Berkeley. University of California Press. 1991. Map, figures, tables, xvii + 385pp, references, index, upper cover creased at lower corner, a good paperback copy. Studies on China, 12. Until the publication of this book our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth..... More
London. Bibelot. 1971. Black and white illustrations, 84pp, endpapers and edges of boards a little foxed, covers a little worn and extremities rubbed, good hardback copy. 26 x 21cm. Contents include: The Materials; Crystalline quartz; Jasper; Opal; Chinese Lapidary Workshop; Schools of Carving. When referring to this item please quote..... More
Beijing: Foreign Language Press. 2004. xxxv + 171pp, notes, very good hardback copy. 22 x 15.7cm. Agnes Smedley worked in and wrote about China from 1928 until 1941. Her journalism and fiction capture the massacre of short-haired feminists in the Canton commune, the lives of silk workers of Canton charged..... More
Calcutta. Dover Publications. 1977. Second Edition. xiv + 230pp, text in English and Tibetan, endpapers starting from spine, covers a little worn, still a good paperback copy. "Written by the foremost Western authority on Tibet and its culture, Bell's grammar of colloquial Tibetan is generally considered the clearest, most easily..... More
Women of China Beijing 1985. Black and white illutrations, 293pp, extremities lightly broned, covers a little worn, paperback with French flaps, good copy. 18 x 11cm. Contents include: Raptures of Devotion; An Unbreakable Civic Spirit; Women Teachers in Mountain Villages; Song of the Epoch - Growth of a Peasant Woman..... More
New York. Feminist Press. 1995. Black and white photographic illustrations, xv + 357pp, suggested readings, chronology, slight bumping upper extremities, spine a little sunned, good paperback copy. A really interesting anthology of writings on China with a particular focus on the history and place of women in China aimed at..... More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1978. Reprint. ix + 315pp, notes, index, couple markings lower endpaper, closed tear on spine, lightly worn paperback covers, otherwise good copy. The 10 papers in this collection cover a wide range of topics - seventeenth century attitudes toward women (Joanna F. Handlin), the female revolutionary..... More
New York. Feminist Press. 2004. xxxvi + 313pp, some rubbing along extremities, good paperback copy. 23 x 15.5cm. These 21 dynamic articles by Chinese women scholars explore the limitations on women's lives in premodern China, detail their involvement in the great political movements of the 20th century and examine how..... More
New York. Feminist Press. 1976. xxxv + 203pp, notes, very good hardback copy. 22 x 15cm. Agnes Smedley worked in and wrote about China from 1928 until 1941. Her journalism and fiction capture the massacre of short-haired feminists in the Canton commune, the lives of silk workers of Canton charged..... More
Albany. State University of New York Press. 1998. Black and white line illustrations, xxiii + 348pp, index, bibliography, appendices, very good in paperback. Explores the historical and philosophical shifts in the depiction of women and virtue in the early centuries of the Chinese state. These changes had far-reaching effects on..... More
New York. Urizen Books. 1977. 211pp, bibliography, note, dustjacket a little worn with some closed tears, otherwise a good hardback copy. Translated from the French by Anita Barrows. "Combining a study of Chinese history, literature, religion and politics with her own penetrating insights, Kristeva analyses aspects of a country in..... More
Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1994. xii + 454pp, notes, spine a touch lightened, extremities a little rubbed, otherwise very good paperback copy. "The first significant collections of essays on women in China in more than two decades captures a pivotal moment in cross-cultural-and interdisciplinary -dialogue. For the first time, the..... More
London. Zed Books. 1995. ix + 209pp, index, notes, appendices, covers a little worn around extremities, good paperback copy. Much more is known about prescribed female qualities, be they Confucian, Communist, or culturally Chinese, than about how it actually feels for Chinese women to live with that rhetoric and with..... More
London. Hurst & Co., 1995. Black and white illustrations, ix + 233pp, index, bibliography, spine a touch sunned, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "With the disintegration of Confucian cosmology after the fall of the imperial system in China, medical science was introduced as an epistemological foundation for social order..... More
London. Macmillan. 1985. Tables and figures, xvi + 237pp, index, remainder mark on lower cover, extremities a little browned, covers a little worn, good paperback copy. "Young Chinese couples have been asked by the Chinese government to have no more than one child. The single-child family runs directly contrary to..... More
Boston. Houghton & Mifflin. 1937. Black and white illutrations, xiv + 324pp, index, bibliography, upper endpaper corner creased, endpapers browned, small indent on lower edge, hardback with some shelf wear, good copy. Biographies of significant and incredible Chinese women from ancient to modern times collated by Florence Ayscough, a sinologist..... More
New York. Pantheon. 2002. xii + 243pp, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. 24 x 16.1cm. For seven years, Xue Xinran hosted a daily radio phone-in programme for Radio Nanjing during which she discussed women's lives, and invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast between 10 and..... More
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東京. [Tokyo]. 叢文社. [Sōbunsha]. 1981. Map, colour photographic illustrations, 115pp, 30 x 23 cm, text in Japanese and English, hardback, spine of dustjacket faded and a trifle foxed on the reverse, very good copy. Henry Sugimoto (1900-1991) was a Japanese born artist who was trained in the States. In 1919..... More
London. Church Missionary Society. 1891. First Edition. Folding coloured frontispiece map of China with inset maps of parts of the Provinces of Che-Kiang and Fuh-Kien showing the Church Missionary Stations, black and white illustrations. Original red decorated cloth stamped in black and gilt, decorated endpapers, map has a closed tear..... More
London. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. 1885. First Edition. Folding map 'Showing the battlefields, during the Taiping rebellion, and its suppression by the disciplined Chinese force under General Gordon', black and white illustrations, xi + 302pp plus portrait of Gordon, rebound in maroon cloth, lettered & ruled in gilt..... More
London, Paris & New York: Fisher Son & Co., nd. [ 1836]. First Edition. Three volumes in one, each volume has engraved title pages. Vols I & II: 96pp each, vol. III 90pp, no date but plates dated 1836-1837, list of illustrations in each volume, text in both English and..... More
London. John Van Voorst. 1837. Illustrated with nearly 200 black and white woodcuts, xviii + , index, 526pp, original dark green cloth covered boards faintly discoloured, lettered in gilt, head of spine creased, joints tender, corners rubbed, original yellow endpapers with the ex-libris bookplate of C. J. Peackock and a...... More
London. No date. (circa 1910). Original hard cardboard box with chromolithographed illustration of a pagoda with cut-out windows, possibly a stylised view of the facade of the former Théâtre Bataclan des Boulevards, expertly repaired. 36 x 18cm Game of skill: it is about throwing small balls towards the windows of..... More
Bangkok. River Books. 2002. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 290pp, index, bibliography, glossary, paperback with French flaps, inscription title-page, small indentation lower edge, very slight fading spine, otherwise good copy. 25.5 x 18cm. "The author examines the magnificent carvings of the long galleries, the corner pavilions, pediments, lintels, as..... More
New York. The Ronald Press Company. 1956- 1958. 4 volumes only (of 7). Volume I: 235pp, bibliography. Volume II: vi + 95pp. Volume IV: x + 240pp. Volume V: vi + 280pp. Colour frontispieces, bibliographies, black & white illustrations, red cloth covered boards lettered in gilt on the upper boards..... More
