makeham john xu gan (3 Ergebnisse)

Original publisher's red cloth hardback, gilt lettering on black label spine, pictorial dustjacket, red ribbon, 8vo: xl, 368pp., footnotes & references, chapternotes & references, general bibliography, index. BI-LINGUAL edition: Chinese text with translation on opposite page. Very fine copy - as new. Written by the Han Philosopher Xu Gan [170-217].

Cloth. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. New Haven, CT, Yale University, 2002. First edition. 8vo. Rich red cloth with gilt lettering and small, black block on spine, textured gray endpapers, red ribbon bookmark, 366 pp. Written by the Han philosopher Xu Gan (170-217), Balanced Discourses is an inquiry into the causes of political breakdown. It provides a unique contemporary account of the social, intellectual, and cosmological factors that Xu Gan identified as having precipitated the demise of the Han order, in essays spanning topics from Confucian cultivation to calendar calculation. This edition contains the original Chinese text with annotations and, on facing pages, an annotated English translation. Dust jacket has slight shelf-wear. New in a near-fine dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover.

Zustand: New. In.