London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1970. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. This study of modern China was completed during the twentieth anniversary year of the People's Republic. It embodies the results of long research checked by the personal experience gained in the course of extensive travel between 1958 and 1966..... More
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1982. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. No. 42 in the Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies series. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. This book explains the paradox that China's rapid economic growth for the past twenty years has taken place in a communist institutional context and under the firm rule of the party-state. In contrast to the dominant explanations of the "Chinese miracle" that..... More
Bantam Books, 1990. Softcover. More
Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1971. Reprint. Paperback. Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is known as the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching and the founder of philosophical Taoism, and as a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions. Although a legendary figure, he is..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2006. Softcover. More
New York: Scholastic, Inc., 2001. First Printing. Hardcover. Prize-winning author Laurence Yep continues his thirty-year exploration of China, the Chinese people, and his own heritage in Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Warrior of the South. Through the character of Lady Ch'iao Kuo, also known as Princess Redbird, Yep transports readers into..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1989. David Wiesner (illustrations). First Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1998. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts: Ji Yun and Eighteenth-Century Literati Storytelling takes as its subject the eighteenth-century zhiguai (stories of the strange). The focus is on Ji Yun's (1724-1805) Random Jottings at the Cottage of Close Scrutiny (Yuewei..... More
Hong Kong: Kam Wong, 2004. Wong Wah. Published with the aid of The Hong Kong Arts Development Council. More
Beijing: New World Press, 1989. First Edition (stated). Paperback; Pamphlet-Style. More
Oxford University Press, 2007. Hardcover. More
Australia: Lonely Planet, 1991. Second Edition. Softcover. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Reprint. Paperback. A hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire's finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2018. Hardcover. China’s ascent to the rank of the world’s second largest economic power has given its revolution a better image than that of its Russian counterpart. Yet the two have a great deal in common. Indeed, the Chinese revolution was a carbon copy..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Outsized. More
Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Outsized. More
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. The Search for a Vanishing Beijing weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive narrative about the cultural mosaic of the capital of China. The author leads the reader through palaces, temples, back streets and markets..... More
Hong Kong: Longman, 1993. First Edition. Reprint. Hardcover. More
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. First Edition. Paperback. Series: Studies in Modernity and National Identity Is modernity in non-Western societies always an "alternative" modernity, a derivative copy of an "original modernity" that began in the West? No, answer the contributors to this book, who then offer an absorbing..... More
London: Merehurst Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). More
Hong Kong: APA Publications (HK) Ltd, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Rare. More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1966. Second Edition. Softcover. As reviewed in Foreign Affairs by Eliot A. Cohen: Just as Western armies perfected the arts of high-technology conventional warfare, they found themselves confronted by what one French paratrooper called "termite warfare" -- prolonged guerrilla or insurrectionary war relying on..... More
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1990. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Roger R. Thompson Long described as lost, this report was the result of Mao Zedong's investigation in 1930 of the people, economy, society and history of the obscure rural county of Xunwu..... More
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