Manchu Archival Materials
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
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
Hong Kong: Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973. Softcover. c/r page states: "ART GALLERY PUBLICATION NO. 6" In English and Chinese. The book published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Art Gallery, Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 29th June -..... More
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lerner Publications Company, 1972. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Not an ex-library book. More
Lexington Books, 2009. Hardcover. More
Richmond: Hardie Grant Books, 2018. First Edition. Fifth Printing. Trade Paperback. Respected academic Clive Hamilton realised something big was happening when, in 2016, it was revealed that wealthy Chinese businessmen linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had become the largest donors to both major Australian political parties. Hamilton began..... 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
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976. First Edition (stated). Softcover. The Hundred Days' Reform was a failed 103-day national, cultural, political, and educational reform movement from 11 June to 22 September 1898 in late Qing dynasty China. It was undertaken by the young Guangxu Emperor and his reform-minded supporters. Following the..... More
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1985. Zhang Tingquan (tr.), Hu Genkang (tr.). First Edition (stated). Paperback. A leading Chinese geographer and his colleagues discuss the country's physiognomy with special reference to farm production. 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
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. "We want neither gods nor emperors", went the words from the Chinese version of The Internationale. Students sang the old socialist song as they gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in the Spring of 1989. Craig Calhoun, a sociologist..... More
London: Earthscan Publications Limited, 1994. First English Edition. Trade Paperback. Rare. An extraordinary collection of interviews, essays, and statements by Chinese scientists, journalists, and intellectuals opposed to the massive Three Gorges dam on China’s Yangtze River. Originally published in 1989 as the democracy movement was gathering momentum, Yangtze! Yangtze! is..... More
New York: Prentice Hall, 1995. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Trade Paperback. Rare. Set in Britain and Hong Kong, this book contains countless anecdotes and personal impressions of the author. In 1997 Hong Kong returns to the People's Republic of China. This is the account of an Englishman's choice: to..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2020. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. All complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world. Just Hierarchy contends that this stigma is a mistake. In fact, as Daniel Bell and..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. In BIG DRAGON, Dan Burstein joins with China specialist Arne de Keijzer to offer a comprehensive look at China and its future. They suggest that no other country poses such significant business and political questions for the West and..... More
New York: Akashic Books, 2001. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Falun Gong’s Challenge to China remains the only book-length investigative report of this human crisis affecting the lives of tens of millions of practitioners in China and around the world. This updated paperback edition has information on all of the latest..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. Jeff Cosloy (jacket design). First Edition (presumed), Fifth Printing. Hardcover. The British opium trade along China’s seacoast has come to symbolize China’s century-long descent into political and social chaos. In the standard historical narrative, opium is the primary medium through which China encountered..... 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
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. First Trade Paperback Edition, Fourth Printing. Softcover. In this first of a planned five-volume set, 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 Hsi-men Ch'ing, a...... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. First Trade Paperback Edition, Third Printing. Softcover. In this first of a planned five-volume set, 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 Hsi-men Ch'ing, a...... 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
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In this second 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, upwardly..... More
London: Pan Macmillan, 1999. Reprint. Trade Paperback. More
New York: Penguin Books, 1996. Paperback. Signed. More
Beijing: New World Press, 1989. First Edition (stated). Softcover. Rare edition. Pamphlet-style travel guide. 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