Isbn: 9780835124072 - the scholars rulin waishi (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 3rd Edition. Hardcover with DJ in slipcase. Blue, textured paper over boards with gilt stamping. White, illustrated DJ with green lettering. Cardboard slipcase with brown lettering and illustration. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1991 for this, the third printing. 602 pages followed by appendix. Good condition. Covers clean and square. DJ sunned but also in good shape (has some wear around spine), as is slipcover (has some minor water damage at bottom). Pages toned but clean. Binding strong within text block but cracked at copyright page and near rear of book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 3rd Edition. A clean unmarked copy in excellent condition. Includes slipcase. 607 pages.

Zustand: Good. FIRST EDITION.

Zustand: acceptable. Hardcover and slipcase. Item has water damage.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Third Edition. 22 cm. 8, 607 pages. 21 leaves of plates, dome folded. Illustrations (including colour frontispiece) and portraits in black and white. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. The Scholars is a Chinese novel authored by Wu Jingzi and completed in 1750 during the Qing Dynasty. Set in the Ming period, the novel describes and often satirizes Chinese scholars in a vernacular Chinese idiom. The first and last chapters portray recluses, but most of the loosely connected stories that form the bulk of the novel are didactic and satiric stories, on the one hand holding up exemplary Confucian behavior, but on the other ridiculing over-ambitious scholars and criticizing the civil service examination system. Promoting naturalistic attitudes over belief in the supernatural, the author rejects the popular belief in retribution: his bad characters suffer no punishment. The characters in these stories are intellectuals, perhaps based on the author's friends and contemporaries. Wu also portrays women sympathetically: the chief character Du treats his wife as a companion instead of as an inferior. Although it is a satiric novel, a major incident in the novel is Du's attempt to renovate his family's ancestral temple, suggesting the author shared with Du a belief in the importance of Confucianism. (Wikipedia).…

hardcover. Zustand: new.