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
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Heavy book; please note additional shipping charges. With a gift inscription by and signature of the author. More
Hong Kong: Information Services Department, 1998. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
Taipei, Taiwan: Linking Publishing, Co., 1988. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Collection of essays by Professor Ch'en Chieh-hsien of National Taiwan University concerning the study of Ch'ing archival material. More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. First Edition. First Printing. Softcover. In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In this third volume of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt..... More
Louisville, Kentucky: The Golden Pond Press, 1988. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. 1988 Olympic Games Commemorative Edition. 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
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The first English language biography ever published on We Cheng (580-643), chief adviser to T'ang T'ai-tsung, reputed founder of the T'ang dynasty. More
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1970. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. This study of modern China was completed during the twentieth anniversary year of the People's Republic. It embodies the results of long research checked by the personal experience gained in the course of extensive travel between 1958 and 1966..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Elias Dominguez (jacket illustration). First Edition (presumed), Second Printing. Hardcover. 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
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by author. The cave-temple complex popularly known as the Dunhuang caves is the world's largest extant repository of Tang Buddhist art. Among the best preserved of the Dunhuang caves is the Zhai Family Cave, built in..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1990. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Midway through the reign of the Ch’ien-lung emperor, Hungli, in the most prosperous period of China’s last imperial dynasty, mass hysteria broke out among the common people. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land, clipping off the..... More
Hong Kong: 香港美麗術社出版, 1960. First Edition (presumed). Softcover/Paperback. Staple-bound. This is a boxed set of mini Water Margin comics, published in Hong Kong in 1960. There are three parts to the series, and this is part three of three. This box contains eight (8) comic books. See photos for more..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. More
London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Published on behalf of the European Science Foundation. 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: University of California Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. In the early days of the modernization of East Asia, Neo-Confucianism was often held responsible for the purported intellectual, political, and social failings of traditional societies in the nineteenth century. Today, with frequent comparisons between the rapid success at modernization of..... More
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