Member: J_ipsen
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Favorite bookstoresGuilin Dao Feng Books / 桂林市刀锋书店
About meThank you for visiting my Profile. As you are already here, I will tell you something about me: I'm born and bred German but I currently work in China as Marketing Consultant for a Chinese incoming tourism operator.
I'm supported by my wife, WeiWei, who not only manages to live with a "laowai" under one roof but also actively tries to teach me some Chinese. As we both share the same love for books, this account contains parts of both our collections.
About my libraryOur collection can be divided into several areas. First of all there are of course my wife's design/ architecture/ art books she still kept from her time in University. Together with some classic Chinese writings like "The Art of War" or "The four books" from her highschool time and some newly acquired novels they make the biggest part of our Chinese books. Recently we started buying Chinese books about Chinese Culture (Festivals, Traditions, etc...)
Books that I contributed consist of some marketing & tourism management books which I still have from university or which I need for work. Since I discovered some cheap, cheap online bookshops more and more Science Fiction books pop up in our library.
After I arrived in China I started looking for books helping me understanding the culture of my host country better. I especially looked for old books, because they sometimes have a clearer view on China than newer books. Unluckily there seems to be an increased demand for books about China printed before 1900 so getting these is an increasingly expensive task.
A big part of my German books, especially books from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century that I bought at library sales and second hand markets in my youth are still in Germany. I plan to bring them over to China the next time I go home... that means I will pack some big boxes and send them, hoping that nothing gets destroyed (darn 20kg limit on flights).
My wife and I are both suckers for old books. 
Homepagehttp://www.julian-ipsen.de
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Member sinceMar 14, 2007
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posted by bluesalamanders at 10:07 pm (EST) on Mar 6, 2009
Cheers for the small chats we've had
K
posted by Severn at 5:17 pm (EST) on Dec 22, 2008
I LOVE the image you posted in the latest teen angst thread!!!
:o)
Clare
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posted by maggie1944 at 9:25 pm (EST) on Oct 20, 2008
:oD
I was wondering where you had been lately! Hope all is well.
Clare
posted by clamairy at 9:18 pm (EST) on Sep 1, 2008
posted by MrsLee at 10:43 pm (EST) on Jun 6, 2008
I have a question. I just finished reading The Heretic's Apprentice by Ellis Peters. It is a mystery set in the 1100s and one of the characters in it makes vellum. Now I am burning with curiosity of what vellum looks like and feels like. Do you have any books made of it? Not easy to find pictures of it, on google anyway. Don't know if I'll ever get the chance to feel it myself, but if you have felt it, would you describe it for me? Of course if you are too busy, I understand. :)
posted by MrsLee at 11:59 pm (EST) on May 23, 2008
You haven't mentioned anything about your book. Were you dreadfully disappointed? Did it not turn out as you had hoped? I didn't see the finished product but Father Brandt had seemed so pleased, I had really hoped it had worked out well.
all the best,
Katherine
posted by katylit at 6:08 pm (EST) on May 14, 2008
I just got back from Father Brandt's. Your book is looking good, should be done pretty soon and then zipping it's way back to you pdq! :-) I had a wonderful visit, so good I think I'm going to tell all about it in a thread at the GD. I'm just grinning from ear to ear from the whole experience. Very neat book by the way. I was surprised it was in English - I thought it would be in Latin for some odd reason.
all the best,
Katherine
posted by katylit at 11:27 pm (EST) on Apr 14, 2008
Katherine
posted by katylit at 10:11 am (EST) on Apr 14, 2008
Father Brandt sounds like an amazing man, and as I mentioned, I've heard very good things about him from our local booksellers and librarians. I think the easiest thing might be for you to email him directly and send the pictures. If you'd rather I phoned I'm more than happy to do that, but we'd have to email anyways to send the pictures - what do you think? He's just about 1/2 an hour away from me. Whatever is easiest, I'm happy to help.
posted by katylit at 1:16 pm (EST) on Apr 4, 2008
Many thanks for the details of the gramophone-needle man. I'll be sure and look him up soon.
All best
Hugh
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posted by jfclark at 8:35 pm (EST) on Dec 5, 2007
I've been using data entry in LT as a way to practice Chinese, looking up words because I frequently know what a word means but not how it's pronounced and trying to type it in. My typing is self taught, way too slow, and I clearly don't know a huge pile of fundamentals. Without the project of entering data into LT, I'm sure I'd never find time to practice!
posted by mvrdrk at 1:49 pm (EST) on Nov 21, 2007
Cara
posted by hearts3134 at 9:32 pm (EST) on Nov 4, 2007
Thank you for your comment.
I hope my catalog will be useful to you both. I only ask you to have much patience. Because of the huge quantities of books to be catalogued (more dan 10,000 still to go while most of them can only be entered manually), because of the way I do my cataloguing (i.e. with many tags &c. so as to have many ways to find a book) and because I have several "lives" besides my LT life (family, work,...), it will take quite some time to really finish the job, maybe even several years. I have decided to do the work in two "rounds": first the essential information forming the structure of the catalog (authors, titles, tags, and only when possible dates, editors, etc.), and only when this will be done the rest - the second "round" : covers, editions, dates &c.. After finishing the catalog I hope to be able to write reviews. This also because I am growing conscious my library is also a mirror of my life, a kind of (intellectual)autobiography - and writing reviews could be a way to concretize this consciousness. But my first work now is finishing the catalog.
For the time being - as most of the books still wait to be included - my catalog will not be as informative as it will be in diture. If in the meantime you have some questions, please don't hesitate.
Kind regards und herzliche Grüsse,
Jan Willem Noldus
posted by JanWillemNoldus at 12:06 pm (EST) on Oct 8, 2007
how long have you been in China? Which part? Are you going to get see any of the Olymic Games next year?
My brother spent three years teaching out there before bringing his chinese wife back over here. I think she's had the bigger culture shock! I only spent a couple of weeks there when the fmaily all went over for the wedding. A lovely country, I hadn't appreciated just how massively huge it is.
posted by reading_fox at 8:59 am (EST) on Sep 19, 2007
So you are another book lover separated from a cherished book collection back home, right? The first year I came to China I sent myself about 40 kg of books in 7 boxes simply through the mail. Everything arrived (there were some really expensive books in there), except for a cheap (Aufbau Verlag (ost)) 1980s paperback of a book by Friedrich Engels in German. It looks as if they didn't want me to have that.
As far as I can see the Bundespost working with DHL offers an affordable and quite safe service. Eventually, I will send more through the Dutch Post, but am already very worried about early 19th C editions and 19th & 20th C first editions.
I just want to draw your attention to this event:
http://www.hongkongantiquarianbookfair.c...
It's going to be the first international antiquarian book fair in Hong Kong. I have a strong mind to go there. There will be quite a number of Dutch and German book sellers.
Guilin is a beautiful place! My bf is from Guangxi.
Edwin
posted by edwinbcn at 8:29 am (EST) on Sep 8, 2007
- TeenAuthor
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