London. Macmillan. 1933. Folding map, ix + 221pp, index, prior owner's sticker front free endpaper, cloth rubbed along extremities, good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 213858. More

United States. Princeton University Press. 2011. Maps, black and white illustrations, xv + 431pp, index, references, notes, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War -..... More

Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 2005. Black and white illustrations, xii + 458pp, index, bibliography, notes, abbreviations, signature and date title page, lower corner upper cover creased, very good paperback copy. "As Westerners struggled to understand new peoples unfamiliar to them, how did they make sense of equally unfamiliar concepts..... More

Ann Arbor. CCS University of Michigan. 1972. Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies No. 13. v + 82pp, wrappers with some wear and silverfish markings. Good copy. Contents include: Observations on the Expediency of Opening a New Port in China, by Samuel Ball; A Dissertation Upon the Commerce of China; Minute..... More

Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press. 1978. xi + 295pp, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, small mark on endpapers, trifle worn dustjacket, very good hardback copy. Analysis of several aspects of the 1895-1911 period in China, which "illuminates some of the main political, social and intellectual configurations of the post-1911 era"..... 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

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

London. Gibbings & Co., 1900. New Edition. Ochre cloth covered boards with red dragon device stamped on upper board, spine lettered in gilt, covers slightly soiled, endpapers foxed, but a very good firm binding. 436pp, a chronological table and appendix. 22.5 x 15cm. Rewritten and rearranged by the author with..... More

Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 2008. Black and white illustrations, 320pp, notes, bibliography, index. very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "In a public square in Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin was executed before a crowd of onlookers. He was among the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as..... More

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

New York. Octagon Books. 1963. 223pp, appendices, bibliography, index, prior owner's name front free endpaper, covers trifle shelf worn, a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166703. More

Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 1964. [Reprint]. Maps, black and white plate, xiv + 319pp, index, bibliography, notes, hardback in dustjacket. Some light browning, dustjacket a little browned and chipped. Although there is no mention in the book, this copy appears to be a Taiwanese pirated copy. The paper is..... More

Richmond. Curzon. 1997. Maps, 376pp, references, index, sources, glossary, occasional spotting upper edge, otherwise very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Initially, China tried to contain the growing Western presence and avoid the complications of a state-to-state relationship by delegating authority to the principal Chinese merchants trading in Canton with the..... More