Search Results: Titles starting with T from Asia Bookroom

New York.: Harper & Row.. 1977.. Maps, illustrations, xii + 352pp, notes incorporating bibliography, index, good hardback copy in worn and chipped dustjacket. .

東京朝日新聞社. [Tōkyō Asahi Shinbunsha].. Showa 13 [1938]. Large colour folding map, scale 1:8000000, 108 x 78cm, two large inset maps along the lower edge. A little faint browning lower edge but overall in very good condition. This large map was published in September 1938, amidst rising tensions between the great powers. The main map shows East Asia and a part of Southeast Asia, with detailed place names. In the north, Soviet encroachment into Chinese-claimed Mongolia and Tuva is apparent. Alongside other subnational divisions in China, British India and French Indochina, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the Soviet Union is marked. The borderlands of China in Yunnan, Guangxi, Tibet and Xinjiang are shaded as under French, British and Soviet influence. Also of note is that what would constitute modern-day Arunachal Pradesh is split between the Chinese provinces of Xizang (Tibet) and Xikang. The two inset maps show Europe and the world at-large.… Read More

Karachi.: Oxford University Press. Reprint.. 2008.. Maps, black and white and colour photographic illustrations, 324pp, bibliography, index, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "Taboo!: The Hidden Culture of a Red Light Area is a journey of discovery into the infamous red-light district of Lahore, Pakistan, known as the Shahi Mohalla (the Royal Bazaar) or Heera Mandi (the market of diamonds). The phenomenon of prostitution coupled with music and dance performances has ancient roots in South Asia. Regardless of the stigma attached to prostitution, it has for centuries given rise to many well-known performing artists. Here author Fouzia Saeed paints a more realistic picture of the phenomenon through the stories of the people living there: the musicians, the prostitutes, and their pimps, managers, and customers." (Publisher's description.) .

China Statistical Publishing House.. 1992.. 1236 - 2447pp, minor wear extremities, upper hinge cracked, a few pencilled annotations. A sound copy. .

Peking.: Foreign Languages Press.外文出版社.. 1972.. Black and white plates showing Tachai peasants in the thick of the battle to transform nature, 29pp, notes, very light foxing lower cover, small section of damage upper wrapper. Very good in paperback. 18.5 x 13cm. The Dazhai village is located in Xiyang County, Shanxi Province. In 1964, a political campaign "Learn from Daqing in Industry, Learn from Dazhai in Agriculture", has made Dazhai and Daqing the two learning models nationwide. .

Peking.: Foreign Languages Press.. 1st Edition.. 1977.. Coloured photographic portrait frontispiece, and numerous black and white photographic illustrations, 199pp, original stiff paper wrappers; the front wrapper with a colour photographic illustration. Translated from Chinese into English. 18.3 x 13cm. Written in the typical style of the Maoist regime, this booklet describes Tachai - the agricultural "brigade" named after a village of some 480 inhabitants - and its evolution into a model for agricultural production because of its self-reliance and determination to overcome environmental hardship. .

Peking.: Foreign Languages Press.. 1977.. Colour portrait frontispiece, black and white photographic illustrations, 199pp, 12mo, very good copy in lightly marked paperback. Written in the typical style of the Maoist regime, this booklet describes Tachai - the agricultural "brigade" named after a village of some 480 inhabitants - and its evolution into a model for agricultural production because of its self-reliance and determination to overcome environmental hardship. .

Peking.: Foreign Languages Press.. 1st edition.. 1977.. Colour portrait frontispiece, black and white photographic illustrations, 199pp, light wear, small mark upper cover, good copy in paperback. Translated from Chinese into English. 18.3 x 12.8cm. Written in the typical style of the Maoist regime, this booklet describes Tachai - the agricultural "brigade" named after a village of some 480 inhabitants - and its evolution into a model for agricultural production because of its self-reliance and determination to overcome environmental hardship. .

Tokyo.: 三一書房.. 1972.. Black and white plates, 334pp, a very good hardback copy in card slipcase. .

Peking.: Foreign Language Press.. 1972.. [12pp] black and white plates, 46pp, notes, very good in paperback. Text translated from Chinese into English. 18.4 x 13.1cm. The "Learn from Daqing in Industry" political campaign launched by the Communist Party of China in 1964. .

Canberra.: Contemporary China Papers series. A.N.U.. 1974.. Map, 28pp, wrappers. .

New Haven.: Yale University Press.. 1990.. 222pp, index, bibliography, glossary, notes, hardback. very good hardback copy in protected dustjacket. "The Ch'ing scholar-thinker Tai Chen (1724-1777) was a passionate explorer. He loved words, and his most important philosophical treatise, the Meng Tzu tzu-I shu-cheng (An evidential study of the meaning of terms in the Mencius), is an exhaustive search for the meaning of the words first uttered by Mencius in the fourth century B.C. This book by Ann-ping Chin and Mansfield Freeman is the first complete and annotated English translation of that treatise. Drawing on scholarship from the eighteenth century to the present, it also includes two essays that reconstruct Tai Chen's life and time and reinterpret his thought." Publisher's description. .

15th September,1878.. Small sheet printed in red single sided. 18 x 24cm. Margins carelessly torn but the printed section is complete. .

Taipei.: Ch'eng Wen Publishing Company... Facsimile Reprint.. 1971.. 3 maps including folding endpaper map, black and white line illustrations and photographic plates, xx + 225pp,[1] indices, appendix, blue cloth covered boards, spine lettered in silver. A lovely clean copy in good condition.19 x 12.5cm Absorbing account of the lore of T'ai Shan the most ancient of the sacred peaks of Asia which "was holy ground for at least two thousand years before Christ". The text is supported by an appendix and indices of English and Chinese names. .

東京. [Tokyo].: 三笠書房. [Mikasa Shobō].. Japanese First Edition.. 1974. Translated by Mukai Hiroo. 69pp, 19.5 x 14 cm, dustjacket and original paper band a trifle worn and soiled, light browning endpapers and edges, but still a good copy of the Japanese first edition. The Eye of the Storm was published in Australia in 1973, the year that Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. The following year the novel was published in Japanese. White's Nobel Prize created an awareness of Australian literature in Japan which had not been present prior to this. .

東京. [Tokyo].: 東京日日新聞社. [Tōkyō Nichinichi Shinbunsha].. Showa 16 [1941].. Colour poster from a 1941 calendar. 53.5 x 38.5cm, small holes at corners, central horizontal fold. Some light even browning but overall a striking WWII image from a Japanese calendar. This colour illustrated calendar shows the months of March, April and May 1941. The illustration features four Japanese war ships at sea with two naval guns in the foreground. The calendar is titled "Rough Sea on the Pacific Ocean". The implication being military threats are coming from across the Pacific. .

京都.[Kyoto].: 永田文昌堂. [Nagata Bunshodo].. 昭和61[1986].. 57pp, paperback, 18 x 12.8cm, Japanese text, very good copy. Professor Hanayama was a famous Buddhist scholar at Tokyo University and worked as a Buddhist chaplain at Sugamo Prison for over three years where Japanese war criminals were kept. This booklet includes his lecture on the Japanese war criminals and their Buddhist faith in the prison. His reflections on his academic career, a brief biography is also included. .

東京. [Tokyo].: 産業組合中央会. [Sangyo Kumiai Chuokai].. Showa 17 [1942].. Colour map, 25.5 x 36.5cm, central vertical fold, inset chart, text and text illlustrations on reverse, browned. Good copy. This map was issued as a supplement to the February 1942 issue of "Ie no Hikari" (Light of Household) magazine, which was particularly popular among rural readers. Published shortly after the commencement of the Pacific War when Japanese troops were aggressively advancing into Southeast Asia, the map provides key information about enemy naval and submarine bases as well as oil wells in the region. Detailed data on the naval strengths of opposing forces at each base, including the number of warships, planes, and army soldiers. An inset chart provides an overview of the naval powers of the United States, Britain, Australia, and the Dutch. On the reverse, an article by Sawada Ken delves into the history of American and British colonial invasions.… Read More

Sydney.: ABC Enterprises.. New Edition.. 1990.. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, 224pp, index, spine trifle sunned, a very good paperback copy. 26 x 20.6cm. Based on the very popular ABC radio series this book traces the history of Australians involvement in Papua New Guinea. .

Lanham.: University Press of America.. 2001.. 94pp, bibliography, index, very good paperback copy. .