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
New York: Paragon Book Reprint Corp. / Dover Publications, Inc., 1965. Reprint. Softcover. For at least 2,000 years Chinese scholars have conducted research into the writing system. In addition to the study of origins and the processes by which new characters are created, Chinese scholarship has been especially interested in..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. Softcover. More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2019. First Edition. Softcover. The story of Hong Kong is one of almost constant change. From a sleepy fishing community, Hong Kong – now a Special Administrative Region following its return from Britain to China in July 1997 – has grown into one of the most..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2017. Stephen Case (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Syd Goldsmith’s first taste of China’s Cultural Revolution is blood on his tongue. It’s 1967. Hong Kong is simmering, plagued by communist-led riots and strikes, crippled transport, punishing water-rationing, takeover threats from Beijing and roadside bombs..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2017. Lee Po Ng (illustrations). First Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. Hong Kong is a mixed bag of a city. It is where Mercedes outnumber taxi cabs, partygoers count down to Christmas every December 24, and larger-than-life billboards of fortune tellers and cram school tutors compete with..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Softcover. Instructor's Desk Copy indicated on back cover. This collection of primary source documents--many translated into English for the first time and available only in this book--gather proclamations, treaties, laws, and other public acts with pieces reflecting..... More
London: Atlantic Books, 2018. Keenan (cover design). First UK Paperback Edition. First Printing. Paperback. A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970's When Ian Buruma arrived..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2006. First Trade Papberback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Signed by the author. Part memoir, part remedy for the state we're in, with liberal sprinklings of common sense, Chris Patten's Not Quite the Diplomat is a frank and funny book from a very outspoken politician. After spending..... More
London: Contemporary China Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1983. September 1983, Number 95. Softcover. Includes: Treaty, Grant, Usage or Sufferance? Some Legal Aspects of the Status of Hong Kong - Anthony Dicks; The International Position of Hong Kong - Lucian W Pye; Life in the Cities: The Emergences..... More
Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1992. Second Printing. Paperback. More
Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconson Press, 1972. A.C. Scott (illustrations). Second Printing. Softcover. Translated, described, annotated and illustrated by A.C. Scott. Includes the plays: Longing for Worldly Pleasures by Ssu Fan Fifteen Strings of Cash by Shih Wu Kuan. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. Sixth Printing. Paperback. Rare. Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power is a book of political theory and comparative history by Karl August Wittfogel (1896–1988) published by Yale University Press in 1957. The book offers an explanation for the despotic governments..... More
New York: Yale University Press, 1973. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Rare. A recounting of the Taiping Revolutionary Movement (1851-1866) from the point of view of the revolutionaries. About the author: Jen Yu-wen or Jian Youwen was a Chinese historian, public official, and sometime Methodist pastor, known in..... More
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1998. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last and arguably the greatest of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural and ideological differences with the..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Biographical sketches of six Japanese writers and public figures: Nogi Maresuke Mori Ogai Nakae Chomin Kawakami Hajime Masamune Hakucho Mishima Yukio. More
Hong Kong: Longman, 1997. First Printing. Softcover. More
Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 2010. Fourth Printing. Softcover. More
Hong Kong: Longman, 2001. Nineteenth Printing. Softcover. 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
Australia: Lonely Planet, 1999. Mic Looby ('Dragon Me Down' cover illustration). Third Edition, First Printing. Softcover. More
Australia: Lonely Planet, 1991. Second Edition. Softcover. More
Australia: Lonely Planet, 1985. Softcover. More
Hong Kong: Emphasis (Hong Kong) Limited, 1990. Sumiko (illustrations). Second Printing. Softcover. In this unique guide, many of Hong Kong's best-known writers come together to create a collection of nearly 60 explorations throughout the territory. Contributors include Peter Moss, Simon Winchester, Hilary Binks, Nury Vittachi, and others. 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
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