Sing Wu Ting Edited (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG+/g+; dj has one tear bot ed. 1st. 266, Side by side English and Chinese. Color and B&W photos (illustrator).

First editions. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Volume I: 232pp, Volume II: 224pp. Brown cloth covered boards lettered in gilt, decorated endpapers. Inscriptions on the front free endpapers. Dustwrapper of volume II has a few tape repairs on the verso. 38 x 26cm. Very good copies. The photographs and rubbings of many art works, truly the cream of Chinese art. Volume I deals specifically with Chinese calligraphy and painting. Volume II covers several other fields of Chinese art including bronzes, jade, ceramics,enamel ware, lacquer ware, carvings, sculpture and the art work from the Tun-Huang cave shrines. …

Second Edition. Revised by Wu Chia Ching. Translated by Liang Shih Chiu. Maps, including very attractive double page colour pictorial map, 7 striking full page colour photographic plates by well known Chinese photographers of the day, profuse black and white photographic images throughout, attractive colour endpapers from a Chinese painting, 228pp. Neat signature of Professor Conrad Frey front free endpaper with an inscription to him and his wife from his students half title, upper joint split, dustjacket chipped. Very good. 38 x 26.5cm. A fascinating pictorial overview of China in the 1940s and 50s. The preparation for this work began in 1946 and for the following 8 years before the first edition was published in 1955. This second edition includes photographs not included in the first edition. The book is divided into 7 sections - the Southeast, the Southwest, the Northwest, North China, the Northeast, Mongolia and Tibet, and Taiwan, each with a map and introductory text in both Chinese and English. …