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HANSHAN TANG BOOKS • L IST 141 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 C ONTENTS N EW & R ECENT P UBLICATIONS / 3 F ROM O UR S TOCK / 11 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. 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United States: by personal US$ cheque, by transfer to our bank in New York, or by a cheque in Sterling or Euros drawn on an EU-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 or Euros drawn on an EU-based bank. Any other form of payment should be accompanied by an extra GB £15.00 to cover bank charges. If making a di - rect 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. The front cover illustration is from item 554. 141 3 & LIST – – NEW RECENT PUBLICATIONS & NEW RECENT PUBLICATIONS 1 ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 34. Volume 34 (2004). Washington, 2007. 194 pp. Numerous b/w plates throughout. Maps. 28x22 cm. Paper. £50.00 Contents: Parker: Indian Textiles & Mediterranean Contexts; Ray: Artisan & Merchant in Early Gujarat; Horton: Medieval Ex - changes between NW India and E Africa; Burke & Whitcomb: Quseir Al-Qadim and its Textiles; Lambourn: Marble Carving for Mus - lim Patrons; Barnes: Gujarati Cloth in Eastern Indonesia; Granoff: Multicolored Textiles in Medieval India; Bier: Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge across the Indian Ocean. 2 Bassoul, Aziz: HUMAN AND DIVINE. The Hindu and Buddhist Iconography of Southeast Asian Art from the Claire and Aziz Bassoul Collection. Beirut, 2006. 358 pp. Colour plates throughout. 30x21 cm. Boards. £65.00 Catalogue of the Bassoul collection of Southeast Asian art, primarily Thai and Khmer stone sculpture and bronzes. Illustrated through - out in colour. Detailed text with much focus on iconography, comprising the results of the author’s research. 3 Bell, David: HOKUSAI’S PROJECT. The Articulation of Pictorial Space. Folkestone, 2007. viii, 189 pp. 58 colour plates. 25x18 cm. Cloth. £50.00 An in-depth study of Hokusai and his methodology, complementing existing books on Hokusai and his art. 4 Benn, James: BURNING FOR THE BUDDHA. Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism. Honolulu, 2007. 376 pp. Cloth. £32.00 The first full study of the theory and practice of ‘abandoning the body’ (self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. 5 Blackwater, M. & Vollmer, J: AT THE EDGE OF THE SKY. Asian Art in the Collection of the San Antonio Museum of Art. Seattle, 2006. 180 pp. Colour plates throughout. Cloth. £40.00 Published to celebrate the opening of the new Asian art wing at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Covers art from China, Japan and Korea, South Asia, the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau. A selection of fine objects are illustrated and discussed. 6 Charleux, Isabelle: TEMPLES ET MONASTERES DE MONGOLIE-INTERIEURE. (Temples and Monasteries in the Interior of Mongolia). Paris, 2007. 373 pp. B/w text illustrations and plans. Includes CD-Rom. 27x21 cm. Paper. £70.00 A useful reference on many little-known sites. Details of 156 monasteries and temples. In French. 7 Chen Xieju上n e海 d.考; te古xt精by粹 Z。han陳g 燮Mi君 ng主hu編a e；t al張: S明 H華AN等GH編A文 I KAOGU JINGCUI. (Gems of Archaeology from Shanghai). Shanghai, 2006. 436 pp. Colour plates throughout illustrating 408 objects in all media. 30x23 cm. Wrappers. £48.00 Following on from a major exhibition at the Shanghai Museum in 2004, this book supplies a very well illustrated survey of the some of the finest, many recently excavated, pieces from some 28 significant sites in the vicinity of Shanghai. An extraordinary wealth of ma - terial dating from over 6000 years ago up until late imperial times. A stunning overview, somewhat overwhelming given that it repre - sents only a tiny fraction of material from a tiny fraction of Chinese sites. In Chinese. 8 Chen Zhenyu: ZHANGUO戰Q國IN秦H漢AN漆Q器I群QI研Q究UN。Y陳AN振 J裕IU著. A Study on Lacquer Sets of the Warring States and the Qin and Han Dynasties. Beijing, 2007. 8, 8, 5, 461 pp. 8 pp. colour plates. Numerous b/w text drawings. 27x19 cm. Cloth. £35.00 Detailed examination of extant sets of lacquer, or remains thereof, dating from the Warring States through to the han dynasty. Three page English abstract. Main text in Chinese. 9 Chengdu Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology ed: THE JINSHA SITE. A 21st Century Discovery of Chinese Archaeology. Beijing, 2006. 135 pp. Colour text plates throughout. 31x23 cm. Wrappers. £30.00 Useful and very interesting work on the Jinsha site in the Chinese city of Chengdu. The site is related to the Sanxingdui culture. Ex - cavated in 2000 and 2001, the Jinsha site yielded over 1400 artefacts, including bronze, gold, jade, stone, wood and pottery. Well-il - lustrated. Text in English. 10 Cuevas, B. & Stone, J. ed: THE BUDDHIST DEAD. Practices, Discourses, Representations. Honolulu, 2007. 528 pp. 13 illustrations. Cloth. £42.00 A comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet and Burma. 11 Douglas, Janet et al: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE SCULPTURAL ARTS OF ASIA. Proceedings of the Third Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art. London, 2007. 212 pp. Colour and b/w illustrations. 30x22 cm. Boards. £55.00 22 papers on Southeast Asian jade, Chinese bronzes, Mongolian deer stones, Japanese polychrome sculpture and more. 12 Dror, Olga: CULT, CULTURE AND AUTHORITY: PRINCESS LIEU HANH IN VIETNAMESE HISTORY. Honolulu, 2007. 260 pp. 23x16 cm. Cloth. £33.50 Princess Lieu Hanh is often called the Mother of the Vietnamese people and is one of the most popular goddesses in Vietnamese pop - ular religion. A study of her history, her cult and place in Vietnamese culture. 13 獨DU倉C山AN與G南 S王HA山 N YU NANWANGSHAN. (Ducangshan and Nanwangshan). Beijing, 2007. x, 130 pp. 12 pp. of colour and 32 pp. of b/w plates. Numerous tables and text figures. 27x20 cm. Boards. £20.00 Archaeological reports on two sites in Deqing county, Zhejiang province, reporting the excavation of Shang and Zhou period burial mounds, with many examples of early ceramics. In Chinese. 14 Engelhardt, Isrun: TIBET IN 1938-1939. Photographs from the Ernst Schafer Expedition to Tibet. Bangkok, 2007. 277 pp. 150 b/w photographs. 25x20 cm. Cloth. £35.00 Presents 150 photographs (most published for the first time) of the famous (and infamous) Schafer expedition to Tibet in the late 1930s. Shows the country at a time when few foreigners had visited and life was as it had been for hundreds of years. A valuable photographic record. & 4 NEW RECENT PUBLICATIONS – – HANSHAN TANG BOOKS 15 Farrington, Anthony and Dhiravat na Pombejra: THE ENGLISH FACTORY IN SIAM 1612-1685.
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