Hong Kong: Orientations Magazine, 1996. Softcover (Outsized). Contributors include: Wang Shixiang, Sarah Handler, Craig Clunas, Tseng Yuho Ecke, Grace Wu Bruce, Klaas Ruitenbeek, Lark Mason, Tian Jiaqing, Curtis Evarts, Christopher Cooke, Robert Piccus and Ronald Longsdorf. More about Chinese Furniture: Selected Articles from "Orientations" 1984-1994
Washington DC: The National Geographic Society, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). More about National Geographic Atlas of China
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. More about New Archaeological Finds in China (Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution
Hong Kong: Hanart T Z Gallery, 2004. First Edition. Softcover (Outsized). Additional handling charge for heavy item. More about Umbilical Cord of History: Paintings of Zhang Xiaogang
Beijing, China: Ditu Chubanshe (地图出版社), 1977. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover (Outsized). Vintage atlas of China published by the Central government in 1977. More about Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Fen Sheng Dituji (中华人民共和国分省地图集
La Salle, IL: Open Court Publishing, 1993. Reprint. Paperback. "A history of Chinese philosophy in the so-called Axial Period (the period of classical Greek and Indian philosophy), during which time China evolved the characteristic ways of thought that sustained both its empire and its culture for over 2000 years. It... More about Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973. Reprint. Paperback. Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional intensity. A. C. Graham’s slim but indispensable anthology..... More about Poems of the Late T'ang
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965. First Edition thus. Paperback. More about Poems of the Late T'ang
Hong Kong: Vetch & Lee Limited, 1970. Second Edition. Hardcover. As per c/r page: this is a re-issued edition, limited to 1,050 copies. Original edition printed in China by the North China Daily News. Contains a preliminary note on the 'A D Brankston Collection of Chinese Porcelain in... More about Early Ming Wares of Chingtechen
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2000. First Edition (presumed). First Printing. Hardcover. More about Watching the Tree to Catch a Hare: A Chinese daughter reflects on happiness, spiritual beliefs...
New York: New Directions Publishing, 2010. Eileen Baumgartner (book design). First Printing. Paperback. Translated by Bonnie S. MacDougall When the three novellas in The King of Trees were published separately in China in the 1980s, “Ah Cheng fever” spread across the country. Never before had a fiction writer dealt... More about The King of Trees
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1979. Second Edition. Hardcover. Translated by W.J.F. Jenner Ghost written by Li Wenda. More about From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi (Volume One
Peking, China: Foreign Language Press, 1979. Second Edition (stated). Hardcover. Translated by W.J.F. Jenner Ghost written by Li Wenda Originally published in 1964. More about From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi (Volume Two
New York: Atheneum, 1965. Donald & Ann Crews (cover design). Reprint. First Atheneum Edition. Softcover. Atheneum book no. 147. More about After Imperialism: The Search for a New Order in the Far East 1921-1931
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. More about Limits to Autocracy: From Sung Neo-Confucianism to a Doctrine of Political Rights
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Princeton Studies in International History and Politics series. Cultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances... More about Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1968. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. China's Great Leap Forward, beginning in 1958, touched almost everything in Chinese life, even the traditions of academic scholarship. The study of history was given special attention, offering the temptation of an entire past to be reinterpreted along Marxist-Maoist... More about History in Communist China
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1964. Paperback. More about Modern China (Asian Civilization
New York: The Macmillan Company. Advance Review Copy. Hardcover. No date or year of publication indicated. First edition of this title was published in U.S. and U.K. in 1918. As an advance review copy, this edition mostly likely predates the 1918 publication year. More about Pencil Speakings from Peking
New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1973. Reprint. Paperback. Anchor Books no. A907. In 1948, Allyn and Adele Rickett, both students of Chinese at the the University of Pennsylvania, received Fulbright scholarships to study in Peking. While there, they engaged in intelligence work for the United States Naval Intelligence Service. As... More about Prisoner of Liberation: Four Years in a Chinese Communist Prison
New York: Pantheon Books Inc., 1994. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Signed by author on pre-title page. Red Azalea reviewed in The New York Times by Judith Shapiro (Fe. 27, 1994): EVEN in today's comparatively freewheeling China of discos and dating, Anchee Min's steamy memoir of two love affairs --... More about Red Azalea
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. First Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. More about Chinese Democracy
New York: New York Review of Books, 2002. First Edition (presumed). First Printing. Hardcover. Books review of this title that appeared in Foreign Affairs magazine: Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 12:00am China's New Rulers: The Secret Files Lucian W. Pye Nathan has become the mail drop for secret... More about China's New Rulers: The Secret Files
Hong Kong: Odyssey, 1988. First English language edition. Softcover. Translated from the Italian by Kirsten Marnane Romano. More about Chinese Days
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977. First Trade Paperback Edition. Softcover. First published in 1592, The Journey to the West, volume I, comprises the first twenty-five chapters of Anthony C. Yu's four-volume translation of Hsi-Yu Chi, one of the most beloved classics of Chinese literature. More about The Journey to the West, Volume I
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