HANSHAN TANG BOOKS • L IST 150 NEW PUBLICATIONS DAOISM & ZEN 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 D AOISM & Z EN / 3 F ROM O UR S TOCK / 16 S UBJECT I NDEX / 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. 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Beijing, 2007. 4, 650 pp. B/w text illustrations. 29x22 cm. Cloth. £70.00 Forty detailed papers on aspects of research into the Buddhist cave complex at Dazu in China’s Sichuan province. In Chinese. 2 Beijing Capital Museum: FOJIAO CIBEI NUSHEN ZHONGGUO GUD佛A教I G慈U悲 A女NY神 IN： P中U國SA古. T代 h觀e G音 o菩dd薩ess of Mercy in Buddhism — Chinese Ancient Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva. Beijing, 200 329 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. 29x21 cm. Wrappers. £95.00 Beautifully-produced work with excellent full page colour plates showing superb examples of Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist statuary (and a few objects in other media) depicting the Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva — Guanyin — in the collection of the Capital Museum in Beijing. The work is in two parts: The Guanyin in Chinese Buddhism, followed by The Guanyin in Tibetan Buddhism. A total of 121 examples are illustrated and discussed. Near dual texts in Chinese and English. 古代 印度瑰寶 3 Beijing Capital Museum: GUDAI YINDU GUIBAO. Treasures of Ancient India. Beijing, 2007. 259 pp. Numerous full page colour plates. 29x23 cm. Wrappers. £65.00 Catalogue of an exhibition at the Capital Museum in Beijing (which then travelled to three othe museums in China) showing 100 ex - tremely fine examples of Indian art ranging in date from the 3rd century BC to the late medieval period. The exhibits, made of stone, bronze, ceramic and wood, were loaned from 13 Indian museums and institutions. All exhibits illustrated in a full page colour plates and described. Dual texts in Chinese and English. 4 BEIJING LONGQUANWU LIAO JIN MUZ北A京NG龍 F泉A物JU務E 遼BA金O發G掘AO報. 告(Excavation Report on the Liao and Jin Dynasty Cemetery at Longquanwu in Beijing). Beijing, 2009. 9, 255 pp. Numerous colour plates. B/w text drawings. 29x22 cm. Cloth. £85.00 Archaeological report on a Liao and Jin cemetery located in the western suburbs of Beijing. Main finds were large quantities of ce - ramics from the Liao and Jin, many illustrated here. Of importance for research into the tomb architecture of the time. In Chinese 魯迅 1 88 1-19 36 5 Beijing Lu Xun Museum ed: LU XUN 1881-1936. Zhengzhou, 2008. 11, 2, 282, 29 pp. 282 pp. colour and b/w plates. 31x23 cm. Cloth. £85.00 A fine and detailed photographic history of the life and work of this towering intellectual figure of the early 20th century in China. From his childhood through to a death mask, copiously-illustrated with photographs from Lu Xun’s life. Includes illustration of his work and a number of woodblock prints, an industry which he much helped to revive. Includes illustration of many of the seals used by Lu Xun throughout his career. In Chinese. 6 Bischoff, Cordula & Hennings, Anne: GOLDENER DRACHE — WEISSER ADLER: KUNST IM DIENSTE DER MACHT AM KAISERHOF VON CHINA UND AM SACHSISCH-POLNISCHEN HOF (1644-1795). (The Golden Dragon and the White Eagle: Art in the Service of Power at the Chinese Court and the Saxon-Polish Court (1644-1795)). Dresden, 2008. 612 pp. Numerous colour plates. 29x25 cm. Boards. £75.00 Catalogue of an interesting exhibition held at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden comparing the court art of the Qing dynasty Chinese emperors with that of the rulers of the Saxon-Polish Court during the period 1644-1795 which in China corresponded with the establishment of the Qing dynasty through to the death of the Qianlong Emperor. It thus examines and contrasts the art and achieve - ments of the Saxon-Polish rulers with the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Emperors. Major loans from the Gugong Museum in Bei - jing are exhibited alongside fine items from the rich holdings of the Dresden collections. Extensive text in German. 7 BISHANG壁 D上A丹NQ青I：NG陝:西 SH出A土A壁 NX畫I集 CHUTU BIHUA JI. (A Compendium of Murals Excavated in Shaanxi Province). Beijing, 2009. xv, 12, 409 pp. c. 400 pp. full page colour plates. A number of b/w text drawings. 2 vols. 29x22 cm. Boards. £145.00 Large two-volume work illustrated throughout with fine full page colour plates of murals from tombs throughout China’s Shaanxi province. The work is arranged chronologically from the Qin to the Tang with the majority of murals illustrated being from the Han and Tang dynasties. Introductory essay and introduction to each tomb whose murals are shown. In Chinese. 8 British Museum: TREASURES FROM SHANGHAI. Ancient Chinese Bronzes and Jades. London, 2009. 144 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 27x22 cm. Paper. £16.99 Catalogue of the exhibition at the British Museum comprising a major showing of ancient Chinese bronzes and jades from the Shang - hai Museum. 9 Brook, T. et al: DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS. Harvard, 2007. xi, 319 pp. A few b/w illustrations. 24x16 cm. Cloth. £25.00 Aims to explain the general position of torture in the Chinese legal system and the specific role and history of the extreme punishment of lingchi — the death of a thousand cuts — which has long horrified the western mind. The practice was abolished in 1905. Also ex - amines the view of Chinese torture in the western mind. 10 Cayley, John, Xu Bing, and other天s; K書a的the過rin程e Spears ed: TIANSHU: PASSAGES IN THE MAKING OF A BOOK. London, 2009. 188 pp. Numerous b/w figures and 39 colour plates. Appendixes, notes, bibliography. 30x21 cm. Distinctive clear flexible plastic cover elegantly exposing the binding. £60.00 Published to accompany an exhibition at Bernard Quaritch, London, this is the most detailed and comprehensive critical and descriptive exposition of Xu Bing’s famous artwork — with many com - ments on his other works — published to date. Includes fine colour plates of sample pages from ‘Book from the Sky.’ John Cayley’s long essay on reading the unreadable book is accompanied by Xu Bing’s own account of the making of his book (in both Chinese and English translation), and essays by Lydia Liu, Haun Saussy and Wu Hung.