Singapore. Graham Brash. 2nd ed. 1989. Revised Edition. iv + 766pp, index, dustjacket spine trifle sunned, upper edge mild foxing, otherwise a very good hardback copy. Encyclopaedia-style entries. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166499. More
Vancouver. Raincoast Books, 1998. Colour illustrations, xvii + 121pp, glossary, bibliography, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 156395. More
New York. Seabury Press. 1976. Translated from the German by Michael Shaw. xvi + 502pp, chronological table, bibliography, index, little rubbing on corners, dustjacket a little worn and mended closed tear on reverse, edges lightly foxed, good hardback copy. "One of the major twentieth-century works in Sinology, China and the..... More
New York. Oxford University Press. 2004. Reprint. vii + 125pp, index, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166575. More
Seattle. University of Washington Press. 1978. viii + 553pp, bibliography, glossary, index, dustjacket. Covers lightly marked, dustjacket marked and faded on spine, a good copy. "The first section includes an examination of the standards and rules for marriage during Han times, and of divorce in traditional Chinese law. The second..... More
Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1975. 9pp. Upper wrapper little discoloured, otherwise a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179928. More
Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. 2011. Black and white illustrations, 291pp, notes, bibliography, index. Signed by author. Paperback covers a little soiled, otherwise a very good copy. "Humour in Chinese Life and Letters: Classical and Traditional Approaches presents an overview of humour and laughter in their many forms of..... More
Hong Kong. Privately Printed. 1966. Black and white line illustrations in the text, 48pp, bound in Chinese style string binding. Very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178801. More
Nanjing. Yilin Press. 1992. 3 volumes. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Hardcovers in dustjackets. With the card of the senior editor Zhu Zuci of the Yilin Press taped on the front free endpaper but otherwise very good. The selected works of five writers: Guo Moruo, Mao Dun, Ba Jin..... More
New York. Scribner's Sons. (c. 1978). Black and white illustrations, 318pp, notes, further reading, index, dustjacket sunned on spine. Ex-library with a few neat stamps, endpapers a little marked or worn in places but overall a clean good hardback copy. "'The Chinese Experience' brings alive a civilisation in which emperors..... More
Singapore. Graham Brash. 1987. [Reprint]. Black and white illustrations, xxx + 223pp, endpapers a little foxed, corners rubbed, a very good paperback copy. This 1987 edition, of a translation from the French, presents an illuminating account of some of the innumerable superstitious customs which have long held sway over Chinese..... More
New York. Free Press. 1981. Map, xxxiii + 429pp, glossary, bibliography, index, deacquisitioned ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, upper edge foxed, a sound secondhand hardback copy. 24.1 x 19.1cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166906. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Yenching Institute. December 1950. 362 - 430pp. Offprint from Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. Volume 13. Numbers 3 and 4. Stapled wrappers browned and a little worn in places but still sound. Good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176646. More
New York. Oxford University Press, 2009. Black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 278pp, index, good copy in hardback. "This book begins with two simple questions: Why has the West for so long and in so many different ways expressed the idea that the Chinese have a special relationship to..... More
New York. Viking Fund. 1968. Second reprinting. Plan, 3 illustrations, (1 with tissue guard), 204pp, appendices, notes, glossary, hardback, rebound, ex-library, with bookplate and stamps to front pastedown and with stamps to few preliminary leaves, library slips on lower endpapers, one partially removed, covers slightly curving, top edge trifle foxed..... More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1971. Reprint. Diagrams, ix + 370pp, appendices, bibliography, index, 22.2 x 14.3cm. Edges little foxed, cloth-covered boards little worn and marked, otherwise a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 172430. More
London. Secker & Warburg. 1938. 166pp. Light foxing throughout text, edges foxed, boards little shelf worn and marked with slightly browned spine, author's name neatly inked head of spine by a prior owner, overall a sound copy. Contributions include: A Tribute to the Genius of Chinese Painting - Laurence Binyon;..... More
Durham. Duke University Press. 1997. Black and white photographic illustrations, xv + 444pp, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, spine trifle sunned, remainder mark lower edge, otherwise a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 167403. More
New York. Richard Marek Publishers. (circa 1981). Maps, plans, profuse colour and black and white photographic illustrations, 192pp, notes, chronology, bibliography, index, stains lower edge dustjacket on reverse, overall very good hardback copy. 28.1 x 22.2cm. This attractively illustrated book examines the artistic and architectural heritage of China from the..... More
Beijing. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 1998. Reprint. 143pp, light pencilling, text in Chinese and English, small bruise lower corner upper cover, very good paperback copy. "In the eight essays the author has written for this volume he attempts to help Europeans understand China. He asserts that Europeans (with..... More
Kowloon. Swindon Book Company. 1978. Black and white line illustrations, 96pp, dustjacket, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 168843. More
Hong Kong. University Book Store. 1961. Second revised edition. viii + 191pp, bilingual indice, notes. Endpapers browned, cream cloth boards marked, edges browned but text sound and clean. "I have used a term of very wide application for the title of this book: 'Sayings' could include anything from proverbs, quotations..... More
Kowloon. Swindon Book Company. 1971. Black & white line and photographic illustrations, 193pp. Half title price clipped, upper edge little foxed, dustjacket trifle browned, a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 168847. More
Kowloon. Swindon Book. 1979. Map, profusely illustrated with black and white photographic illustrations, one in colour, 248pp, glossary, dustjacket lightly sunned on spine, very lightly worn at edges, starting to open between gatherings in two places but binding still sound. Inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise a good clean copy..... More
United States. HarperCollins. 2005. 5 Rev ed. Black and white line illustrations, xxxix + 421pp, index, remainder mark lower edge, good paperback copy. 23.5 x 18.5cm. "Now in its fifth edition, The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes remains the definitive, classic work on this fascinating subject and artfully combines the Eastern..... More