new books from China

[Roger C. KENDRICK]

Hi Andrea et al,

For anyone interested, they may wish to consider contacting someone visiting
China in order to get any of the books mentioned. I have access to most of
these via the University of Hong Kong library and can say that I'd not be
paying the asking prices  - which are extremely steep mark-ups on the prices
paid in China or even over the counter in Hong Kong (if stocked - very
difficult to find due to lack of copies making it this far south of
Beijing). The print quality is not too wonderful, there are few or no colour
illustrations, the b/w ills. are usually not sufficiently accurate to aid
species identification and the taxonomy has suffered through the lack of
funding available to Chinese taxonomists preventing access to much current
(and many past) publications from outside China. This doesn't sound too good
- so I should say that I have found several of the listed books useful for
working out species distributions of some of the Hong Kong species, but it
takes far more time than I'm willing to invest to sort out all the outdated
nomenclature, which is my main source of angst with these publications.

Sorry if this puts you off - I'd recommend trying to view copies before you
decide to buy.

Roger.

ANDREA KNEBEL wrote:

> Hi Leps,
>
> maybe someone is interested in one or more of these new books
> from China?
> If so contact person mentioned in e mail.
>
> Hope you find something useful,
>
> Andrea
>
> 1.INSECTS OF XIZANG (Tibet)(Î÷²ØÀ¥³æ)(2 -Vol. Set )
> Chinese Edition with English abstracts by the comprehensive scientific
> expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau Chinese Academy of Sciences
>
> Volume 1:  Pub. Date:  1981 / 600 pages / hardback /187x260mm
> Volume 2:  Pub. Date:  1982 / 508 pages / hardback /187x260mm
> Price (2 volumes): US$110 + US$18 seamail  US$110+ $40  airmail
>
> .....
>
>  2.INSECTS OF THE HENGDUAN MOUNTAINS REGION(2 Volume set)
>  Chinese Edition with English abstracts(Text is in Chinese) by the
> comprehensive scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, Chinese
> Academy of Sciences
>
> Volume 1: 1992 / 865 pages / paperback / 185x260mm
> Volume 2: 1993 / 680 pages / paperback / 185x260mm
> Price(2 Volumes): US$ 110 +US$18 saemail    US$110+US$45
> airmail
> .....

> 3.INSECTS OF THE KARAKORUM-KUNLUN MOUNTAINS   (¿¦À®À¥ÂØɽ-À¥ÂØɽµØÇøÀ¥³æ)
> Chinese edition with English abstracts by the comprehensive scientific
> expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang
> Plateau, Chinese Academy of Sciences 1996 / 7-03-004740-0 / 349 pages /
> paperback / US$48

> .....
>  4.INSECTS OF WULING MOUNTAINS AREA, SOUTHWESTERN CHINA
> (Î÷ÄÏÎäÁêɽµØÇøÀ¥³æ)
>  Chinese Edition with English abstracts Edited by Huang Fusheng/ 1993 /
> ISBN:7-03-002871-6 /777pages
> 185x260mm/paperback/Chinese edition with English abstracts 110 papers
> contained Price: US$55+$12
> semail US$55+$25 airmail 3950 species, 2044 genera, 277 families are
> described, among them 4 new genera, 195 new species, 32 Chinese new
> species are described.
>
> ......
> 5.INSECTS OF LONGWANSHAN NATURE RESERVE   (ÁúÍõɽÀ¥³æ)
> Chinese Edition with brief English abstracts
> Edited by Wu Hong / 1998 / ISBN: 7-5038-2132-9 /
> 404 pages / 185x260mm / paperback
> US$45 +$9 seamail  US$45+$20 airmail
>
> ......
> 6.INSECTS OF BAISHANZU MOUNTAIN EASTERN CHINA   (»ª¶«°Ùɽ×æÀ¥³æ)
> Chinese edition with brief English abstracts
> Edited by Wu Hong /1995 / 7-5038-1744-5 /
> 586 pages / 185x260mm / hardback / 236 figures
> Price: US$55+US$9 seamail,  US$55+US$24 airmail
>

--
Roger C. KENDRICK
  Demonstrator / Ph.D. Student
  Dept. of Ecology & Biodiversity, The University of Hong Kong
  mailto:kendrick at hkusua.hku.hk

Hong Kong Moths website coordinator
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