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1	1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance more books like this by Gavin Menzies add to wishlist The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "1421" offers a stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence about the European Renaissance, tracing its roots to the Chinese. 16-page color photo insert. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.58! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Look What Came from China more books like this by Miles Harvey add to wishlist Intended as a reference source for school projects, this book which is part of a multicultural series explores the foods, words, inventions, tools, customs and religions of China. It also describes the sports, animals, dance and crafts that originated there. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.22! \| SVS
3	China to Chinatown: Chinese Food in the West more books like this by J A G Roberts add to wishlist "China to Chinatown" tells the story of one of the most notable examples of the globalization of food: the spread of Chinese recipes, ingredients and cooking styles to the Western world. Beginning with the accounts of Marco Polo and Franciscan friars who travelled to the East, J.A.G. Roberts describes how Westerners' first impressions of Chinese ... see all copies from $3.92! new only from $5.98! \| first editions
4	The Great Encounter of China and the West, 15001800 more books like this by David E Mungello, Ph.D. add to wishlist In the twenty-first century, China has emerged as the leading challenger to U.S. global dominance. China is often seen as a sleeping giant, emerging out of poverty, backwardness, and totalitarianism and moving toward modernization. However, history shows that this vast country is not newly awakening, but rather returning to its previous state of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| SVS
5	Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture more books like this by Ignacio Lopez-Calvo add to wishlist More than 150 years ago, the first Chinese contract laborers ("coolies") arrived in Cuba to work the colonial plantations. Eventually, over 150,000 Chinese immigrated to the island, and their presence has had a profound effect on all aspects of Cuban cultural production, from food to books to painting.Ignacio Lopez-Calvo's interpretations often go ... see all copies from $27.58! new only from $27.58! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art, Revised and Expanded Edition more books like this by Michael Sullivan add to wishlist In this text, the author leads the reader through four centuries of interaction between the artists of China and Japan and those of Western Europe. From Hokusai to van Gogh, the author shows how artistic interpretation has enriched our vision of artists and their aims both East and West. see all copies from $18.15! new only from $53.84! \| first editions
7	Chinoiserie more books like this by Dawn Jacobson add to wishlist It was in the seventeenth century that myths of exotic "Cathay" began to be replaced by more definite knowledge of things Chinese, through the activities of English and Dutch traders. It was in the eighteenth century, however, that the taste for designs and architecture based on ideas of Chinese design - "Chinoiserie" - became highly fashionable ... see all copies from $27.27! new only from $27.27! \| first editions
8	Marginal Sights: Staging the Chinese in America more books like this by James S Moy add to wishlist Since the beginning of the Western tradition in drama, dominant cultures have theatrically represented marginal or foreign racial groups as other - different from "normal" people, not completely human, uncivilized, quaint, exotic, comic. Playwrights and audiences alike have been fascinated with racial difference, and this fascination has depended ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.60! \| first editions
9	Orientalism and Modernism-P more books like this by Zhaoming Qian, Zhaoming Qian add to wishlist Chinese culture held a well-known fascination for Modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. What is less known but is made fully clear by Zhaoming Qian is the degree to which oriental culture made these poets the Modernists they became. This ambitious and illuminating study shows that Orientalism, no less than French symbolism ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.89! \| first editions
10	Chinoiserie: Chinese Influence on European Decorative Art, 17th and 18th Centuries more books like this by Alfred Jarry, Madeleine Jarry add to wishlist see all copies from $400.00! first editions
11	Straits Chinese Furniture: A Collector's Guide more books like this by Ho Wing Meng add to wishlist Straits Chinese furniture is a fusion of Chinese Qing dynasty ornateness and early 19th-century English dignity and decorum. Isolated from Chinese trends as well as European fashions, it developed its own style and uses in the Straits Settlements of Singapore, Malacca and Penang. This book traces the origins and characteristics of Stratis Chinese ... see all copies from $14.98! new only from $14.98! \| first editions
12	The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500d1800 more books like this by David E Mungello, Ph.D. add to wishlist In the twenty-first century, China has emerged as the leading challenger to U.S. global dominance. China is often seen as a sleeping giant, emerging out of poverty, backwardness, and totalitarianism and moving toward modernization. However, history shows see all copies from $19.52! new only from $19.89! \| SVS
13 view cover	The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800 more books like this by David E Mungello, Ph.D. add to wishlist For too long, the history of contact between China and the West has been portrayed as a one-sided encounter: Europeans were said to have discovered China, while Chinese responses to the West went largely unnoticed. In this book, D. E. Mungello dispels the myth that China was a silent partner in the dialogue between Eastern and Western ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.42! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Modernist Response to Chinese Art: Pound, Moore, Stevens more books like this by Zhaoming Qian add to wishlist What role did Chinese art play in the poetic development of Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens? How could they share Chinese artists' Dao, an aesthetic held to be beyond verbal representation? In this sequel to "Orientalism and Modernism", Zhaoming Qian investigates the ways in which these three modernist poets received Chinese ... see all copies from $12.88! new only from $16.83! \| first editions
15	The meeting of Eastern and Western art from the sixteenth century to the present day. more books like this by Michael Sullivan add to wishlist see all copies from $4.66! first editions
16 view cover	Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem more books like this by Robert Kern add to wishlist This is a critical and historical interpretation of 'Oriental' influences on American modernist poetry. Kern equates Fenollosa and Pound's 'discovery' of Chinese writing with the American pursuit of a natural language for poetry, what Emerson had termed the 'language of nature'. This language of nature is here shown to be a mythic conception ... see all copies from $36.22! new only from $36.22! \| SVS
17 view cover	Painters as Envoys: Korean Inspiration in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Nanga more books like this by Burglind Jungmann add to wishlist It is well known that Japanese literati painting of the eighteenth century was inspired by Chinese styles that found their way to Japan through trade relations. However, because Japanese and American art historians have focused on Japanese-Chinese ties, the fact that Japan also maintained important diplomatic - and aesthetic - relations with Korea ... see all copies from $76.47! new only from $77.74!
18	Chinoiserie: The Vision of Cathay more books like this by Hugh Honour add to wishlist see all copies from $19.24! signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	China and gardens of Europe of the eighteenth century. more books like this by Osvald Sirén add to wishlist see all copies from $100.00! new only from $121.00! \| first editions \| SVS
20	Chinoiserie: The Impact of Chinese Styles in Western Art & Decoration more books like this by Oliver Impey add to wishlist see all copies from $4.24! first editions
21 view cover	Marianne Moore and China: Orientalism and a Writing of America more books like this by Cynthia Stamy add to wishlist Marianne Moore's poetry offers an extraordinarily rich site from which to analyse a tradition of American orientalism which focused upon China. Marianne Moore and China examines why she chose to participate in that tradition and analyses why her borrowing of Chinese models of all kinds - from poetry to painting and philosophy - was so critical to ... see all copies from $12.31! new only from $25.00!
22 view cover	Paradise and Plumage: Chinese Connections in Tibetan Arhat Painting more books like this by Robert N Linrothe add to wishlist see all copies from $21.75! new only from $25.48! \| first editions
23 view cover	Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe more books like this by David Porter, Mip add to wishlist From the first successful Jesuit mission in 1583 until the disastrous failure of the British trade embassy in 1816, China's cultural practices transfixed the attention of Western philosophers, theologians, architects, artists, entrepreneurs and social critics. The direct influences on European culture were many and profound, ranging from Chinese ... see all copies from $60.95! new only from $60.95! \| first editions
24	Man's Fate(oop) more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom add to wishlist A collection of critical essays on Malraux's novel "Man's Fate" arranged in chronological order of publication. see all copies from $4.50! new only from $47.00! \| first editions
25	The Classical Gardens of China: History and Design Techniques more books like this by Hung-Hsun Yang add to wishlist see all copies from $4.74! new only from $84.00! \| first editions

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