Auckland. New Zealand-China Society. 1973. 36pp, black and white line illustrations, small stapled booklet. 7 personal snapshots loosely inserted. Two photographs in black and white dated 1973 show George Hatem and another unidentified man in China. Annotated on the reverse but unfortunately, the writing which appears to be Rewi Alley's... More
Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 1971. First edition. xiii + 287pp, bibliography, glossary, index, edges little foxed, dustjacket extremities light wear, name stamp title page and last leaf, a good hardback otherwise. Chang Chih-tung held various important government positions in Shansi, Liang Kuang and Hu Kuang, starting ironworks, cotton factories and... More
London. Harper. 1899. Large folding map, folding table, xviii + 509pp, appendix, index, foxed throughout, binding heavily marked and worn at corners and considerably so at head and tail of spine, closed tear to margin of map, hinges split, still sound. "Although my report deals mainly with trading and commercial... More
Ithaca. Cornell U.P., 1976. 259pp, appendices, bibliographies, index, light foxing edges, a very good copy in dustjacket. Examination of the origins of Chinese socialism. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 1481). 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
Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1958. Tables, 101pp, edges and wrappers lightly browned, small octavo. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 63425). More
Seattle. University of Washington Press. 1954. Maps, xvi + 159pp, bibliography, index, endpapers foxed, a good hardback copy in slightly worn covers. This study of the Nien Rebellion is a valuable contribution to the understanding of the changes which took place within China during the nineteenth century. (When referring to... More
Arizona. University of Arizona Press. 1986. xv + 315pp, appendices, notes, bibliography, glossary, index, a very good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 143688). More
London. Faber. 1946. 3rd impression. Maps, illustrations, 318pp, index, free endpapers heavily browned, a little browning and foxing, reverse of dustjacket, prelims and paste downs, dustjacket a little chipped and torn. Inscribed by A.M. Braga to his nephew Stuart Braga in 1959.A good copy. (When referring to this item please... More
Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1976. Folding map, black and white photographic illustrations, 188pp, paperback, covers worn with a little loss. Good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 157675). More
United States: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Map, 363pp, glossary, bibliography, index, upper edge upper cover bumped, inscription front paste down, very good hardback copy. "This seminal book translates and analyzes thirty-eight memorials to the [late Qing] throne and other documents dealing with important issues of Chinese political economy--water control... More
Taipei? (circa1980). Maps, xx + 754pp, bibliography, index, glossary, slightly smaller format than the original Cambridge University Press edition this appears to be a Taiwanese reprint. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 133730). More
Lexington. Uni. Press of Kentucky. 1995. Endpaper maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xii + 314pp, bibliography, index, very good in dustjacket. H.B. Morse was a pioneer historian of modern China. On retirement after working in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service for 35 years he devoted himself to scholarship... 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
Oxford. Clarendon. 1978. xvi + 444pp, index, dustjacket little sunned, a very good copy in hardback. "A meticulous account of the operations of the China squadron in Far Eastern waters in the decades when those operations determined Britain's diplomatic relations with and her economic foothold in the Celestial Empire". From... More
Canberra. Australian National University. 1969. Map, xvi + 271pp, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, light foxing edges, upper edges stained, still a good copy in little worn and rubbed dustjacket. First full study of British reactions to the major civil war which ravaged China in the mid 19th century. (When referring... More
New York. Columbia University Press. 1967. Tables, xviii + 386pp, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index, spine faded, minor extremities wear, a good paperback, (When referring to this item please quote stockid 92422). More
New York. C.U.P., n.d. (c.1962). Tables, xviii + 385pp, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index, paperback, minor wear covers and spine, a very good reading copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 136684). More
Stroud. Amberley. 16 unnumbered pages of plates some coloured, xii, 305 pp, bibliography, index, notes, corners little bumped, very good hardback copy inscribed by the author, in dustjacket. 24.1 x 16cm. "At the age of only twenty, Walter Medhurst set sail in August 1816 from London, aboard the General Graham... More
Hong Kong. Oxford University Press. 1987. Endpaper map, frontispiece, black and white illustrations, xvii + viii + 209pp, index, paperback, evenly browned throughout, a good copy. First published in 1910. A first hand account of the siege of Peking. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 155459). More
Tucson. University of Arizona Press. 1984. Translated and edited by Djang Chu. Black and white photographic illustrations, xvi + 656pp, index, glossary, hardback, dustjacket little soiled, marked, with small torn loss upper edge of lower cover, now protected, internally very clean, a good copy. "A Chinese magistrate in the imperial... 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, 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 divide between state and society... More
Hong Kong. Oxford University Press. 1988. Reprint. Folding maps, illustrations, some folding, xi + 486pp, indices, paperback, spine trifle creased, browned as usual, date written in ink lower section of title page, a good copy. The author was the English tutor to the Emperor P`u-Yi. First published in 1934. (When... More
