New York: The Penguin Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as..... More
New York: Harper Torchbooks/The Cloister Library, 1960. Alex Tsao (cover design). First Harper Torchbooks Edition. Ninth Printing. Softcover. Originally published by John Day in 1949 under the title, Confucius: The Man and the Myth. Harper Torchbook no. TB 63. More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Legends of the Building of Old Peking examines a series of popular legends surrounding the building and rebuilding of the city that served as the capital of a succession of dynasties, including the Nazha or Nezha City legend of the..... More
Hong Kong: Small Tune Press, 2020. Jeffrey Yeung (illustrations). Second Edition. Paperback. In a series of forceful, introspective essays, eleven young journalists examine a city trans- formed beyond recognition: With all-new writing from Holmes Chan, Karen Cheung, Elaine Yu, Sum Lok-kei, Rachel Cheung, Hsiuwen Liu, Ezra Cheung, Nicolle Liu..... More
Hong Kong: Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Hong Kong Museum of Art from 22 July to 11 September, 1994. More
Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1969. Mark Elvin (tr.). First Edition. Paperback. No.1 of the Michigan Abstracts of Chinese and Japanese Works on Chinese History. 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
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature, and Institutions The study traces the economic and demographic history of a corner of China's southeast coast from the third to the thirteenth centuries, looking at the relationship between changes in the agrarian and urban economies..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship in the Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang Through the Song is a study of emerging kinship structures in a central coastal Fujian province from the 9th..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The Ili Crisis provides historical perspective for understanding Sino-Russian tensions in the border areas. Dr. Hsu investigates the reasons for Russian occupation of Ili (Kuldja) in Sinkiang, in the light of the intensified Russian advance into Central Asia in the mid-19th..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Fourth Edition. Third Printing. Hardcover. The Rise of Modern China vividly describes China's extraordinary metamorphosis from a traditional self-sufficient empire into a modern nation. Immanuel C.Y. Hsu surveys the main currents of modern Chinese history from 1600 to the present, devoting particular concern to..... More
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1998. First Edition (presumed). Trade Paperback. The origins of the Chan-kuo Ts’e (Intrigues of the warring states) as an entity can be traced to a palace librarian at the Han Court, Liu Hsiang (76–6 BCE), who compiled and edited the..... More
Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies Volume 64. More
Hong Kong: Noticias de Macau, 1960. Revised Edition. Paperback. First edition of this title published in 1951. Appears to be a special supplement to the publication Noticias de Macau. Contents printed in the two column newspaper style. As stated on the title page: "A Tribute to the memory..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2020. Cara Wilson (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Previously published, in shorter form, as Business Republic of China Jack Leblanc arrived in China in 1989 intending to teach for just two years. He was to spend the next two decades on a very..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Hong Kong the Super Paradox cuts into the cold reality of post-colonial Hong Kong, which demonstrates a paradoxical normalcy in its internal politics belying all pre-1997 prophecies of doom, and offers plausible reasons for the wide discrepancy between..... More
Englewood Cliff, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1985. Second Edition, Second Printing. Trade Paperback. An overview of the development of contemporary Chinese politics from 1949 to 1984. More
Englewood Cliff, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1989. Third Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. An overview of the development of contemporary Chinese politics from 1949 to 1989. More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. Steve Turner (design). Reprint. Hardcover. Authoritative and fully up-to-date account by leading China expert on China's economic rise and how it will affect the world The new China, the nation that in 25 years has changed beyond all recognition is becoming an industrial powerhouse..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. This book analyzes the changes in property rights in contemporary China in light of the rapid economic growth of the last two decades. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. First Edition. Paperback. What role do nationalism and popular protest play in China's foreign relations? Chinese authorities permitted anti-American demonstrations in 1999 but repressed them in 2001 during two crises in U.S.-China relations. Anti-Japanese protests were tolerated in 1985, 2005, and 2012 but banned in..... More
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Man Hai Language Publication, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. Softcover (Outsized/Oblong). More
New York: The New Press, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. From her contact with a group of young novelists, film-makers and artists in China, Zha examines a wide range of developments largely unknown to Western readers: the planning of soap operas to placate popular unrest after Tiananmen; the growth of the..... More
Beijing: Beijing Review Press, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Covers history, population, human rights, the Dalai Lama, religion, culture, autonomy, economy, people's livelihood, the Lhasa riots. More
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