Cassell. 1905. Reprint. Photogravure title page, full page black and white photographic plates with attractive sepia border around the image, xvi + 424pp + 16 page publisher's catalogue at rear, index, edges and endpapers little foxed, some occasional spotting, hinges starting, light occasional flecking cloth, a little wear at extremities..... More
London. Murray. 1952. Maps, illustrations, xi + 391pp, index, tail of spine and adjoining sections of covers and endpapers damp damaged, upper margins of some leaves also a little damp affected. A sound secondhand copy. Younghusband (1863 - 1942) was an explorer in the North Indian & Tibetan areas. (When..... More
London. Hamilton. 1964. Maps, 2 folding, few colour illustrations, black and white illustrations, xii + 290pp, bibliography, notes, index, dustjacket a little damaged but otherwise very good. Account of Italian expedition to climb Mount Saraghrar in the Hindu Kush. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 172441). More
United Kingdom. Thames & Hudson Ltd., 1997. Maps, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, 143pp, index, further reading, list of illustrations, very good paperback copy with light rubbing on extremities. 18 x 12cm. The Forbidden City in Beijing, founded in 1405, is one of the greatest palaces in..... More
London. Armchair Traveller. 2006. 316pp, excellent hardback copy in dustjacket. 17 x 12cm. All Chinese look the same, some say and the same goes for Americans. How much do we really know about China? Did you know that they don't eat soup they drink it? And not before, but after..... More
China. Foreign Languages Press. 2008. Full page colour illustrations, 80pp, touch of foxing on edge, some rubbing on extremities, otherwise very good paperback copy with French flaps. 24 x 18cm. This book records moving and inspiring moments of the May 12th 2009 Wenchuan earthquake. (When referring to this item please..... More
China. New World Press. 2010. 212pp, footnotes, very good paperback copy in patchily sunned dustjacket. 21 x 15cm. Contents include: Who was Huángdì?; Chīyóu's Progeny; Lǎo Zǐ and Confucius; Brilliant Black; The Táng Posts; The Taoist's Tower; Shānxī Guilt; Shànghǎ. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 168529). More
New York. The New Press. 2012. x + 291pp, index, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. As China navigates the murky waters of a 'third way' with liberal economic policies under a strict political regime, the surprising battleground for China's future emerges in the country's highest rated television network -..... More
Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2010. Map, xvii + 164 pages, index, further reading, notes, paperback in very good condition. This book provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions regarding the newest superpower and offers a framework for understanding its meteoric rise. Concepts: history, culture, international relations (When referring to..... More
Pacific Palisades, California. Goodyear. 1976. Maps, 244pp, appendix, bibliography, dustjacket little soiled and mended on reverse by previous owner, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, otherwise a good copy. "This book presents a view of the People's Republic of China as the cumuliative product of evolutionary change, from the Neolithic..... More
New York. Viking. 1981. Endpaper maps, black and white illustrations, xxii + 461pp, bibliography, index, edges a little foxed, price clipped dustjacket a little worn and rubbed, a good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 168090). More
United States. Counterpoint. 2009. vii + 306pp, very good paperback copy. At the beginning of the 21st century, it is hard to imagine a place more exciting than China. Westerners hear much about China's role as the next "global superpower," but they know less about the young people who make..... More
Englewood Cliffs. Prentice-Hall. 1970. viii + 179pp, slightly worn and sunned dustjacket mended on reverse by prior owner, good hardback copy. "This multidimensional portrait of traditional China introduces uninitiated Western Readers to the remarkably stable and long-lived pre-Communist society." - Dustjacket blurb. (When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More
United States. Rowman & Littlefield. 2004. xi + 247pp, index, very good paperback copy. Arguing that cultural reform is a key aspect of political reform, Richard Kraus shows here that China's economic transformation has dramatically liberated the production and consumption of culture. In this original and provocative study, Kraus offers..... More
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
Denmark. NIAS Press. 2010. xx + 275pp, index, paperback in very good condition. In spite of intense preoccupation with individual and self in modern Western thought, the social sciences have tended to focus on groups and collectives and downplay the individual. This implicit view has also coloured the study of..... 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
Armonk. ME Sharpe. 1997. Map, xi + 291pp, notes, index, some rubbing on extremities, spine a little sunned, good paperback copy. The drama of China's struggle to modernize unfolds against the backdrop of a proud and enduring history in the new and completely revised edition of this classic text. Spanning..... 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
Durham. Duke University Press. 2007. 225pp, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, paperback with slight rubbed extremities, very good condition. In the midst of China's post-Mao market reforms, the old status hierarchy is collapsing. Who will determine what will take its place? "In Creating Market Socialism", the sociologist Carolyn L. Hsu demonstrates..... 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. Pegasus Books. 2008. Maps, illustrations, xxi + 454pp, notes, further reading, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. An intimate and human portrait of a society living in extraordinary times. Welcome to the new China, a nation in motion--whole streets are rebuilt in a week, car ownership is soaring..... 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
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
Chapel Hill. University of North Carolina Press. 2015. x + 291pp, notes, bibliography, index, 24 x 16.5cm. A very good hardback copy in dustjacket. The New Cold War History series. "The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a...... More
