Hong Kong: Vetch & Lee Limited, 1970. Second Edition. Hardcover. As per c/r page: this is a re-issued edition, limited to 1,050 copies. Original edition printed in China by the North China Daily News. Contains a preliminary note on the 'A D Brankston Collection of Chinese Porcelain in..... More
云南: 云南人民出版社, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Rare edition. Signed by author. Also includes a personal letter written by the author. More
The University of Massachusetts Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. The first general account of Chinese society and history in the period before the country's unification in 221 BC. More
Hong Kong: Noticias de Macau, 1960. Revised Edition. Paperback. First edition of this title published in 1951. Appears to be a special supplement to the publication Noticias de Macau. Contents printed in the two column newspaper style. As stated on the title page: "A Tribute to the memory..... 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
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Contains 4 stand alone maps in pocket attached to inside of Vol. II; four sheets meant to be placed together to make a full, complete map. NOT ex-library. Very rare. Part of the Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph series, Volume VIII and..... More
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1952. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Originally published in 1907, The Travels of Lao Ts'an is a novel about a traveling doctor and his journeys throughout China in which he meets new people, rights wrongs, and ponders about the future of China. The..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Presents an account of the Chinese diaspora since the sixteenth century, discussing why the Chinese people left their country, their experiences of exploitation and discrimination, and their ambitions and successes. More
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. The Search for a Vanishing Beijing weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive narrative about the cultural mosaic of the capital of China. The author leads the reader through palaces, temples, back streets and markets..... More
Hong Kong: Licht Ltd., 2017. Fourth Edition. Softcover. Hong Kong’s shop cats are the little emperors of their retail kingdoms. When photographer Marcel Heijnen moved to the city he was immediately drawn to these photogenic mouse-catchers, and this series is the charming result and has been taking the world by..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1974. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. This book illustrates the growth of two attitudes towards government during the first century BC, the one progressive, realist and forward looking, the other conservative, idealist and harking back to the past. For the first time an historian of..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000. Aude Van Ryne (cover illustration). Howard Goldblatt (translation). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. From Kirkus (April 1, 2000): You may think you're watching Twin Peaks on Chinese television halfway through this rumbustious melodramatic satire by the internationally acclaimed author (1993’s Red Sorghum, the source..... More
New York: Arcade Publishing, 2001. Charlotte Strick (jacket design). Howard Goldblatt (translation). First U.S. Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. Rare in this edition. Mo Yan, China’s most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country’s contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels as Red Sorghum, The Garlic..... More
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
Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International, Ltd, 1986. First Paperback Edition, Ninth Printing. Paperback. A senior official in a ministry tainted with scandal. A dining car receipt. A name missing from a passenger list. And a young man and woman dead on a beach in an apparent suicide. Disconnected points, but not..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1996. First Trade Paperback Edition. Softcover. Hailed as a groundbreaking text in Chinese Studies, An Anthology of Chinese Literature brings together representative works from the first millenium B.C. to the end of the imperial system in 1911. This collection of over 600..... More
Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Number 49 in the the Chinese Research Monograph series, published by the Institute of East Asian Studies of the University of California. 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
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1967. Alide Eberhard (jacket design). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
London: Lund Humphries, 1967. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Fifty classical Chinese stories presented in their original Chinese version, and also in romanized Chinese and Japanese versions, the latter having been prepared by W. Simon, professor emeritus of Chinese in the University of London. The Chinese romanized version is prepared..... More
London: Abacus, 2002. With an Afterword by Orville Schell. Reprint. Paperback. On the night of June 3-4, 1989, Chinese troops violently crushed the largest pro-democracy demonstrations in the history of the communist regime. In this extraordinary collection of hundreds of internal government and Communist Party documents, secretly smuggled out of..... More
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