Far East Archaeology & History (China, Japan, Korea)
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Chinese Bronze Ware [Paperback]
Song Li (Author)
Regular Price: £14.99
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ISBN: 9780521186858
Published by : Cambridge University Press
China enjoys a unique position in world history because of the great variety of innovative and beautiful bronze ware that has been unearthed on China's vast territory. This book introduces the reader to this magnificent culture with thorough discu... .... Learn More -
Along the Yangzi River: Regional Culture of the Bronze Age from Hunan [Paperback]
Chen Jianming (Author); Jay Xu (Author); Fu Juliang (Author)
Regular Price: £25.00
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ISBN: 9780977405466
Published by : China Institute
The middle bank of the Yangzi River is one of the most significant cradles of Chinese civilization and an important locus for the study of Chinese bronze culture. Several important excavations in the past few decades have illuminated some of the l... .... Learn More -
Catalogue of the Japanese Coin Collection in the British Museum: With Special Reference to Kutsuki Masatsuna [Paperback]
Sakuraki Shin'ichi (Author); Shin'ichi Sakuraki (Editor); Helen Wang (Editor); Peter Kornicki (Editor); Nobuhisa Furuta (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861591749
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Press Occasional Paper
Volume: 174
The British Museum's collection of Japanese coins is one of the best outside Japan. Many of the coins were originally in the collection of Japan's renowned numismatist and collector, Kutsuki Masatsuna (1750-1802), and were acquired by the Briti... .... Learn More -
A Brief History of Khubilai Khan [Paperback]
Jonathan Clements (Author)
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Special Price: £3.95
ISBN: 9780762439874
Published by : Constable & Co. Ltd.
The grandson of bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, Khubilai Khan was groomed for authority from childhood and garnered the position of Great Khan, establishing his reign as one of the most legendary figures in Chinese histor... .... Learn More -
Candi, Space and Landscape [Paperback]
V. M. Y. Degroot (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9789088900396
Published by : Sidestone Press
Volume: 38
Central Javanese temples were not built anywhere and anyhow. On the contrary: their positions within the landscape and their architectural designs were determined by socio-cultural, religious and economic factors. This book explores the correl... .... Learn More -
De Inlandsche Kunstnijverheid in Nederlands Indië - Deel V [Hardback]
J. E. Jasper (Author); M. Pirngadie (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9789088900259
Published by : Sidestone Press
Volume: 5
Sidestone Press is currently working on the publication of facsimile-editions of the series De inlandsche kunstnijverheid in Nederlandsch Indië by J.E. Jasper and M. Pirngadie. This 5-book series describes the material culture of the former Dut... .... Learn More -
The Dragon Throne [Paperback]
Jonathan Fenby (Author)
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ISBN: 9781784296292
Published by : Quercus
In The Dragon Throne, Jonathan Fenby tells the extraordinary story of imperial China through its 157 emperors, from Qin Shi Huangdu, who crushed his rivals to take supreme power as the first emperor in 221BC, until the final collapse of the falter... .... Learn More -
The Four Great Temples: Buddhist Art, Archaeology, and Icons of Seventh-century Japan [Hardback]
Donald F. McCallum (Author)
Regular Price: £41.50
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ISBN: 9780824831141
Published by : University of Hawai'i Press
Few periods in Japanese history are more fascinating than the seventh century. This was the period when Buddhism experienced its initial flowering in the country and the time when Asukadera, Kudara Odera, Kawaradera, and Yakushiji (the "Four Great... .... Learn More -
Chairman Mao Badges: Symbols and Slogans of the Cultural Revolution [Paperback]
Helen Wang (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780861591695
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 169
Millions of Chairman Mao badges were produced during China's Cultural Revolution, and were worn by almost all Chinese people, from Premier Zhou Enlai down to the smallest child. Made in a wide variety of materials (aluminium, plastic, bamboo, p... .... Learn More -
The Landscape of Words: Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China [Hardback]
Robert E. Harrist (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780295987286
Published by : University of Washington Press
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book on the Chinese landscape as a medium for literary inscription, Robert E. Harrist Jr. focuses on the period prior to the eighth century C.E. to demonstrate that the significance of inscriptions o... .... Learn More
