Peking. Foreign Language Press. 1983. Second printing. Volume 1: black and white illustrations, 247pp, good hardback copy in dustjacket with a little rubbing on extremities. Volume 2: black and white illustrations, 496pp, good hardback copy in dustjacket with a little rubbing on extremities, small amount of foxing on endpapers and..... More

New York. John Day. 1954. 407pp, prior owner's details front paste down, minor wear binding, small stain lower edge. Good secondhand copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 165930). More

New York. Simon & Schuster. 1991. First Printing. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xl + 666 pages, index, chronology, dustjacket neatly repaired in a few places on reverse and dustjacket a little creased at head of spine, a little rubbing on extremities, a good copy. The publication of Wild..... More

London. Harrap. 1988. Endpaper maps, illustrations, 528pp, index, very good copy in protected dustjacket taped to pastedown. Frank Ching traces his family back 34 generations to the poet Qin Guan, the founder of the Ching clan and the common forebear of both the father and mother of the author -..... More

London. Pandora. 1989. xii + 265pp, bibliography. Remainder mark along upper edge, otherwise in excellent condition. Short biographies of six European women in China - the women are Mrs Archibald Little, Sarah Pike Conger, Grace Seton Thompson, Alice Tisdale Hobart, Nora Waln and Pearl S. Buck. (When referring to this..... More

Pandanaus Books Canberra 2004. Map, black and white illustrations, x + 194pp, sources and references list, a very good paperback copy. "Jottings from a lost era, notes from the fragile days that saw the Old China give way to the New. These historical marginalia penned by an Australian diplomat deliver..... More

Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1990. 12 black and white plates, xiv + 181pp, index, small mark on fore edge, spine little faded, a good paperback copy. A teacher from the scholar-gentry families of old Peking, Wang Hsin-ping was investigated during the Cultural Revolution as a "counter-revolutionary". Onlookers of China's recent..... More

臺北.[Taipei]. 正中書局.[Zheng zhong shu ju]. 民國 46 [1957]. 617+ 2pp, errata, some foxing particularly at first and last leaves and on covers, lightly browned throughout, a sound copy in original wrappers. Text in traditional Chinese. Zeng Guofan (1811-1872), military leader in Qing Court, was in charge of suppressing Taiping Rebellion..... More

London. Macmillan. 1943. One folding map, diagrams, ix + 261pp. Foxing to edges, spine faded, lower corners bumped, otherwise in good condition. The author held official positions in China from 1898 to 1936 and in this book he describes the Boxer Rebellion and Civil War. (When referring to this item..... More

London. George Allen & Sons. 1944. 3rd impression. Translated by Tsui Chi, illustrations, 216pp, endpapers a little foxed, extremities lightly rubbed, cloth a little marked. A good sound secondhand copy. Autobiography of a young Chinese woman who grew up in village China, threw off the confines of her home, unbound..... More

Tempe. Arizona State University. 1989. Includes introduction by translator. vii + 232pp + illustrated Chinese text, bibliography, notes, paperback, very good copy. Hua Guan Suo is a character mentioned in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 91075). More

London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1991. Many black and white line illustrations throughout, 181pp, edges little browned, dustjacket a little faded, This book is divided into two parts the first the letters of the young Kwei-li to her new husband and the second letters to her mother-in-law 25 years later when..... More

Baltimore. Noble House. 2000. Black and white photographic illustrations, 226pp, prior owner's large inscription front free endpaper, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "At the urging of my mother, I visited China in 1980, the first time I was able to return to my homeland in twenty-seven years. Seeing Shanghai..... More