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  • The Curious World of Wine

    Facts, Legends, and Lore About the Drink We Love So Much

    par Richard Vine ...
    The Curious World of Wine is a fascinating miscellany about the colorful characters, celebrated places, and quirky events surrounding wine-making. Recounting wine tales that are by turns amusing, surprising, and occasionally a bit naughty, wine expert Richard Vine reveals little-known facts such as:• The oldest vineyard still producing grapes is thought to be in Maribor, Slovenia, where vines up ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Liu Shiming

    Sculpting Empathy

    par Richard Vine ...
    Liu Shiming (1926–2010) is a revered Chinese artist whose works have had a distinct impact on the course of modern Chinese sculpture. Born in Tianjin in 1926, Shiming attended the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, where he was part of the first generation of sculptors trained by the People’s Republic of China to study both traditional Chinese art and French modernist ... En savoir plus

    $50.39 CAD

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  • Shanzhai

    Deconstruction in Chinese

    par Byung-Chul Han ...
    Traduit par Philippa Hurd ...
    Collections Livre 8 - Untimely Meditations
    Tracing the thread of “decreation” in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original.Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means “fake,” originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Return to Dragon Mountain

    Memories of a Late Ming Man

    “Splendid . . . One could not imagine a better subject than Zhan Dai for Spence.” (The New Republic)Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence vividly brings to life seventeenth-century China through this biography of Zhang Dai, recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of the Ming dynasty. Born in 1597, Zhang Dai was forty-seven when the Ming dynasty, after more than two hundred ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea

    par Kim Youngna ...
    Collections series Korean Culture Series
    Korean Culture Series 1Modern and Contemporary Art in KoreaThis book discusses the issues of tradition, modernity, and identity of modern and contemporary art in Korea. Major aspects of the book include Korea’s modernism during the Japanese colonial period, the spread of modernism after the Korean War and art informel, the monochrome art movement, the so-called minjung (people’s) art, revival of ... En savoir plus

    $5.20 CAD

  • The Rise of Tea Culture in China

    The Invention of the Individual

    par Bret Hinsch ...
    Collections series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This distinctive and enlightening book explores the invention and development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the profound question of how Chinese have traditionally expressed individuality. Western stereotypes portray a culture that values conformity and denigrates the individual, but Bret Hinsch convincingly explodes this facile myth. He argues that although Chinese ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

  • Confucius’ Courtyard

    Architecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in China

    par Xing Ruan ...
    For more than three thousand years, Chinese life – from the city and the imperial palace, to the temple, the market and the family home – was configured around the courtyard. So too were the accomplishments of China's artistic, philosophical and institutional classes. Confucius' Courtyard tells the story of how the courtyard – that most singular and persistent architectural form – holds the key to ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Voices Carry

    Behind Bars and Backstage during China's Revolution and Reform

    Collections series Asian Voices
    Voices Carry is the moving autobiography of the late Ying Ruocheng, beloved Chinese stage and screen actor, theatre director, translator, and high-ranking politician as vice minister of culture from 1986–1990. One of twentieth-century China's most prominent citizens, Ying was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution and devised unique strategies for survival, including playing pranks on guards ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Guggenheim Reader Series: Modern Asian Art

    The Guggenheim Reader Series: Modern Asian Art is the second installment in an ongoing series collecting out-of-print and hard-to-find essays from past Guggenheim publications and lectures to illuminate focused topics in art history. Much like last fall’s Russia reader, Modern Asian Art examines five decades of the museum’s interest in the region, culminating in this spring’s simultaneous ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • A Story of Ruins

    Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

    par Wu Hung ...
    This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to ‘ruin culture’ in the West. This book explores indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations, as well as the complex historical interactions ... En savoir plus

    $66.99 CAD

  • Life and Death

    Art and the Body in Contemporary China

    par Silvia Fok ...
    Fok focuses on the ways in which these artists use their own bodies, animals’ bodies and other corporeal substances to represent life and death in performance art, installations, and photography. Over the course of her investigations, corporeality emerges as a common means of highlighting the social and cultural issues that surround these life and death. By assessing its effectiveness in the ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Dangerous Women

    Warriors, Grannies, and Geishas of the Ming

    Grannies, geishas, warriors, mystics, recluses, and predators_these are the dangerous women of traditional China. Through her exploration of the myth and history of the Ming, Victoria B. Cass brings their world brilliantly to life. In a culture that is resoundingly patriarchal, these women are a vivid counterpoint. Violating state-sponsored orthodoxies, the granny mocks and mimics, the geisha ... En savoir plus

    $57.99 CAD