London. Vintage. 2022. Maps, colour photographic plates, black & white illustrations, 371pp, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback. "The gripping true story of the intrepid curators who saved China's finest art from the ravages of the Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Spring 1933. The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking's Forbidden..... More
Norwalk. EastBridge. 2003. Reprint. Black and white line illustrations by G. Sapojnikoff, xvii + 318pp. Paperback. "Four Hundred Million Customers (1937) is a collection of humorous essays and piquant anecdotes underpinned by well-informed insight and highlighted by witty drawings by G. Sapojnikoff. Like a bowl of salted peanuts, these vignettes..... 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
United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press. 2010. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 231 pages, index, glossary, paperback. Diana Lary, one of the foremost historians of the period, tells the tragic history of China's War of Resistance and its consequences from the perspective of those who went through it..... More
New York. Greatrix. 2005. Endpaper maps, colour and black and white illustrations, xvii + 272pp, dustjacket. 26 x 20cm. Spine very lightly faded. Very good copy. "A vivid account written in pre-Communist, war-torn China by a young Yale graduate working for Texaco in Tsingtao, Chungking and Canton. After graduating from..... More