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Description: Selections from Xi you ji, a novel sometimes attributed to Wu Cheng'en. "Tripitaka, whose pilgrimage to India is the subject of the story, is a real person, better known to history as Xuanzang."--Page 7.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1943]
Call number: 655065
Creator: Wu, Cheng'en (approximately 1500-approximately 1582)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Roger S. Hong, June 2006. From the Hong family library.
Dimensions: 22 cm
Associated people: Waley, Arthur, (1898-1977,); Hong, You Chung, (1907-1998,); Hong, Mabel, (1941-2006,); Hong, Roger S.,

The Hemingway reader

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"The selections are arranged chronologically ... chosen mainly to give variety and balance ... they represent a body of work that has changed the course of storytelling and given new cadences to the language."--Foreword, page xi.

444817a

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Lady Wu : a novel

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Biographical novel set in 7th century China, telling of Wu Tsertien whose meteoric rise from obscurity to become Empress of China is without parallel among the queens of Western history.

655100

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A cookbook of invisible writing

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A cookbook of invisible writing, by Dutch artist, designer and teacher Amy Wu, is an introduction to analog steganography--a type of secret writing that is hidden in plain sight. This book serves as a starter pack to run workshops with groups who are interested in alternative forms of communication. It contains invisible ink recipes and other invisible communication techniques that may be used to subvert surveillance and bypass censorship, but also inspire your community to develop poetic and playful forms of communication to nurture social bonds. In the tradition of esoteric manuals published on secret writing, this cookbook also channels the spirit of everyday access and the easy distribution and sharing of practical knowledge. Following Giambattista della Porta's 1558 popular science book Natural Magic--one of the first major publications that detailed simple but diverse recipes of invisible inks for public consumption--this cookbook aims to bring this obscure field to a wider audience. The publication includes a critical essay about the history of surveillance through a feminist and postcolonial lens. The last chapter presents Wu's own body of work that aims to revive analog techniques as a counter to today's digitally surveilled mediascape.

647700

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A book of receits

Manuscripts

Bound volume of English manuscript recipes, both for cooking and medicine, written beginning in the 17th century (in several hands). Some of the recipes are attributed to a specific person (both women and men) with a note if it was tested; in some cases, the name of the person who tested it is also provided. The manuscript is organized into four sections: medicine, recipes coming from Lady Bray, distillation, and cookery. There are four loose items in the inside front cover. About half of the volume is blank. Bound in vellum.

mssHM 84007

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Oversize portraits (items 1215-1248)

Visual Materials

Larger photographic prints mostly made from larger 11 x 14 inch glass plate negatives. Sitters include Theodore Roosevelt (1902), a signed and mounted platinum print of Frances Folsom Cleveland, Julian Pauncefote, Wu T'ing Fang and his wife Madame Wu, and more. There is also a series of autographed salt prints of well-known men. The images are duplicates of the 8x10 inch portraits listed in the Portraits Series and appear to be a series that Johnston was preparing as a limited edition for sale.

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Triumphant pilgrimage : an English Muslim's journey from Sarawak to Mecca

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Rutter was a prolific British travel writer and novelist who lived part of his life in the British colony of North Borneo, now part of Malaysia. He wrote about the life of David Chale, pseudonym of an officer in the colony, who asked him to write about Chale's conversion to Islam, his marriage to a Malaysian Muslim woman, and their pilgrimage to Mecca. Rutter conducted extensive interviews with Chale and his wife Munirah, and tried to narrate the story of the pilgrimage from Chale's perspective, though his own editorial voice is quite present. The book contains a photograph each of Chale and Munirah as well as a map of the Arabian Peninsula.

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