The Hermit Of Peking

TREVOR-ROPER, Hugh.. HERMIT OF PEKING: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse..
A WONDERFUL INSIGHT TO THE GREAT CHINA HAND Fascinating biography of Backhouse & his various paramours while in British government service in Peking. * * * BUY WITH CONFIDENCE 43 YEARS EXPERIENCE ! * * * !! WARNING: The above description is COPYRIGHT protected material under United States & International Copyright & Intellectual property laws. Unauthorized copying or use of ANY PART is a felony and * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

New York 1977, Knopf. 1/2 cloth over boards, very good, 316p index, bibliography, appendix.

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Trevor-roper, Hugh Redwald: HERMIT OF PEKING: THE HIDDEN LIFE OF SIR EDMUND BACKHOUSE, Knopf Publishing Group 1977 ISBN: 0394411048

This book is about the hidden life of Sir Edmund Backhouse. The pages are clean and tight with no markings in the book. Very Good/near Fine No Jacket

[SW: Scholars Education]

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Wu-Chi, Liu: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CONFUCIAN PHILOSOPHY, Middlesex, England Penquin Books 1955 ; weicher Einband / soft cover; 1. Ed.
Very Good

193 pages. Light edge and corner wear with a flat spine. Contains the following: K'UNG CH'IU, FOUNDER OF THE JU SCHOOL: On the Greatness of Ju Philospohy - a Prelude; Scholars or Weaklings; A Great Ju Rises in the East; The Brave New World of Education; A Happy Innovation; Short of a Miracle: the Professionals Turned Philosophers; THE TRANSMISSION OF TAO: The Diffusion of Master K'ung's Teaching; Eight Divisions of theK'ung School; The Analects - The Master's Testament; The Great Learning; Tzu-ssu, a Worthy Heir of the K'ung House; The Doctrine of the Mean; RIVAL SCHOOLS OF PHILOSOPHY: The Period of The Warring States; The Battle of Minds; The Triumph of the Female; An All Embracing Love; The Happiness of Being Non-moral; The Dream of a Butterfly; The White Horse and What Not; A STALWART CHAMPION OF THE K'UNG SCHOOL: Meng k'o, the Second Sage; Be Strong to do Good; Profit Versus Virtue; Below the Gate of Grain; Master Meng is not Fond of Arguing; The Hermit and the Goose; Master Hsu has his Troubles; The Hand that Rescues a Drowning Sister-in-law; THE MIND OF A DEMOCRATIC THINKER: The Innate Goodness of Human Nature; An Alleory of the Virgin Forest; Four Limbs of a Man; The Disgraceful Man of Ch'i; The Heart of a Naked Child; Three Treasures of a Prince; The Mandate of Heaven; THE MOULDING OF A GREAT TRADITION: Master Hsun, the Magistrate of Lan-ling; The Great Weaklings; Religion Divorced from Philosophy; Human Nature is Evil; Making Poetry of Daily Life; An Expression of Joy; The Philosophy of Culture; THE LEGALIST TRIUMPH: The Rise of the Legalist School; Philosophers and Administrators; A Synthesis of Legalist Ideas; K'ung Scholars Under Fire; The End of an Epoch; A Fatal Banquet; The Great Catastrophe: THE K'UNG CLASSICS INSCRIBED ON STONE TABLETS: The Revival of Learning; Eruditi of the Five Classics; The Science of Catastrophes and Anomalies; Two Imperial Confrenences; Old Script versus the Modern; The Voice of Rationalism; Master K'ung Canonized; CROSS-CURRENTS IN CHINESE THOUGHT: A Light from the Western World; An Attack on Buddha's Finger-bone; Two Friends in a Great Debate; The Restoration of Human Nature; Contemplation and Enlightenment; The Whole Universe is Man's Dwelling Place; THE SYNCRETIZATION OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY: A Tribute of the Sung Philosophers; In the Den of Tranquil Delight; The Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate; The Magic of Numbers; The Unity of Heaven and Man; Above Shape and Below Shape; The Great Summation; THE INTUITIVE MIND VERSUS THE SCIENTIFIC: A Philosophical Debate at the Goose Lake Monastery; The Principle of the Bamboo; Intuition, not Investigation; The Unity of Knowledge and Practice; Centuries of Dreary Scholarship; A Textual Criticism that Claims to be Sceintific; THE SAGE PUTS ON A NEW LOOK: New Wine in Old Bottles; A World Utopia; An Abortive Attempt to Deify master K'ung; Down with K'ung and Sons; An Aferglow; and Verdict Unknown. No store stamp. First Paperback Printing Soft Cover; First Paperback Printing

[SW: china's greatest philosophy; tsing hua collage; peking; chinese culture;]

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Trevor-Roper, Hugh Redwald: Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse, New York Alfred A Knopf 1977 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover ISBN: 0394411048
Very Good

Type: Hard Back SECOND PRINTING BEFORE PUBLICATION. HARDCOVER AND JACKET IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. Mylar jacket cover. 316 pages. Four pages of photographs. Book and jacket have a touch of edgewear, otherwise clean, tight, solid volume. An adventure in historical and scholarly sleuthing--given the documents and memoirs of Sir Edmund Blackhouse, an author of two Chinese history books who had lived in China nearly 50 years and had once been connected with the British Secret Service, to review, for possible deposition in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The author, a Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, was in for a surprise, in many ways almost humorous. His memoirs told of a man who was the lover of dozens of prominent figures of his times--their fantasy was interwoven with reality, which was even stranger--he turned out to be one of the most outrageous forgers, confidence tricksters, and eccentrics of the 20th century. Very Good Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

[SW: BACKHOUSE, EDMUND TRELAWNY, SIR, bart.;-1873-1944; SINOLOGISTS, GREAT BRITAIN; History. China.]

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