Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 0804750696 ISBN 13: 9780804750691
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Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 10: 0340741341 ISBN 13: 9780340741344
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Verlag: University of California Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 0520273125 ISBN 13: 9780520273122
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Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 069122546X ISBN 13: 9780691225463
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Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 0691225451 ISBN 13: 9780691225456
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Paperback. Zustand: Fine.
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Anbieter: True World of Books, Delhi, Indien
LeatherBound. Zustand: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1922 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 258 Language: English.
Verlag: Curtis Publishing Company;, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA., 1905
Anbieter: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Kanada
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Soft cover. Zustand: GOOD, Decent Reading Copy. Henrietta Adams Illustrated Cover; (illustrator). TRUE FIRST EDITION THUS. 32 pages. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. Magazine July 22, 1905. - Volume 178; Number 4; >> Backcover = Gold Medal Flour ad (with photo of black lady); CONTENTS - "Wall Street and the Public Money" by Will Payne; "New Lamps for Old" by Emery Pottle; "The Park Slope Mystery" by S.M. Gardenhire; "The lady and the Ladder" by Harrison Rhodes; "The making of the City Slum" by David Graham Phillips; " "A White Uprising in the Indian Country" by Homer Bassford; >>> weight = 85 grams >> Magic tape to spine & cover; Rusty Staples; Centerfold loose; Size: 14 - 1/4" x 11-1/4". Book.
Verlag: Stanford University Press., Stanford., 2005
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Maps, viii + 207pp, notes, bibliography, index, a very good paperback copy.
Verlag: The American Federation of Arts, Washington, D.C., 1910
Anbieter: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, USA
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Wrappers. Zustand: Very Good. Black and White Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. One Issue, 1910. Light Wear, A Little Soiling To Front Cover, Handwritten Reference Note By Julia Bracken Wendt, A Founding Member Of The Federation.
Verlag: Princeton UP, 2021
ISBN 10: 0691225451 ISBN 13: 9780691225456
Anbieter: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st edn. ~No ownership marks. As new. With dustwrapper.~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. Size: xiv, 341pp. Binding sound, text unmarked.
Verlag: Princeton 2022, 2022
Anbieter: Pali, Roma, RM, Italien
Hard Cover in Dj. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 8vo, hardcover in dj, 342pp. The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East's disinterest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting, Henrietta Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously shifting the historical lens to focus on Macartney's two interpreters at that meetingLi Zibiao and George Thomas Staunton. Who were these two men? How did they intervene in the exchanges that they mediated? And what did these exchanges mean for them? From Galway to Chengde, and from political intrigues to personal encounters, Harrison reassesses a pivotal moment in relations between China and Britain. She shows that there were Chinese who were familiar with the West, but growing tensions endangered those who embraced both cultures and would eventually culminate in the Opium Wars. Harrison demonstrates that the Qing court's ignorance about the British did not simply happen, but was manufactured through the repression of cultural go-betweens like Li and Staunton. She traces Li's influence as Macartney's interpreter, the pressures Li faced in China as a result, and his later years in hiding. Staunton interpreted successfully for the British East India Company in Canton, but as Chinese anger grew against British imperial expansion in South Asia, he was compelled to flee to England. Harrison contends that in silencing expert voices, the Qing court missed an opportunity to gain insights that might have prevented a losing conflict with Britain. Uncovering the lives of two overlooked figures, The Perils of Interpreting offers an empathic argument for cross-cultural understanding in a connected world.
Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 0804750688 ISBN 13: 9780804750684
Anbieter: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, USA
hardcover. Zustand: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.
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Verlag: Princeton University Press 2021, 2021
Anbieter: Pali, Roma, RM, Italien
Cloth in Dj. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 8vo, hardcover in dj. 341pp. An impressive new history of China's relations with the Westtold through the lives of two language interpreters who participated in the famed Macartney embassy in 1793 The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East's disinterest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting, Henrietta Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously shifting the historical lens to focus on Macartney's two interpreters at that meetingLi Zibiao and George Thomas Staunton. Who were these two men? How did they intervene in the exchanges that they mediated? And what did these exchanges mean for them? From Galway to Chengde, and from political intrigues to personal encounters, Harrison reassesses a pivotal moment in relations between China and Britain. She shows that there were Chinese who were familiar with the West, but growing tensions endangered those who embraced both cultures and would eventually culminate in the Opium Wars. Harrison demonstrates that the Qing court's ignorance about the British did not simply happen, but was manufactured through the repression of cultural go-betweens like Li and Staunton. She traces Li's influence as Macartney's interpreter, the pressures Li faced in China as a result, and his later years in hiding. Staunton interpreted successfully for the British East India Company in Canton, but as Chinese anger grew against British imperial expansion in South Asia, he was compelled to flee to England. Harrison contends that in silencing expert voices, the Qing court missed an opportunity to gain insights that might have prevented a losing conflict with Britain. Uncovering the lives of two overlooked figures, The Perils of Interpreting offers an empathic argument for cross-cultural understanding in a connected world.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0199682887 ISBN 13: 9780199682881
Anbieter: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, USA
Zustand: New.
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Verlag: Ordovas, New York & London, 2018
ISBN 10: 199966812X ISBN 13: 9781999668129
Anbieter: David Bunnett Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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SOFTCOVER. 1st Edition. Large Folio in colour printed stiff card covers (the cover photo shows a badly creased reproduction used by Bacon ), 92pp on stiff art paper, colour plates, etc CONDITION: Corners a little kinked from poor storage but otherwise a very clean and tight FINE unmarked copy ] ._ To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box ._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.
Verlag: Soller de Mallorca, Mallorca, 1983
Anbieter: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardback in the dust-jacket. 96 pages. Profusely illustrated, many in color. A Fine copy. Book.
Verlag: University of California Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 0520273117 ISBN 13: 9780520273115
Anbieter: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, USA
hardcover. Zustand: Good.
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Verlag: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0198295197 ISBN 13: 9780198295198
Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 278 pp; Studies On Contemporary China.
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