London: Chatto & Windus, 1952. Val Biro (cover art). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an..... More
Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1972. First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Rare. Originally published in Japanese. No 3. of the Michigan Abstracts of Chinese and Japanese Works on Chinese History, edited by Mark Elvin. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. 12 essays from various contributors on the history and influence of the T'ang dynasty, 618-906. Contributors include Elling O. Eide, Hans H. Frankel, David Lattimore, David McMullen, Ikeda On, Charles A. Peterson, Wang Gungwu, Howard J. Wechsler, and Stanley Weinstein..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1966. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). More
Hong Kong: CBL Fung (self published), 2009. First Edition. Softcover (Outsized). Signed by author (Nelly Fung). Beneath the Banyan Tree is a daughter's personal account of her family's story through four generations and a turbulent era. The tale begins during the Spanish colonial period, and continues through the Philippine Revolution..... 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
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
Chung Wu Publ, 1972. 1st printing, ex lib. 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
Hong Kong: FormAsia, 2002. Second Edition. Hardcover. More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1968. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. With a foreword by Joseph R. Levenson. More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Hong Kong: Xavier Publishing Association Company Ltd, 2008. First Edition (stated). Softcover. This work endeavours to convey something of the reality of the Irish Jesuit Mission in its achievements and short-comings, its joys and sorrows, and of the experience of individual members under the pressure of work in a difficult..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1994. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. A symposium of essays presented in honor of T. T. Ch'en and F. W. Mote on the occasion of their retirement from the East Asian Studies Department of Princeton University. The participants and contributors are all renowned scholars in..... More
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