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History of Chinese society : Liao, 907-1125
Published by American Philosophical Society: Distributed by the Macmillan Co., Philadelphia ; New York, 1949
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. xv, 752 pages illustrations, maps (1 folded). Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; new series, v. 36. Publisher's blue cloth-covered boards good, moderate wear to extremities; previous owner's bookplate at front pastedown, text and folding map very good, marginal checkmarks and notes in pencil. Edgewear, shelfwear, and chipping to dust jacket, rubbing and tears at hinges and folds. 2500 grams.
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History of Chinese society: Liao [907 - 1125]
Published by Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, New Series, Volume 36, 1946, 1946
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick 4to Original navy cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board.Prevowner sign=Arthur R. Dornheim to fep April 23, 1956 ow VG/vgdj: xvi + 752pp. Bibliography & index. errata and addenda page, 43 text illustrations, 2 maps including a large fold-out map at rear of The Liao Empires, Fold-out map at rear. B/w plates. A massive and scholarly social history of the Liao empire which for two hundred years controlled the regions of modern Manchuria, Mongolia and the northeastern part of China. As social history it deals with the empire's economic, cultural, political and military institutions, with its subject peoples, in the main Chinese, and with its nomad founders and masters, the Ch'i-tan. "A monumental compendium on the Khitan people and their Liao Dynasty, in a topical analysis, fully documented; the basic source on this aspect of Chinese history and not likely to be superceded. Contains a special appendix on the Central Asia branch of the Khitan Empire, called Kara Khital". Hucker 355///ASSOCIATION: Prevowner sign=Arthur R. Dornheim [1921-2008], the US Navy Japanese Language School (JLS), at the University of Colorado in Boulder from 1942-1946,assigned to JICPOA in Pearl Harbor for two years, in 1944 escorted Japanese prisoners captured on Guam to Pearl Harbor,served in the Occupation of Japan in SCAJAP; coauthor w Uyehara, Cecil H. [1988] U. S.-Japan Science and Technology Exchange : Patterns of Interdependence.
