United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press. 2008. 9 Tables, xviii + 348pp, index, bibliography, notes, very good hardback copy with dustjacket. Presents a story of two Chinas - an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China. In the 1980s, rural China gained the upper hand. In the 1990s, urban China..... More

Berkeley. University of California Press. 2008. Black and white photographic illustrations, xxii + 403pp, bibliography, index, very good paperback copy with remainder mark lower edge. China's one-child rule is unassailably one of the most controversial social policies of all time. In the first book of its kind, Susan Greenhalgh draws..... More

United States. Vintage Books. 2009. xxi + 262pp, paperback in very good condition. 13 x 20.5cm. "Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the..... More

United Kingdom. Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2010. Maps, 160pp, endnotes, glossary, very good paperback copy. Emboldened by economic strength and growing military power, China is emerging as a challenger to US dominance in the Pacific. But its promised peaceful rise has done little to convince regional powers that it will..... More

United States. Duke University Press. 1997. 6 black and white photographic plates, viii + 231pp, index, bibliography, notes, very good paperback copy. In National Past-Times, Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. In essays..... More

北京.[Beijing]. 地图出版社.[Di tu chu ban she]. 1980. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Large Chinese coloured educational map, folded, scale 1:3,500,000, inset map titled "Map of China-Russia Border Delineated by the Treaty of Nerchinsk" lower left corner, legend upper left corner showing various Russian invasion routes, major battle grounds, Qing court army..... More

北京.[Beijing]. 地图出版社.[Di tu chu ban she]. 1982. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Large Chinese coloured educational map, folded, scale 1:3,000,000, legend lower left corner showing May Fourth Movement location, other major locations of the student movement across the nation, cities where many workers went on strikes and sections of the railways..... More

北京.[Beijing]. 地图出版社.[Di tu chu ban she]. 1978. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Large Chinese coloured educational map, folded, scale 1:2,000,000, legend upper left corner showing rebellion led by 葛荣 [Ge Rong] in 526 AD , other peasants uprising in 525 AD and other major peasants uprising regions in various colours. In..... More

No place of publication. Central Intelligence Agency. Administrative map of People's Republic of China, folded, scale 1: 10,000,000, legend lower left corner showing international boundary, national and provincial capitals, railroad, road, airfield, principle port and cities with different population levels. Very good. Sheet measures 46.6 x 57.7cm. (When referring to..... More

Hong Kong. The Photographic Society of Hong Kong, c1950. Large Hong Kong Photographic Society salon exhibit, 1950, by leading Chinese photographer Francis Wu a prolific and much acclaimed exhibitor in international photographic society salons in the 1940s-70s. 44.2 x 37.0 cm image, on thin card mount 50.4 x 39.2 cm..... More

United States. George H. Doran Company. [1919]. 1st edition. Black & white frontispiece and seven photographic illustrations. Original orange covered boards decorated and lettered in dark gray. Spine faded cloth lightly marked , offsetting to endpapers, yet a firm and pleasing binding. Published by the Missionary Education Movement. The author..... More

Lanham. Rowman & Littlefield. 2012. Map of the East China Sea with the Ryukyu Islands highlighted, map of US military bases on Okinawa Island, black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 297pp, bibliography, index, 23.4 x 16cm. A very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "Resistant Islands offers a comprehensive overview..... More

Macdonald London 1967, 1962. Black and white illustrations, xi + 224pp, index, ownership details of prior owner's front free endpaper, little foxing to first and last leaves and edges, dustjacket little damaged with neat repairs on the reverse, a good hardback copy. Foreign correspondent's experiences in revolutionary China. (When referring..... More