Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600–1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s–1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Rare. This book brings together ninety extracts of Western non-fiction about China, many of which have been out of print for centuries. Authors include Marco Polo, Adam Smith, Somerset Maugham, Pearl Buck, and Sheryl WuDunn. Topics covered include female infanticide, secular..... More
Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1978. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Rare. Contents include standards and rules for marriage during Han times; divorce under traditional Chinese law; family property in traditional China; results of field investigation on ancestral sacrifice in Manchuria; partition of family property in villages in southern Taiwan..... More
New York: Liveright, 2015. Updated Edition, First Printing. Paperback. The winner of the first John Newbery Medal, now updated by Robert Sullivan, remains a timeless classic for all ages. Originally written in 1921 for the author’s grandchildren, Hendrik Willem van Loon’s The Story of Mankind has charmed generations with..... More
London: Thames & Hudson / The British Museum, 2019. Second Printing. Hardcover. This illustrated introduction to the history of China offers a fresh understanding of China’s progress from the Neolithic age to the present. Told in six chapters arranged chronologically, through art, artefacts, people and places, and richly illustrated with..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2019. First Edition. Paperback. Signed by author. 18 true stories of those went to live in Shanghai in history. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. From the Sino-Japanese War to the Communist Revolution, the onrushing narrative of modern China can drown out the stories of the people who lived it. Yet a remarkable cache of letters from one of China’s most prominent and influential families, the Lius..... More
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
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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