Basingstoke. Macmillan. 1997. ix + 279pp, index, bibliography, notes, hardback in very good condition. "This book reinterprets the rise of consumerism in terms of interaction between Europe and China 1400-1800. In particular, it examines the intellectual foundations of consumerism in food, dress, shelter, utilities, information and symbolism. It highlights consumerism..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1993. Black and white illustrations, iv + 182pp, small quarto, paperback. Fifth issue including: The Deer and the Cauldron - Two Chapters from a novel by Louis Cha; Selling Smiles in Canton: Prostitution in the Early Republic; The Formation of the Guomindang Youth Corps..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U. Black and white illustrations, iii + 181pp, small quarto, paperback, very good copy. The first issue of this excellent series. The seven papers in this issue are: The Three Kingdoms and Western Jin: A History of China in the Third Century AD - Rafe..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1992. Black and white illustrations, iv + 142pp, a prior owner's signature title page and occasional notations in red ink, otherwise very good in paperback. 24 x 20cm. Second issue including: Politics and Power in the Tokugawa Period; Shanghai Before Nationalism; 'The Luck of..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1995. Black and white illustrations, iv + 164pp, small quarto, paperback. Tenth issue including: The Ideal Monastery: Daoxuan's Description of the Central Indian Jetavan Vihara; Originating Instrumentally and the Chen Family; The Dorbed; Colonialism and Ethnic Nationalism in the Political Thought of Yanaihara Tadao;..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 2000. Black and white illustrations, iv + 180pp, small quarto, paperback. Nineteenth issue including: Lu Xun's Disturbing Greatness; The Early-Qing Discourse on Loyalty; The Dariyanya, the State of the Uriyanqai of the Altai, the Qasay and the Qamniyan; Edwardian Theatre and the Lost Shae..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 2001. Black and white illustrations, iv + 170pp, cumulative index of issues 1-20, small quarto, paperback, very good copy. Twenty-second issue including: Hedda Morrison's Jehol - a Photographic Journey; Bridging the Gap: Attempts at Constructing a "New" Historical - Cultural Identity in the People's..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 2000. Black and white illustrations, iv + 164pp, small quarto, paperback, signature of prior owner upper cover, very good copy. Fourth issue including: From Biographical History to Historical Biography: a Transformation in Chinese Historical Writing; Human Conscience and Responsibility in Ming-Qing China; In Her..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1997. Black and white illustrations, iv + 157pp, small quarto, paperback. Double issue including: The Memoirs of H.A. Giles; The Date and Compilation of the Fengdao Kejie, the First Handbook of Monastic Daoism; The Mingyad, the Jaqacin, the Yoryud, the Qosud and the Caqar;..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1998. Black and white illustrations, iv + 158pp, small quarto, paperback. Double issue including: Stopping, Seeing and Language: an interpretation of Zhuangzi's Qi wulan; Temple Lamentation and Robe Burning - Gestures of Social Protest in Seventeenth-Century China; Meeting the Celestial Master; Tradition and Modernity..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1999. Black and white illustrations, iv + 192pp, small quarto, paperback. Double issue including: Whose Strange Stories? P'u Sing-ling (1640-1715), Herbert Giles (1845-1935) and the Liao-chai chih-yi; Nihonbashi: Edo's Contested Centre; Was Toregene Qatun Ogodei's "Sixth Empress"?; Photography and Portraiture in Nineteenth-Century China; Sapajou;..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1996. Black and white illustrations, iv + 158pp, tape mark upper cover, otherwise very good in paperback. 24 x 20cm. Twelth issue including: Tough Guys, Mateship and Honour: Another Chinese Tradition; Chinese Landscape Painting - The Golden Age; China in the Eyes of French..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 2000. Black and white illustrations, iv + 186pp, small mark upper cover, paperback. 24 x 20cm. Twentieth issue including: The Order of Birds in Guiyi Jun Dunhuang; Zhou Lianggong and Chidu Xinchao: Genre and Political Marginalisation in the Ming-Qing Transition; The Construction of "Modern..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1994. Black and white illustrations, iv + 148pp, small quarto, paperback. Eighth issue including: Mid-Ch'ing New Tex (Chin-wen) Classical Learning and its Han Provenance: the Dynamics of a Tradition of Ideas; From Myth to Reality: Chinese Courtesans in Late-Qing Shanghai Christian Henriot; The End..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1994. Black and white illustrations, iv + 120pp, small quarto, paperback. Ninth issue including: Creating the Frontier: Border, Identity and History in Japan's Far North; The Search for Korea's Past: Japanese Colonial Archaeology in the Korean Peninsula (1905-1945); Korean Echoes in the No Play..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies. A.N.U., 1995. Black and white illustrations, iv + 142pp, small quarto, paperback. Ninth issue including: A Common People's Literature: Popular Fiction and Social Change in Republican Shanghai; Seven Dialogues from the Zhuangzi; The Thin Horses of Yangzhou; Ku Hung-ming: Homecoming (2); West Meets East: Rewi..... More
Oxford University Press, (circa 1962). viii + 351pp, index, lacks title page. Clean and sound reading copy. The papers in this work fall in to three main groups. The first two contain discussions of the dominant themes, writers and techniques of historiography in China and Japan, respectively, ranging from the..... More
New York. Harper & Row. Reprint. 1965. Endpaper maps, 724pp, index, chronologies, good copy in torn dustjacket. Account of the rapid transformations and innovations that have taken place in China and Japan. When referring to this item please quote stockid 29593. More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 1968. 134 - 215pp, paperback, light wear to extremities, generally very good. Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies XXIII. Includes 'An Outline of the Central Government of the Former Han Dynasty' - Wang Yu-chuan; Governmental Organization of the Ming Dynasty - Charles O. Hucker; Lien-Sheng Yang - Female..... More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard U.P., 1968. 134 - 215pp, paperback, wear to extremities, generally good. Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies XXIII. Includes 'An Outline of the Central Government of the Former Han Dynasty' - Wang Yu-chuan; Governmental Organization of the Ming Dynasty - Charles O. Hucker; Lien-Sheng Yang - Female Rulers in Imperial..... More
Peking. China Reconstructs. 1962. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 126pp, stain on upper and fore edges, lower corners bumped, otherwise a good copy in little worn paperback. Articles on Chinese history, from ancient times to the People's Liberation War (1946-49). When referring to this item please quote stockid 127225..... More
Woodstock. Overlook Press. 2008. Maps, black and white illustrations, 303pp, chronologies, notes, index. Some light browning. Good copy in dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166859. More
China. Oxford University Press (China) Ltd., 1991. Second impression. xiv + 633pp, bibliography, upper joint starting, endpapers a little browned, a good hardback copy. First published in 1917, Samuel Couling's Encyclopaedia Sinica provides a wealth of information about Chinese society and history, culture and customs, much of it gathered at..... More
Hong Kong: HKUP Hong Kong 2013, 2013. xviii + 348pp, index, paperback. Very good. This book investigates the use of humor in the public sphere and in personal life in China. The contributors cover modern and contemporary forms -- comic films and novels, cartooning, pop-songs, internet jokes, and humor in..... More
Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 2004. Black and white photographic plates, xi + 319pp, index, bibliography, notes, dustjacket price clipped, remainder mark upper edge, a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166674. More