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Black and white illustrations, xii + 348pp, glossary/index, sunned spine, sound paperback copy with a little light wear at extremities but otherwise very good. A collection of essays written by fellow scholars and students of Derke Bodde for his 75th birthday. The essays cover a wide variety of subjecst spanning more than two thousand years of Chinese history and include: Symbolic Expressions of Ying-Yang Philosophy - Schuyler Cammann; Living with the Chinese: the Muslim Experience in China, T'ang to Ming - Donald Daniel Leslie; The Cult of the Dragon and the Invocation for Rain - Michael Loewe; Kuan-tzu and the Newly Discovered Texts on Bamboo and Silk - W. Allyn Rickett; The Fire-lance, Ancester of All Gun-Barrels - Joseph Needham.…