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  • METAMORPHIC IMAGERY IN ANCIENT CHINESE ART AND RELIGION
    ELIZABETH CHILDS-JOHNSON / JOHN S MAJOR
    Metamorphic Imagery in Ancient Chinese Art and Religion demonstrates that the concept of metamorphism was central to ancient Chinese religious belief and practices from at least the late Neolithic period through the Warring States Period of the Zhou dynasty. Central to the authors' argument is the ubiquitous motif in early Chinese figurative art, the metamorphic power mask. Whi...

    $1,160.00

  • CHINA BRIEFING, 1987
    JOHN S. MAJOR
    The year 1986 marked the tenth anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong and the fall of the Gang of Four. A decade after the end of the Cultural Revolution, China experienced the consolidation of rural economic reform, continued progress in urban reform, a widening of the "open door" to the west, and, perhaps most important, the seemingly irreversible impact on Chinese society an...

    $1,200.00

  • ANTI-TERRORISM; FORENSIC SCIENCE; PSYCHOLOGY IN POLICE INVESTIGATIONS
    JOHN S MAJOR
    This book presents a broad selection of the papers presented at IDENTA '85 on various topics, including counter-terrorism; Israel's experience with terrorism; police and terrorism; and psychological methods, forensic science and voice identification in criminal investigation. The conference on International Congress on Technologies for Police Identification & Counter-Terror...

    $1,200.00

  • CHINA BRIEFING, 1985
    JOHN S. MAJOR
    China Briefing, 1985 approaches the events of the previous year providing a long-term perspective on the dramatic developments of spring and summer 1984. Senior China specialists examine the student demonstrations and their aftermath in the larger context of the 40-year history of the People's Republic of China and also reflect on future directions ...

    $780.00

  • ANCIENT CHINA
    JOHN S. MAJOR / CONSTANCE A. COOK
    Ancient China: A History surveys the East Asian Heartland Region – the geographical area that eventually became known as China – from the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age, to the early imperial era of Qin and Han, up to the threshold of the medieval period in the third century CE. For most of that long span of time there was no such place as "China"; the vast and varied ...

    $1,379.00