Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. 2011. Map, colour & black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 389pp, bibliography, index, little creasing lower endpapers, still a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. 23.5 x 18cm. Articles on Chinese culture originally published in the South China Morning Post. (When referring to..... More
Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. 2013. Black and white photographic illustrations, xviii + 454pp, index, notes, bibliography, appendices, dustjacket spine a smidge sunned, very good copy in dustjacket. During the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of Chinese men and women crossed the Pacific to work, trade, and settle in..... More
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2014. Edited by Colin Day and Richard Garrett. With a biographical essay by David Calthorpe. Folding map, colour and black and white photographic illustrations, 213pp, notes, index, dustjacket. Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series. Very good hardback copy in dustjacket. When Hong Kong..... More
Hong Kong. Viking Press. 1988. Black and white photographic plates, 320pp, index, reading list, hard back in good condition, dustjacket single insignificant mark reverse of dustjacket, fore edge just starting to brown. "This is a portrait of one of modern history's most astonishing anachronisms- the British Crown Colony of Hong..... More
Black and white maps, black and white plates, xii + 276pp, index, appendices, notes, dustjacket covers a trifle shelf-worn with some scratching on lower cover, still a very good copy. "In 1899, a year after the Convention of Peking leased the New Territories to Britain, the British moved to establish..... More
Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. 1983. Numerous black and white maps including a large foldout map, x + 151pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix, glossary, spine a little faded, fore-edge a little spotted, good hardback copy in protected dustjacket. "This book looks at the 1819 edition of the gazetteer, the..... More
日本オリンピック後援会. [Nihon Orinpikku Koenkai]. 昭和31[1956]. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, viii + 160pp, charts, hardback, dustjacket, 30.4 x 21.5cm, cardboard sleeve box and edges worn, very good copy. This book was published on June 1956 in Japan to mark the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia which were to..... More
Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. 2013. xiv + 208pp, index, bibliography, notes. very good copy despite a touch of sun on spine edge. "For more than four centuries, Macau was the centre of Portuguese trade and culture on the South China Coast. Until the founding of Hong Kong and..... More
香港.[Hong Kong]. 滙通書店.[Hui tong shu dian]. 1966. Four Chinese classic texts bound into one, 21 +43 +184 +351pp, notes, some signs of wear at extremities with occasional foxing on fore-edges, clean and sound internal, still good in paperback. Original Chinese text accompanied by English translation. (When referring to this item..... More
香港.[Hong Kong]. 文言書局.[Wen yan shu ju]. No date circa 1970s. 2 volumes set, 483pp, neat dates upper pastedown showing a prior owner's study sessions in University of Sydney in late 60s and early 70s, some signs of light wear with occasional foxing and spot soiling, overall good in paperback. Text..... More
![論語譯注. [Lun yu yi zhu]. [Confucian Analects Annotated]. BOJUN YANG, 楊伯峻](/pictures/thumb/169259.jpg?v=1585889171)
北京. [Beijing]. 中華書局.[Zhonghua shu ju]. 1965. 1st Edition, 6th Printing. 324pp, dictionary of Confucian Analects included, very light browning lower cover with some penciling, minor closed tears, generally very good in paperback. Text in Chinese. 20.1 x 13.9cm. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 169259). More
Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 1982. Profusely illustrated, 280pp, notes, hardback in shelf-worn dustjacket, good copy. 33 x 25cm. "Islam - the world of Allah - today confronts the West and Japan as one of history's great geographical and ethnic paradoxes. Its oil dominates our industry. its people are to us, for..... More
Bombay. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. 1994. [Reprint]. Profuse black and white illustrations, unpaginated, notes, very good paperback copy trifle worn at corners. 30 x 24cm. First published in 1956 copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 169701). More
Bombay. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. 1995. Profuse black and white and coloured illustrations, Gandhi on Buddha (unpaginated) + 330pp, bibliography, notes, errata inserted into contents, inscription on half title page, some occasional browning, good hardback copy in protected dustjacket. 30 x 25cm. " This album represents..... More
London. Collins & Brown. 1997. Pictorial endpapers, map, colour photographic illustrations, 192pp, chronology, glossary, indices, trifle shelf-rubbed, dustjacket, good hardback copy. 31 x 23cm. Introduction to the most important figures of Chinese folk history and those of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 169699)..... More
No place of publication. Books on Demand. 2004. Facsimile. 248pp, plain cloth boards. Authorized facsimile printed on acid-free paper. Very good copy. "Western Pioneers, first published in 1949, was never widely available. Nevertheless it was a significant piece of scholarship and an important contribution to the discussion of early European..... More
London. Rider. 2004. Black and white illustrations, xvi + 303pp, spine a trifle creased, a good paperback copy. "When a 14-year-old refugee crossed the Himalayas and arrived in India, China lost its best hope of one day controlling the Tibetan people. It was 5 January 2000 and the boy was..... More
New York. Harper & Row. 1973. First edition. xxx + 183pp, some mild shelf wear, a good paperback copy. ""Below the surface of the psyche, the worship of nature is still alive," says Raymond Van Over. In this unique anthology of Chinese mystical writings we are given a valuable introduction..... More
London. Allen & Unwin. 1964. Fifth Impression. 268pp, index, notes, appendices, good hardback copy in little worn price clipped dustjacket, dustjacket spine a little discoloured and mended on the reverse with tape. "The existing translations of the Analects of Confucius are based upon a medical interpretation which reflects the philosophy..... More
London. Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 2008. Black and white map, x + 355pp, very good hardback copy. "Myth, travelogue and holy writ, the Ramayana - the Journey of Rama - is India's best-loved book, an inspiration to schoolchildren, monks and movie-makers. It's one of the world's great epic tales, yet..... More
Bombay. Marg Publications. Colour and black and white images, 83pp, notes, paperback in good condition with a little wear lower cover. 32 x 24cm. The Asian art collections of Nasli M. Heeramaneck, Edwin Binney (3rd), and Norton Simon which concentrated on Indian, Luristani Tibetan and (When referring to this item..... More
London. George Allen & Unwin. 1956. Fourth impression. 268pp, index, notes, appendices, two small marks on spine, 166very good hardback copy, small stamp lower corner front endpaper. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 169014). More
Taiwan. 1978. [Reprint]. x + 390pp, index, notes, good hardback copy in dustjacket, dustjacket and endpapers a little browned, bookseller's label lower endpaper. Taiwanese reprint. "This extensive survey maintains a balanced perspective in tis diagnosis of the degree of Confucian inspiration or influence in social, cultural, and political attitudes and..... More
Wheaton, Illinois. Tyndale House. 1972. Black and white photographic illustrations, 201pp, spine trifle faded, covers worn at edges, good copy. 17.5 x 11cm. Written by Mary Wang, the Director of the Chinese Overseas Christian mission in 1972. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 168355). More
Jefferson. McFarland & Company. 2005. Black and white photographic illustrations, xv + 208pp, index, bibliographic essay, appendix, very good hardback copy. 26 x 18cm. "This work explores the political logic of old China's archaic civilization, where court protocol was the essence of a liturgical government whose philosophical basis rested on..... More
