yee ip (8 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. This copy feels unread. The only book that comprehensively covers the fortunes of Chinese immigrants in New Zealand from the earliest encounters in the mid-1800s, to the present day (including transnationalism) offering valuable data and expert viewpoints for international study and comparision. A timely book that will strike chords with the Chinese communiities in Australia, Canada and the United states, because of the strikingly similar expieriences of members of those communities at the hands of colonial governments and sometimes xenophobic societies.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Large format publication accompanying exhibition organized by the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Text in Mandarin Chinese and English. 291 photographs of jade carvings accompanied by brief caption information. Very faint wear to dust jacket. Contents are clean with no marks, inscriptions or noticeable fading. Binding is firm. 303 pages. s207.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Original green cloth gilt. Text in Chinese and English. Trace shelfwear to board edges, hint of corner wear. Unmarked. The DJ in mylar is faintly scuffed/edgeworn. ; Chinese Jade Carving; 11.5 X 8.7 X 1.3 inches.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. The significance of jade in Chinese culture can never be over-emphasized. It was customary for the ancient Chinese to compare the qualities of jade to the virtues of a gentleman with special reference to its qualities of refinement and durability. According to the Book of Rites, jade was described as to have ten virtues, hence it was very much valued by the Chinese. This book was produced to coincide with the 8th Festival of Asian Arts held between 21/10/83 and 24/12/83.The book is in very nice condition EXCEPT for where the pages at the back are slightly bowed from the previous owner storing a small catalogue there.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 563pp. 48 colour plates 211 items are illustrated in b&w. Jacket spine i sunned.

Hard bound. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Catalogue of an important early exhibition of Chinese archaic and antique jade carvings, held in the Hong Kong Museum of Art with contributions from the collections of various members of the prestigious Min Chiu Society. Includes 291 lots of fine ritual and ornamental jade carvings, ranging in age from China's Neolithic to the end of the Qing Dynasty, all described in detail and illustrated in colour. This catalogue is of particular significance as the exhibition that it documents was drawn from collections that were assembled prior to the onslaught of trade in faked old jades, now the curse of modern day collectors. An important reference, now rare. Small chips to edges of dust jacket, now in mylar protector. Previous owner's small red seal on half title page, tape residue on FFEPs and faint foxing to paste-down EPs. Otherwise a bright and clean copy externally & internally. 303 pp., 291 colour plates. Size: 29 x 22 cm.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 563, 351 pp. 348 b/w illustrations, 49 colour plates. 38 carver marks. // Published to accompany an exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art for the 3rd Festival of Asian Art. The bamboo displayed is from Dr. Ip Yee?s well-known collection as well as other museum and private collections in Hong Kong and abroad. Part II contains an index of bamboo carvers, including pseudonyms and discussions on bamboo. Extremely scarce catalogue and a most valuable reference on a subject in which relatively little has been published in English, and the most extensive work to date on carved bamboo. Rarely seen as a set.