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Hongshan Culture Jade
[around_china] Hongshan Prehistoric Culture and Number 1 Jade Dragon of China
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China Hongshan Culture Bear Head Clavate Jade Figurine $8.99 |
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China Hongshan Culture Tile Veins&Cicada Jade Figurine $9.99 |
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T1526 Old Hongshan culture jade human $9.90 |
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T2126 Hongshan culture jade monster $45.55 |
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T2127 Hongshan culture jade monster $45.55 |
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T2128 Hongshan culture jade monster $49.99 |
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T2129 Hongshan culture jade monster $45.55 |
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T1533 Old Hongshan culture jade gryphon $9.90 |
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T2132 Hongshan culture jade monster $45.55 |
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T1537 Old Hongshan culture jade gryphon $9.90 |
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T1542 Old Hongshan culture jade monster $9.80 |
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T1546 Old Hongshan culture jade monster $9.80 |
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T1548 Old Hongshan culture jade monster $9.90 |
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T1548 Old Hongshan culture jade monster $9.90 |
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T471 Chinese Hongshan culture jade eccentric man $8.90 |
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T473 Chinese Hongshan culture jade eccentric man $8.90 |
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T477 Chinese Hongshan culture jade monster $9.50 |
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T490 Chinese Hongshan culture jade monster $9.90 |
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T486 Chinese Hongshan culture jade eccentric man $8.90 |
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T492 Chinese Hongshan culture jade eccentric animal $8.90 |
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Hongshan (Chinese Jades of the Hongshan Culture, ca. 4700-2920 BCE) $25.00 The Hongshan culture is a relatively new discovery in the field of Chinese archaeology, and there is still much research to be done. This catalogue will introduce many people to this important early Chinese culture. We gratefully acknowledge Professor Zhou Nanquan, the former Senior Jade Researcher at the Palace Museum in Beijing, for his help in curating the collection for the exhibition as well … |
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Hongshan wenhua guyu jianding – [Appraising Ancient Jades of the Hongshan Culture] … |
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Hongshan wenhua yuqi xinpin xinjian – The Discovery of New Type of Hongshan Culture Jade Carvings $405.00 … |
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History of Liaoning: Battle of White Wolf Mountain, Hongshan Culture, China Northern Airlines Flight 6136, Battle of Ningyuan, Niuheliang $14.14 History of Liaoning: Battle of White Wolf Mountain, Hongshan Culture, China Northern Airlines Flight 6136, Battle of Ningyuan, Niuheliang |
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Jade and Iron $11.53 This anthology of stories introduces young readers to the richness of the history and culture of Latin Americans — the people of jade and iron. |
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Jade $5.39 Jade |
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Shattering Jade $21.48 SHATTERING JADE is a deep action-romance suspense novel that plunges its tough but responsive male hero into a radical Guatemalan Indian woman’s struggle for liberation and sexual equality. Merging spiritual exploration and sexual discovery with a hi-tech terrorist plot, the novel hits directly to the center of our own rapidly-evolving culture. |
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Purple Jade Earrings $39.95 In Mayan culture, jade possessed powers of magic. Here, shards of genuine purple jade exert their power in settings of marcasite-accented sterling silver. French hooks. 2″ long. |
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JADE SONGS $34.48 Classic forms of Chinese jade, and other sculpted works, have a message. A song the piece sings. Knowing the prayer, legend, or lesson the piece sings enhances the experience a step beyond seeing the artwork, the value, or its function. Each figure represented can speak to you. Learn how the Chinese see their dragon as benevolent, rather than a menace. Read the story of the goddess, Quan yin. (a cindarella story). Illustrated, and explained, using the authors collection, are the songs of a different culture, and traditions thousands of years old. |
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Jade Island $6.99 Wild and restless, Kyle Donovan has freed himself from the constraints of his family’s high-powered gem-trading empire to rove the world as a treasure hunter. Now the president of Donovan International has given Kyle an assignment with explosive ramifications. A casehe must take. When one of China’s legendary cultural treasures isstolen, Lianne Blakely, a mysterious and beautiful jade expert, is accused of the theft. Its Kyle’s job to get to the bottom of what could be a potential disaster for the Donovans as well as Lianne. But Kyle finds himself irresistibly drawn to the exotic beauty and captivated by her fierce claim of innocence. Soon they are in dangerous pursuit of the real thief, drawn deeper into the perils of spiraling power plays, and linked by a passion as powerful as the lore of the ancient culture and as enduring as the splendor of the treasured jade. |
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Liquid Jade $14.97 Traveling from East to West over thousands of years, tea has played a variety of roles on the world scene–in medicine, politics, the arts, culture, and religion. Behind this most serene of beverages, idolized by poets and revered in spiritual practices, lie stories of treachery, violence, smuggling, drug trade, international espionage, slavery, and revolution. Liquid Jade’s rich narrative history explores tea in all its social and cultural aspects. Entertaining yet informative and extensively researched, Liquid Jade tells the story of western greed and eastern bliss. China first used tea as a remedy. Taoists celebrated tea as the elixir of immortality. Buddhist Japan developed a whole body of practices around tea as a spiritual path. Then came the traumatic encounter of the refined Eastern cultures with the first Western merchants, the trade wars, the emergence of the ubiquitous English East India Company. Scottish spies crisscrossed China to steal the secrets of tea production. An army of smugglers made fortunes with tea deliveries in the dead of night. In the name of “free trade” the English imported opium to China in exchange for tea. The exploding tea industry in the eighteenth century reinforced the practice of slavery in the sugar plantations. And one of the reasons why tea became popular in the first place is that it helped sober up the English, who were virtually drowning in alcohol. During the nineteenth century, the massive consumption of tea in England also led to the development of the large tea plantation system in colonial India–a story of success for British Empire tea and of untold misery for generations of tea workers. Liquid Jade also depicts tea’s beauty and delights, not only with myths about the beginnings of tea or the lovers’ legend in the familiar blue-and-white porcelain willow pattern, but also with a rich and varied selection of works of art and historical photographs, which form a rare and comprehensive visual tea record. The book includes engaging and lesser-known topics, including the exclusion of women from seventeenth-century tea houses or the importance of water for tea, and answers such questions as: “What does a tea taster do?” “How much caffeine is there in tea?” “What is fair trade tea?” and “What is the difference between black, red, yellow, green, or white tea?” Connecting past and present and spanning five thousand years, Beatrice Hohenegger’s captivating and multilayered account of tea will enhance the experience of a steaming cuppa for tea lovers the world over. |
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The Jade Dragon $6.48 A Chinese-American girl longs for friendship with a classmate adopted from China in this subtle, insightful middle-grade novel.Ginny is sure the new girl in her second-grade class will be her best friend. After all, Stephanie is Chinese, just like Ginny. But Ginny soon discovers some puzzling things about Stephanie: she doesn’t like Chinese food, she hates her straight black hair, and even more surprisingly, her parents are not Chinese. At Ginny’s house, MaMá cooks delicious Chinese dishes as the family prepares for their big holiday party and Stephanie spies Ginny’s most prized possession — a hand-carved jade dragon — and asks to take it home. Much as Ginny yearns for a best friend, is it worth the risk of losing her special keepsake and angering MaMá? Drawing on Virginia Loh’s real life story, the authors poignantly capture Ginny’s dilemma as she navigates with difficulty between her culture and her friendship. |