Weatherhill Inc.

Weatherhill Inc. produced many classic publications on Asian art and culture, over some 40 years of operation, a number of which in latter years were published in close cooperation with Orchid Press. Weatherhill Inc. has recently decided to cease operations, and we are fortunate to have obtained quantities of their last works, sure to be collectors' items in the near future.

DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS: Asia

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A World of Decent Dreams:
Vietnam Images
photography by Ellen Kaplowitz; text by Jeffery Hantover
2003, 176 pp., 136 colour photos, hardbound, 28 x 23 cm.
ISBN 0-8348-0528-6 $40.00
ISBN-13: 978-0-8348-0528-6

Vietnam and its people come alive in this visual journey behind the headlines and the preconceptions of the past. From village huts to the neon bustle of Ho Chi Minh City, Ellen Kaplowitz shows us a Vietnam where tradition still thrives in the changing social landscape. We see Vietnam at work in rice fields and on city streets, at prayer, at joyous and emotional family and communal rituals of life and death.

'.centuries of Vietnam spill out of these pages.' Bernard Kalb, former NY Times correspondent in Vietnam

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Zen for Cats:
Teachings of the Zen Cat Masters
as intuited by Alfred Birnbaum & Riku Kanmei, with illustrations by JC Brown
1995, v, 89 pp., 77 inkwash paintings, softbound, 16 x 15 cm.
ISBN 0-8348-0275-9 $9.95
ISBN-13: 978-0-8348-0275-9

Zen for Cats is an (ir)reverent look at the lives and antics of the feline, as seen through the lens of that most open-minded of all Buddhist traditions, Zen . a delight for all those who have survived the strict master-disciple relationship that cats use to lead us humans to the Truth. Whether you are the Guest or Host to a feline follower of the Way, you will find Zen for Cats transcendent.

Alfred Birnbaum is a leading translator and editor of contemporary Japanese fiction; Riku Kanmei is the 99th master in the lineage of the Neko Sect of Zen. JC Brown is a calligrapher and illustrator residing in Tokyo.