Ann Arbor. CCS University of Michigan. 1972. Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies No. 13. v + 82pp, wrappers with some wear and silverfish markings. Good copy. Contents include: Observations on the Expediency of Opening a New Port in China, by Samuel Ball; A Dissertation Upon the Commerce of China; Minute..... More
London. Gibbings & Co., 1900. New Edition. Ochre cloth covered boards with red dragon device stamped on upper board, spine lettered in gilt, covers slightly soiled, endpapers foxed, but a very good firm binding. 436pp, a chronological table and appendix. 22.5 x 15cm. Rewritten and rearranged by the author with..... More
Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 2010. Black and white illustrations, 378pp, notes, words cited, character list, index, very good copy in dustjacket. Liu Yuan's "Lingyan ge", a woodblock-printed book from 1669, re-creates a portrait gallery that memorialized 24 vassals of the early Tang court. Liu accompanied each figure, presented under the..... More
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中國書店 Zhongguo shudian, 1987. Reprint. 3 volumes. 1918pp. Paperbacks. A few inked annotations, soiling and light shelf wear covers, corners little bumped, a few leaves creased. A sound clean set. The third volume contains a supplement and two appendices (chronology of major events and eminent people during the Qing dynasty)..... More
Armonk. M E Sharpe. 1994. 308pp, glossary, index. Paperback, trifle worn at corners, very good copy. Study of Li Hung-chang which represents a collaboration of Li experts among Chinese and Western scholars. The biography examines the beginnings of China's modernisation; the Confucian as a patriot and pragmatist; his formative years..... More
Kowloon. Kowloon Advertiser. 1999. Maps, colour frontispiece, black and white photographic illustrations, 119pp, glossary, bibliography, very good copy in paperback. Inscribed by the author title page. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176779. More
New Haven. Yale University Press. 1973. Maps, black and white illustrations, 274pp, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, ex-library copy with a few cancelled stamps and label on spine, trifle faded spine, otherwise a good hardback copy in dustjacket. Portrait of Hsi-Liang, who born in 1853 became one of the most powerful..... More
Ithaca. Cornell UP Ithaca 1993-95, 1993. xiii + 305pp, index, very good in paperback. This volume brings together ten new essays by an interdisciplinary group of leading sinologists and offers a comprehensive framework for understanding the nature of Chinese national identity in past and contemporary settings. When referring to this..... More
Armonk. Sharpe. (c. 1989). Translatons from Shigaku zasshi for 1983-1986. 181pp, notes, glossary, lists of citations, very good copy. Includes: Ming-Qing Studies in Japan: 1983 - Katayama Tsuyoshi; Japanese Studies of Post-Opium War China: 1983 - Harigaya Miwako. When referring to this item please quote stockid 66501. More
Teibei. 國風出版社 Guo Feng Chu Ban She, 1964. 2 volumes. Volume I: 1070. Volume II: 1172. Endpapers little browned, few leaves unopened very good in maroon cloth titled in gilt. Text in Chinese. When referring to this item please quote stockid 150303. More
London. Routledge. 2012. 256pp, bibliography, index. First two leaves beginning to split from binding, upper edge very slightly foxed, overall a very good hardback copy. "This book investigates the complexities and subtleties of colonialism in China during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular, the contributors examine the..... More
Shannon. Irish University Press. 1972. 2 volumes. Volume I: xv + 397pp. 53 full page black and white line line illustrations. Volume II: xii + 374pp. Very light wear lower corner volume II. Excellent copy in original glassine wrappers. Interesting well observed work on mid 19th century China. The author..... More
Washington. United States Government Printing Office. 1944. Volume two only. 605-1103pp, indices, 28 x 19.7cm. Some wear to boards, rear hinge splitting, otherwise a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 171722. More
Tokyo: The Japan Council for East Asian Studies. 1960. xxi + 392pp, foreword in Japanese, Chinese and English, text in Chinese, endpapers browned, covers little insect damaged, still a good hardback copy. 26 x 19cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173067. More
Hong Kong. Chinese University Press. 1996. Black and white illustrations, 458pp, paperback, light foxing first leave and page edges, a good copy. The story of China's rise out of the problems of the last few centuries, particularly those created by foreign intervention and interference, into the powerful land of vision..... More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1997. x + 500pp, index, notes, bibliography, character list, paperback, upper edge a little bumped, light foxing edges, name half-title, a good copy otherwise. The 14 papers in this volume re-examine the assumptions of how state power functioned in China, particularly the assumption of a sharp..... More
Albany. State University of New York Press. (circa 1993). Maps, black and white illustrations, xiii + 318pp, bibliography, notes, index, glossary, very good in hardback. Chapters include: Heaven on Earth: The Rise of Suzhou, 1127-1550 by Michael Marme, Late Ming Urban Reform and the Popular Uprising in Hangzhou by Susuma..... More
Quezon City. Institute of Asian Studies. University of the Philippines. 1965. 4 full page photographs, 43pp, original wrappers browned and bumped at corners, the upper left corner quite heavily so. Text clean and sound. 27.8 x 21.5cm. Monograph series No 1. When referring to this item please quote stockid 174411..... More
Ann Arbor. Center for Chinese Studies. Uni of California. 1974. 129pp, notes, bibliography, glossary, neat name prior owner half title, ex-library copy with annotations on upper cover and half title, little water damage upper corner few leaves, upper corner first third bumped, still a good copy in little worn paperback..... More
London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1988. Translated. Edited with an introduction by Frances Wood. Endpaper plans, black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 180pp, index, even browning throughout, slight foxing reverse of dustjacket, good hardback copy. Kong Demao, a direct descendant of Confucius, tells the story of her family in the..... More
London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1991. Many black and white line illustrations throughout, 181pp, very good in dustjacket, 22 x 18.5cm. This book is divided into two parts the first the letters of the young Kwei-li to her new husband and the second letters to her mother-in-law 25 years later when..... More
Princeton. D. Van Nostrand Company. 1968. Reprint. xii + 545pp, notes, bibliography, index. Upper edge little foxed, boards slightly worn, overall a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 167591. More
USA: Scholar Select. No date. Reprint. 19pp, modern print on demand style publication in laminated boards. Very good condition. First published in 1836. When referring to this item please quote stockid 174337. More
Hong Kong. Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong. 1990. 161pp, notes, index, glossary, bibliography, little browning title page, a very good paperback copy. Centre of Asian Studies occasional papers and monographs, no. 89. When referring to this item please quote stockid 160440. More
Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1913. First Edition. Sepia photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard, xvii + 298pp. Yellow cloth covered boards, a little soiled and sunned on the spine, inner hinges cracked but the text block is firm and very clean. 22 x15cm. This book when published was regarded as the..... More