Charles Randles

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Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art, SOAS. Freelance editor of works about China and Korea.

Black book cover. The title "The Sasanians in Context: Art, History and Archaeology," is above a round silver-gilt Sasanian vessel lid decorated with scrollwork, animals, and a central medallion of a duck. Under the lid is the subtitle "Art, History and Archaeology." Edited by Antonietta Catanzariti and Touraj Daryaee.
Watercolor of a Qing-era Chinese street entertainer: a man in blue stands beneath a white parasol beside a brightly painted viewing box on folding stands, while a child in white stands at the side peering through one of the holes. The box is decorated with colorful birds and topped with smaller boxes, set against a plain white background. Attributed to Pu Qua 蒲呱, A Peep Show, c. 1790), watercolor and ink on paper, 36 cm x 46 cm, Victoria & Albert Museum, D.88-1898.
Cover of “Sons of Heaven: Family and Dynasty in Ming China.” The upper half is black with white and gold text; the lower half shows Emperor Xuanzong riding, accompanied by a woman. Detail of the anonymous painting “Hunting Excursion,” in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
Covers of two books. On the left is From the Red River to the Mekong Delta: Masterpieces of the History Museum Hò Chí Minh City. On the right is: unfurling dragon: The Multicultural Art of Vietnam
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Chong’er arrived in Cao. Lord Gong of Cao had heard that Chong’er had fused ribs and wanted to see him naked. While the noble son was bathing, he watched him from behind a curtain. The wife of Xi Fuji said, “I have observed that the followers of the noble son of Jin are all worthy to act as counselors to the domain. If he uses them as counselors, that fine man is certain to return to his domain. And when he returns, he is certain to achieve his ambitions among the princes. After he has fulfilled his ambitions among the princes, he will punish those who have violated ritual propriety, and Cao will be at the top of this list! Why don’t you show your difference from the Cao ruler early on?” So Xi Fuji presented the noble son with a plate of cooked cereal and placed a circular jade pendant on the plate. The noble son accepted the cooked cereal but returned the jade pendant.
Book cover of Connoisseurs and Conmen: The contest for cultural authority in early twentieth-century Britain by Lewis Ryder, published by University of Manchester Press (April 2026). The cover features an illustrated museum scene with classical statues and adults and children moving through the museum or stopped in conversation.
What [Legge] did for books at first, other than use his own, is unclear: the holdings accumulated two hundred years earlier in the Bodleian were hardly adequate for modern research. They had been expanded somewhat by 1876, as a catalogue published in that year by Joseph Edkins (1823-1905) shows. But this list still runs to less than three hundred titles, including about forty works by
Cover of the exhibition catalog, La Chine des Tang. A greenish background and lettering against a block of dark blue.
TABLE DES MATIÈRES Remerciements Note liminaire : précisions terminologiques Introduction La longue durée du haut Moyen Âge Lignes directrices et plan de cet ouvrage Langage du chercheur, langage des acteurs Chapitre premier. D'une unité à une autre : entre les Han et les Jin L'empire des Han, ses acteurs et ses institutions La fin des Han L'empire se disloque Les Trois Royaumes Les familles illustres entre la fin des Han et le début du haut Moyen Âge Les Jin et leur unité Le nouveau sens des appartenances Chapitre II. Dispersion politique et souverainetés fragmentées La conquête du Nord Souverainetés fragmentées, manorialisme et citadelles Le Sud sous les Jin orientaux La frontière du Nord et les contradictions des Jin La Garnison du Nord Changements démographiques et fiscaux
Cover of Research on Early Chinese Lacquer Buddhas showing three sculptures showing left to right: Wood-core lacquer buddha, Walters Art Museum, 25.9; hollow-core lacquer buddha, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Purchase—Charles Lang Freer Endowment, F1944.46; hollow-core lacquer buddha, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 19.186
Cover of Ècrits de trois dialecticiens de la Chine des Royaumes Combattants.
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Cover of The Emperor’s Feast by Jonathan Clements.
Cover of La Chine par le menu by Françoise Sabban.