Chicago. Henry Regnery Company. 1953. Black and white illustrations, 228pp, inscription front free endpaper, very good hardback copy in worn protected dustjacket with some closed tears. The son of a Methodist missinary who arrived in China in 1894 and worked some 50 years in Fukien Province. A useful biographical resouce..... More

New York. Century. (circa1923). Folding colour map, 171 black and white photographic illustrations, xx + 502pp, pictorial upper cover and spine, extremities lightly rubbed, lacks front free endpaper, otherwise a good sound and clean copy. Largely about china this book also includes chapters on Korea, Manchuria and Mongolia. Some chapter..... More

London. John Murray, 1927. Reprint. 315pp, index, first and last leaves foxed with some occasional foxing in text, occasional light marking bright cloth covered boards, good hardback copy. Includes chapters on social traditions, language, history, and foreign relations. When referring to this item please quote stockid 172852. More

London/New York. Jonathan Cape/Putnam's Sons. 1965- 1969. [Reprint]. 3 hardback volumes in dustjackets. The Crippled Tree (Reprint 1965) 461pp; A Mortal Flower. 412pp. (Reprint 1969) 412pp; Birdless Summer. 347pp. (First Edition 1968). Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, one endpaper trifle creased. Price clipped dustjackets, one spine little faded. A...... More

Sydney. Doubleday. 1987. Map, photographs by Mike Landford and Geoff Mason. Lavishly illustrated with coloured photographic plates, not paginated, upper and lower edges worn, in slightly sunned price-clipped dustjacket, good hardback copy. 28.5 x 28cm. "Han Suyin's China is illustrated with over eighty magnificent colour photographs. With affection and enthusiasm..... More

Athens, Georgia. University of Georgia Press, 1993. Black and white line map, black and white photographic illustrations, li + 199pp, notes, bibliography, index, glossary, dustjacket with slightly sunned spine and wear on extremities, a good hardback copy. "The compelling autobiography of a woman who lived through the most dramatic changes..... More

Folkestone. Global Oriental Ltd., 2006. xv + 263pp, bibliography, glossary, notes, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "Developed over many years, this work offers a survey of Confucian thought, Chinese and Japanese, with a theme that ends up with a conclusion that links early Taoist philosophy and modern rational thought..... More

New York. Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1860. First American edition. 60 black and white wood engravings, chromolithograph frontispiece showing "A Winter Scene in Japan", with foxed tissue-guard. xvi + 645pp, appendices. It has been re-bound in half-leather at some stage with cream linen boards and new endpapers as well as..... More

London. Collins. 1983. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xvi + 232pp, bibliography, notes, glossary, index, remains of bookplate front free endpaper, otherwise a good copy in priceclipped dustjacket. A well researched scholarly study that discusses the controversy and conspiracy surrounding the death of Lin Biao, who was appointed by..... More