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
Hong Kong: (Self-published), 2019. Austin Tang (Photographs). First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Author. More
Hong Kong: Information Services Department, 1998. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
Singapore: National Gallery Singapore, 2017. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Oversized. Please note additional handling charge. Chen Chong Swee was an important early Singapore artist and educator who made significant contributions to the development of the Singapore and Malaya art scenes. He was amongst the first artists in Singapore to incorporate..... 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
Hong Kong: Grace Wu Bruce Co. Ltd, 1995. First Edition (presumed). Paperback (Outsized). 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
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
Chung Wu Publ, 1972. 1st printing, ex lib. More
Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies Volume 64. More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979. Reprint. Paperback. The historical civilization of China is, with the Indian and European-Semitic, one of the three greatest in the world, yet only relatively recently has any enquiry been begun into its achievements in science and technology. Between the first and fifteenth centuries the..... 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
Petaling Jaya: Maya Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very rare. More
Petaling Jaya: Maya Press, 2003. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Rare. An anthology of poems by Malaysian poets and writers, including Muhammad Haji Salleh, Shirley Lim, Wong Phui Nam, Fadzilah Amin, Ee Tiang Hong, A. Ghafar Ibrahim, and others. More
Hong Kong: Martin & Thomas Ltd, 1984. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Signed by author with a dedication to the previous owner. 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
Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, Univ. California, 2007. First Edition. Paperback. China Research Monograph 62. This volume offers a fresh perspective on how Chinese cities were transformed or "Westernized" in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and how Asian and Western cities received Chinese influences dispatched through the media..... 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
Hong Kong: Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. Item descriptions are in Chinese and English. An exhibition of Chinese archaic jades drawn from the collection of Dr Simon Kwan. More
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