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Records for our new List 127

Including a special section on

Japanese Ceramics

have been added to our web site at:

     http://www.hanshan.com

The printed version of list 127 will be mailed out shortly.

Visit http://www.hanshan.com/hstpdf.html

to download new PDF VERSIONS (Portable Document Format)

of our catalogues.

If you did not get a copy of our *previous* catalogue 126, then you may have fallen

off the list for mailing of the printed version. Please get in touch if you

would  like to be reinstated. If you did get 126 and you have been active, the paper

copy of 127 will be on its way to you in due course. (Unless you have recently

asked to receive electronic notification only.)

CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ON CHINESE CERAMICS

We still have plenty copies of our recently issued

special catalogue of books on CHINESE CERAMICS.

This includes 976 items and is sent on request,

so please do let us know if you would like to receive a copy.

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 A FEW NEW BOOKS

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A few sample titles, newly in stock, that customers may like to order (please quote the six-character code in uppercase letters at the beginning of each record below)

  This list includes a number of titles on the Print Culture of China, in response to the forthcoming Colloquy at the Percival David Foundation, 'The Art of the Book in China', 13-15 June, 2005. For more information visit http://www.pdfmuseum.org.uk/www/exhibitions.html.

Please Note: we have limited initial stock of some of these titles and, where books must come from abroad, restocking may take some time.

BROPB1
Brokaw, Cynthia and Kai-wing Chow ed: PRINTING AND BOOK CULTURE IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA. Studies on China, 27. Berkeley, 2003. xvi, 539 pp. 63 b/w illustrations. 18 tables. Bibliography, index. 24x16 cm. Cloth.

GBP 48.95

One of the first substantial collections of scholarship on the culture of the book in China, this finely edited volume is based on the proceedings of a conference with eleven essays on commerial publishing and the markets for books, publishing for specialized audiences, and the illustrated Chinese book as a 'visual medium'. With a good linking introduction by the first editor.

http://www.hanshan.com/index.html?b/BROPB1

CARHH1
Carpenter, John T. ed: HOKUSAI AND HIS AGE. Ukiyo-e Painting, Printmaking and Book Illustration in Late Edo Japan. Leiden, 2005. 300 pp. 150 colour and 75 b/w illustrations. 25x30 cm. Cloth.

GBP 65.00

A profusely-illustrated volume that presents much new scholarship on the ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760-1849) and his immediate artistic and literary circles. With contributions by numerous scholars in the field.

http://www.hanshan.com/index.html?c/CARHH1

CHIPP2
Chia, Lucille: PRINTING FOR PROFIT. The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th-17th Centuries). Cambridge, 2003. 472 pp. 78 illustrations. 2 maps. Bibliography, index. 24x16 cm. Cloth.

GBP 32.95

Based on an extensive study of Jianyang imprints, genealogies of the leading families of printers, local histories, etc., this is not just a history of commercial printing but also a wide-ranging study of the culture of the book in traditional China.

http://www.hanshan.com/index.html?c/CHIPP2

CHOPC3
Chow, Kai-Wing: PUBLISHING, CULTURE AND POWER IN EARLY MODERN CHINA. Stanford, 2003. xv, 397 pp. 7 illustrations. 13 tables. Appendixes, character list, bibliography, index. 24x16 cm. Cloth.

GBP 38.00

A groundbreaking study of the influence of developments in printing and book production on Chinese society and culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

http://www.hanshan.com/index.html?c/CHOPC3

GGM051
Gugong Museum ed: GUANGNING QIUSHUI: QINGGONG ZAOBANCHU BOLIQI. Luster of Autumn Water: Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop. Beijing, 2005. 403 pp. 187 colour plates, b/w text illustrations. 31x24 cm. Wrappers.

GBP 60.00

Catalogue of an exhibition in the Gugong Museum in Beijing of Qing dynasty glassware produced in the zaobanchu imperial workshop. The exhibits come from the Gugong collection and represent a survey of the finest glass production. Includes vases, snuff bottles, scholars' objects, dishes and a truly remarkable pair of transparent glass Tibetan stupas containing enamel Buddhas. A number of the pieces are influenced by Jesuits present at the imperial court. All 184 pieces are illustrated in colour and described. All base marks are shown. Introductory essays. Near dual text in Chinese and English. An important contribution.

http://www.hanshan.com/index.html?g/GGM051

HEGRI1
Hegel, Robert E: READING ILLUSTRATED FICTION IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA. Stanford, 1998. xxii, 489 pp. Numerous tables and b/w illustrations. Notes, bibliography, index. 24x16 cm. Cloth.

GBP 65.00

An important recent work on the culture of the book in imperial China, Hegel's work examines the material form of the printed book, especially the illustration of popular novels, in order to reveal some aspects of the theory and practice of reading in China from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.

http://www.hanshan.com/index.html?h/HEGRI1

JIRWN1
Jirka-Schmitz, Patricia: THE WORLD OF NETSUKE. The Werdelmann Collection at the Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf. Stuttgart, 2004. 351 pp. 683 illustrations in colour with 1070 objects. 407 illustrations of inscriptions and marks. Appendixes with List of Carvers. Bibliography, index. 27x21 cm. Cloth.

GBP 75.00

An excellent new survey of more than a thousand pieces, based on one of the world's most comprehensive collections and featuring the most recent research in the field. Shows over a hundred signatures.

http://www.hanshan.com/index.html?j/JIRWN1

NJMLF1
Nanjing Bowuguan: LIUCHAO FENGCAI. The Six Dynasties: A Time of Splendor. Beijing, 2004. xii, 395 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x22 cm. Cloth.

GBP 85.00

A very focused work on the art and archaeological treasures from the Six Dynasties held in the collection of the Nanjing Museum. Divided into sections: Daily Utensils, Murals and Funerary Objects, Buddhist Stone Carvings, Other Material. 312 objects are illustrated in colour plates. Dual Chinese and English texts.

http://www.hanshan.com/index.html?n/NJMLF1

NMC051
National Museum of China ed: DAXIA XUNZONG - XIXIA WENWU JICUI. (In the Tracks of the Xixia - A Special Exhibition of Xixia Artefacts). Beijing, 2004. 231 pp. 187 pp. colour plates. Colour text illustrations. Map. 29x22 cm. Paper.

GBP 70.00

Catalogue of a very important and most interesting exhibition held at the National Museum of China in Beijing showing over 190 artefacts from the Xixia (or Tangut) Kingdom of Northwest China, which flourished 1038-1227 A.D. Many of the exhibits come from the collection of the Ningxia Museum, augmented by loans from other Chinese museums. Includes bronzes inscribed with Xixia script, woodslips and documents in Xixia script, ceramics, pottery figurines, some exceptional gilt-bronze figures (including two wonderful Bodhisattvas, one seated on a kneeling elephant, the other on a kneeling lion) plus figures of Hanshan and Shide. There are then textiles, Buddhist painting and Buddhist objects plus stone sculptures and ornamental roof tiles. Illustrated throughout in colour. Text in Chinese.

http://www.hanshan.com/index.html?n/NMC051

PETTC1
Pettigrew, Jane and Bruce Richardson: THE TEALOVER'S COMPANION. A Guide to Teas Throughout the World. London, 2005. 144 pp. 80 colour and b/w plates. Bibliography, index. 24x17 cm. Cloth, dustjacket.

GBP 14.99

Well-organised illustrated guide to all the major tea-growing countries of the world, and the teas they produce. With introductory chapters and then a directory of teas arranged by country. An appendix has specialists' addresses, and there is an index.

http://www.hanshan.com/index.html?p/PETTC1

WOOFC1
Wood, Frances: THE FORBIDDEN CITY. A Place in History. London, 2004. 88 pp. 5 colour and 35 b/w illustrations. 24x17 cm. Paper.

GBP 8.99

Introduces the reader to the fascinating personalities and officials who inhabited the Forbidden City and evokes the ritual-driven life within the Palace. Now available.

http://www.hanshan.com/index.html?w/WOOFC1

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