Chinese Art
New York: Bonanza Books, 1953. Hardcover. Originally published by Viking in 1953. This is a first edition of the reprint. Painting - Porcelain - Sculpture - Jade - Jewelry - Embroidery - Lacquer & Furniture - Architecture - Bronzes. More
Asia
Appetities: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China
Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. Trade Paperback. Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily life in..... More
Maoism: A Global History
London: Vintage, 2020. Trade Paperback. ‘A landmark work giving a global panorama of Mao's ideology filled with historic events and enlivened by striking characters’ Jonathan Fenby, author of The Penguin History of China Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favour..... More
Gateway to Japan
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1990. First Edition. Second Printing. Softcover (Outsized). More
In Praise of Shadows
Sedgwick, ME: Leete's Island Books, 1977. Thomas J. Harper, Edward G. Seidensticker (trs.). Thirteenth Printing. Paperback. An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country's greatest novelists. This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's eye ranges over..... More
Passing Under Heaven
London: Abacus, 2004. First UK edition. Paperback. In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, a beautiful girl is born in a fort along the Great Wall of China, and is set to become the most famous and celebrated courtesan of her age. Set in the 9th century, Passing Under..... More
Independence: The History of Graphic Design In Singapore Since the 1960s
Singapore: The Design Society, 2012. Design by H55. First edition (stated). Softcover. Initiated by H55’s Creative Director, Hanson Ho, and produced in collaboration with researcher-writer Justin Zhuang, INDEPENDENCE is the first book documenting the history of graphic design in Singapore since the 1960s. The cover features a black flag..... More
Guests of the New Gold Hill
Auckland: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985. John Booth (cover design). First Edition (presumed). Softcover. A fictional autobiographical account about Chinese immigrants in New Zealand during the late 1800's through the mid 1900's. More
The Peach Blossom Fan
New York: New York Review Books, 2014. First Printing. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Judith T. Zeitlin, translated from the Chinese by Chen Shih-hsiang and Harold Acton with the collaboration of Cyril Birch A tale of battling armies, political intrigue, star-crossed romance, and historical cataclysm, The Peach Blossom..... More
Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Reprint. Paperback. This 1985 book examines one of the driving forces of the historical period before the Industrial Revolution: the long chain of oceanic trade which stretched from the South China Sea to the eastern Mediterranean. It also looks at the natural complement of the..... More
The Japanese Sword: A Comprehensive Guide
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1983. First Edition thus. Hardcover. The Japanese sword combines unbreakability, rigidity, and lethal cutting power, and it is in the resolution of these conflicting practical requirements that it emerges as a triumph of the forger's art. The mystique of the sword lingers on in our age..... More
The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2005. Trade Paperback. Throughout the history of the United States, images of China have populated the American imagination. Always in flux, these images shift rapidly, as they did during the early decades of the twentieth century. In this erudite and original study, Karen J...... More
Ceritalah 3: Malaysia A Dream Deferred
Malaysia: Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2009. First Edition. Paperback. Karim Raslan has done it again. In his third collection of published essays, Karim tracks the tumultuous passage of Malaysian politics from 2003 till early October 2008. Ceritalah 3: Malaysia A Dream Deferred charts Dr Mahathir Mohamad's departure from office and the..... More
Over Hong Kong (Volume 8)
Hong Kong: Pacific Century Publishers/Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, 2007. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Oversized, heavy item; please note additional handling cost. More
The Master Puppeteer
New York: HarperTrophy, 1989. Haru Wells. Reprint. Paperback. Who is the man called Sabura, the mysterious bandit who robs the rich and helps the poor? And what is his connection with Yosida, the harsh and ill- tempered master of feudal Japan's most famous puppet theater? Young Jiro, an apprentice to..... More
The Devotion of Suspect X
London: Abacus, 2012. Alexander O. Smith. Paperback. Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered. When Detective Kusanagi of the Tokyo Police..... More
The Transformation of the Chinese Earth: Aspects of the Evaluation of the Chinese Earth from Earliest Times to Mao Tse-tung
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
Wing Chun Warrior: The True Tale of Wing Chun Kung Fu Master Duncan Leung, Bruce Lee's Fighting Companion (English version)
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2018. Third Printing. Paperback. The story of Duncan Leung, childhood friend of Bruce Lee, disciple of legendary master Yip Man, and New York kung fu teacher is valuable not only for its insights into martial arts but also for its portrayal of the lost Hong Kong..... More
The Early History of Korea
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1969. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Rare. Concerns the historical development of the Korean peninsula up to the introduction of Buddhism in the Fourth centry A.D. More
A Song for One or Two: Music and the Concept of Art in Early China
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
Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself: The Nobel Prize Speech and Other Lectures
Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. In December 1994, on the acceptance of only the second Nobel Prize awarded to a Japanese writer, Kenzaburo Oe gave a speech that was a message for mankind: one that pledged his own faith in tolerance and human decency; in the renunciation of..... More
Winter Sleep
New York: Vertical, Inc., 2004. Chip Kidd (cover design). First U.S. Edition (stated). Trade Paperback. The legendary Japanese master’s Winter Sleep take you into the hardboiled world of art — where ex-cons are philosophers, young lovers are combustible, and aesthetics is life. An artist’s quest for growth from one of..... More
Bamboo Rising 竹子上升
London: Aiya Studio, 2019. Linda Rosa (translation). First Edition. Limited. 25 numbered copies. Softcover. Bamboo, the literal and very physical backbone of Hong Kong has been intrinsic to progress and growth in the city for centuries. Visible on any given day, these bamboo scaffolding structures are bound together by an..... More
Smokescreen: A Novel
Hong Kong: Signel 8 Press (Lightning Originals), 2014. First Edition (presumed). Paperback. An action-packed spy thriller in the tradition of Robert Ludlum, Jason Bourne, Len Deighton, and Barry Eisler, Smokescreen is a compelling read filled with espionage activities and deception. At an ancient café in Cairo, two veteran..... More
Islanders 島民 #02
Hong Kong: Islanders, 2020. UUendy Lau (illustrator). Autumn 2020. Foldout enclosed in opaque envelope. Issue #02 Peng Chau 坪洲 Nourishing Land 豐饒之地 Walk past the main street, a soft cloak covers the island with a verdant character. In this homogeneous setting, shiny mature fruits attract our..... More
