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HANSHAN TANG BOOKS • L IST 174 NEW PUBLICATIONS LATEST ACQUISITIONS H ANSHAN TANG B OOKS LTD Unit 3, Ashburton Centre 276 Cortis Road London SW 15 3 AY UK Tel (020) 8788 4464 Fax (020) 8780 1565 Int’l (+44 20) [email protected] www.hanshan.com CONTENTS N EW & R ECENT P UBLICATIONS / 3 F ROM O UR S TOCK / 7 S UBJECT I NDEX / 60 T ERMS The books advertised in this list are antiquarian, second-hand or new publications. All books listed are in mint or good condition unless otherwise stated. If an out-of-print book listed here has already been sold, we will keep a record of your order and, when we acquire another copy, we will offer it to you. If a book is in print but not immediately available, it will be sent when new stock arrives. We will inform you when a book is not available. Prices take account of condition; they are net and exclude postage. Please note that we have occasional problems with publishers increasing the prices of books on the actual date of publication or supply. For secondhand items, we set the prices in this list. However, for new books we must reluctantly reserve the right to alter our advertised prices in line with any suppliers’ increases. P OSTAL C HARGES & D ISPATCH United Kingdom: For books weighing over 700 grams, minimum postage within the UK is GB £12.00. If books are lighter and we are able to charge less for delivery, we will do so. Dispatch is usually by a trackable three working day courier service. Rest of the World: Dispatch is by the speediest and most economical method, currently Royal Mail International (not trackable). We try to use services which are as inexpensive as surface postage, but are air-lifted wherever possible. Valuable ship - ments will be registered. Larger bulk shipments are dispatched by bag mail. Small consignments are sent by surface mail unless otherwise directed. Should you require a different service, such as air-mail or courier, please let us know your requirements. 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United States: by personal US$ cheque, by transfer to our bank in New York, or by a cheque in Sterling drawn on an UK-based bank. Any other form of payment must be accompanied by an extra GB £15.00 to cover bank charges. Europe: by banker’s draft drawn on a UK bank, or by a cheque in Sterling drawn on a UK-based bank. Any other form of payment should be accompanied by an extra GB £15.00 to cover bank charges. If making a direct transfers, please contact us for iban and swiftbic numbers. Rest of the World: by banker’s draft drawn on a UK bank. Other forms of payment should be accompanied by an extra GB £15.00 to cover bank charges. Cover image see item 650. Logo kindly written for us by the artist in Xu Bing’s Square Word Calligraphy. 174 3 & LIST – – NEW RECENT PUBLICATIONS & NEW RECENT PUBLICATIONS 1 Art Museum, Chinese University HK: MENGDIE XUAN CANG夢 Z蝶H軒ON藏G中G國UO古 代GU金D飾 AI JIN SHI. Radiant Legacy: Ancient Chinese Gold from the Mengdiexuan Collection. Hong Kong, 2013. 195; 228; 284 pp. Full page colour plates and colour text plates throughout all 3 volumes. 3 vols. 30x22 cm. Cloth. £250.00 Large three-volume catalogue of an exhibition at the Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, showing superb ancient Chinese gold artefacts from the privately-held Mengdiexuan Collection. A total of approximately 300 gold ornaments from China and Eurasia dating from c.1500 BC through to the 17th century AD. Includes an extensive amount of material from the Tang dynasty, a good show - ing from the Song and Liao periods and finishing with Ming dynasty objects, primarily jewellery. The collection is also notable for the large amount of early gold objects relating to the Eurasian steppes nomad cultures. Illustrated throughout with full page colour plates. Dual texts in Chinese and English, including all introductory essays and detailed captions. A notable addition to the literature on the subject. 2 Beijing Capital Museu故m:宮 G珍U藏GO :NG 慈 Z禧 H的EN瓷C器 ANG CIXI DE CIQI. (The Porcelain of Cixi from the Gugong Museum Collection). Beijing, 2013. 219 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x23 cm. Wrappers. £75.00 Catalogue of a popular and colourful exhibition at the Capital Museum in Beijing showing imperial ceramics associated with, or commissioned by, the (Dowager) Empress Cixi. Ranges from the Tongzhi wedding service (imperial yellow with double happiness symbols and butterflies) through to Guangxu imperial yellow covered bowls with magpies and blossoms and turquoise ceramics with wisteria designs. Includes Dayazhai ceramics. All the ceramics are from the Gugong Museum and from the former imperial collec - tion. Illustrated throughout with colour plates showing a total of 96 exhibits, many with views of close-up detail and base marks. Text in Chinese. Hard to obtain. 3 Beijing Capital Museum: TAIBEI SHIJIE ZONGJIAO BOWUGUAN Z台O北NG世 J界IA宗O教 YI博SH物U館 W宗E教NH藝U術A 文ZH化A展 N. Religious Art and Culture from Taipei Museum of World Religions. Beijing, 2013. 160 pp. Colour plates throughout, many full page. 29x23 cm. Wrappers. £60.00 Catalogue of an exhibition at the Capital Museum in Beijing showing 101 fine religious artefacts from religions worldwide but with an emphasis on Asian religions. All illustrated in colour and described. Introduction and captions in English. Main text in Chinese. 4 Broug, Eric: ISLAMIC GEOMETRIC DESIGN. London, 2013. 256 pp. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout, a number full page. 32x24 cm. Cloth. £39.95 A well-illustrated volume that analyses and explains these complex designs in their historical and physical context. Hundreds of de - signs shown along with photographs of mosques, madrases, palaces and tombs in the Islamic world which bear these designs and dec - oration. 5 Chen Jianming ed: HUNAN PROVINCIAL MUSEUM. N.p., 2012. 192 pp. Colour plates throughout. 27x20 cm. Paper. £20.00 The Hunan Provincial Museum is located in Changsha, China. This book illustrated highlights of its fine collections, from important examples of Shang and Zhou dynasty bronzes dating back 3,500 years to the extraordinary 2000 year-old relics found in the excava - tion of the Mawangdui Han tombs of the Western Han Dai family. Also includes fine ceramics, paintings, gold, silver, textiles and jew - ellery. 6 Clark, T. ed: SHUNGA. Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art. London, 2013. 536 pp. Colour plates throughout. 3 colour foldouts. 29x24 cm. Cloth. £50.00 Catalogue of an extensive exhibition at the British Museum showing over 400 images of Japanese erotic prints (shunga) from major public and private collections. Illustrated throughout in colour. 7 Clunas, Craig: SCREEN OF KINGS. Royal Art and Power in Ming China. Honolulu, 2013. 248 pp. Colour and b/w illustrations. 26x20 cm. Cloth. £49.50 A study of the cultural role of the regional aristocracy (relations of the emperors) in China during the Ming dynasty. Examines the im - portance of their patronage of various art forms and also architecture. Finds from a number of recently-excavated Ming tombs are as - sessed in this light. 8 Duan Xiuye et al. ed: SAJIA SI BIHUA BAOHU XIUFU GONGCHEN薩G迦 B寺AO :G A壁O畫 . R保ep護or修t o复 n W工a程ll 報Pa告int i。ng 段Co修ns業erv 等ati o編n 著 and Restoration Project of Sa skya (Sakya) Monastery. Beijing, 2013. 8, 260 pp. 32 pp. colour plates, 73 pp. technical illustrations, colour and b/w text plates. 29x22 cm. Boards. £110.00 Detailed report on the conservation and restoration work that has taken place at the Sakya Monastery located west of Shigatze in Tibet. The temple held extensive and famous Buddhist murals which suffered much destruction during the Cultural Revolution. Technical il - lustration included together with illustration of restored mural paintings. In Chinese. 9 Dudbridge, Glen: A PORTRAIT OF FIVE DYNASTIES CHINA. From the Memoirs of Wang Renyu (880-956 AD). Oxford, 2013. vii, 272 pp. 3 maps. 24x16 cm. Cloth. £75.00 Explores two collections of anecdotal memoirs to construct a portrait of the first half of the tenth century. The scholar, Wang Renyu, lived during this period and his memoirs have been largely recovered from quotations in other works. He grew up in north-west China on the border with Tibet and served the Kingdom of Shu which then led to a career in northern China under four successive dynas - ties. 10 Eskenazi: JUNYAO. London, 2013. 103 pp. Colour plates throughout, many full page. 30x22 cm. Cloth. £40.00 Dealer’s catalogue showing 16 extremely fine pieces of Jun ware dating from the Northern Song to the early Ming. All illustrated in colour, a number in multiple views, and described in detail. Bases of all pieces shown. Introductory essays accompany: Mowry: Re - cent Thoughts on the Dating of Numbered Jun Ware; Wood: Some Mysteries of Jun Ware Manufacture; Wong: Jun for the Palace.