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1 Recent Books from Taiwan August 2016 Anthropology Mary Martin Booksellers Pte Ltd Blk 231, Bain Street #03-05, Bras Basah Complex Singapore Tel : / Fax : info@marymartin.com The Religious System of China : Its Ancient Forms, Evolution, History and Present Aspect Manners, Custom and Social Institutions Connected Therewith / J. J. M. De Groot, Ph. D Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc., 2014 (Reprinted) v. Includes Index $ / HB (6 Books) 5162gm. Volume I Book I : Disposal of the Dead Part I: Funeral Rites Part II: The Ideas of Resurrection xxiv, 360p. Volume 2 Book I : Disposal of the Dead Part III: The Grave (First Half) vi, p. Volume 3 Book I: Disposal of the Dead Part III: The Grave (Second Half) vi, p. Mary Martin Booksellers Pte Ltd Taiwan Aug

2 Volume 4 Book II: On the Soul and Ancestral Worship Part I: The Soul in Philosophy and Folk-Conception x, 464p. Volume 5 Book II: On the Soul and Ancestral Worship Part II: Demonology Part III: Sorcery vi, p. Volume 6 Book II: On the Soul and Ancestral Worship Part IV: The War against Spectacles Part V: The Priesthood of Animism vi, p. Asian Folk Religion and Cultural Interaction / (Author) Yoshihiro Nikaido (Ed) Chun-chieh Huang Goettingen, German/Taipei: V&R Unipress / National Taiwan University (NTU) Press, p Global East Asia Series, Volume 2 $ / HB 598gm. Architecture A History of Modern Architecture in Taiwan / Chao-Ching Fu Taipei/Tainan: Architectural Institute of Taiwan, p. Includes Index $ / PB 1070gm. Mary Martin Booksellers Pte Ltd Taiwan Aug

3 Art Chuang Che Retrospective Exhibition / (Chief Ed) Fang Mei-ching Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, p $ / HB 2470gm. Beloved Baby Carrier : Tradition and Innovation / (Chief Eds) Chiang Kuei-Jen (et al.) Taipei: National Museum of History, p $ / PB 992gm. Lord Jiaqing and the Journey to Taiwan Special Exhibition / Fung Ming-Chu, Chen Lung-Kuei (Eds) Taipei : National Palace Museum, 2016 In Chinese and English $ / PB Exhibition Guidebook for Oṃ-maṇi-padme-hūṃ: Tibetan Buddhist Art in the National Palace Museum Taipei : National Palace Museum, 2016 In Chinese and English $ / PB Mary Martin Booksellers Pte Ltd Taiwan Aug

4 Atlases / Maps 方輿搜覽 : 大英圖書館所藏中文歷史地圖 = Reading antique cartography : historical Chinese maps in the British Library / Tianren Lin; Guoxing Xie Taibei Shi Zhong yang yan jiu yuan Taiwan shi yan jiu suo Zhong yang yan jiu yuan shu wei wen hua zhong xin, atlas (321 pages) : colour illustrations (some folded), colour maps (some folded) ; 37 cm in case 38 x 27 x 4 cm. 1. China -- Historical geography -- Maps -- Early works to China -- Maps -- Early works to Historical geography. $ / HB 2910gm. Contents yi. Huan yu tu = World maps -- er. Fen sheng zheng qu tu = Maps of provinces - san. Di fang zheng qu tu = Local administrative maps -- si. Cheng shi tu = City maps -- wu. Zheng zhi jiao tong tu = Economic and transportation maps -- liu. Min shan sheng ji tu = Maps of famous historical sites -- qi. He gong shui li tu = Flood control and embankment maps -- ba. Jun shi tu : quan guo = Military maps : general maps -- jiu. Jun shi tu : Jiangsu = Military maps : Jiangsu -- shi. Jun shi tu : Zhejiang = Military maps : Zhejiang -- shi yi. Jun shi tu : qi ta = Military maps : others. Historical Atlas of Indigenous Taiwan, = 台湾原住民历史地图集, 附 : 导读指引 / 郭俊麟等 ( 编 ) Taiwan Yuan Zhu Min Li Shi Di Tu Ji, Fu: Dao Du Zhi Ying= /Guo Jun Lin 台湾 : 新北市原住民族委员会,2016 Taiwan: Xin Bei Shi Yuan Zhu Min Zu Wei Yuan Hui, v (HB) $ / HB 5000gm. Mary Martin Booksellers Pte Ltd Taiwan Aug

5 1. Indigenous Taiwan 台湾原住民 Taiwan Yuan Zhu Min 2. Historical Atlas 历史地图 Li Shi Di Tu Ecology/Environment Ferns and Fern Allies of Taiwan / Ralf Knapp Taipei: KBCC Press & Yuan-Liou Publishing Co. Ltd., p. Includes Index $ / HB 2160gm. Important Bird Areas in Taiwan, Second Edition / (Ed) Allen Lyu (et al.) 2 nd Ed. Taipei: Forestry Bureau COA & Chinese Wild Bird Federation, p $ / PB 1010gm. History A New Illustrated History of Taiwan / Wan-yao Chou (Translated) Carole Plackitt & Tim Casey Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc., 2015 x, 470p $ / PB 866gm. Mary Martin Booksellers Pte Ltd Taiwan Aug

6 From War to Peace : 70th Anniversary of Victory in the War of Resistance against Japan and the Retrocession of Taiwan Taipei: Ministry of National Defense, p In Chinese and English $ / HB 1210gm. The Diary of George Leslie MacKay, / Rev. George Leslie MacKay (Foreword) Wuwen Xiong (et al.) Taipei: Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, First Edition 2015 l, 674p Collection of Taiwanese Historical Materials, No. 16 $ / PB 1270gm. A Century Rolling : Taiwan Railways / (Author) Hong Zhiwen (Translator) Jeff Miller Taipei: National Taiwan Museum, p In Chinese and English $ / PB 670gm. The Glory of Whampoa : The 90th Anniversary of Whampoa Military Academy (Ministry of National Defense, ROC) / (Ed-in-Chief) Lee Muh-ching Taipei: Military History and Translation Division, Administration Office, Ministry of National Defense, ROC, p $ / HB 1100gm. Mary Martin Booksellers Pte Ltd Taiwan Aug

7 Chinese Historical Thinking : An Intercultural Discussion / (Eds) Chun-chieh Huang & Jorn Rusen Goettingen, German/Taipei: V&R Unipress / National Taiwan University (NTU) Press, p. Includes Index ; Bibliography Global East Asia Series, Volume 4 $ / HB 642gm. The chronology of Dr. Sun Yat-sen / Yang Hui Taiwan : Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, p $ / PB Travels in Time : Reading the Past in Wanli and Jinshan / Lin Pei-chun, Lin Tzu-hsiang Taiwan : North Coast & Guanyinshan National Scenic Area Administration, Tourism Bureau, Ministry of Transportation and Communications, p $ 8.00 / PB Law The Functional Transformation of Courts : Taiwan and Korea in Comparison / (Ed) Jiunn-rong Yeh Goettingen, German/Taipei: V&R Unipress / National Taiwan University (NTU) Press, p Global East Asia Series, Volume 3 $ / HB 736gm. Mary Martin Booksellers Pte Ltd Taiwan Aug

8 Linguistics A study of comparative Ga n / W South Coblin Taipei : Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, 2015 xiv, 602p. maps (some color); 26cm Yu yan ji yu yan xue" zhuan kan xi lie, 58. Text in English; part Chinese. 1. Gan dialects (China) -- Phonology. 2. Norman, Jerry, $ / HB Phonological Profiles of Little-Studied Tibetic Varieties Taiwan : Academia Sinica, p $ / HB This edited volume contains original contributions on five under-researched Tibetic varieties: Purik (Kargil, India), Dongwang (Yunnan, China), Cone, Kami and Thebo (all spoken in Sichuan, China), some of which are distinct enough to merit independent language status. Each chapter contains a detailed account of the target variety s synchronic sound system and its diachronic evolution, a summary of the characteristic innovations, notes on its genetic subgrouping, as well as an English-Tibetic vocabulary of around one thousand items. Beyond this basic format in common, section organization and terminology usage are left to the discretion of the individual authors, some of whom enrich their presentations with additional observations from lexical, morphophonological, morphological and areal linguistic perspectives to shed further light on the phonological structures and linguistic affinity of the respective varieties Mary Martin Booksellers Pte Ltd Taiwan Aug

9 Peaches and plums : essays on language and linguistics in honor of Rudolph C. Troike / Rudolph C Troike; Cheng-Teh James Huang; Feng-Hsi Liu Taipei, Taiwan : Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taibei Shi : Zhong yang yan jiu yuan yu yan xue yan jiu suo, Minguo 103 [2014] 2014 xi, 485p. ; 27cm Yu yan ji yu yan xue" zhuan kan xi lie, Chinese language -- Syntax. 2. Chinese language -- Semantics. 3. Chinese language -- Phonology. $ / HB Official Publications 2015 Outline of the Ministry of the Interior, Republic of China / Department of Statistics, MOI Taipei: Ministry of the Interior, Republic of China (Taiwan), p $ / PB 618gm : The Development of International Trade in the Republic of China (Taiwan) Taipei: Bureau of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Economic Affairs, p $ / PB 312gm. Mary Martin Booksellers Pte Ltd Taiwan Aug

10 2015 National Defense Report, the Republic of China / National Defense Report Editing Committee, Ministry of Defense Taipei: Ministry of National Defense, p. ; 19x26cm Ministry of National Defense 2. Republic of China $ / PB 668gm. The Republic of China Yearbook 2015 / Department of Information Services, Executive Yuan Taipei: Executive Yuan, p. ISSN: ; $ / HB 576gm. Food Industry in Taiwan 2015 /Ho-Shui Li,Su-Mei Wang,Jiing-Ling Lin Taipei : Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, p $ 8.00 / PB Control Yuan Republic of China Taipei : Control Yuan, p $ 5.00 / PB The Republic of China at a Glance 2015 Taiwan : Ministry of Foreign Affairs, p $ 8.00 / PB Mary Martin Booksellers Pte Ltd Taiwan Aug

11 Government Finance in The Republic of China : 2014 Taiwan : Ministry of Finance, in Chinese and English $ / PB Philosophy Confucian Role Ethics : A Moral Vision for the 21st Century? / (Authors) Henry Rosemont Jr. & Roger T. Ames (Ed) Chun-chieh Huang Goettingen, German/Taipei: V&R Unipress / National Taiwan University (NTU) Press, p. Global East Asia Series, Volume 5 ISSN: ; $ / HB 498gm. Inclusive Humanism : Anthropological Basics for a Realistic Cosmopolitanism / Christoph Antweiler (Eds) Sorin Antohi, Chun-Chieh Huang & Jorn Rusen Goettingen, German/Taipei: V&R Unipress / National Taiwan University (NTU) Press, p. Includes Index ; Bibliography Reflections on (In) Humanity Series, Volume 4 $ / HB 680gm. Exploring Humanity Intercultural Perspective on Humanism / (Eds) Mihai I. Spariosu & Jorn Rusen Goettingen, German/Taipei: V&R Unipress / National Taiwan University (NTU) Press, p. Includes Index ; Bibliography Mary Martin Booksellers Pte Ltd Taiwan Aug

12 Reflections on (In) Humanity Series, Volume 3 $ 45.00/ HB 734gm. Approaching Humankind : Towards an Intercultural Humanism / (Ed) Jorn Rusen Goettingen, German/Taipei: V&R Unipress / National Taiwan University (NTU) Press, p. Includes Index ; Bibliography ? Reflections on (In) Humanity Series, Volume 6 $ 45.00/ HB 726gm. Humanism and Muslim Culture : Historical Heritage and Contemporary Challenges / (Eds) Stefan Reichmuth, Jorn Rusen and Aladdin Sarhan Goettingen, German/Taipei: V&R Unipress / National Taiwan University (NTU) Press, p Reflection on (In) Humanity Series, Volume 2 Includes Index $ 35.00/ HB 516gm. Crafting Humans : From Genesis to Eugenics and Beyond / (Ed) Marius Turda Goettingen, German/Taipei: V&R Unipress / National Taiwan University (NTU) Press, p. Includes Index ; Bibliography Reflections on (In) Humanity Series, Volume 5 $ / HB 534gm. Mary Martin Booksellers Pte Ltd Taiwan Aug

13 The Human and the Humane : Humanity as Argument from Cicero to Erasmus / (Author) Christian Hogel (Eds) Sorin Antohi, Chun-Chieh Huang & Jorn Rusen Goettingen, German/Taipei: V&R Unipress / National Taiwan University (NTU) Press, p. Includes Index ; Bibliography ISSN: ; Reflections on (In) Humanity Series, Volume 8 $ / HB 408gm. Multiple Experiences of Modernity : Toward a Humanist Critique of Modernity / (Ed) Oliver Kozlarek Goettingen, German/Taipei: V&R Unipress / National Taiwan University (NTU) Press, p Reflections on (In) Humanity Series, Volume 7 $ / HB 602gm. Religion Buddhism The World of Chan / Chan Master Sheng Yen Taipei: Dharma Drum Publishing Corp, 2015 x, 342p $ / PB 626gm. Mary Martin Booksellers Pte Ltd Taiwan Aug

14 Religion Christianity Catholic Faith and Evolution : Creation, Incarnation & Resurrection / Maria John P. Selvamani Taipei: Fu Jen Catholic University Press, p Fu Jen Catholic Studies Series 06 $ / PB 516gm. Sociology Policy Responses to Precarious Work in Asia / (Eds) Hsing-Huang Michael Hsiao, Arne L. Kalleberg & Kevin Hewison Taipei: Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, 2015 x, 260p $ / PB 412gm. Health inequalities in Taiwan Taipei: Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare, p $ / HB 452gm. Mary Martin Booksellers Pte Ltd Taiwan Aug

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