Gordon in China.
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
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
No publication details. (circa 1980?). Five colour reproductions of prints by Thomas Allom of Chinese images loosely presented in a portfolio. Tissue guards with description of each print. These colour reproductions are larger than the original black and white engravings from which they were taken. The images themselves measure 19..... 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
Berkeley. Institute of East Asian Studies University of California - B, 2003. Xiii + 198pp, glossary, bibliography, index, Inscription by the author to Professor Anthony Reid, minor bump head of spine, paperback copy in very good condition. When referring to this item please quote stockid 180377. 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
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
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. CCS University of Michigan. 1972. v + 82pp, covers trifle marked, a very good paperback 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 on the British Position and Prospects in China..... 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
New York. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1975. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, 352pp, bibliography, index, ex-library with markings on endpapers and covers and upper edge, hardback, minor wear to dustjacket, good copy. "This is an admiringly straightforward account of the wars...Beeching has done his homework beyond the call of what..... 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
Ithaca. Cornell University Press. 1976. viii + 259pp, appendices, bibliographies, index, light foxing upper edge and reverse of lightly worn dustjacket with spine sunned, a very good hardback copy. Examination of the origins of Chinese socialism. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166537. 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
No place. Naval Records Society. 1954. 3 maps, xxii + 413pp, index, cloth binding gilt. Ex-library with library numeration on the spine in gilt, cream cloth a little soiled but generally clean and sound copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166576. 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
Taipei. Ch'eng-Wen. 1966. Black and white plates, vi + 151pp + 24pp, bibliography, indices, closed tears now repaired title and half title pages, endpapers browned, a good copy. "This is a sketch of the Chinese press during the time when the modern journalism began and the indigenous periodical press expired."..... 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, Massachusetts. Cambridge University Press. 2006. Reprint. Maps, tables, xvi + 283pp, index, bibliography, appendix, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166339. 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
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
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
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 1981. Reprint. xvii + 369pp, bibliography, index, a very good hardback copy. In this consideration of the professional life of the gentry, Dr Chang has been able to reconstruct the pattern of activities and to show the complexity of the gentry's role in imperial Chinese society..... 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
New York. Columbia University Press. 1914. 117pp, prior owner's chop front free endpaper and title page, ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, cloth a little worn and marked, a good ex-library copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166763. 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