Tempe, Arizona: Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 1989. Trade Paperback. Rare. Monograph Series No. 24 The Qianfulun 潛夫論 "Comments of a Recluse" is a philosophical and political tractate written by the Later Han period 後漢 (25-220 CE) scholar Wang Fu 王符. Wang did not want to climb..... More
Sydney: Wild Peony Pty Ltd, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Part of the University of Sydney East Asian Series (No. 10). More
St. Louis: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1985. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Translated, with Introduction and Notes by Douglas Lancashire and Peter Hu Kuo-chen, S.J. Matteo Ricci, S.J. (1552-1610) pioneered the modern cultural and religious encounter between China and Europe. Jonathan Spence in his latest book The Memory Palace..... More
New York: The Free Press, 1986. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. Covers the years from the Cultural Revolution to the post-Mao era including the ascendancy of Deng Xiaoping. A revised edition of the classic 1977 text. More
Hong Kong: Odyssey, 1995. Hu Chui (photographs). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover (Outsized). Additional handling charge for heavy item. More
Hong Kong: Odyssey, 1995. Hu Chui (photographs). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover (Outsized). Signed by one of the authors, Caroline Courtauld. Subject to additional handling charge for heavy item. More
Berkeley: Insititue of East Asian Studies/ University of California, 1996. First Edition (presumed). Paperback. These essays address related facets of the shifting and fluid process of negotiation that is the real nature of ethnic relations in China, past and present, and by extension in the rest of the world. The..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Asserting that litigation in late imperial China was a form of documentary warfare, this book offers a social analysis of the men who composed legal documents. Litigation masters emerge as central players in many of the most scandalous cases in 18th-..... More
London: Seagull Books, 2017. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Contains a DVD featuring scenes from the author's plays. Since premiering his pioneering linguistic experiment I Love XXX in Beijing nearly twenty-five years ago, Meng Jinghui has been credited with revitalizing Chinese theater by popularizing the avant-garde. Mixing high culture with mass..... More
New York: State University of New York Press, 1992. Softcover. More
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. The new competitive challenge from Chinese businesses is like nothing seen by Western companies since the Japanese arrived twenty years ago with their cars and consumer electronics. To fend off these fierce competitors, managers must forget yesterday's image of Chinese companies..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Noah Arlow (cover design). First Edition. Trade Paperback. A new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions. Going beyond political utopianism and technological optimism, contemporary Chinese writers conjure glittering..... More
Sydney: Mekong Review, 2020. Don Mak (cover illustration). Volume 5, Number 4. Loose-bound. For a look at this issue's content: https://mekongreview.com/category/issue-20/ Mekong Review is a quarterly English-language magazine of arts, literature, culture, politics, the environment and society in Asia, written by people from the region or those who..... More
Saint Paul: Minnesota Museum of Art, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Catalog of a touring exhibition of jade at Minnesota Museum of Art amongst others. 109 numbered items in the catalogue. More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000. Aude Van Ryne (cover illustration). Howard Goldblatt (translation). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. From Kirkus (April 1, 2000): You may think you're watching Twin Peaks on Chinese television halfway through this rumbustious melodramatic satire by the internationally acclaimed author (1993’s Red Sorghum, the source..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. Howard Goldblatt (tr.). First. Paperback. This powerful novel by Mo Yan—one of contemporary China’s most famous and prolific writers—is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political corruption during the final years of the Qing Dynasty, China’s last imperial epoch... More
New York: Arcade Publishing, 2001. Charlotte Strick (jacket design). Howard Goldblatt (translation). First U.S. Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. Rare in this edition. Mo Yan, China’s most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country’s contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels as Red Sorghum, The Garlic..... More
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Contains a complete English translation of Pan Chao's Lessons for Women 女誡. More
New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1972. Sydney Butchkes (cover design). Paperback. Rare. # A-840. This absorbing and closely documented book challenges the conventional wisdom about the Sino-Indian border conflict which reached its climax in the direct military confrontation of 1962. Of the many studies that have been made of..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2002. Chinese-English Bilingual Edition. Trade Paperback. Translated by Nathan K. Mao and Liu Ts'un-yan With an introduction by Paul G. Pickowicz Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, Pa Chin (1904-2005) has long been one of the leading figures of..... More
Hong Kong: Federal Publications, 1982. Hong Kong Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
New York: A Century Foundation Book, 1999. First Printing. Trade Paperback. With a new preface for the paperback edition Hailed as "absorbing" by the New York Times and "suspense-filled" by Foreign Affairs, Patrick Tyler's A Great Wall became an instant classic; a must-read for anyone concerned with the complicated..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2019. First Edition. Paperback. Signed by author. 18 true stories of those went to live in Shanghai in history. More
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