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
Chang Chih-tung and Educational Reform in China.
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
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, Waterways, Armies, Railways, Politics and Future Prospects.
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
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
Commissioner Lin and the Opium War.
Cambridge Mass. Harvard University Press. 1964. Maps, black and white plate, xiv + 319pp, index, bibliography, notes, a prior owner's neat inscription front free endpaper, edges little foxed, occasional pencilled annotations in margins, hardback copy, dustjacket little torn at corners but otherwise very good. (When referring to this item please..... 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 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
The Travels and Controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete 1618-86 2 Volumes
Cambridge. Cambridge UP Cambridge 1962 for The Hakluyt Society 2nd series No. CXVII & CXIX, 1962. 2 volumes. Volume I: Maps, illustrations, cxx + 163pp. Vol II: Folding maps and illustrations, x + 165 - 475pp, index. Dustjackets, endpapers and edges foxed, small tear in dustjacket of volume 2, otherwise..... 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
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
China. The Longest Journey 1850-1949.
Hong Kong. FormAsia. 2008. Coloured map, packed with full-spread photographic illustrations, 228pp, index, bibliography, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "China has compressed almost inconceivable change into little more than a century, shedding the last vestiges of age old imperial dynasties to confront the modern world head on. Even before..... 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
Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries.
Belgium. Time-Life Books. 1986. Map, 3 full page colour illustrations, numerous black and white ill in text, xiv + 406pp + 16 adverts, all edges gilt, modern leatherette binding. Classics of Exploration series. Reprint. Originally published in 1847 by John Murray, London. (When referring to this item please quote stockid..... 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