M. Culas - Grammaire de l'Objet Chinois - 1997

Grammar of the Chinese Object by Michel Culas - Editions de l'Amateur, Paris 1997 - publisher's binding in full black cloth, under a dust jacket with flaps and illustrations, illustrated endpapers and guards, 270 pages augmented by a very large number of color and black-and-white illustrations in text and out of text + a color map of China on a double page produced by Editerra, Paris, format In-4° (29.5 x 22.5 cm) - Detailed table of contents: see photos -

This book is Like New. Flawless - This work is primarily a manual of initiation to Chinese objects, and thus to Chinese material and cultural civilization. This study has rather focused on the 'minor arts.' It is therefore the everyday object that will be discussed more than the work of art. Craftsmanship and folk art, relying on an ancient tradition, have endured. It is this enduring culture, one that resisted wars, destructive ideology, and the new capitalist values today, that this book aims to tell.