Science Press np 1977, 1977. Double page sketch map showing the deserts in China, black and white and colour photographic illustrations, approximately 80pp (unpaginated), paperback, foxing on endpapers but generally very good. 25 x 22.3cm. "China Tames Her Deserts" is a brief true record of the efforts by the people..... More
滋賀. [Shiga]. 日本旅行会. [Nihon Ryokokai]. 昭和6 [1931]. Pictorial colour endpaper maps, full page colour plate, 14 commercial silver gelantin photographs captioned in English and characters laid down, profusely illustrated throughout with black and white photographic illustrations, 62pp, 27 x 38.5cm. Presented in very attractive silk covered boards with tassle ties..... More
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济南.[Jinan]. 山东画报出版社.[Shandong hua bao chu ban she]. 2002. Illustrated with reproductions of the European 19th century prints in black and white, 89pp, tipped in plate, minor wears on covers, otherwise very good hardback copy. Text in Chinese. 21.1 x 19.4cm. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 170543)... More
New York. G. W. Dillingham Company. 1904. 1st American edition. Colour frontispiece with tissue-guard, 426pp + 2 adverts, neat pencilled inscription front free endpaper dated 1910, light rubbing head and tail of spine. A very good clean copy. 18.5 x 11.9cm. A curious collection of short stories set in China..... More
Christchurch. Caxton Press. 1973. 58pp, paper wrappers little marked and slightly creased, very good. Story written during Chiang Kai-shek's Anti-Communist campaign. Based on stories told to the author. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 171027). More
Harmondsworth. Penguin. No date. Late 20th century. [Reprint]. Complete in 5 paperback volumes. Volume I: 540pp. Volume II: 601pp. Volume III: 635pp. Volume IV: 398pp. Volume V: 383pp. Very good set with occasional wear covers. Volume 5 a later reprint so covers though the same size are not uniform. (When..... More
Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2016. Illustrations, 360pp, paperback. Inscribed by the author titlepage. Very good. 'Amidst all the chatter about China lies this rock of a book, a magnificent memoir/ history from the very core of modern Chinese society and history. It's a wonderful thing where the essential book and..... More
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Hong Kong. International Culture Press. 1956. Second Edition. Revised by Wu Chia Ching. Translated by Liang Shih Chiu. Maps, including very attractive double page colour pictorial map, 7 striking full page colour photographic plates by well known Chinese photographers of the day, profuse black and white photographic images throughout, attractive..... More
London. Allen Lane. 2008. Maps, black and white photographic plates, viii + 370pp, bibliography, notes, index, dustjacket little creased at foot of spine, very good hardback copy. The great city of Beijing, capital of China from the ninth century, and given its form for five hundred years by the Ming..... More
New Haven. Yale Uni. Press. 1983. Maps, black and white illustrations, xxi + 286pp, notes, index, covers lifting slightly, dustjacket little worn, good copy. This book provides a new perspective on the relationship of Chinese peasant society to the modern Chinese revolution. (When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More
London. Batsford. 1968. Maps, black and white illustrations, 208pp, index, price clipped dustjacket little worn and lightly faded on spine, endpapers a little browned, a good copy. Covers four centuries in Chinese history during the Han dynasty, which broke ground in relation to chief political, economic, cultural and social structures..... More
Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1958. Translated, portrait frontispiece. 383pp, endpapers a little browned, good copy in slightly soiled dustjacket. "The appearance of this novel was a notable event in the literary circles at that time, for two reasons. First, it was the first novel whose scene was set within its..... More
Cambridge. Cambridge Uni Press. (c.1984). Reprint. 5 volumes in paperback. Volume I: Volumes I and II of the Major Series. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, tables, xi + 326pp, bibliography, index. Volume II: Volume III and a Section of Volume IV, Part I of the Major Series. ix +..... More
Beijing: New World Press. 1983. Black and white photographic illustrations, 269pp, index, very good paperback copy. China Studies Series. Drawn from the author's field work in Kaixian'gong Village, Jiangsu Province, in 1936, 1957 and 1980. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 170998). More
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 2003. Black and white photographic illustrations, xii + 281pp, pictorial boards, very good copy. Light on China series. American journalist Agnes Smedley was an eye-witness to the Chinese civil war. A supporter of the Communists she travelled with them and was at Yan'an at the end..... More
Taipei. Chen-Wen. 1966. Reprint. xii + 306pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix, hardback, cancelled ex-library copy, endpapers browned, bookplate laid down front pastedown, library slip laid down lower free endpaper, lower pastedown torn with loss, stamps title page, printer's imprint, and edges, gilt shelf designation spine, spine little discoloured, otherwise sound..... More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1990. Translated with introduction and notes by Roger R. Thompson. Black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 278pp, appendices, bibliography, character list, index, spine of dustjacket a little sunned. "In May 1930, Mao Zedong conducted an investigation and wrote a report on the people, economy, society..... More
Provo. Repressed Publishing. (c.2012). Reprint. Portrait frontispiece, 151pp. Facsimile copy. Each leaf has a darkened background suggesting a scan made on low quality equipment, however the text is still very legible. Bound in brown cloth and lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover. A sound clean copy. First published..... More
New York. Century. 1923. Folding colour map, 171 black and white photographic illustrations, xx + 502pp, pictorial upper cover and spine, extremities lightly rubbed, endpapers browned, withdrawn from Alexander Mack Memorial Library, Bridgewater with a few stamps and small label on spine. Includes chapters on Korea, Manchuria and Mongolia. (When..... More
London. Ivor Nicholson & Watson. 1934. Foreword by Professor J. Percy Bruce. 264pp, index, endpapers browned, dustjacket lightly foxed and neatly repaired on reverse, blue boards very bright, good copy. The eight chapters in this book trace the history of China through to the 1930s with a chapter on its..... More
Sydney. Wild Peony. 1996. Maps, black and white illustrations, iv + 389pp, inscribed (by author?) title page. Very good paperback copy. "Some contribution to the study of the comparison between China and Europe, even though, more often than not, it does not appear overtly, has thus been the criterion for..... More
Singapore. Graham Brash Singapore 1873-1995, 1985. Reprint. 6 + 84pp, black and white illustrations, many reproductions from Thomas Allom's work, very good in hardback. First published in the late 19th century this account of feng-shui by the missionary Ernest J Eitel was for many years one of the only works..... More
New York. Monthly Review Press. 1956. Black and white portrait frontispiece, endpaper maps, xviii + 461pp, endpapers very lightly browned in places, "Chu Teh" neatly written on spine in black ink, light wear binding. Good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 166204). More
London. China Inland Mission. 1931. 1st Edition. Black and white frontispiece, a map of China and a further 13 black and white photo illustrations. Stiffened teal coloured wrappers, with a coloured illustration of a picture of 'The Bluff at Sunset', by Miss M.A. Orr-Ewing on the upper front wrapper, the..... More
