The Verdict of the League. China and Japan in Manchuria.
Boston. World Peace Foundation. 1933. Student Edition. 102pp, original wrappers, spine browned. Good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 175734. More
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The Japanese People. Origins Of The People And The Language.
Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai. 1962. Map, tipped in colour frontispiece, 72 black and white photographic images at rear, 64pp, good copy in paperback. When referring to this item please quote stockid 175732. More
Economic Co-operation of Japan and China in Manchuria and Mongolia, it Motives and Basic Significance.
Dairen. Chunichi Bunka Kyokai. (The Sino-Japanese Association of Manchuria). No date. (circa 1929). 19pp, original wrappers little browned, neat handwritten numbers upper wrapper but otherwise very good. Includes figures up to and including those for 1928. At the time of publication the author had just left his position of Vice-President..... More
Kenkyusha English-Japanese Dictionary. Commercial and Technical Terms.
Pasadena. P.D. and Ione Perkins. 1944. Small black and white text illustrations, 1220pp, endpapers and edges a trifle browned otherwise very good. When referring to this item please quote stockid 175730. More
Jews in the Japanese Mind. The History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype.
New York. Free Press. 1995. Black and white photographic plates, 360pp, bibliography, index, two small stains at edges of about 20 pages, but otherwise very good in dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 175728. More
Japanese Peace Settlement. Documents.
Canberra. Dept. of External Affairs. August, 1947. 163pp, some pencilled annotations, original wrappers chipped in one place and browned. 29 documents including The Tripartite Pact, 27th September, 1940; Countries at War with Japan, with dates of declarations, Declaration by United Nations, 1st January, 1942; Japanese Acceptance of the Potsdam Proclamation..... More
Chiang Kai-shek's Politics of Shame. Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China.
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Asia Center. 2021. Maps, black & white and colour illustrations, xiv + 245pp, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Paperback. "Once a powerful figure who reversed the disintegration of China and steered the country to Allied victory in World War II, Chiang Kai-shek fled into exile following his..... More
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[职工档案：陈文邦]. [Zhi gong dang: Chen Wenbang]. [Dossier of A Staff: Chen Wenbang].
江西.[Jiangxi]. 1956 - 1980. Dossier on pharmacy warehouse keeper called 陈文邦 [Chen Wenbang], well documented and bound between light card covers with a shoelace tie, handwritten in ink. Includes six worker's registration forms from 1956 to 1975, a performance assessment form dated 1957; a background investigation comments form, 1965; two..... More
Chinese Account of the Opium War.
Shanghai. Kelly & Walsh, Limited. 1888. 1st edition. 82pp. Original stiffened boards covered in buff coloured paper and lettered in red & black, rebacked with a tan linen spine and new endpapers the text block is in very good order. Half-title browned at the edges; title page has prior owner..... More
Beijing Coma.
New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2008. 586pp, lower corner upper damp damaged otherwise a good hardback copy in dustjacket. Dai Wei has been unconscious for almost a decade. A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, he was struck by a soldier's bullet and..... More
Murder in Samarkand. A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of a Tyrannical Regime Within the War on Terror.
Edinburgh. Mainstream. 2006. Map, colour photographic plates, 400pp, notes, bibliography, index. Name and contact details of a prior owner front free endpaper. Good hardback copy in very slightly worn dustjacket. "Craig Murray was the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Uzbekistan until he was removed from his post in October 2004 after..... More
The Lantern Boats.
London. Joffe Books. 2021. 252pp. Paperback. Kamiya Jun is a teenage war orphan from the lost Japanese colony of Karafuto. He is smuggled to the mainland on a fishing boat. Captured by the police, he is handed over to the occupation forces, and finds himself unwillingly recruited to work in..... More
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濠洲夢物語. 志賀重昂先生. [Gōshū yume monogatari. Shiga Shigetaka sensei.] [Dreamy Story of Australia and other essays by Professor Shigetaka Shiga].
東京. [Tokyo]. 東半球協会. [Higashi Hankyū Kyōkai]. Showa 18 [ 1943]. Folding chart, 41pp, paperback, 21 x 15cm, text browned throughout, tide mark on chipped and browned wrappers, spine worn with loss of paper covering. Still a sound copy. This small book contains six pieces on Australia by Shiga Shigetaka (1863..... More
Saving the Nation Economic Modernity in Republican China Economic Modernity in Republican China.
Chicago and London. University of Chicago Press. 2006. x + 320pp, bibliography, notex, index, very good copy in dustjacket. Economic modernity is so closely associated with nationhood that it is impossible to imagine a modern state without an equally modern economy. Even so, most people would have difficulty defining a...... More
The Chineseness of China Selected Essays
Hong Kong. Oxford University Press. 1991. 354pp, notes, glossary, index, very good copy in dustjacket. This book is divided into three parts. The first five essays deal with historical topics, focusing on the Tang and Sung dynasties. The second group of five essays concentrates on Chinese attitudes to civilization, including..... More
Van Wonen en Bewonen, Van Bouwen, Huis en Erf.
Tjandi-Samarang: Privately published not for sale, 1913. 1st Edition. 109 photographic reproductions and many sketch maps, plans and drawings, 155pp. Original limp wrappers with 2 photographs pasted down on the front cover. Some foxing to covers and prelims but internally a clean and firm copy of a work that was..... More
The Soils and Agriculture of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong. The Government Press. n.d. c 1960. Numerous folding coloured & black & white maps, charts & diagrams with 2 large folding coloured maps in the rear sleeve. Colour & b/w photographic illustrations. x + 154pp + 12 blank. Original cloth covered boards lettered in black on the upper..... More
Japanese Kokeshi Dolls. The Woodcraft and Culture of Japan's Iconic Wooden Dolls.
United States: Tuttle Publishing, 2021. Profusely illustrated throughout with colour photographic illustrations, 167pp, hardback in dustjacket. 21 x 21cm. An inside look at kokeshi dolls: from the skilled woodworkers behind their design to their important cultural significance. Kokeshi are the simple and charming traditional Japanese dolls characterized by their cylindrical..... More
The Practice of Not Thinking. A Guide to Mindful Living.
United Kingdom: Penguin Books Ltd, 2021. 129pp, paperback. Bestselling author and Zen priest Ryunosuke Koike teaches us how to reconnect with our five senses and move towards enlightenment What would happen if we learnt to look instead of see, listen instead of hear and feel instead of touch? With remarkable..... More
昭和十二三年支那事変出征記念写真帖. 北支戰線編. [Shōwa 12-13-nen Shina Jihen shussei kinen shashinchō. Hokushi Sensen hen]. [Commemorative Photographic Album of the China Incident Dispatchment in 1937-8. North China Campaigns]
天津.[Tianjin]. 中戸川洋行. [Nakatogawa, Hiroyuki]. Showa 13 [ 1938]. Colour fold out map, 5 colour illustrations, black and white photographic illustrations, 53 pages of images with evenly browned tissue guards, 19 x 26.5 cm, photographic illustrations endpapers. Original cloth covers rubbed & worn at edges in places, upper front hinge split..... More
絵本隅田川両岸一覧上中下. [Ehon Sumidagawa ryogan ichiran]. [Pictorial Book of Sumida River Bank].
東京. [Tokyo]. 風俗絵巻図画刊行会. [Fuzoku Emaki Zuga Kankokai]. taisho 6 [ 1917]. Complete in 3 volumes. Each volume beautifully illustrated with 8 colour images, 7 of which are double page and the eighth a full page plate. Volume 1: 10 double folded leaves; Volume 2: 8 double folded leaves; Volume 3..... More
木曽街道六十九全. [Kiso kaido 69-tsugi zen]. [Complete Set of 69 Stations of the Kiso Road]
東京. [Tokyo]. 大熊整. [Okuma, Sei]. Showa 10 [ 1935]. 70 full page colour images, 23 x 31 cm, bound accordion style, between attractive pictorial cloth covered boards. Presented in the original Japinese cloth covered folding case which are soiled with age, inner folds re-enforced with archival material, lacks one of..... More
The Chinese Experience.
New York. Scribner's Sons. (c. 1978). Black and white illustrations, 318pp, notes, further reading, index, dustjacket sunned on spine. Ex-library with a few neat stamps, endpapers a little marked or worn in places but overall a clean good hardback copy. "'The Chinese Experience' brings alive a civilisation in which emperors..... More
百人一首. [Hyakunin isshu].
[Japan]. no date. Meiji. Complete set of 200 handcoloured woodblock cards - 100 picture cards with accompanying 100 text cards. The hundred text cards show the first two lines of a poem in attractive calligraphy while the accompanying illustrated cards each have a coloured image of the poet and the..... More
Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce. 1450-1680. Volume One. The Lands Below the Winds.
New Haven. Yale University Press. 1988. Maps, black & white illustrations, xvi + 275pp, references, glossary, index. Paperback covers little worn, edges trifle foxed, otherwise a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 175694. More