Zhou daguan (17 Ergebnisse)

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Softcover. Zustand: Très bon. Edition 2006. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Edition 2006. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Translated with an introduction by Peter Harris. Foreword by David Chandler. Plan, colour photographic plates, xv + 150pp, appendices, bibliography, index, paperback, very good. "Only one person has given us a first-hand account of the civilization of Angkor. This is the Chinese envoy, Zhou Daguan, who visited Angkor in 1296?97 and wrote A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People after his return to China. To this day Zhou?s description of the royal palace, sacred buildings, women, traders, slaves, hill people, animals, landscapes, and everyday life remains a unique portrait of thirteenth-century Angkor at a time when its splendours were still intact. Very little is known about Zhou Daguan. He was born on or near the south eastern coast of China, and was probably a young man when he travelled to Cambodia by boat. After returning home he faded into obscurity, though he seems to have lived on for several decades. Much of the text of Zhou?s book seems to have been lost over the centuries, but what remains still gives us a lively sense of Zhou the man as well as of Angkor. In this edition, Peter Harris translates Zhou Daguan?s work directly from Chinese to English to be published for the first time. Earlier English versions depended on a French translation done over a century ago, and lost much of the feeling of the original as a result. This entirely new rendering, which draws on a range of available versions of the Zhou text, brings Zhou?s many observations vividly and accurately back to life. An introduction and extensive notes help explain the text and put it in the context of the times." (Publisher's description). …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. Italian language. 6.46x3.86x0.32 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 150 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Second Edition. Paperback. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 150 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. 2007. 2ND. Paperback. The English translation of Zhou Daguan's work on Angkor, this work covers description of the royal palace, sacred buildings, women, traders, slaves, hill people, animals, landscapes, and everyday life. Num Pages: 184 pages, colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMC; 3H; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 238. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Only one person has given us a first-hand account of the civilization of Angkor. This is the Chinese envoy, Zhou Daguan, who visited Angkor in 1296-97 and wrote A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People after his return to China. To this day Zhou's description of the royal palace, sacred buildings, women, traders, slaves, hill people, animals, landscapes, and everyday life remains a unique portrait of thirteenth-century Angkor at a time when its splendors were still intact.Very little is known about Zhou Daguan. He was born on or near the southeastern coast of China, and was probably a young man when he traveled to Cambodia by boat. After returning home he faded into obscurity, though he seems to have lived on for several decades. Much of the text of Zhou's book has been lost over the centuries, but what remains gives us a lively sense of Zhou the man as well as of Angkor.In this edition, Peter Harris translates Zhou Daguan's work directly from Chinese to English to be published for the first time. Earlier English versions depended on a French translation done over a century ago, and lost much of the feeling of the original as a result. This entirely new rendering, which draws on a range of available versions of the Zhou text, brings Zhou's many observations vividly and accurately back to life. An introduction and extensive notes help explain the text and put it in the context of the times.…

Zustand: New. The English translation of Zhou Daguan s work on Angkor, this work covers description of the royal palace, sacred buildings, women, traders, slaves, hill people, animals, landscapes, and everyday life.&Uumlber den AutorPeter H.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 4th Edition. 147 pp., illustrations.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 64 pages, illustrations : 21 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition. "In 1961, Asia House Gallery published Khmer Sculpture, the catalogue for an exhibition of Khmer sculpture from American museum and private collections. Small (20 by 20 centimeters), slender (64 pages), illustrated with more than 30 full page black-and-white photographs, the book was one of the first on the subject to be published in English. Texts included a brief introduction by George Montgomery, the director of the the Gallery, an extract of the famous 13th-century journey narrative by Chou Ta-kuan (Zhou Daguan) describing his "recollections on the customs of Cambodia," and a text by Ad Reinhardt called "An Assemblage of Comments on the Mystery and Charity of Khmer Art." img7 Cover of Khmer Sculpture (Asia House Gallery) 1961. At mid-century, few American scholars or journalists traveled to Cambodia, even though foreign visitors were increasingly welcome in Norodom Sihanouk's kingdom since the French granted it independence in 1953. The first American to write about Cambodia was a U.S. consular official, Lawrence Palmer Briggs. Upon his retirement he set to work synthesizing the findings of the mainly French archeologists and paleographers who reconstructed Cambodia's past glory and published The Ancient Khmer Empire in 1951. Reinhardt quotes Briggs with and without citation in his six pages of comments. But perhaps the voice that resonates most from Reinhardt's assemblage is that of André Malraux, whose overview of world art masterpieces was republished by Doubleday in 1953 as The Voices of Silence. Without going into a detailed comparison between Reinhardt and Malraux, let us mention one of Malraux's most celebrated bon mots in this book: L'art est un anti-destin. In the Doubleday edition Malraux writes "Art is a revolt against fate." However, the sentence sounds even more in the tone of Reinhardt if we translate it literally: art is anti-destiny. But none of this explains how Ad Reinhardt came to contribute to one of the first American books about Khmer art. On May 29, 1958, Ad Reinhardt takes a Pan American flight to Los Angeles where he stops to visit Richard Neutra's Lovell House (1927) before taking off at midnight for Honolulu, with a stopover at Wake Island. He arrives in Tokyo on the 1st of June and jots in his notebook: "Saturday May 31? (Lost) Wonder what kind of day it might have been?" June 6th he's in Hong Kong, the 7th in Bangkok, and the 10th he stays in the Grand Hotel in Siem Reap, Cambodia. He has $1800 in travelers checks in his wallet, for his two days in Cambodia are merely a leg in a tour through Asia and the Near East which concludes July 6, 1958, when he will meet his wife Rita and daughter Anna in Tel Aviv.".…

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO60066207: 1992. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 73 pages. Photo en couleur en frontispice. Illustré de nombreuses photos en couleur hors texte et d'un plan en couleur sur double page en fin d'ouvrage. 1 longue planche dépliable. Jaquette déchirée. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.…