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CHINA AT WORK: AN ILLUSTRATED RECORD OF THE PRIMITIVE INDUSTRIES OF CHINA'S MASSES, WHOSE LIFE IS TOIL, AND THUS AN ACCOUNT OF CHINESE CIVILIZATION by Hommel, Rudolf P - 1937
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CHINA AT WORK: AN ILLUSTRATED RECORD OF THE PRIMITIVE INDUSTRIES OF CHINA'S MASSES, WHOSE LIFE IS TOIL, AND THUS AN ACCOUNT OF CHINESE CIVILIZATION
by Hommel, Rudolf P
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New York, NY: The John Day Company. VG+. 1937. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. . 4to 11" - 13" tall. 366 pages. Special Edition for Members of The Bucks County Historical Society. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * .
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- Place of Publication New York, NY
- Date Published 1937
- Keywords History, Social Science
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China at Work
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Cambridge [1969], M.I.T. White cloth, 366p., index, 535 b.w. photos, very good, clean copy, dj., 18 x 26 cm., very solid excellent copy. This is an important source for Chinese technology, trades- men and industry. Covering in great detail, with copious photos to make following tools: tools for procuring food, making clothing, to provide shelter, for enabling transport. Each section consists of a lengthy essay, with photos of the actual objects, size and its use carefully described. Mining and metalurgy, blacksmithing, wire drawing, iron casting, brassmithing, plows, rice planting & irrigation, oil making, mills, animal power, water, salt supply, traps, kitchen sto- ves, looms, spinning, weaving, dyeing, washing textiles. The domestic objects around the home: tree felling, log use, ba- mboo works, saws, carpenter's tools, lathe, history of dow- els, lime burning, locks, brooms &c. Transport: roads, wheel barrows, horse furniture, boat building, compass, earthen- ware withuot potter's…
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Cambridge & London: M. I. T. Press (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 1969. First Thus. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. xii, 366. Illustrated throughout with black & white photography and illustrations. Index. Bound in cream cloth with black lettering stamped on spine. Clean throughout, binding tight. In the illustrated dust jacket that shows edge-wear. First published in 1937, based on research initially conducted with the Henry Chapman Mercer Expedition. Among those credited by Hommel are E.C.T. Werner and H.A. Giles. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
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China at Work: an Illustrated Record of the Primitive Industries of China's Masses, Whose Life Is Toil, and Thus an Account of Chinese Civilization
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John Day/The Bucks County Historical Society, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to, hardcover. No dj, red cloth. Vg condition. Covers and contents clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 366 pp., illus. A fascinating and detailed work covering Chinese daily life, on the eve of the enormous changes to come for that country.
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