Hong Kong: Rock Lion, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper & Finishing: 157gsm with spot varnishing. Weight: 2.2 kg. An additional HKD30 handling fee will be charged for local delivery. For the entirety of the protests — from the early vast marches to the violent police arrests to the vandalism and..... More
Hong Kong: (Self-published), 2019. Austin Tang (Photographs). First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Author. More
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
Berlin/Hong Kong: Sternberg Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. This is A Journal of the Plague Year, published by Sternberg Press in 2015 in conjunction with a 2013 traveling art exhibition of the same name held at Para Site art gallery in Hong Kong, among other places. Through a...... 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: First Second Books, 2013. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Stock image shown. Heavy item; please note handling charge. The Boxers & Saints Boxed Set from Gene Luen Yang, one of the greatest comics storytellers alive, brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing work. In two..... More
Hong Kong: Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1982. Softcover (Outsized). 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: The Chinese University Press, 2002. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. The book is a study on the administration of the Tung regime including Tung Chee-hwa's leadership and various branches of his government as well as the bureaucracy. It focuses on how Hong Kong has been governed since 1997 in..... 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
Tempe, Arizona: Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 1989. Trade Paperback. Rare. Monograph Series No. 24 The Qianfulun 潛夫論 "Comments of a Recluse" is a philosophical and political tractate written by the Later Han period 後漢 (25-220 CE) scholar Wang Fu 王符. Wang did not want to climb..... More
Hong Kong: Lan Kwai Fong Entertainments, 2006. William Furniss (photography). First Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). 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
Hong Kong: 香港美麗術社出版, 1959. First Edition (presumed). Paperback/Softcover. Staple Bound. This is a boxed set of mini Water Margin comics, published in Hong Kong between between 1959 and 1961. There are three parts to the series, and this is part one of three. This box contains eight (8) comic books..... More
Tokyo, Japan: 1964. Softcover. Text in English and Japanese. Captions of prints in Japanese. 1 essay by Shiko Munakata and another by Soetsu Yanagi, both in English. Chronology, in English, of Munakata's life and career from 1903 to 1963. 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
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
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