济南.[Jinan]. 山东画报出版社.[Shandong hua bao chu ban she]. 2009. 1st Edition. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout with captions in Chinese and English, 188pp, author's signature title page, very good paperback copy. 28.5 x 20.8cm. The book is based on the photo exhibition organised by the Weihai Municipal Archives on Chinese..... More

北京.[Beijing]. 人民文學出版社.[Ren min wen xue chu ban she]. 2001. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. 2 volume set complete, folding chart, appendices, notes, 919pp, minor rubbing at edges, spine little sunned, generally good. Text in traditional Chinese. 秦觀 [Qin Guan] (1049-1100), was a scholar official in Song court and a good friend..... More

长春.[Changchun]. 政协长春市朝阳区委员会文史资料硏究委员会.[Zheng xie Changchun Shi Chaoyang Qu wei yuan hui wen shi zi liao yan jiu wei yuan hui]. 1987. Volume Two only out of a three-volume set, black and white illustrations, 57pp, minor signs of wears, otherwise very good in wrappers. Text in Chinese. 20.1 x 14.4cm. It opens..... More

Hong Kong. Odyssey. 1998. Maps endpapers, colour photographic illustrations, xiii + 231pp, bibliography, glossary, index, hardback, minor wear dustjacket spine edges, 28 x 28.5cm, very good copy. This book chronicles a quarter of a century of explorer Wong How Man's Inner Asian expeditions, providing a rare glimpse of ethnic groups..... More

Cambridge. Cambridge University. 2003. ix + 202pp, index, notes, paperback, light extremities wear, very good. "Based on lectures linking China and the Chinese with imperial Britain, examines the possibilities in, as well as the limits of, their encounters. It takes the story beyond the cliches of opium, fighting, and the..... More

Hong Kong. Chinese University Press. 1986. Second Edition. Map, xx + 335pp, index bibliography, glossary, appendices, good paperback copy with a little browning on endpapers. Includes 90 pages of detailed appendices, tables, glossary, bibliography that amply support his argument in the tracing of anti-foreignism since the Tongzhi restoration until the..... More

Durham. Duke University Press. 2003. Second printing. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xxii + 388pp, index, bibliography, postscript, very good paperback with slight rubbing on corners. "Hevia examines British Foreign Office documents, diplomatic memoirs, auction house and museum records, nineteenth-century scholarship on Chinee history and culture, campaign records, and..... More

London. KPI. 1986. With illustrations by author and photographic illustrations, xxx + 306pp, a good paperback copy. "Katherine Carl, the artist who painted the portrait of the Empress Dowager of China, was the only Westerner ever to live as a member of the Chinese court. Hers was an unparalleled opportunity..... More

Rutland, Vermont. Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1960. First edition. Duotone frontispiece with bold monotone line illustrations throughout 98pp, lower cover bottom edge and spine little faded with some foxing upper edge of leaves, prior owner's name half-title, slightly faded covers, some marking upper fore-edge, a good hardback copy. 23 x...... More

Shanghai. Kelly & Walsh. 1922. Second edition revised and enlarged. 6 folding maps & plans, black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 523pp, appendices, index, delightfully bound in bright orange silk covered boards, final folding map trifle browned on margins with some separation at folds in one or two places..... More

New York. Doran. 1921). Maps & tables, illustrations, xxiii + 538pp, index, endpapers foxed, neat inscription front free endpaper. Dark green cloth covered boards, gilt lettering on spine faded, head 7 tail of spine and extremities a little rubbed and worn, inner hinges split, text sound and clean. 22 x...... More

Hong Kong. Oxford University Press. 1987. Endpaper map, black and white illustrations, xvii + viii + 209pp, index, paperback, minor fading covers, some light browning throughout. First published in 1910. A first hand account of the siege of Peking. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 170422). More