Treaty Ports.
Garden City. Doubleday, Doran. 1944. 1st Edition. Map, viii + 271pp, index, some browning and mild wear dustjacket, good and sound internally, hardback. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 166456). More
China - Qing
China's Millions. The China Inland Mission and Late Qing Society, 1832-1905.
Grand Rapids, Michigan. Eerdmans Publishing. 2007. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xxxi + 506pp, index, bibliography, appendices, very good paperback copy. "In 'China's Millions' veteran historian Alvyn Austin presents a compelling historical narrative of the China Inland Mission (now the Overseas Missionary Fellowship) - the first history of the..... More
Monarchs and Ministers The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723-1820
Berkeley. U California P Berkeley 1991, 1994. Two black and white photographic illustrations, 8 figures, 1 map, 10 tables, reign titles of the Ch'ing Emperors (1644-1911), five appendices, notes, bibliography, glossary-index, xxii + 417pp, a very good copy in a dustjacket. "This book describes the transformation of Ch'ing governance from..... More
Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China.
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1996. xviii + 256pp, notes, bibliography, character lists, index, very good copy in dustjacket. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 166526). More
The Break-up of China with an Account of its Present Commerce, Currency, Warerways, Armies, Railways, Politics and Future Prospects
London. Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1899. 1st Edition. 2 large folding maps and a folding table - a comparison of imports of cotton goods and yarns into all China, 1887 and 1897. xviii + 509pp, appendix, index. 2 pages of adverts. Navy blue cloth covered boards lettered in gilt, an..... More
The Break-Up of China With an Account of its Present Commerce, Currency, Waterways, Armies, Railways, Politics and Future Prospects.
London. Harper. 1899. Large folding map, folding table, but lacking the Area and Total Population map, 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..... More
Chinese Socialism to 1907.
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
Some Early Chinese Steps Towards Modernization
San Francisco. Chinese Materials Center. 1975. v + 107pp, cloth a little worn, corners bumped, a good, secondhand hardback copy. Chinese Materials and Research Aids Service Centre Occasional Series, No. 23. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 166552). More
Through a Forest of Chancellors. Fugutive Histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an Illustrated Book from Seventeenth Century Suzhou. F
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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清代七百名人傳 [ Qīng dài qī bǎi míng rén chuán] 700 biographies of eminent people during the Qing dynasty]
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
Memoirs Of The Viceroy Li Hung Chang.
Cambridge, Mass. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1913. Edited by Francis Mannix. Black and white frontispiece with tissue-guard, xviii + 298pp, a prior owner's name is stamped in red on the title-page. Yellow cloth covered boards, soiled and sunned on the spine, inner hinges cracked but the text block is firm and..... More
A Court on Horseback. Imperial Touring & the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680-1785.
Harvard. Harvard University Press. 2007. Black and white photographic illustrations, xxii + 550pp, index, works cited, slight rubbing extremities, very good hardback copy. "Between 1751 and 1784, the Qianlong emperor embarked upon six southern tours, traveling from Beijing to Jiangnan and back. These tours were exercises in political theatre that..... More
A Study of Land Rent in Pre-Liberation China.
Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1958. Tables, 101pp, edges and wrappers lightly browned, small octavo. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 63425). More
Secret Societies in China In the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
London. Heinemann Educational. 1971. 210pp, references, index, price stamp on half title, worn dustjacket little foxed with paper repairs on reverse. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 166776). More
Shaohsing: Competition and Cooperation in Nineteenth-Century China.
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
Hsi-Liang and the Chinese National Revolution
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
China's Quest for National Identity
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
China.
London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1887. Second Edition, Revised. Colour folding map, black and white frontispiece with slightly foxed tissue-guard and 6 full-page plates, decorations and illustrations in text, viii + 433pp, pictorial cloth covers, lettered in gilt on the spine. Head & tail of spine fraying and corners..... More
The Chinese Traveller. Containing A Geographical, Commercial and Political History of China etc to which is prefixed The Life of Confucius the Celebrated Chinese Philosopher.
London. E. & C. Dilly in the Poultry. 1775. Second edition with Large Additions and Amendments. 2 volumes apparently both from the same second edition with the text block size being almost uniform but non uniform bindings which slightly differ in size. Volume I: engraved frontispiece of Confucius, a folding..... More
Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age. A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644-1840.
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
Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance
Berkeley. Uni of California. 1993. Maps, tables, xviii + 450pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, paperback. Light bumping corners, good copy. "This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh detailed studies of subjects ranging from..... More
Speaking of Yangzhou. A Chinese City, 1550-1850.
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 2004. Maps, black and white illustrations, xix + 453 pp, bibliography, notes, index, character list, very good, hardback in dustjacket. Yangzhou, located in Jiangsu Province, a major salt trade stop along the Grand Canal north of the Yangtze River. This book looks at the history..... More
Recent Japanese Studies of Modern Chinese History (II).
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
皇朝經世文續編 [Huáng cháo jīng shì wén xù biān A continuation of the collection of memorials on statecraft from the [Qing] dynasty].
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
The Siege of the Peking Legations A Diary Chinese Anti-Foreignism and the Boxer Uprising
Nedlands. University of Western Australia Press. 1970. Edited with introduction "Chinese Anti-Foreignism and the Boxer Uprising" by L.R. Marchant. Endpaper maps, plans, black and white photographic illustrations, xxvii + 212pp, bibliography, indices, inscriptions on half title and dedication page, a good copy in lightly worn dustjacket. (When referring to this..... More