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China's Intrepid Muse
The Cartoons and Art of Ding Cong by Marcia R. Ristaino Presents the life and work of China's most famous cartoonist and caricaturist, whose great popularity stemmed from an intellectual and artistic integrity that made the inept and corrupt of both right and left fair game for his barbed art, and who ranks as one of China’s great artists of the twentieth century. |
Pars Japonica
The First Dutch Expedition to Reach the Shores of Japan by William de Lange The harrowing account of a voyage beset with treachery, betrayal, mutiny, and mayhem, but one that finally reached Japan the under command of William Adams, the real-life hero of James Clavell's best-selling novel Shogun, and changed the course of history. |
Traces
Memories of H.I.H. Prince Takamado by Stephen Comee; foreword by H.I.H. Princess Takamado Readers of this intimate portrait of the first cousin to the current emperor will understand more about Japan and its people through learning about one of that nation's greatest modern advocates of international cultural exchange, environmental protection, and world peace. |
Shore of Pearls
Hainan Island in Early Times by Edward H. Schafer Monograph by the eminent Sinologist on the history and culture of China's southern largest island, a source of pearls for the Han dynasty as early as the first century BCE, later a place of banishment, and today a thriving resort. |
The Empire of Min
A South China Kingdom of the Tenth Century by Edward H. Schafer The eminent sinologist examines the economy, arts, literature, and religion of one of the southern kingdoms that played a pivotal role in the transition between the great Tang and Song dynasties of tenth-century China. |
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