![Album of Ryojun. 旅順戰蹟寫眞帖. [Ryojun senseki shashinchō]. TSUCHIYA KIYOMI.](/pictures/thumb/162198.jpg?v=1547867929)
Tsuchiya Kiyomi]*. 土屋清見, Showa 12 [1937]. Colour folding map, black and white photographic full page illustrations captioned in English and Japanese, unpaginated. Small oblong cloth covered album, pictorial upper cover with ribbon tie, Japanese stamps inside front cover, cloth a trifle flecked, small tear at margin of map. 14 x.... More
Ann Arbor. Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. 1975. x + 72pp, paperback, minor wear, covers browned in places but generally very good. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 162221). More
Shanghai. Thos. Cook. (circa1914). 81pp + xix pages of adverts, folding map with outline colour, original wrappers with string ties, title in embossed black lettering on the upper and lower covers. Red paper wrappers soiled and a little worn with some small chips and tears at edges, a little staining... More
Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1974. Folding map, black and white photographic illustrations, errata slip loosely inserted, 61pp, 12mo, very good in paperback. Chapters: A History of World Famine, Channelling the Waters of the Changho River, Battling with the Taihand Mountains, Advancing Through Difficulties, The Masses Are the Real Heroes, Working... More
London. Reaktion Books, 2018. 254pp, references, index, dustjacket. Lesser Dragons is a timely introduction to the fascinating and complex world of China's `national minorities'. Based on detailed research, including the author's first-hand fieldwork in several minority areas, it introduces the major non-Han peoples of China, including the Mongols, the Tibetans... More
United States: Tuttle Publishing, 2018. Illustrated with black and white cartoon style illustrations throughout, 190pp, large format paperback. It's All Chinese to Me is a comprehensive introduction to Chinese culture that allows readers, tourists, and business travelers to experience what ultimately makes China so unique-its people. Learn about the Chinese... More
Singapore. NUS Press, 2018. vi + 249pp, index, paperback. The countries that make up Southeast Asia are seeing an incredible resurgence in their economic power. Over the past fifty years, their combined wealth has reached the same level as the United Kingdom and, taken together, they are on track to... More
China. Tuttle Publishing. c.2013. [Reprint]. Illustrations, hardback. "My First Book of Chinese Words" introduces Chinese language to preschool children in a gentle, playful way. The ABC structure provides a familiar framework that encourages fun and easy learning. The everyday words presented in this book include many that have special significance... More
Victoria. Otherland. 1996,1997, 1999. Three volumes. 1996, no. 2; 1997, no. 3; 1999, no. 5. Some soiling and wear to wrappers, overall good. In Chinese, with table of contents in English and Chinese for numbers 2 & 3 (only Chinese for number 5). Literary journal, which includes novellas, short stories... More
Canton. S. Wells Williams. 1849. Octavo, contemporary wrappers pasted over the original printed wrappers, spine with early manuscript title ‘Manchu Language’, sewn as issued, the Sir Thomas Phillipps copy inscribed "MHC" and with shelf-mark in ink on inside of upper cover, 1 leaf with the title in Manchu and Chinese... More
A collection of four Qing maritime manuscript charts taken from China by the commander-in-chief of the British forces in China during the First Opium War, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, KP, GCB, GCSI, PC who served as commander-in-chief of the British forces in China during the First Opium War. These... More
New York. Columbia Uni Press. 1976. 254pp, index, bibliography, notes, hardback, chipping with loss at head and tail of dustjacket spine, now protected, internally clean, good copy. In English. Begins with brief biography of Mei Yao-ch'en (1002-1060), followed by summary of Sung dynasty poetry. A chapter on theory explores the... More
Baton Rouge. Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Translated by Howard Goldblatt. 507pp, hardback in dustjacket, two small marks on fore edge otherwise very good. "In this dazzling, earthy novel Jia Pingwa presents an unforgettable chronicle of rural China, a world at once utterly alien and uncannily familiar. Focussed on the... More
Melbourne. Robertson & Mullens. [1944]. 14 delightful partly coloured illustrations by Ruth Shackel. 34pp [unpaginated], bright pictorial wrappers, a little damaged at head and tail of spine, enclosed in torn dustjacket, quarto. An attractive item. Leila Pirani's immpressions of China expressed through sensitive verse and painting with titles such as... More
Foreign Languages Press. Peking. 1957. Text illustrations, 60pp, covers lifting slightly, top right corner upper cover creased, still a good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 18795). More
Printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer. 1801. First edition. 22 hand coloured stipple engravings, title-pages and text in English and French, half calf rebacked, marbled paper covered boards, sections of original backstrip laid down on new spine, modern sympathetic acid free endpapers and tissue guards, bookplate of George A.... More
United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Group, 2013. Black and white illustrations, xii + 203 pages, index, bibliography, appendix, dustjacket, very good copy. In her extensively researched exploration of China in British children's literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive dichotomies that have limited insight into the cultural and... More
Peking. Foreign Languages Press. Peking. Reprint. 1983. Illustrations by Cheng Shih-Fa, Translated by Yang Hsien-Yi and Gladys Yang. Portrait frontis, monotone illustrations throughout, 8pp prelims + 607pp, appendix on examination system, gold-blocked pictorial spine, very good copy in dustjacket and card slip case. Classic eighteenth century Chinese novel. (When referring... More
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 1995. 259pp, paperback. Translated by Susan Wan Dolling. "Wang Wen-hsing caused a sensation in Taiwan in 1972 with the publication of Family Catastrophe, his first full-length novel. Many critics were outraged, calling it socially irresponsible, morally corrupt and stylistically irrational, but the novel weathered its... More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 1981. viii + 276pp, notes, bibliography, glossary, index, dustjacket, a very good copy. The history and place in Chinese society of the huaben, or vernacular story, a rich and varied form of Chinese literature. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 7139). More
