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HANSHAN TANG BOOKS • LIST 194 NEW PUBLICATIONS LATEST ACQUISITIONS H ANSHAN TANG BOOKS LTD Unit 3, Ashburton Centre 276 Cortis Road London SW15 3AY UK Tel (020) 8788 4464 Fax (020) 8780 1565 Int’l (+44 20) [email protected] www.hanshan.com CONTENTS N EW & RECENT PUBLICATIONS / 3 F ROM OUR STOCK / 15 S UBJECT INDEX / 64 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 CHARGES & DISPATCH 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. Please Note: If you enclose payment with your order, please add at least 20% to cover postage, observing the above minimum of GB £12.00. Any excess will be refunded or credited. If you pay by credit card, exact postage will be charged. All books are dispatched at the consignee’s risk and they remain the property of Hanshan Tang Books Ltd until full payment has been received. PAYMENT Payments may be made by Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Visa or MasterCard Debit. Other means of pay- ment are as follows (Please note: Charges for direct transfers must be borne by the sender — We can only credit your account with the Net amount received.): United Kingdom: by personal cheque or by direct transfer to our bank. (Please, as already noted: Charges for direct transfers must be borne by the sender — We can only credit your account with the Net amount received.) 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 from item 282. Hanshan Tang logo kindly written for us by the artist in Xu Bing’s Square Word Calligraphy. LIST 194 – 3 – NEW & RECENT PUBLICATIONS NEW & RECENT PUBLICATIONS 1 Beijing Capital Museum: XIANG JIANG YA JI: XIANGGANG HUILIN ZUGUO 20 ZHOU NIAN TEZHAN. Treasures of Hong Kong: The 20th Anniversary of Hong Kong’s Handover. 香江雅集 : 香港回臨祖國20周年 特展. Beijing, 2017. 230 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x23 cm. Wrappers. £90.00 Catalogue of an exhibition at the Capital Museum in Beijing showing very fine Chinese ceramics dating from the Song through to the Qing dynasties held, it seems, in private collections in Hong Kong. The majority of the exhibits dating from the Ming and Qing, many imperial examples. The exhibition also included some fine Ming and Qing furniture. It does not state to whom the ceramics belong. Il- lustrated throughout in colour. Text in Chinese. 2 CAFA ed: ZUOWEI: ZHONGGUO GU JIAJU YISHU. ZuoWei: The Art of Classical Chinese Seat. 座位 : 中 國古家具藝術. Beijing, 2014. 335 pp. Colour plates throughout, many full page. 37x27 cm. Boards. £170.00 Large-format work showing superb and very pleasing examples of various types of Chinese chairs and seats in the collection of the Gugong Museum in the Forbidden City in Beijing and thus, the seating used by the Chinese imperial household. The chairs and seats date from the latter part of the Ming and the first half of the Qing dynasties. Many of the examples are in an unrestored state and allow full appreciation of original workmanship and condition. Many examples shown in multiple views and with close-up detail. Illustrate throughout. Text in Chinese. 3 Cao Qiuling & Wang Bo: SICHOU ZHI LU MIAN FANGZHI KAOGU YANJIU. (Research into Cotton Textiles Found at Silk Road Archaeological Sites). 絲綢之路棉紡織考古研究 。 曹秋玲 王博 著. Shanghai, 2017. 5, 154, 8 pp. 8 pp. colour plates. Numerous b/w text illustrations. 24x17 cm. Wrappers. £30.00 Scholarly examination of ancient cotton textiles excavated from Silk Road sites. A number of chapters covering various aspects of this field of textile study. In Chinese. 4 (Chavannes, Edouard): ZHONGGUO WENHUA SHIJI: BEI ZHONGGUO KAOGU TULU. (The Cultural Relics of China: Mission Archeologique dans la Chine Septentrionale). 中國文化史蹟 : 北中國考古圖彔. Hangzhou, 2018. 1, 571 pp. 1 pp. intro. text in Chinese and 571 pp. b/w plates. 2 vols. 29x21 cm. Cloth. £170.00 Reduced-format facsimile of an extremely rare work, the 1909 two-volume compilation of plates illustrating the finds made by Cha- vannes from his seminal work ‘ Mission Archeologique dans la Chine Septentrionale’, comprehensively covering archaeological and historical sites throughout northern China. One page of introductory text in Chinese and then a full and complete reproduction of the two volumes of plates of Chavannes’ work with captions in French. The two smaller volumes of text are not included. 5 Chen Jiang ed: LI JIN. (Embroidered Textiles of the Li People). 黎錦 。 陳江 主編. Beijing, 2016. xi, 341 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x21 cm. Cloth. £110.00 Excellent visual survey of the little-known tradition of embroidered textiles of the Li or Hlai minority people of Hainan island in south- ern China. Illustrated throughout with numerous fine examples, primarily clothing, but also some coverings and other types of textiles. The majority of the textiles shown are modern but also include a couple of Ming and some Qing dynasty examples. In Chinese. 6 Chen Jieqi ed: SHI ZHONG SHANFANG YIN JU. (The Seal Collection of the Shi Zhong Shanfang (Mountain Dwelling of Ten Bells)). 十鐘山房印舉 。 陳介祺 編. Beijing, 3, 3, 3, 1398 pp. Reproductions of seals in red throughout all 4 volumes. 4 vols. 25x16 cm. Wrappers. £70.00 Good facsimile of the work detailing the seal collection of the noted Qing dynasty collector and connoisseur, Chen Jieqi, most famous for owning the inscribed Western Zhou bronze the Mao Gong ding ritual vessel, now in the National Palace Museum. Hundreds of seals are illustrated in red. Text in Chinese. 7 Chen Shuxiang & Lian Hong ed: TONGLUSHAN KAOGU YINXIANG. (Impressions of Archaeology at Tonglushan). 銅山考古印象 。 陳樹祥 連紅 主編. Beijing, 2018. 226 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x21 cm. Wrappers. £80.00 Tonglushan, most famous for being the site of an ancient foundry, is situated in Daye city in Hubei province in China. The area has long been inhabited and this work illustrates and discusses finds made at a large number of tombs in the area dating from the West- ern Zhou and, mostly, the Spring and Autumn period. The finds were predominantly small examples of pottery but also included small bronze items and small jade pieces. Illustrated throughout. Text in Chinese. 8 Chiang, Howard ed: SEXUALITY IN CHINA. Histories of Power and Pleasure. Seattle, 2018. xi, 255 pp. 23x15 cm. Paper. £22.99 A discussion of sex in China from imperial times through to the post-Mao era. Very broad-ranging. 9 Cultural Relics Bureau: 2017 ZHONGGUO ZHONGYAO KAOGU FAXIAN. Major Archaeological Discoveries in China in 2017. 2017 中國重要考古發現. Beijing, 2018. 181 pp. Col. text plates. 26x19 cm. Wrappers. £25.00 Well-illustrated work on major archaeological discoveries in China in 2017 from the Palaeolithic through the dynasties to the end of the Ming. 39 sites are shown and described. An ever-interesting annual publication. List of contents, descriptions of each find and cap- tions in English. Main text in Chinese. 10 de Bruijn, Emile: CHINESE WALLPAPER IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND. London, 2018. xii, 260 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x24 cm. Paper. £25.00 A very welcome, well-illustrated and informative contribution on a subject on which very little has been published. This much helps to fill the gap. Provides an overview of the most significant painted Chinese wallpapers surviving in the British Isles, in stately homes and major houses in Britain and Ireland and dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Charts the stylistic development of these wallpapers and touches on the China trade and social significance of Chinese-style decoration.