London. Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer. 1874. Black & white frontispiece and 44 black & white illustrations (mainly heliotypes), Plans, including a plan of Peking, x + 413pp, some foxing to rear of plates but the plates themselves are clean. Original decorated cloth elaborately stamped in red & gilt. The..... More
北京. [Beijing]. 地图出版社. [Ditu Chubanshe]. 1977. Reprint. Text in Chinese. Colour maps throughout, 169pp, index, 26.7 x 20cm. Endpapers patchily browned, upper edge foxed, lower corner bumped, dustjacket patchily sunned, worn with edges chipped and torn, rear portion adhered to board, otherwise a good copy. When referring to this item..... More
Hong Kong. Pacific Magazines Ltd., Volume 11, Number 10, October 1980. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations throughout, 70pp, Quarto, wrappers. Special Pacific issue - articles include: 'Ponape and Yap - Micronesia's Maxi-States', photographs by Robert Kiener; 'Tangata, the Maori Vision of Man' - Trevor Bayliss, photographs by Brian..... More
Hong Kong. Orientations Magazine Ltd., Volume 21, Number 3, March 1990. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations throughout, 78pp, Quarto, wrappers. Articles in this issue include: 'Wu Guanzhong and the Task of Painting a New China' - Peter C. Sturman; 'Kang Youwei and the Westernization of Modern Chinese Art'..... More
Auckland. Auckland Institute and Museum. 1996. Maps, plans, black and white illustrations, ix + 222pp, bibliography, appendices, index, 27.5 x 20.7cm. A prior owner's name neatly inked half title, paperback covers little worn, otherwise a very good copy. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 17. When referring to this..... More
Colombo. Vajirarama Publication Society. 1956. 44pp, 18 x 12.2cm. Original buff-coloured wrappers little worn, otherwise a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173391. More
Kandy. Buddhist Publication Society. 1958. 30pp, 18.5 x 12.5cm. Original light blue wrappers little worn and bumped at head of spine, otherwise a very good copy. The Wheel Publication No. 3. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173390. More
Hong Kong. Walter K. Hoffman, 1967. Maps, black and white and colour illustrations and advertisements throughout, 200pp, original red cloth boards lettered in gilt, trifle rubbed, a very good copy. Interesting snapshot of Hong Kong in the late 1960s as seen through a visitor's eyes. When referring to this item..... More
Kandy. Buddhist Publication Society. 1958. 40pp, 18.7 x 12.4cm. Original yellow wrappers little worn, otherwise a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173388. More
Rangoon. Mohnyin Patipatti Propagating Society. 1955. Translated into English by U Hla Maung. Single black and white photographic plate with portrait of the author, viii + 52pp, 18 x 12.2cm. Original yellow wrappers little worn, otherwise a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173387... More
New York. Grosset & Dunlap. 1926. [Reprint]. Black and white photographic illustrations, 329pp, evenly browned throughout a little heavier on endpapers, few leaves creased, edges spotted. A good copy in dustjacket. Autobiographical account of her experiences on "America's trade frontier in China" by the author of the popular novel "Oil..... More
Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1954. vi + 296pp, indices, ink underlining and some notes in pencil throughout text, endpapers a little browned, cloth binding, spine and edges little browned, a clean and sound copy. From the library of Professor David K. Wyatt, renowned scholar of Thai history, with his signature..... More
London. S.W. Partridge & Co., [ 1923]. Frontispiece portrait, illustrations, several full page, decorated blind stamped green cloth, age-worn and scuffed, 19.5 x 13cm, text browned and endpapers spotted, with an inked prize inscription from Oak Road Mission Sunday School, 1923 on the front free endpapers. First published in 1888..... More
New Jersey. Prentice Hall. 2001. Maps, black and white illustrations, xvii + 183pp, index, small damp stain extremities of upper section until vii, paperback covers a little warped and rubbed along extremities, good paperback copy. 23.5 x 17.8cm. For Introduction to Chinese History and Introduction to East Asia courses. A...... More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 2006. Black and white photographic plates, xiii + 693pp, index, bibliography, notes, dustjacket a touch of foxing on reverse, upper extremities of spine bumped, good hardback copy. In a masterly book, Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals explain why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and show..... More
California. Diane Books. 1973. 157pp, sticker title page, spine faded, covers a little worn, still a good paperback copy. 18.5 x 11.5cm. This is a short true account of George Watts' experiences as an engineering contractor overseas (He's from Great Britain) in the 1950s-60s. He mentions some about working in..... More
Briar Hill. Indra Publishing. 2000. ix + 376pp, glossary, good paperback copy with light foxing over the covers. This book takes the reader from mild street demonstrations in mid-80s Sydney, campaigning agianst the Australia card, to the enormity of the demonstrations for liberalisation which culminated in Tiananmen Square on 4..... More
Crows Nest. ABC Books. 1990. Black and white illustrations, 208pp, paperback. Very good copy. "Trevor Watson headed a team of eight ABC Radio correspondents who covered the events from within China. ABC Radio and Television reports from China won three 1989 Australian Journalists Association's Walkley Awards and a Television Society..... More
United States: University of California Press, 2010. xxxv + 423pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices, slightly rubbed along extremities, very good paperback copy. In the first comprehensive and analytical study of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, Paul Unschuld traced the history of documented health care from its earliest extant records..... More
New York. Pantheon. 1975. 480pp, index, minor wear and browning price-clipped dustjacket, pages a little carelessly cut by printer, good hardback copy. This book argues that the extraordinary process by which successive failures to free China from foreign domination and domestic oppression have been turned into lessons for the making..... More
New York. Monthly Review. 1969. 91pp, appendix, signature front free endpaper and title-page, small mark front free endpaper, some marks made in blue ink throughout, price-clipped dustjacket spine a little faded, good hardback copy. "This is one of the most illuminating essays yet published on the Chinese Cultural Revolution because..... More
London. Curzon Press (NIAS). 1990. 284pp, bibliography, notes, appendices, paperback, light extremities wear, corners bumped, good copy. "Ever since the mythical emperor Yao supposedly placed a drum of remonstrance at his palace gates. Chinese citizens have had ways to remonstrate, ways to approach the authorities whenever they felt a need..... More
New York. Praeger. 1969. Reprint. Black and white photographic illustrations, v + 311pp, index, appendix, price-clipped dustjacket covers lightly worn, upper edge lightly foxed, otherwise a good hardback copy. "Shanghai Journal, first published in 1969, is Neale Hunter's fascinating and lively account of the early days of the Cultural Revolution..... More
Maryknoll. Orbis. 1997. Maps, xviii + 350pp, index, appendix, light foxing edged and paperback covers, small mark on front free endpaper, a good copy. "The book traces the influences of premillennial eschatology, the fundamentalist-modernist controversies, the rise of independent missions and conservative denominational boards, the role of World War II..... More
