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The publication of this collection of late Ming colour-printed erotica provides a scarce opportunity to acquire a work that discusses and reproduces nine extremely rare and finely-executed Chinese woodblock-printed volumes (plus one related Japanese work) dating from the early seventeenth century. The collection, once held by the Japanese scholar, Shibui Kiyoshi (1899-1992), was thought to be lost and its reappearance has caused great interest worldwide amongst the scholar and collecting community. Hitherto it has only been known by a few pages illustrated by Robert van Gulik in his works on sexual life in ancient China. The works are important in a number of areas including: Chinese social and sexual culture, the development of printing in China, and the design of Ming furniture, gardens and architecture. They are also testimony to the early evolution of colour printing in China and the subsequent nascence of, and their influence on, Japanese colour printing and the Ukiyo-e School of artists. It is undoubtedly the case that this work will be required by libraries and institutions worldwide. Similar interest is expected from scholars, collectors and bibliophiles. Its publication will prove of immense value for research purposes and the connoisseurship of a body of material that has never previously been presented in full. Published in a three-volume limited edition of 500 copies and produced to the highest standards. Volume One contains ten scholarly and erudite essays which give background, context and insights into these important editions. The erotic works are then illustrated in their entirety and original size in high-quality colour plates that allow full appreciation and study.

Erotic art --- Art, Chinese --- Von der Burg, Christer --- China --- History

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'Why bother to rob a bank, when you can own a bank?' asked Bertold Brecht. The question is reiterated in the very Brechtian Love, Crime and Johannesburg, the story of Jimmy 'Long Legs' Mangane, a people's poet involved in the struggle, who is accused of robbing a bank. He passionately asserts his innocence, claiming to work for the 'secret secret service'. Lewis, his old friend and comrade from the struggle, now owns a bank. How did this happen? The man of the struggle is now a man of accounts. A man of the nineties. Part of the cell phone generation. Added to the mix is an oldstyle gangster, two girlfriends, a Jewish father and a very unusual Chief of Police. Described as one of the first genuine postapartheid plays, Love, Crime and Johannesburg is a witty, lighthearted account of life in the City of Gold at the turn of the millennium. A must for all students of South African theatre. Winner of the 2000 Vita Award for best script of a new South African Play.

Johannesburg (South Africa) --- Johannesburg --- Yohanesburg (South Africa) --- Jo'burg (South Africa)

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Anxious Joburg focuses on Johannesburg, the largest and wealthiest city in South Africa, as a case study for the contemporary global south city. Global south cities are often characterised as sites of contradiction and difference that produce a range of feelings around anxiety. This is often imagined in terms of the global north's anxieties about the south: migration, crime, terrorism, disease and environmental crisis. Anxious Joburg invites readers to consider an intimate perspective of living inside such a city. How does it feel to live in the metropolis of Johannesburg: what are the conditions, intersections, affects and experiences that mark the contemporary urban? Scholars, visual artists and storytellers all look at unexamined aspects of Johannesburg life. From peripheral settlements to the inner city to the affluent northern suburbs, from precarious migrants and domestic workers to upwardly mobile young women and fearful elites, Anxious Joburg presents an absorbing engagement with this frustrating, dangerous, seductive city. It offers a rigorous, critical approach to Johannesburg revealing the way in which anxiety is a vital structuring principle of contemporary life. The approach is strongly interdisciplinary, with contributions from media studies, anthropology, religious studies, urban geography, migration studies and psychology. It will appeal to students and teachers, as well as to academic researchers concerned with Johannesburg, South Africa, cities and the global south. The mix of approaches will also draw a non-academic audience.

City and town life --- Johannesburg (South Africa) --- Social conditions. --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Johannesburg --- Yohanesburg (South Africa) --- Jo'burg (South Africa)

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Group identity --- Nationalism --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Gruppenidentitat. --- Ethnische Identitat. --- South Africa --- Africa --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Civilization. --- Social life and customs. --- Lome. --- Kapstadt. --- Johannesburg. --- Libreville. --- Johannesburg --- Yohanesburg (South Africa) --- Jo'burg (South Africa)

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While the issues addressed span the disciplines of South African and architectural history, feminist studies, material culture studies, and psychology, the book's strong narrative, powerful oral histories, and compelling subject matter bring the neighborhoods and residents it examines vividly to life.

ARCHITECTURE --- History / General --- Apartheid --- Women household employees --- Domestic space --- History & Archaeology --- Regions & Countries - Africa --- Johannesburg (South Africa) --- Social conditions --- Race relations --- History --- Housemaids --- Maids, House --- Women domestics --- Women servants --- Separate development (Race relations) --- Johannesburg --- Yohanesburg (South Africa) --- Jo'burg (South Africa) --- Architecture, Domestic --- Space (Architecture) --- Room layout (Dwellings) --- Household employees --- Segregation --- Anti-apartheid movements --- Post-apartheid era