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Mine Warfare.
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1971.
Oblong 8vo, color-illustrated wrappers, 178 pp. Photos from the film throughout. From the Synopsis at the beginning of the book: ÒMine Warfare is a picture-story book based on the film by the same name. In their daring struggle in the War of Resistance Against Japan, the people of an anti-Japanese base, Chaochia Village in Shantung Province, supported by the Eighth Route Army, made brilliant use of land mines to defeat the Japanese invaders. Led by our great leader Chairman Mao Tsetung and the Chinese Communist Party, the army and people of the base area, men and women, old and young, everyone joined in the fighting, every village fought, to wage people's war. The mobilized Chinese people in their millions devised ingenious fighting methods to Ôcreate a vast sea in which to drown the enemy, create the conditions that...make up for inferiority in arms and other things' as summed up by Chairman Mao, and waged remarkable and heroic struggle against Japanese imperialism.Ó
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Barth, Fredrik. Nomads of South Persia: The Basseri Tribe of the Khamseh Confederacy.
Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc., [1961].
Octavo, softbound (slick, lime green, photo illus. wrappers), 161 pp. Interior highlighting; otherwise, an attractive volume (bright and tight, without rubbing to covers). Illustrated with maps, b&w photos, figures.
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Carrasco, Pedro. Land and Polity in Tibet.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1959. First Edition. A publication of of the American Ethnological Society.
Octavo, boards (cream spine, green letters & covers), hardcover, vii, 307, [iii] pp. Very Good, with edgewear. Illustrated with maps. Contents: Introduction: The Basic Economy of Tibet; Political Units; Historical Review; The Peasantry: Western Tibet: Spiti, Ladak, and Lahul; Central Tibet; Sikkim; Bhutan; Eastern Tibet: Khams; Property Relations among Herders: The Nomads of A-mdo; The Realm of the Dalai Lama: Political Organization; The Land System [Appendix I. Estates of the Noble Families of Lhasa; Appendix II. Holdings of Some Relgious Entities; Appendix III. Treasury Estates in 1792]; The Ruling Class; The LEsser States: The Petty States of Khams and A-mdo; The Old Kingdom of Ladak; The Chieftains of Lahul; The Kingdom of Sikkim; The Church State of Bhutan; Conclusion: The Land System; Trade and Industry; The Ruling Class; The Role of the Church; Regional Differences; The Historical Development of Tibetan Society; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
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Congyun, Lei, Yang, Yang and Gushan, Zhao. Imperial Tombs of China. Essays by Lei Congyun, Yang Yang and Zhao Gushan. Translations by Richard E. Strassberg and Martha Avery.
Denver: The Denver Museum of Natural History, in association with Wonders...and The State Bureau of Cultural Relics of the People's Republic of China, [1995]. 1st edition.
Quarto, softbound, 168 pp. Color photos, illus., maps. Former-owner embossed stamp on front endpaper and title page; otherwise Fine.
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Cross, Gladys. Through the Land of Living Gods: My Pilgrimage at the Wish of the Master.
Published by the author, 1930.
Octavo, gold cloth (hardcover), 172 pp. From Foreword: Lines drawn from Yea Keang to the Yu Men and from Draus to Sining-Fu, have for years marked the North and South boundaries of my adopted country into which, in every way, I have penetrated deeper than any other white. In this land of mystery or, for the moment, occultism, and beyond; I have tried to alleviate the distress brought to huge members of my sex by a fearful disease. That the lamas of the districts on and off the routes about my places are rich, is proof of the widely known efficacy of treatments which are unfortunately limited by the extenet of my own resources. For money, the lamas propitiate and exorcise the disease, demons, and I get the experience when actually killing them, free of charge! There is room for real missionaries providing the be non sectarian at the outset, for, while every country is ready for the true religion, the people of mine want medicine first. From California to the farthest flung work place towardes Karakorum, is a long, long way. It is close telepathically, though, and that will hearten me on my way ÒhomeÓ at the end of the, as prophesied by The Master, disastrous Iron Horse Year. (1930). I look for better things in the Iron Sheep Year which will be ushered in with the February moon of 1931 as I arrive, over the deep snows, at the scene of my work. The Master declared that the Iron Sheep Year would be full of terrors and threats for the Western World, worse indeed than the Iron Horse Year -- so aptly calendered a thousand years ago -- now drawing to a close. I trust that it shall not be so bad for you. If Through th eLand of Living Gods gives my readers one half the pleasure, which was mine when doing the unique voyaging necessary for its compilation, I shall be content.
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Duy, Pham. Musics of Vietnam. Edited by Dale R. Whiteside.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. Feffer & Simons, Inc., 1975,
Octovo, purple cloth, spine with black label, gilt letters, xviii, 161 pp. Fold out chart, ÔEvolution of Cai Luong,' lyrics, charts, bibliography, index. Fine in Near-Fine dust jacket. ÔPham Duy has spent twenty years traveling from village to village, notebook and tape recorder in tow, living with the people for a time, exchanging music with them, recording their traditions and their songs.'
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