Paul Claudel et l'Empire du Milieu.
Paris. Les Indes Savantes. 2003. Map, black and white photographic plates, 433pp, bibliography, index, paperback. Text in French. When referring to this item please quote stockid 74340. More
Paris. Les Indes Savantes. 2003. Map, black and white photographic plates, 433pp, bibliography, index, paperback. Text in French. When referring to this item please quote stockid 74340. More
Singapore. Times Editions. 2004. Maps, colour photographic illustrations, 336pp, bibliography, notes, appendices, index, paperback. Volume 1 of the New Yangzi River guidebook trilogy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 79492. More
United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 2018. 360pp, paperback. With over 10,000 fully illustrated terms arranged by theme and an audio app, Mandarin Chinese language learning has never been easier. Perfect for tourist and business travellers alike, DK's Bilingual Visual Dictionary series is by your side when buying food, talking about..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 2008. Maps, colour illustrations, 64pp, index. 17.5 x 11.5cm. Pocket-size atlas with several maps of China as a whole with various statistical overlays. Issued to coincide with the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Although not detailed, the atlas does provide an insightful overview of the..... More
Kew, Victoria. Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2019. Black and white photographic illustrations, xii + 435pp, appendix, index. Paperback. New. "Audrey Donnithorne was born in Sichuan province, China, of British missionary parents. She is an economist and writer who has held academic posts at University College London and at the Australian National..... More
Taipei. SMC Publishing Inc. Facsimile Reprint. Black and white photographic and line illustrations, 161pp, bibliography, faint age toned endpapers, but the textblock is pristine, dustjacket lightly sunned at the front lower edge, A very good copy. 30 x 21cm. Originally published in Peking in 1944 as a limited edition of..... More
London. Thames and Hudson. 2007. 320 photographic illustrations, 250 in colour, 304pp, appendices, index, dustjacket. Covers China under topics stretching from the natural wonders of mountains and rivers to the Silk Road, from the arts and monuments of the past to its booming cities. What lies behind the China's booming..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2016. Colour and black and white illustrations, xix + 290pp, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, hardback. The Temple of Confucius (Kong Temple) in Qufu is the definitive monument to the world’s greatest sage. From its humble origins deep in China’s past, the home of Confucius grew in..... More
Norwalk. EastBridge, 2002. vi + 401pp, glossary, index, paperback. "The essays in this volume begin the process of systematically opening up the rich world of the Chinese views of Japan from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and their conclusions point to important aspects of China's relationship with Japan."..... More
Australia. Penguin Books Australia. 2012. Black and white photographic and line illustrations, 72pp, hardback with red tie. Through portraits of eight White Russians, Americans and Europeans who lived and worked in the Badlands in the 1920s and '30s, Paul French brings the area and its era vividly to life. A...... More
Edgecliff. Impact Press. 2017. Colour and black and white illustrations, 65pp, paperback, 20 x 12.5cm. Shanghai's Nanjing Road is internationally famous for its iconic art deco department stores. These stores are not just about shopping. They are not just about selling modern goods from around the world. They are about..... More
Hong Kong. Earnshaw Books. 2022. 247pp. Paperback. New. "In 2015, footloose lawyer and screenwriter William Han set out to travel the ancient Silk Road from China to Europe, following the footsteps of a Chinese explorer who tried to make contact with the Roman Empire in the first century AD. Born..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2009. Maps, colour illustrations, xvi + 233pp, bibliography, index, paperback. Asian port cities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the site of intensive cultural contact involving a broad spectrum of participants from across the world. These interactions raised questions of communication for those who conducted business..... More
Melbourne. Tantanoola. 2016. 261pp. Paperback. "Restless China scholar Rubert Robinson leaves the refuge of his studio in Montsalvat artists' colony in outer Melbourne and embarks upon travels with Xiaorong, his former student, in order to discover and illuminate fragments of the age-old encounter between China and the West. During their..... More
Melbourne. Tantanoola. 2017. 207pp. Paperback. "'One of my Buddhism for dummies books says there are three fires to be avoided at all costs - desire, anger and delusion. I think my greatest desire - and delusion - is to see a meaning in the events that have taken place in..... More
North Melbourne. Arden. 2023. Black & white illustrations, xvii + 262pp, notes, bibliography. Paperback. New. "In April 2020, the author, lamenting the end of travel as COVID spreads, turns for solace to his library of antiquarian books, in particular his collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth century works of..... More
Norwalk. EastBridge. 2003. Reprint. xix + 432pp. Paperback. "Oil for the Lamps of China (1934) was a best-selling novel when it was first published, just a few years after Pearl Buck's The Good Earth (1931). The hero of the story is a keen, young American businessman who wants to bring..... More
New York. The New Press. 2007. Map, xvii + 313pp, bibliography, index, paperback. This book brings together the words of reports, intellectuals, activists, and poets. Their personal stories, memoirs, analyses, and reportage address the myriad issues China still faces as it nears the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests..... More
Hong Kong. Earnshaw Books. 2023. 274pp. Paperback. New. "Shanghai in 1930s had a booming prostitution industry which gave the city a certain reputation across Asia, and the beautiful Australian Lorraine Murray was one of its stars - until her patron Edmund Toeg convinced her to leave the high class brothel..... More
Hong Kong. Joint Publishing Co., 1986. 1st Hong Kong edition. Six black and white photographic illustrations, 234pp, appendix, index, edges of endpapers and reverse dustjacket slightly browned. Essays included New Aspects of the 1911 Revolution - Chun-tu Hsueh; An Essay on Huang Hsing, with a Commentary on the Revolution of..... More
Hong Kong. The Commercial Press, Ltd., 2009. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations and line drawings, 100 pages, glossary, paperback. Stories in the Read About China series for Intermediate - Advanced learners of Chinese. Rope, jade rings, goat, goose cage, chrysanthemum ... Imagine how these commonplace things can be..... More
Artarmon. Giramondo. 2021. 247pp, acknowledgements, author and translator biographies, 23.5 x 15.3cm. A very good paperback copy. "Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters..... More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 2011. xv + 256 pages, index, notes, hardback. "This book breaks new ground by systematically examining China's capitalist transformation through several comparative lenses. The great majority of research on China to date has consisted of single-country studies. This is the result of the methodological demands of..... More
Honolulu. University of Hawaii Press. 2010. 132 pages, glossary, paperback. Heroes of China’s Great Leap Forward presents contrasting narratives of the most ambitious and disastrous mass movement in modern Chinese history. The objective of the Great Leap, when it was launched in the late 1950s, was to catapult China into..... More
Canberra. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. Australian National University. 1989. 128pp, lightly sunned spine, a good copy in paperback. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 57. This collection of papers includes: China's New Political Structure - Jonathan Unger; The View from Beijing - David Sadleir; The Japanese Stake -..... More