HANSHAN TANG BOOKS • L IST 179 NEW PUBLICATIONS TIBET 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 T IBET / 17 F ROM O UR S TOCK / 28 [Our apologies in that there was no room in this catalogue for the usual subject index] T E R M S 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. 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(Archaeological Discoveries and Research on the Afang Gong Palace). Beijing, 2014 29 colour plates and 484 pp. text. B/w text illus. 27x19 cm. Cloth. £45.00 Details the archaeological finds and research on the Qin dynasty Afang Gong Palace site located outside present-day Xi’an. The palace was used by Qinshihuangdi, the First Emperor. All text in Chinese. 2 Allan, Sarah M: SHIFTING STORIES. History, Gossip and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China. Cambridge, 2014. xvii, 311 pp. 24x16 cm. Cloth. £29.95 Focuses on two types of written tales from Tang dynasty China — the first based on gossip about recognisable public figures and the second based on the occult. 新安畫派 3 Anhui Provincial Museum ed: XIN’AN HUAPAI. Xin’an Painting School. Beijing, 2013. 232 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. 29x22 cm. Cloth. £75.00 A detailed study of the Xin’an School of painters which flourished in Anhui in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Based on, and Illustrated with, highlights from the Anhui Provincial Museum’s fine collection of such paintings. Text in Chinese. 4 Baoji Bronze Ware Museum ed: DUI JING TIE HUA HUANG: BAOJI QINGTONGQI 對BO鏡W貼U花Y黃UA ： N 寶DI雞AN青C銅A器NG博 T物O院NG典J藏IN銅G鏡 JI精NG粹 CUI. Baoji Bronze Ware Museum Collection of Bronze Mirror. Xi’an, 2014. 211 pp. Colour plates throughout. 28x21 cm. Wrappers. £80.00 The area around the city of Baoji in the north-west of China in Shaanxi province has long been famous as an ancient area of Chinese civilization and one which has yielded very rich and important finds of ancient Chinese bronzes. Such has been the scope of these finds that the city of Baoji has a museum dedicated to bronzes and this work focusses on the museum’s fine collection of Chinese bronze mir - rors. Some two hundred mirrors are shown, the vast majority early — Song and before. Illustrated throughout in colour. Extensive 14 page foreword, introductions to each section and captions to plates in English. More extensive text and descriptions in Chinese. Hard to obtain. 5 Baumer, Christoph: THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL ASIA. The Age of the Silk Roads. London, 2014. x, 398 pp. Colour photographs throughout. 29x23 cm. Cloth. £25.00 Volume Two of this ambitious four-volume history of this fascinating region. This volume covers the period when the Silk Road flour - ished from c.200 BC to 900 AD and explores the unique flow of goods, peoples and ideas that brought Europe into contact with Asia. Hugely detailed and informative. 6 [Beato, Felice]: HUANGCHENG JIN MENG 1860: FEILISI. BIATUO ZHI JINGDIAN Z皇H城O金NG夢G1U86O 0 ：YI N菲G利X斯IA N。G 比. A阿 G托old之en經 D典re中am國 of影 th像 e Imperial City 1860: Felice Beato’s Classic Images of China. Fuzhou, 2014. 55 pp. Full page b/w plates throughout. Long foldout b/w panorama (18x142 cm). 30x30 cm. Cloth. £60.00 The photographer, Felice Beato, accompanied the Anglo-French army that entered Beijing in 1860. This work is based on the panorama of the city Beato took from the gate tower of Zhengyangmen located at the southern end of present-day Tian’anmen Square. Illustrates and explains 29 enlarged details of the panorama. The panorama was the very first to be taken of Beijing. Whilst the details and ex - planations are themselves fascinating, the chief glory of this work is a foldout reproduction of the entire panorama measuring 18x142 cm. Dual texts in Chinese and English. Hard to obtain. 7 Beijing Administrative College ed: QING SHI CUN SHI: LI MADOU HE WAIGUO CHUANJIAOSHI MUDI DE SIBAI NIAN CANGZAN. History Reco青rde石d 存on史 S t：on e利: T瑪h竇e C和em外e國ter傳y 教of 士M墓att地eo的 R四icc百i a年nd滄 O桑th e。r F北or京eig行 n 政Mi學ssi院on a編 ries during Four Turbulent Centuries. Beijing, 2011. 250 pp. Colour plates (many full page) throughout. 40x29 cm. Boards. £150.00 Shows the very interesting (and little-visited) cemetery in Beijing where numerous foreign Catholic missionaries are buried, includ - ing the tombs of Matteo Ricci and Giuseppe Castiglione. The cemetery is located in the grounds of Beijing Administrative College in the west of the city and was originally called ‘Tenggong Zhalan’. One page introduction, list of contents and captions to plates in English. Also English appendices list the missionaries buried there and the location of their tombstones. Full page plates show illus - trations of the tombstones and black-and-white rubbings of the inscriptions. Main text in Chinese. Hard to obtain. 8 Beijing Art Museum ed: QIDU YU FENGFAN: MINGDAI JIANGXI FANWANG氣 M度U與 C風H範U T：U 明YU代Q江I. 西Ja藩de 王Ar墓tic出les土 U玉ne器arthed from Tombs of Seigniors of Ming Dynasty in Jiangxi Province. Beijing, 2014. 233 pp. Colour plates and colour text plates. 29x21 cm. Wrappers. £140.00 Catalogue of an exhibition at the Beijing Art Museum showing very fine Ming dynasty jades excavated from the royal tombs of a Ming fiefdom in China’s Jiangxi province. The majority of the jades are small and include belt plaques, jewellery, small carved decorative jades and ritual tomb objects. Also a good amount of gold jewellery from the same tombs. All the objects come from the Jiangxi Provin - cial Museum. Much previously unpublished material. Colour illustrations throughout. Text in Chinese. Hard to obtain. 9 Beijing Art Museum ed: TIANDI ZHI LING: ZHONGGUO SHEHUI KEXUE YUAN KAOGU YANJIUSUO FAJUE CHUTU SHANG YU XIZHOU YUQI JINGPIN ZHAN. Exhibition of Jade Arti天cle地s 之in 靈Sh ：ang 中 an國 d 社We會ste科rn學 Z院ho考u D古y研na究sti所es 發fro掘m出 In土sti商tut與e o西f A周r玉cha器eo精lo品gy展, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Beijing, 2013. 309 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x21 cm. Wrappers. £140.00 Catalogue of an exhibition held at Beijing Art Museum showing an excellent and varied selection of small Shang and Zhou dynasty jades from sites across China and held in the collection of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.