Search Results: Titles starting with G from Asia Bookroom

London.: Sotheby's.. 1979.. Colour and black and white illustrations, 146pp, corners a touch bumped and covers a little worn, good paperback copy. 21 x 19.6pp. Auctioned on the 8th of March, 1979. .

中華書局 Zhonghua shu ju.. 87pp, line illustrations, paperback, trifle faded on spine, 文史知識叢書 wen shi zhi shi cong chu series. Chinese paleography with a focus on oracle bone/tortoise inscriptions, copper inscriptions, etc. Text in Chinese. .

Tokyo.: Tuttle.. 1st Tuttle edition.. 1991.. xxiv + 279pp, bibliography, glossary, index, very good paperback copy. Chapters include "Are Japanese Customers Fair?," "Breaking into the Japanese Business Environment" and "People: The Key to Intercultural Operations." .

東京. [Tokyo].: 大日本雄辯會講談社. [Dai Nihon Yūbenkai Kōdansha].. Showa 7 [1932].. Colour folding map, 54 x 39 cm, inset map and charts, some minor paper loss in the upper margin, not affecting the map, colourful advertisement for the new year issue of the magazine can be seen on the reverse. This map which was specifically published for Year 5 and 6 girls was issued as a supplement to the very popular magazine 少女倶楽部(Shōjo Kurabu)"Girl's Club" in December 1932. Published the year Manchukuo was established, the inset map and charts show: Location of Japan and Manchuria, a comparison of import and export trade of Kobe and Yokohama, a comparison of river and mountain heights, as well as production of various resources including coal, iron ore and forestry produce. The charts clearly indicating to the young students that Manchuria rich in natural resources. A printed endorsement on… Read More

Osaka.: National Museum of Ethnology.. 1980.. Figures, tables, black and white photographic plates, vii + 529pp, paperback, small quarto. Senri Ethnological Studies No. 7. This volume is a descriptive ethnography of the Galela people of Northeastern Halmahera, Indonesia. It presents the results of fieldwork conducted by members of the research staff of the National Museum of Ethnology (NME) from September 14 to December 14, 1976. It includes 15 papers by Japanese scholars and covers Limau Village and Its Setting - Naomichi Ishige; Folk Orientation in Halmahera with Special Reference to Insular Southeast Asia - Shuji Yoshida; Time Reckoning - Shuji Yoshida; Folk Classification of the Sago Palm among the Galela - Shuji Yoshida; Cultivated Bananas among the Galela - Shuji Yoshida; Agriculture - Komei Sasaki; Fishing - Osamu Ogo; Hunting - Naomichi Ishige; Social Organization and Rites of Passage - Kazuko Matsuzawa; The Traditional Spirit World - Naomichi Ishige; Housing, Household Economy and Material… Read More

(Paris.): (Lemercier.). (1827.). Hand-coloured engraving, 26.5 x 17.2 cm (sheet), marginal toning but in very good condition. Costume engraving prepared for " Deux Années a Constantinople et en Morée (1825-1826)" by French ophthalmologist Charles Deval (1806-1862). Deval was born in Pera, Constantinople, the son of a dragoman (interpreter) Constantin Deval and Elisabeth Pisani. In 1833 he became Doctor of Medicine in Paris, after completing his thesis on typhus in the East. As an ophthalmologist, he accompanied physician Frédéric Jules Sichel all over Europe. Deval wrote many treatises on medical matters (1844, 1851, 1862), after first publishing this philhellenic travel chronicle, which is illustrated with sixteen colour lithographs. .

Shillong.: Research Dept Adviser's Secretariat.. 1962.. Endpaper maps, black and white photographic illustrations and line drawings, xii + 128pp, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index, priceclipped dustjacket worn with some loss, still a good copy, The Gallongs are an important tribe in the Siang Frontier Division of the North-East Frontier of India. Shri L.R.N. Srivastava, who has lived as a Divisional Research Officer among them for three years has given an account of these charming people, their beautiful countryside, their domestic and social life, political organization and religion. The researches of the author on the Gallongs open a new vista of knowledge and understanding of this almost unknown tribe, living in mountainous and isolated country. .

合肥.[Hefei].. 1960.. Dossier, handwritten in ink, dated between March and December 1960, compiled about 鄭國福 [Zheng Guofu] who was a park ranger at 合肥市北市人民公社永青分社 [Yongqing Branch of People's Commune of Beishi District, Heifei]. It includes Zheng Guofu's CV, autobiography, investigation and review of Zheng's political and personal background, witness reports. Written largely in black and blue ink. Original paper covers with shoelace tie. Very good condition. 27 x 19cm. Text in Chinese. Zheng Guofu was born on 15 November 1919 into a peasant family. At the time of investigation, he was 41 years old and worked as a park ranger at a local people's commune in Hefei, Anhui Province. The reason for the investigation into his background was because in March 1949, he joined the religious sect 一貫道 [Yiguandao] and left the group in 1953. The decision was made that no… Read More

合肥.[Hefei].. 1960.. Dossier, handwritten in ink, dated between March and November 1960, compiled about 葛傳榮 [Ge Chuanrong] who was a team leader at the 淮西大隊陳圹生産隊 [Chenkuang Production Unit of Huaixi Production Brigade] within the 合肥市蜀山區人民公社永青分社 [Yongqing Branch of People's Commune of Shushan District, Heifei]. It includes Ge Chuanrong's CV and his own confession, autobiography, investigation and review of Ge's political and personal background, witness reports. Written largely in black and blue ink. Original paper covers with shoelace tie. Very good condition. 27 x 19.5cm. Text in Chinese. Ge Chuanrong, former name 葛卫华 [Ge Weihua], was born in 1918 into a peasant family. At the time of investigation, he was 42 years old and worked as a team leader at a local people's commune in Hefei,… Read More

India: Motilal Banarsidass.. 2001... 24 black and white photographic plates, xxix + 319 + xxivpp, notes, bibliography, indices, spine of dustjacket a little faded, a good hardback copy. The manuscript, written in the first or second century A.D., is generally considered to be the oldest surviving manuscript of an Indian text. It was discovered near Khotan in Central Asia in 1892, and reached Europe in two parts, one of which went to Russia and the other to France. In 1897 S. Oldenburg published one leaf of the Russian portion; and in 1898 E. Senart edited the French material in the Journal Asiatique, together with facsimiles of the larger leaves, but not of the fragments. Now, almost seventy years after the discovery of the manuscript, it is possible for the first time to place before scholars an edition of the whole of the extant material, together with complete facsimiles. .

New Delhi.: Interprint.. 1983.. Monotone photographs, 131pp, bibliography, a sound copy in little worn paperback, small quarto. .

(Circa1969).. Desk calendar/diary, black and white photographic plates showing Mahatma Gandhi at various times in his adult life, unpaginated, pattterned card covers, spiral plastic binding, occasional light soiling, inscriptions preliminary leaves. Good condition. Text in English and Hindi. .

Nashville, Tennessee.: Thomas Nelson Publishers.. 1983.. Foreword by Franky Schaeffer. xxviii + 118pp, selective bibliography. Spine trifle sunned, edges, preliminary and final leaves foxed, prior owner's name half title, a good paperback copy. .

Maryland.: Seven Locks Press.. 1983.. Black and white photographic illustrations, 203pp, index, short bibliography, spine sunned, a good paperback copy. The author was active in the conflict reconcilation work during the American civil rights movement. .

New York.: Newmarket Press.. 1983.. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, 192pp, bibliography, index, name prior owner half title, a good copy in trifle worn protected paperback, small quarto. Photograph selection and Afterword by Richard Attenborough. .

New York.: Columbia University Press.. 2003.. xiii + 338pp, index, bibliography, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Gandhi was the creator of a radical style of politics that has proved effective in fighting insidious social divisions within India and elsewhere in the world. How did this new form of politics come about? David Hardiman shows that it was based on a larger vision of an alternative society, one that emphasized mutual respect, resistance to exploitation, nonviolence, and ecological harmony. .

上海.[Shanghai].: 上海書畫出版社.[Shanghai shu hua chu ban she].. 1st Edition, 2nd Printing.. 1972.. Quotation from Mao front free endpaper, 31pp, appendix, very light browning on covers with minor creasing, otherwise very good in paperback. Text in Chinese. 18.5 x 12.8cm. Cultural Revolution themed copybook for practising regular script. Lyrics from Revolutionary Operas are chosen for people to practice with. Illustrations of three main characters from the Model Operas are shown upper cover. .

London.: The Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding.. February1978.. 12pp. Wrappers little worn, otherwise a good copy. .

Ithaca.: Cornell University Press.. 1998.. 94pp, covers trifle faded, a very good paperback copy. .

Honolulu.: University of Hawai'i Press.. 1991.. Maps and plans, black and white photographic plates, xiii + 222pp, bibliography, index, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "Traces the story of the People's Militia of Greater Jakarta from its origins as a loose network of petty criminals and labour bosses in the slums of urban Jakarta and the feudal estates of the surrounding countryside, to its destruction at the hands of the Indonesian army in the late 1940s. Also examines the social basis of the Indonesian revolution, especially the ways in which the revolutionary forces made use of existing social structures in mobilising a popular following." (Publisher's description). .