Yang Shuwen (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Pages are clean, unmarked and undamaged. Covers are lightly soiled with some uneven discoloration from light exposure. The upper right corner of the front cover is creased. Front cover is curled open a little. The upper left corner of the back cover is also lightly creased. Very little wear otherwise. The journal will be bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Ensemble Forecast: A New Approach to Uncertainty and Unpredictability"; "Modelling Hydrological Consequences of Climate Change--Progress and Challenges"; "A Coupled Model Study on the Intensification of the Asian Summer Monsoon in IPCC SRES Scenarios"; "Sensitivity of Cyclone Tracks to the Initial Moisture Distribution: A Moist Potential Vorticity Perspective"; "Footprint Characteristics of Scalar Concentration in the Convective Boundary Layer"; "Seasonal Variation of the East Asian Subtropical Westerly Jet and Its Association with the Heating Field over East Asia"; "A Study of Air/Space-borne Dual-Wavelength Radar for Estimation of Rain Profiles"; "Tropical Precipitation Estimated by GPCP and TRMM PR Observations"; "Numerical Simulation of the Impact of Vegetation Index on the Interannual Variation of Summer Precipitation in the Yellow River Basin"; "Eurasian Snow Conditions and Summer Monsoon Rainfall over South and Southeast Asia: Assessment and Comparison"; "Land Breeze and Thermals: A Scale Threshold to Distinguish Their Effects"; "Resolving SSM/I-Ship Radar Rainfall Discrepencies from AIP-3"; "South Asian High and Asian-Pacific-American Climate Teleconnection"; "The Thermodynamic and Dynamical Features of Double Front Structures During 21-31 July 1998 in China"; "Estimating the Soil Moisture Profile by Assimilating Near-Surface Observations with the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF)"; and "A Note on the South China Sea Shallow Interocean Circulation".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dust jacket has a chunk missing on upper spine and top left corner. Book is in very good condition. Priority shipping requires additional charge due to size and weight of book (standard shipping is free).

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First. Well-illustrated throughout in color. 164 pages. Slim folio, blue cloth, d.w. Beijing: New World Press & Lhasa: People's Publishing House of Tibet, 1987. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 'Phags-Pa (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine, Apparently Unread Copy, In A Fine Jacket. Still In Original Slipcase Which Shows Insignificant Wear. Large, Volume Weighs 2 Kilos, So Extra Postage Will Be Required.

Condition: Buono (Good). Volume in ottime condizioni. Copertina rigida con sovraccoperta. Alcuni segni di muffa nelle ultime pagine. English Text. Pagg. 164. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Boards have bowing, very light corner and edge wear. Interior pages are clean, unmarked. Unidentified signature and date on title page (authors?). DJ has corner and edge wear, rubbing, small tear at top of spine. Oversize/Overweight: additional postage may apply.

2nd Printing. Sm. Slim Folio. 164pp. Profusely illus. throughout in colour. Dec. e.ps., ownership inscription, good in d/w. sl. torn and chipped at head of spine. Buddhist Thang-ka Art of Tibet. Additional postage may be necessary US$37.

Condition: Sehr gut. Sehr guter Zustand. 164 pp., ill. - Andere 1900g Fol. Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag.

Folio. 164 pp. Over 75 colour plates, numerous black & white text illustrations. Embossed-blue silk, gilt lettering front cover & spine, illustrated endpapers (minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. (minor shelfwear), VG/VG copy. First edition of this work reproducing the beautiful biographical paintings of Phags-pa (1235-1280), drawing from 25 surviving scrolls of painted silk, now stored in the Sa-skya Monastery in Tibet. Phags-pa served as State Tutor under Kublai Khan when he moved his capital from Shangdu (Duolun in inner Mongolia) to Beijing establishing the Yuan Dynasty.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 146 pp., illustrations. In Chinese and Tibetan.

Condition: Sehr gut. Large format original cloth binding with dust jacket, 164 pages, numerous illustrations, very good condition. Detailed photos of a large series of 25 Thangkas showing the life of Phags-Pa, the famous Sakya school monk from Tibet who invented a new type of script during Yuan dynasty and became one of the teachers of Kubilai Khan. The Thangkas are still preserved in Sakya monastery. Text in Chinese. zh Gewicht in Gramm: 1820.

Beijing 1989, New World. Gold cloth, very good, small folio, 26 x 37 cm., dj., English text, co-compile Zhang Jiayan, An Xu & Luo Dan, 163p., profusely color illustrated [about 150 plates], beautifully photographed, on glossy paper. A most excellent and brilliant work. Sponsored by the Resea- rch Institute of Literature & Art of China's Minority Natio- nalities. This work has essays: including the title essay, also 'PHAGS-PA'S HISTORICAL MERITS; A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF THE MAKING OF THE BIOGRAPHICAL PAINTINGS OF 'PHAGS-PA; A HI- STORY BOOK IN PICTURES. This marvelous study illustrates and discusses in much detail some 25 superb examples. Each is described, figures identifice, icons named and how it relat- es to the Buddhist pantheon. A most useful referfence for any student of Thangkas, Buddhist & Tibetan ritualistic art.