Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press, 1979. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xxv + 288pp., appendix, bibliography, index, hardback in dustjacket. A very good copy. In northern Sumatra, as in Malaya, colonial rule embraced an extravagant array of sultans, rajas, datuks and uleebalangs. In Malaya the traditional Malay elite served... More about The Blood of the People. Revolution and the End of Traditional Rule in Northern Sumatra

1982. 14 green papercovered board folders containing the course notes and word lists for service personnel and civilians studying Indonesian in the one year intensive course the RAAF School of Languages offered at that time. Lacks week 17 but otherwise complete. Printed typescript single sided. 30 x 20cm. Folders measure... More about Indonesian Language Course

香港.[Hong Kong]. 香港经济导报社.[Xianggang jing ji dao bao she]. 1987. Coloured photographic illustrations, 40 + [4]pp, advertisements. This brochure includes brief history of the school and musical achievements of the staff and students over the 60 years since its founding in 1927. Good paperback copy. Text in Chinese and English. 28.7... More about 上海音樂學院. [Shanghai yin yue xue yuan]. [Sixtieth Anniversary Brochure of Shanghai...

Beijing: China Travel and Tourism Press. Black and white photographic illustrations, 279pp., paperback with french flaps. Tear upper edge lower cover, otherwise very good condition. The story of Aisin-Gioro Puyi, the last Emperor of the Chinese feudal society era, who was forced to abdicate the throne at the age of... More about My Husband Puyi. The Last Emperor of China. 我的丈夫溥仪 : 中国的末代皇帝. [Wo de...

Sri Lanka. Tisara Prakasakayo. 1974. [Reprint]. xiii + 195pp, appendix, paperback with dustjacket. Minor wear dustjacket, first leaves a little foxed, good condition. Initially published 1891, Fifty Years in Ceylon is an autobiography by Major Thomas Skinner. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163252). More about Fifty Years in Ceylon

New York. Oxford University Press, 1994. Second paperback printing. Maps, black and white as well as coloured illustrations, 151pp., index, good paperback copy. Sticker residue on front cover. 27.9 x 21.5cm. "As women in America and Europe struggled for emanicipation, these nine women explorers and travelers challenged the traditional ideas... More about Women of the World. Women Travelers and Explorers

Sangyō Kumiai Chūōkai 産業組合中央會, Showa 14 [1939]. Coloured folding pictorial map of China, the south-western section of Japan, Korea and Taiwan. 77.5 x 52.5cm. Numerous closed closed tears on folds repaired with archival tape, occasional small holes, small section along upper margin chipped with loss, still an attractive image. Issued... More about 繪入鳥瞰東亞現勢地圖. [Eiri chōkan tōa gensei chizu]. [Illustrated Contemporary...

Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. Colour photographic illustrations throughout, 259pp, indices, paperback. The book studies the baroque and the postmodern art and architecture of Macao, as an ex-Portuguese colony founded in the sixteenth century. Examining how the 'Baroque' has been used in critical and cultural theory, it uses... More about Walking Macao, Reading the Baroque

香港.Hong Kong. 香港東方陶瓷學會.[Xianggang dong fang tao ci xue hui]. 1979. Bibliography, plates some coloured, most photographic black and white illustrations, vii + 264pp, gilt hardback cloth, dustjacket, large signature and details of a prior owner front free endpaper, very good. Text in traditional Chinese and English. 26 x 18.2cm. Catalogue... More about South-East Asian and Chinese Trade Pottery: an exhibition catalogue....

Peking. 1940. 150pp, original wrappers. Browned throughout, wrappers foxed. A selection of papers presented at the Tripartite Conference between China, Britain and Tibet held in Delhi and Simla in 1913 - 14. Includes "the claims of the Tibetan Plenipotentiary on the boundary line, the counter-claims of the Chinese Plenipotentiary, the... More about The Boundary Question Between China and Tibet. A Valuable Record of the Tripartite Conference...

U.S.A. National War Fund. Colour lithograph poster by Gaydos, 56 x 36cm. Very good copy. The primary aim of the New York based, United China Relief was to raise money to support the Chinese people during the war with Japan. The United China Relief was founded in 1941. (When referring... More about China Fights On. 抗戰建國. [Kang zhan jian guo

Chatto & Windus. 1953. Black and white map, 304pp, index, appendices, glossary, hardback in original cloth. Spine faded, light foxing on fore-edge and endpapers, lightly marked on front and back cover, good condition. Discussion of how to introduce industrialization into the countries of Asia "before anarchy intervenes". Includes a number... More about Asia and the West