Milwaukie: Dark Horse Comics, 1995. Masamune Shirow. First Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Paperback. Rare. Genre: Cyberpunk manga. Ghost in the Shell, known in Japan as Mobile Armored Riot Police (Japanese: 攻殻機動隊 Hepburn: Kōkaku Kidōtai), is a seinen manga series written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow, which spawned the media franchise... More about Ghost in the Shell
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. Reprint. Seventeenth Printing. Paperback. Boxed Set. Translated with introduction by Edward G. Seidensticker. Unabridged in 2 volume set. Centuries before Shakespeare, Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji was already acknowledged as a classic of Japanese literature. Over the past century, this book has gained worldwide acceptance... More about The Tale of Genji (2 Volume Boxed Set
San Francisco, California: Viz Communications, Inc., 1990. Jiroh Taniguchi (art). First U.S. Edition. First Printing. Softcover. With an essay by Fred Burke. More about Hotel Harbour View
London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Series: Critical Asian Scholarship This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of... More about China Unbound: Evolving perspectives on the Chinese past
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2019. First Edition. Paperback. Signed by author. 18 true stories of those went to live in Shanghai in history. More about Destination Shanghai
Hong Kong: Tayo Photo Group Limited Hong Kong, 2006. Daniel Groshong (photographs). First Edition. Hardcover. We have 40 copies of Daniel’s book, Timor-Leste: Land of Discovery (2006), for sale at the bookshop and on our website. 80% of the proceeds from the sale of each book will go to Menzi... More about Timor-Leste: Land of Discovery
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. This book describes the rise of national history in early-twentieth-century China. It studies the careers of a group of liberal historians including well-known figures such as Liang Qichao and Hu Shi and lesser known figures such as He Bingsong... More about Inventing China Through History: The May Fourth Approach to Historiography
Northridge CA: Lord John Press, 1980. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. More about The Last Circus and the Electrocution
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Series: Studies of the East Asian Institute. Lufrano's study is the most sustained and sophisticated of recent reevaluations of Confucianism's role in the rapid commercial development in the late Ming to mid-Qing period. It will be of great interest and value... More about Honorable Merchants: Commerce and Self-Cultivation in Late Imperial China
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. More about Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China After Mao
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. Gerald Grace (cover art). First Edition. Third Impression. Hardcover. More about Pet Semetary
Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies / University of Hawaii, 2005. Santos Barbasa Jr. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. A review of the book from the Japan Times by Donald Richie: Relations between Japan and China may be troubled right now, but then they often have... More about Ambassadors from the Islands of Immortals: China-Japan Relations in the Han-Tang Period
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Early Chinese Civilizations Series. Translated by K.C. Chang. a series of nine lectures on Han Dynasty archeology. More about Han Civilization
Oxford Univ. Press, 1994. Hardcover. The Great Qing Legal Code (or Great Ching Legal Code),[a] also known as the Qing Code (Ching Code) or, in Hong Kong law, as the Ta Tsing Leu Lee (大清律例), was the legal code of the Qing empire (1644–1912). The code was based on the... More about The Great Qing Code
Hong Kong: 香港美麗術社出版, 1959. First Edition (presumed). Softcover/Papberback. This is a boxed set of mini Journey to the West comics, published in Hong Kong between 1959 and 1961. There are three parts to the series, and this is part three of three. The box contains six (6) comic books. See... More about Journey to the West (西遊記連環畫) - Part 3 of 3
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