 16 x 24 cm. more information

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Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2006 xii, 134 pp. Illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, index. CONDITION: An ex-library copy in excellent overall condition. Text clean and neat; minor overall handling/shelf wear (appears unused). Library marks to title-page; call number and barcode labels; stamped "withdrawn." No dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1963 vii, 97 pp. Bibliography. Includes 19 folktales; each text is presented in Korean, English translation, romanized transcription, and a word-by-word translation (presyntactic analysis). CONDITION: Sewn binding. As new with minor age toning to paper.. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 22 x 14 cm. more information

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Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006 xiii, 226 p. ; 24 cm. "Parel shows how Gandhi, drawing on the time-honored Indian theory of the purusharthas or "the aims of life," fitted his ethical, political, aesthetic and religious ideas together. In this way, Gandhi challenged the notion which prevailed in Indian society that a rift existed between the secular and the spiritual, the political and the contemplative life. Parel's revealing and insightful book shows how far-reaching were the effects of Gandhi's practical philosophy on Indian thought generally, and how these have survived into the present." Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-215) and index. Fine condition in like dustjacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Like New/Like New. more information

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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985 xvii, 333 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Includes index. Bibliography: p. [321]-328. NF condition. (Softcover). Second Edition. Soft Cover. more information

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Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1986 xix, 629 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, 110-page glossary. Out-of-print in hardback. This seminal book reports the state-of-the-art in the archaeology and prehistory of Japan by presenting both original research and reflections by leading scholars on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. Reviewers have been unanimous in their high praise for this volume: "a monumental work;" "unprecedented in both its scale and the number of information papers;" "it will remain a milestone for many, many years to come;" "no scholar interested in the history . . . and cultures [of] East Asia can afford to be without this important new text;" "this will, without doubt, be THE book in English on the subject for years to come." Divided into 5 parts (each introduced by one of the editors) and accompanied by an extensive glossary. CONTENTS: PART 1: Background. 1) Vegetation in prehistoric Japan: the last 20,000 years [Matsuo]. 2) Almost archaeology: early archaeological interest in Japan [Bleed]. PART 2: Race, Language, and Culture: Japanese Identity. 3) The origin of the Japanese in relation to other ethnic groups in East Asia [Hanihara]. 4) Physical anthropology of the prehistoric Japanese [Howells]. 5) Linguistic evidence and Japanese prehistory [Miller]. 6) Relationships between Japan and Asai in ancient times: introductory comments [Higuchi]. 7) Mounded tombs in East Asia from the 3rd to the 7th centuries A.D. [Okauchi]. 8) Continental culture and Hokkaido [Kikuchi]. 9) Convergence and common heritage: some parallels in the archaeology of Japan and western North America [Aikins and Dumond]. PART 3: Prehistory, Culture, History, and Society. 10) The paleolithic age of Japan in the context of East Asia: a brief introduction [Serizawa]. 11) Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene technologies [Ikawa-Smith]. 12) The origins and characteristics of Jomon ceramic culture: a brief introduction [Esaka]. 13) Community habitation and food gathering in prehistoric Japan: an ethnographic interpretation of the archaeological evident [Watanabe]. 14) Clay figurines and Jomon society [Nagamine]. 15) Jomon shell mounds and growth-line analysis of molluscan shells [Koike]. 16) Discriminant function analysis of later Jomon settlements [Akazawa and Maeyama]. 17) Rules of residence in the Jomon period, based on the analysis of tooth extraction [Harunari]. 18) The evidence for social change between the Early and Late Yayoi [Kanaseki]. 19) The keyhole tumulus and its relationship to earlier forms of burial [Kondo]. 20) Political interpretations of stone coffin production in protohistoric Japan [Wada]. 21) Two inscribed swords from Japanese tumuli: discoveries and research on finds from the Sakitama-Inariyama and Eta-Funayama tumuli [Anazawa and Manome]. 22) Reflections on the development of historical archaeological in Japan [Yamamoto]. 23) Cultural contacts between Japan and China as reflected by Tang Sansai [Kamei]. PART 4: Typological Studies in Japanese Archaeology. 24) A study of Late Early Jomon Culture in the Tone River area [Nishimura]. 25) The structure of Yayoi and Haji ceramic typologies [Barnes]. PART 5: Japanese Cultural Resource Management. 26) Problems concerning the preservation of archaeological sites in Japan [Tsuboi]. 27) Trends in administrative salvage archaeology [Kobayashi]. Book in as new condition except for a short, illegible, 2-word pen inscription on the rear free endpaper and very minor shelf soiling to bottom of book block. Very minor overall rubbing to dustjacket. OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 29 x 23 cm. more information

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Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2008 xxv, 725 pp. Illustrations, maps. Originally published in 1950, this book provides a wonderful portrait of China during the momentous period of modern China's development. CONDITION: Very minor handling to rear cover only; virtually as new.. First Thus. Paperback. Like New. 21 x 14 cm. more information

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Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, published for the Winfield Foundation and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1956 xxi, [2], 2-234 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm. Maps on lining papers. Indexed. Bibliography: p. 222-224. Bound in blue and grey cloth, stamped in gilt. With 16 figures. With frontispiece and 16 plates from color transparencies by Anna Wachsman (109 plates in all, as well as 9 illustrations in the Appendix. VG condition (hint of edge fading, slightly more pronounced to a small piece of upper front board) in a moderately chipped and worn dustjacket.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Arlington, VA: University Publications of America, Inc., 1976 148 pp. Bibliographical footnotes. Facsimile reprint of the 1947 English translation. Translated into English from Russian (originally published 1893). CONDITION: Minor rubbing only to covers; virtually as new.. Reprint. Hardcover. Like New/No Jacket (as issued). 24 x 16 cm. more information

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New York: Greenwood Press, 1990 xviii, 196 pp. 2 appendices, bibliography, index. This book presents a grass-roots study of Western, university-level, educational experts in China in the decade ending with the Tiananmen Square suppresion of student protests. CONDITION: Very light handling only; text neat and clean.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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London: Sage Publications, 2000 Virtually like new. vi, 239 pp. Map, chapter notes, bibliography, index. Minor shelving wear only, else like new.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002 xii, 356 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-307) and index. NF condition in like dustjacket. First Edition. Cloth. more information

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New York: AMS Press, 1973 New (in publisher's original shrinkwrap). xvi, 335 pp. Plates, bibliography, index. A facsimile reprint of the original edition published in 1928. Translated into English from the original Syriac. Contains a lengthy historical introduction by Prof. Budge (pp. 1-118) followed by the translated text.. Reprint. Hardcover. New/No Jacket (as issued). 23 x 15 cm. more information

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London ; New York: Kegan Paul International ; Leiden : In association with the International Institute for Asian Studies ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1998 x, 287 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series title: (Studies from the International Institute for Asian Studies) Includes bibliographical references.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. more information

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Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989 viii, 237 pp. Bibliographical footnotes, index. CONDITION: An ex-library copy in overall very good condition. Text clean and neat; moderate overall handling/shelf wear (no fraying to cloth). Library marks to title-page; call number and barcode labels; due date slip and pocket in rear; stamped "withdrawn.". First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001 xii, 601 pp. Illustrations, 1 map, endnotes, bibliography, character index, index. Through the case of a single well-placed official, Chen Hongmou (1696-1771), this book studies the consciousness and the governing project of the 18th-century Chinese official-elite. Chen Hongmou was arguably the most influential Chinese official of the eighteenth century and unquestionably its most celebrated field administrator. He served as governor-general and governor, as well as in lesser provincial-level posts in more than a dozen provinces, achieving after his death cult status as a "model official." In this magisterial study, the author draws on Chen's life and career to answer a range of questions: What did mid-Qing bureaucrats think they were doing? How did they conceive the universe and their society, what did they see as their potential to "save the world," and what would the world, properly saved, be like? The answers to these questions are important not only because vast numbers of people were subject to these officials' governance, but because the verdict of their successors was that they did their jobs remarkably well and should be emulated. Three persistent tensions in elite consciousness form the author's focus. First, the elite adhered to the fundamentalist moral dictates of Song neo-Confucian orthodoxy at the same time that a new valuation of pragmatic, technocratic prowess abhorrent to the moral tradition emerged. Second, two contradictory views on the use of "statecraft" to achieve an ordered world were in play--one that favored the expansive use of the state apparatus and one that emphasized indigenous local elites and communities. Finally, the subordination of human beings to the service of hierarchical social groupings contended with a growing appreciation of the dignity, moral worth, and productive potential of the individual. The author uses a holistic approach, attempting, for example, to explore how notions regarding gender roles and funerary ritual related to Qing economic thought, how the encounter with other cultures on the expanding frontiers helped form ideas of "civilized" conduct at home, and how an official's negotiation of the complex Qing bureaucracy affected his approach to social policy. The author also considers how attitudes formed during the prosperous and highly dynamic eighteenth century conditioned China's responses to the crises it confronted in the centuries to follow. CONDITION: Very light overall rubbing to dustjacket. OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 26 x 19 cm. more information

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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002. vi, 265 pp. Bibliographical footnotes, index. Reflections on the practice of history and contemporary politics by one of India's most eminent historians. The political context in which historians of India find themselves today, claims the author, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalized forms of capitalism, while the historian's intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism and an academic shift to cultural studies and postmodern critique. In this book, one of India's foremost contemporary historians offers his view of how the craft of history should be practiced in this complex conjuncture. In studies of colonial time-keeping, Rabindranath Tagore's fiction, and pre-Independence Bengal, Sarkar explores new approaches to the writing of history. Essays on contemporary politics consider the implications of the "Hindu Bomb," the rewriting of national history textbooks by Hindu fundamentalists, and the issue of conversion to Christianity. CONTENTS: Introduction. 1) Colonial times: clocks and Kali-yuga. 2) Indentities and histories: some lower-caste narratives from early twentieth-century Bengal. 3) Intimations of Hindutva: indeologies, caste, and class in post-Swadeshi Bengal. 4) Two Muslim tracts for peasants: Bengal 1909-1910. 5) Nationalism and "Stri-Swadhinata": the contexts and meanings of Rabindranath's "Ghare-Baire." 6) Postmodernism and the writing of history. 7) The BJP bomb and nationalism. 8) Christianity, Hindutva, and the question of conversions. 9) Hindutva and history. NOTE: This book is printed in South Asia and the production quality is somewhat lower than in the West.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 23 x 15 cm. more information

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Karachi, India: Oxford University Press with Asia House, 1997 xx, 341 pp. Color plates, bibliography, contributors, index. This collection of 16 essays brings together the insights of a wide range of writers who examine Pakistan's development in its varied yet interconnected spheres since its creation in 1947. Topics covered include the arts and drama as they try to survive alongside a sharp trend towards Islamic fundamentalism, schools as they attempt to meet the demand of an ever increasing population, and democracy as it struggles to establish itself in a country prone to military dictatorship. Very minor wear to dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 15 x 23 cm. more information

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New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 1998 xiii, 232 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-223) and index. NF condition in like dustjacket.. Hard Cover. more information

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 xiii, 215 pp. Map, footnotes, bibliography, index.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 23 x 16 cm. more information

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Udaipur, Rajasthan, India: State Printing Press, 1928 vii, 87, ix, 3 pp. 22 plates, bibliography, plans (one folding), list of Mewar rulers, errata. This scarce little book was compiled by the curator of the Victoria Hall Museum (Udaipur) as a fascinating guide for tourists to the history and monuments of the famous fort of Chittorgarh (located near Udaipur in Rajasthan, India). The first half of the book is devoted to the history of the region, and the second half contains a detailed map and guide to Chittor's 50 major monuments. Bound in plain, blue paper-covered boards with cloth backstrip. CONDITION: Light overall shelfwear with heavier wear to extremities; mild sunning to front board. Endpapers browned; light tearing to front endpapers caused by binder. Text clean and neat.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). 23 x 15 cm. more information

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Bikaner, Rajasthan, India, 1992. xxix, 1,555 pp. Plates, endnote quotes in Devanagari script. This privately-printed (and difficult to obtain), massive historical study of western Rajasthan by the Director of Sadul Rajasthani Research Institute (Bikaner, Rajasthan) contains a wealth of information. Chapter titles: General Matters, Rathores, Bikaner State, Jodhpur State, and Bathis. Only Volume One has been published. Inscribed by the author to a friend on the front free endpaper. There is a closed 4-centimeter split to base of front hinge, else binding is sound. Several bumps to edges of rear board from being tied during shipping. Light overall wear to covers. The production quality is average for South Asian publications. Some light overall wear and light chipping to edges of dustjacket; tear to rear top edge of jacket. Oversized.. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Good to Very Good/Good. 19 x 25 cm. Privately Printed. more information

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Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1963 xxiv, 371 pp. Index. Prefatory matter and annotations in French. A very valuable annotated bibliography for scholars of Inner Asia, containing 4,403 entries. CONDITION: As new; pages untrimmed and unopened (uncut). Sewn binding. Only published in paperback.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 25 x 18 cm. more information

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Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007 xiv, 377 pp. Appendix, endnotes, bibliography, index.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Monticello, IL: Council of Planning Librarians, 1972 23 pp. Contains approximately 219 references. CONDITION: An ex-library copy (call number and stamp on front cover; library stamp inside front cover; pocket inside rear cover). Text clean and neat. Stapled booklet. Light sunning/aging to card covers, with light handling wear.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 28 x 22 cm. more information

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Monticello, IL: Council of Planning Librarians, 1973 70 pp. Contains approximately 950 references. CONDITION: An ex-library copy (call number and stamp on front cover; library stamp on first page; pocket inside rear cover). Text clean and neat. Stapled booklet. Light sunning/aging to card covers, with light handling wear.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 28 x 22 cm. more information

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Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), 2008 New. 286 pp. Bibliographical references, indexes. A Chinese-English-Luobohe Miao vocabulary organized by topic for the Luobohe Miao language (a Hmong language in the Chuanqiandian Miao family) spoken in central Guizhou Province, China. Explanatory material in Chinese.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/No Jacket (as issued). 27 x 19 cm. more information

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East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Asian Studies Center, 1990 179 pp.; 23 cm. South Asia Series. Occasional paper No.38. Seventeenth Bengal Studies Conference proceedings. With papers on Development and Agrarian Structure, Bangladesh and Foreign policy, Social Dynamics in Bangladesh, Literary Conferences, List of Bengal Studies Conferences, List of Bengal Publications from Michigan State University.. Soft Cover. Very Good. more information

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Fremont, CA: Asian Humanities Press (Jain Publishing Company), 1999. ix, 439 pp. Charts, notes, bibliography, index. The Mahavamsa is the epic tale of Sri Lanka's founding and early history. It is the least known of all the world's great chronicles, and much less familiar than its Subcontinent forebears, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The Mahavamsa or "Great Chronicle" was composed in Pali in the fifth century AD, and it describes the founding era of Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Its sweeping relation of the period from 500 BC through 300 AD details the origins of virtually every religious practice and social institution in Sri Lanka and South India today. Some of these are: the commonwealth that developed between ruler, religion and populace; popular Buddhism's fusion with local shamanistic beliefs and practices; the dilution of the caste system after removing its religious proscriptions; the great reservoir based irrigation system which made a complex civilization on the island possible; and the culture which developed from the cultivator mentality of the rice paddy and moral principles of Buddhism. The Mahavamsa's literary qualities place it alongside the best of the literature emanating from Subcontinent traditions. While the palace literature of the time was sparse and stilted, and monastic literature was confined to edifying stories about the Buddha, the popular oral storytelling tradition which was the ultimate origin of the Mahavamsa was a very rich brew of fables, folk stories, hearth and fireside songs, incantations worship, animism and the lore of paddy culture. All this life and liveliness found its way into the pages of Mahavamsa. This edition contains the text of the Mahavamsa, plus numerous explanatory notes and commentaries that paint a broad picture of the era in which Mahavamsa was written.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine (Like New)/No Jacket (as issued). 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990 xix, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. "A Philip E. Lilienthal book." Epilogue. Notes. References. Index. VG( scattered marginal notes in ink in the first 18 pages) in NF dustjacket.. First Edition.. Cloth. more information

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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007 xxvi, 205 pp. Illustrations, map, endnotes, bibliography, index. A scholarly study of khadi (homespun, home-woven cloth) and its role in the swadeshi movement inspired by Mohandas K. Gandhi.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 24 x 17 cm. more information

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Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, 2006 xiv, 722 pp. Indexes, bibliography, facsimile plates. This important book is a comprehensive collection of all known "Preclassical" Mongolian literary texts (many fragmentary) written in the Uighur-Mongolian script dated prior to the 16th-17th centuries. The texts are presented in transcribed romanized Latin script (no translations are provided). Nearly half of the book is devoted to the collected texts (pp. 9-282) divided into four sections by type: 1) inscriptions, 2) xylographs, 3) manuscripts, and 4) paizi and seal letters. The remainder of the book consists of a comprehensive word-index to the texts (pp. 283-632); Selected Index Nominum (633-640); Some examples of phrases and expressions (641-650); Bibliography (651-667); List of fragments and their original photo copies (669-673); and high-quality black-and-white facsimile plates (675-722). CONDITION: Minor bumping to corners, else as new. OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 27 x 20 cm. more information

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Beijing, China: Foreign Languages Press, 2007 241 pp. Bibliography. Back cover--"This book is intended to reconsider the ethos of Chinese culture against the status quo of China and the world today, and with a particular reference to the human condition in the context of globalization and its challenges. It features an engaging and in-depth discussion about such notions as heaven-and-human oneness, harmonization without being patternized, and happiness in philosophies and religions, among others. All this is applied not merely to the development of cultural ideals, social norms, human relations and even world outlooks, but also to the formation of thinking strategies, pesonal cultivation, aesthetic contemplatoin, and spiritual nourishment, etc." CONDITION: Light overall handling; text neat and clean.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 23 x 15 cm. more information

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Bloomington, IN: East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, 1983. v, 183 pp. Illustrations. A collection of bi-weekly research presentations from the 1982-1983 academic year by members of the East Asian Studies Center. Most of the articles are edited from the oral record. CONTENTS: Chinese court architecture (Richard Chi). Management education: New initiatives in the PRC (Joseph Battat). Culture control systems and commitment: A study of work organizations in the United States and Japan (James Lincoln). De-Maoization and social science research in China (Jean Robinson). Key concepts in the Japanese garden (David Slawson). Law and dynastic order in China (Hal Pepinsky). Japan 1868: Reading the Meiji Restoration (George M. Wilson). East Asian studies at Indiana University: Retrospect and prospects (Kenneth R.R. Gros Louis). Ai Qing, a poet of the Chinese people (Eugene Eoyang). The Pacific Rim and new approaches to East Asia (Philip West). A Chinese dialect in its social context (Margaret Sung). Welcome address to the Pacific Rim conference participants (Kenneth R.R. Gros Louis). Consumer experience in the Chinese marketplace (Hans Thorelli). Plastic comb binding. Minor overall wear.. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 22 x 28 cm. more information

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Bloomington, IN: East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, 1983. v, 183 pp. Illustrations. A collection of bi-weekly research presentations from the 1982-1983 academic year by members of the East Asian Studies Center. Most of the articles are edited from the oral record. CONTENTS: Chinese court architecture (Richard Chi). Management education: New initiatives in the PRC (Joseph Battat). Culture control systems and commitment: A study of work organizations in the United States and Japan (James Lincoln). De-Maoization and social science research in China (Jean Robinson). Key concepts in the Japanese garden (David Slawson). Law and dynastic order in China (Hal Pepinsky). Japan 1868: Reading the Meiji Restoration (George M. Wilson). East Asian studies at Indiana University: Retrospect and prospects (Kenneth R.R. Gros Louis). Ai Qing, a poet of the Chinese people (Eugene Eoyang). The Pacific Rim and new approaches to East Asia (Philip West). A Chinese dialect in its social context (Margaret Sung). Welcome address to the Pacific Rim conference participants (Kenneth R.R. Gros Louis). Consumer experience in the Chinese marketplace (Hans Thorelli). Plastic comb binding. Minor overall wear.. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 22 x 28 cm. more information

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Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002 xii, 251 pp. Maps, illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, index. A scholarly, anthropological study of land use on the steppes of Inner Mongolia. CONDITION: An ex-library copy in very good overall condition. Text clean and neat; moderately light overall handling/shelfwear. Library marks to title-page; call number and barcode labels; stamped "withdrawn." No dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Monticello, IL: Council of Planning Librarians, 1976 37 pp. Contains approximately 500 references. CONDITION: An ex-library copy (call number on front cover; library stamp inside front cover; pocket inside rear cover). Text clean and neat. Stapled booklet. Light sunning/aging to card covers, with light handling wear.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 28 x 22 cm. more information

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Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1971 xxiii, 437 p. illus., facsim., forms, maps. 25 cm. Bibliography: p. [381]-403. NF condition in spine-sunned dustjacket with moderate wear.. First Edition. Cloth. more information

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000 xvii, 284 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. CONDITION: An ex-library copy in excellent condition (library marks to title-page; call number and barcode stickers; stamped "withdrawn"). Text clean and neat. Very light shelf rubbing to covers. No dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 23 x 15 cm. more information

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