Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Paperback. This edition is part of The Scribner Library; number 7 in the series (SL 7); exact publication year unclear [book indicates 1948 as copyright year] but most likely between 1950 and 1960. More
Hong Kong: (Self-published), 2019. Austin Tang (Photographs). First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Author. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972. Hardcover. Omnibus of 4 novels. More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. From the first successful Jesuit mission in 1583 until the disastrous failure of the British trade embassy in 1816, China’s cultural practices transfixed the attention of Western philosophers, theologians, architects, artists, entrepreneurs, and social critics. The direct influences on European culture..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In this third volume of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed/signed by author. A high-class, transcontinental horse-racing junket should be an idyllic getaway for the super-rich. But one passenger on this train is a sociopath, a genius at blackmail and criminal corruption—and he plans to take everyone..... More
LIMITED EDITION Digital Print (10 copies). Each print is signed by the artist and individually numbered. Archival pigment print on acid free Hahnemuhle PhotoRag paper (A4). 100% of the proceeds from each sale will be donated to either the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund 612人道支援基金 or Spark Alliance 星火同盟 抗爭支援... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2000. Hardcover. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 52. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Front jacket flap indicates a cover price of $2.75. C/R page indicates "A", first printing. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Introduction and epilogue by Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng. This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese..... More
Boulder, Colorado: Blue Poppy Press, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. This is perhaps the single most famous book on traditional Chinese gynecology and obstetrics. Dating from the early Qing Dynasty, this book established many of the disease mechanisms and pattern diagnoses now standard in contemporary Chinese gynecology. More
Hong Kong: Grace Wu Bruce Co. Ltd, 1995. First Edition (presumed). Paperback (Outsized). More
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1958. First UK Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1985. Hiroji Kubota (photographs). First Edition (stated). Hardcover. From Publisher's Weekly: The China framed by Kubota's camera lens is neither a collectivist utopia lurching toward a high-tech future nor a consumer society adopting capitalist ways, trends overplayed recently in the Western press..... More
Hong Kong: Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1987. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The first English language biography ever published on We Cheng (580-643), chief adviser to T'ang T'ai-tsung, reputed founder of the T'ang dynasty. More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship in the Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang Through the Song is a study of emerging kinship structures in a central coastal Fujian province from the 9th..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Record of a Boat Trip to Wu (Wuchuan lu) is a travel journal written by Fan Chengda, the famous government official and writer of the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). In it, Fan recounts his boat journey from Chengdu (Sichuan) to..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. More
Las Vegas: Tigrefou Editions, 2018. Francis George (photos). First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author and photographer. ** Please note additional shipping charges for this over-sized, heavy item. **. In 2015, Judy Choi discovered in a journal the poems of her 15-year old niece, Phoenix. When she first read her..... More
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now..... More
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1970. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. This study of modern China was completed during the twentieth anniversary year of the People's Republic. It embodies the results of long research checked by the personal experience gained in the course of extensive travel between 1958 and 1966..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2018. Gary Jones (photography). First Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). Sunset Survivors tells the stories of Hong Kong’s traditional tradesmen and women through stunning imagery and candid interviews. Covering a myriad of curious professions that are quickly falling into obscurity, from fortune telling to face threading and letter..... More
1969. Saloua Raouda Choucair (illustrations). Softcover. Very very rare. With a foreword by Dr. A/R Yaghi from the University of Jordan. English translation by Frances Fuller, with the original version in Arabic to follow. From our Instragram post on this book, dated 3 April 2019: This is..... More
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1975. Second Revised Edition. Fifth Impression. Hardcover. More
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