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中国文物地图集 山西分册 Atlas of Chinese Cultural Relics Shanxi 3 Volume Set
Cultural Relics Publishing House, 2006. Hardcover. More
20世纪中国文物考古发现与研究丛书:旧石器时代考古 20th Century Chinese Archaeological Discovery and Research Series: Paleolithic Archaeology
Cultural Relics Publishing House, 2000. 《20世纪中国文物考占发现与研究丛书》是一套学科发展史和学术研究史丛书。其内容包括对20世纪考古与文物工作概况的综合阐述;对一些重要的考古学文化和占代区域文化研究情况的叙述;对文物考古的专题研究;对重要的文物考古发现、发掘及研究的个例纪实。 《20世纪中国文物考古发现与研究丛书:旧石器时代考古》按照20世纪中国旧石器时代考古发展的五个阶段,介绍了全国各地远古人类遗存的重要发现和考古工作的主要成就,展示了旧石器时代人类的生活情况及辉煌文化。《20世纪中国文物考古发现与研究丛书:旧石器时代考古》资料丰富、内容翔实,配有彩图8幅,黑白图38幅,具有较高的学术价值。. More
朝天嘴与中堡岛 Chaotianzui and Zhongbao Islands
Cultural Relics Publishing House, 2001. More
Southern Ethnology and Archaeology Vol. 2 (1989)
Chengdu: Sichuan daxue bowuguan, 1989. 314p., 16 black and white photo plates, lightly worn wraps; text mostly in Chinese with table of contents in English. Much material on new discoveries in southwestern China, as well as metallurgy from related cultures in Southeast Asia; edited by an international board. More
Zeng Fanzhi: Every Mark Its Mask
Hatje Cantz. The work of Chinese painter Zeng Fanzhi (born 1964) reveals a great deal about his homeland's rapidly changing society. In his Mask paintings, people wearing plain white masks confront the viewer with wide eyes and grotesquely exaggerated hands. In addition to these well-known images, this publication features works..... More
The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood
Yale University Press. Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood—what constitutes a self—have changed over time, so too have ideas about how to represent, shape, or invade the..... More
Vajra Wisdom: Deity Practice in Tibetan Buddhism
Hardcover. Vajra Wisdom presents the commentaries of two great nineteenth-century Nyingma masters that guide practitioners engaged in development stage practice through a series of straightforward instructions. The rarity of this kind of material in English makes it indispensable for practitioners and scholars alike. The goal of development stage..... More
The Future of the Hong Kong Sea Shore
Oxford University Press, 1979. More
Universe Is Flux: The Art of Tawara Yusaku
University of Washington Press, 2011. Recognized in Japan as a connoisseur, collector, and proprietor of a famous folk art shop in Tokyo, Tawara Yusaku returned to painting late in life and had a single show in London before his death in 2004. Universe Is Flux is the first examination of..... More
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf's famous modernist novel, which features the Ramsay's on a family trip to Skye. Written in a style that leaves conventionality behind, the work is a mosaic of thoughts, contemplation and perception. More