Edinburgh. NMS Publishing. 2001. Black and white photographic illustrations, 104pp, bibliography, index, paperback. Ex-library copy with withdrawn stamp and sections of labels on title page, covers a little worn. Sound and otherwise clean. Scots' Lives series. Biography of the tutor to the young Puyi and the only foreigner working in..... More

Beijing. Foreign Languages Press. 1989. Reprint. 2 volumes in 1. Translated by W.J.F. Jenner. Black and white photographic illustrations, 496pp, index, dustjacket, endpapers and edges a little browned, ribbon bookmark, good copy. Pu Yi was the last Chinese Emperor whose involvement with the Japanese made him a very controversial figure..... More

New York. Reynal & Hitchcock. 1936. 302pp,foxing endpapers, a prior owner's inscription front free endpaper, dustjacket chipped with loss and repaired on reverse with paper, good hardback copy. Biography of Pearl Buck's missionary father and his life in China. "Companion volume to 'The Exile', a biography of the author's mother..... More

New York. BasicBooks. 1996. Reprint. Black and white photographic plates, xvii + 329pp, notes, index, margins and edges little browned, covers trifle shelf worn with sunned spine, neat signature of prior owner front free endpaper, a good paperback copy. The definitive biography of Tsien Hsue-Shen, the pioneer of the American..... More

London. Hutchinson & Co., 1951. Black and white photographic illustrations, 247pp, index. Edges and endpapers trifle foxed, cloth a little marked on spine, otherwise a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 219970. More

London. Harrap. 1988. Endpaper maps, illustrations, 528pp, index, very good copy in protected dustjacket taped to pastedown. Frank Ching traces his family back 34 generations to the poet Qin Guan, the founder of the Ching clan and the common forebear of both the father and mother of the author -..... More

London. Peter Dawnay. 1966. Maps, black and white photographic plates, 283pp, appendices, prior owner's name front free endpaper, dustjacket little shelf worn, a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179973. More

United States. Simon & Schuster. 1999. Map, black and white illustrations, viii + 280pp, sources, note, indices, glossary, paperback copy in good condition. "'China Through the Sliding Door' offers a different insight into this most complex and unpredictable society. Understanding its recent history, John Gittings sheds light on its present..... More

臺北.[Taipei]. 正中書局.[Zheng zhong shu ju]. 民國 46 [ 1957]. 617+ 2pp, errata, some foxing particularly at first and last leaves and on covers, lightly browned throughout, a sound copy in original wrappers. Text in traditional Chinese. Zeng Guofan (1811-1872), military leader in Qing Court, was in charge of suppressing Taiping..... More

London. Paul Hamlyn. 1969. Black and white photographic illustrations, v + 192pp, appendices, index, a prior owner's details obscured by black ink front free endpaper, occasional foxing, opening between gatherings in one place, author's name neatly inked on spine, hardback in dustjacket. Account of the author's experiences and observations of..... More

Edinburgh. Mainstream Publishing. 2000. 240pp, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. The author, the child of a wealthy railway administrator who became active in the resistance against the Japanese, tells the story of his childhood in Beijing during this time. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166086... More

London. Davies. 1926. 12 black and white photographic plates, 126pp, hardback, lacks frontispiece, neat name front free endpaper, pictorial upper cover, corners bumped, covers little soiled, little foxed throughout, still very sound. Letters written by Kwei-li 25 years after those written to her husband (in Love Letters of a Chinese..... More

London. Constable. 1970. Translated, adapted and edited by Edward Behr and Sydney Liu. Map, upper corner front free endpaper clipped. Dustjacket significantly torn, now protected, otherwise a good copy. 'Of the thirty-six ways of avoiding disaster, running away is best' - Old Chinese proverb. The story of a young woman..... More