Canberra. Australian National University. 1982. Maps, xxx + 454pp, index, bibliography, glossary, very good copy in slightly worn treasondustjacket. A compilation of western reportage on this major revolt in nineteenth century Chinese history. A valuable source book for teachers of courses on China since the Opium wars, providing an interesting..... More

Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1980. xi + 368pp, index, little insect damage initial leaves, covers little shelf worn, spine slightly sunned, a good paperback copy. Together these essays tell the story of how two highly self-conscious cultures, with long and proud traditions of their own, have defined themselves both with..... More

Canberra. Pandanus Books. 2001. Black and white illustrations, viii + 270pp, very good paperback copy. "Alastair Morrison, son of Morrison of Peking, husband of photographer Hedda Morrison and brother of The Times war correspondent Ian Morrison, gives an engaging account of his travels through Britain, Scandinavia, Iceland, Europe, South America..... More

New York. Oxford University Press. 1991. Reprint. Black and white photographic plates, 337pp, notes, index, deacquisitioned ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, edges browned, a good hardback copy. Colin Mackerras describes the ways in which Westerners have perceived China - both the China of their own tima nd the..... More

United Kingdom: OUP Oxford 2010, 2009. Black and white photographic illustrations, 258pp, bibliography, index, very good copy in dustjacket. As China is transformed, relations between society, the state, and the city have become central. The Great Urban Transformation investigates what is happening in cities, the urban edges, and the rural..... More

Norwalk. EastBridge. 2003. Reprint. Black and white line illustrations by G. Sapojnikoff, xvii + 318pp, head of spine bumped and a little torn, a good paperback copy. "Four Hundred Million Customers (1937) is a collection of humorous essays and piquant anecdotes underpinned by well-informed insight and highlighted by witty drawings..... More

Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 2001. Black and white illustrations, iv + 168pp, 24 x 20cm, paperback, very good copy. Twenty-third issue including: The Impact of Clearance and Irrigation on the Environment in the Lake Erhai Catchment from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century - Mark Elvin et al;..... More

Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 2003. Black and white illustrations, iv + 218pp, small quarto, paperback. This combined issue including: The Origins of Han-Dynasty Consort Kin Power; Inverting the Romantic Kingdom: the Resurrection and Legitimization of the Shu Han Kingdom before the Romance of the Three Kingdoms; Illusions of..... More

Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 2004. Black and white illustrations, 109pp, wrappers, 24.5 x 20cm. Very good copy. This issue contains: A Stinking Tradition: Tsuda Sokichi's View of China - Joel Joos; Drury's Occupation of Macau and China's Response to Early Modern Imperialism - Frederic Wakeman Jr; On the..... More

Melbourne. Melbourne University Press. 1985. Maps, black and white photographic plates, xii + 250pp, index, spine trifle bumped and sunned, still a good hardback copy with dustjacket. "The author describes his book as the answer to the question, so often asked, and posed in the title, as to why he..... More

Harbin. 日信洋行. [Nisshiin Yōkō]. 康徳 10 [ 1943]. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, colour illustrations from watercolours, 32pp (unpaginated), 22 x 15cm, embossed pictorial upper cover with silver highlights and titled in green, pictorial endpapers, cloth a little flecked in places. Occasional spotting or marks but overall very..... More