New York: Vintage Books, 1972. Paperback. # V-847. From Kirkus (Oct. 2, 1958): The distinguished journalist and author of Red Star Over China offers here a kind of journalistic, political, and social autobiography. Beginning with his first serious appointment with the Review and, concurrently, South China correspondent for the..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 1971. Reprint. Paperback. Combines firsthand narratives, interviews and personal insights in this sweeping contemporary portrait of Communist China. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Hainan Island is the southernmost extent of what is now People's Republic of China. Today the island is strategically important for its geographic position and its rich mineral and oil resources, and economically important as a thriving tropical resort. Historically, however..... More
Abington: Routledge, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Hardcover. More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014. First Printing. Paperback. As an economic superpower, China has become an increasingly important player in the international monetary system. Its foreign exchange reserves are the largest in the world and its exchange rate policy has become a major subject of international economic diplomacy. The internationalization..... More
San Francisco: Getherease Inc, 1993. Lily Chung Limtiaco. First Edition. Hardcover. 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
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. Reprint. Paperback. More
London: Profile Books, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The First Emperor gave us the name by which China is known in the West and, by his unification or elimination of six states, created imperial China. He stressed the rule of law but suppressed all opposition, burning books and burying..... More
Hong Kong: Joint Publishing/ Yale University Press, 2009. First Edition. Paperback with dust jacket. Medieval travellers like Marco Polo created a romantic picture of a distant and exotic land while subsequent Jesuit and diplomatic missions sought to correct the more lurid depictions with first-hand accounts. In the mid-nineteenth..... More
Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. China is growing at an extraordinary pace and exerting a powerful influence upon the global economy. As China emerges as a dominating global player it is also having a significant impact upon America, Europe and Japan in all terms How was..... More
Hong Kong: Asia 2000 Ltd, 1992. Larry Feign (illustrations). First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Softcover. More
New York: Marion Boyars Publishers, 1997. Roy Lichtenstein (cover image). Reissued Edition. Paperback. A revolutionary comic masterpiece, an icon of literature as American pop art, and a book unlike any other, The Adventures of Mao on the Long March breaks all frames. An icon of literature as American Pop..... More
Armonk, New York: An East Gate Book/M.E. Sharpe Inc., 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. More
Boulder, Colorado: Blue Poppy Press, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. This is perhaps the single most famous book on traditional Chinese gynecology and obstetrics. Dating from the early Qing Dynasty, this book established many of the disease mechanisms and pattern diagnoses now standard in contemporary Chinese gynecology. More
New York: Perennial, 2004. Reprint. Paperback. On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas." When the fleet returned home in..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1969. Ted Powers (dust jacket). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. The contributors to this volume range over 2,000 years of history as they show how Confucian values spread throughout the region in premodern times and how these values were transformed in an age of modernization. The introduction by Gilbert Rozman..... More
The University Press of Hawaii, 1978. Hardcover. More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2013. Reprint. Paperback. More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2014. Second printing. Paperback. Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle's observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences and armed guards. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his..... More
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2004. Trade Paperback. This evocative narrative draws us into the inner life of a young Chinese peasant girl, May-ping, and her first glimmerings of youthful love and idealism under the Maoist regime in China. As she grows into a mature woman, she becomes..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1992. Trade Paperback Edition. “Comprehensive, encyclopedic, and lucid, this book is a must for all practitioners of the healing arts who want to broaden their understanding. Readers interested in the role of herbs and foods in healing will also find much to learn here, as I...... More
United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 2015. China Library series. Paperback. Originally published in Chinese as Xue Zhi Zui by Renmin University Press, Beijing. Set in the mid-nineties, Hanging Devils is a true-to-life story of cold-blooded murder and corruption from one of China's foremost legal experts. Hong Jun, a...... More
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