Fruition. The Story of George Alwin Hogg.
Christchurch. Caxton Press. 1967. Black and white frontis and illustrations, 168pp, hardback, cloth insect damaged. Signed by Rewi Alley. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 91423). More
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Fruition. The Story of George Alwin Hogg.
Christchurch. Caxton Press. 1967. Black and white frontis and illustrations, 168pp, hardback, spine a trifle flecked and faded, very good copy in original red cloth. Signed by Rewi Alley. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161889). More
Oxford China and Italy. Writings in the Honour Sir Harold Acton.
London. Thames & Hudson. 1984. Black and white photographic plates, 246pp, bibliography, decorative endpapers, hardback, quarto, dustjacket little marked, very good copy. "This volume, published on the occasion of Sir Harold Acton's eightieth birthday, includes contributions on a variety of subjects, some relating directly to Sir Harold's life and writings... More
Life and Death in Shanghai.
London. Grafton. 1986. 668pp, index, edges browned, shelf worn, paperback, still a good copy. A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. All... More
Ancestors. 900 Years in the Life of a Chinese Family.
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
My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard.
London. Davies. 1926. 12 black and white photographic plates, 126pp, hardback, lacks frontispiece, neat name front free endpaper, pictorial upper cover, corners bumped, covers little soiled, little foxed throughout, still very sound. Letters written by Kwei-li 25 years after those written to her husband (in Love Letters of a Chinese... More
Doctor Apricot. Duncan Main of China.
Melbourne. The Book Depot. 1949. Eagle Books 41. 32pp, lightly browned paper covers and leaves, little extremities wear, still a good copy, in protective sleeve. Desribes an episode of the life of Dr. Duncan Main in China, a Scottish medical missionary in China. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 127339). More
Generalissimo. Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost.
Bath. Free Press. 2003. Black and white illustrations, 562pp, notes, bibliography, index, covers somewhat bent, dustjacket lightly worn in a few small places, generally sound and clean. Chiang Kai-shek was the man who lost China to the Communists. As leader of the nationalist movement, the Kuomintang, Chiang established himself as... More
Tartar City Woman. Scenes from the Life of Wang Hsing-Ping, Former Citizen of China.
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
Tartar City Woman. Scenes from the Life of Wang Hsing-Ping, Former Citizen of China.
Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1990. 12 black and white plates, xiv + 181pp, index, spine little faded, a very 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 political crisis will note... More
An African Student in China.
London. Pall Mall Press. 1963. 220pp, dustjacket little shelf worn and little marked, otherwise good. The author, a Ghanian who was studying medicine in China, tells the story of the mass exodus of African students from the Peking University in 1962. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 36024). More
Autobiography of a Chinese Girl. A genuine autobiography.
London. Allen & Unwin. 1945. 5th impression. Translated by Tsui Chi, illustrations, 216pp, prelims a little damp coggled and very lightly foxed, minor rubbing head and tail of spine. Sound and generally very clean copy. Autobiography of a young Chinese woman who grew up in village China, threw off the... More
The Early Life of Zhou Enlai.
Beijing. Foreign Languages Press. 1980. Black and white photographic illustrations, 105pp, 12mo, a good copy in paperback. Translated by Chen Xiaoying. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 148369). More
Shanghai Customs. A 20th Century Taipan in Troubled Times.
Sydney. Robert Hutcheon. 2000. Maps, black and white illustrations, 246pp, sources, bibliography, index, black tape spine, a very good paperback copy. Biography of George Marden who was at one time the chief executive and chairman of Wheelock Pacific a leading Hong Kong company. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 155939). More
Treasure Seeker In China.
London. The Cresset Press. 1957. Translated from the Swedish by Naomi Walford. Map, black and white plates, xii + 216pp, worn and insect damaged cloth binding, boards lifting slightly, lettered spine dulled, pale foxing edges and endpapers, blurbs from dustjacket loosely inserted, contents sound. Author's account of his experiences buying... More
Treasure Seeker In China.
London. The Cresset Press. 1957. Translated from the Swedish by Naomi Walford. Map, black and white plates, xii + 216pp, worn cloth binding, boards lifting slightly, lettered spine dulled, internally a good hardback ex-library copy. Author's account of his experiences buying art treasures in China. (When referring to this item... More
Peking Story
New York. Griffin. 1988. Black and white photographic plates, 207pp, a good paperback copy. "Soon after Peking fell to the Communists in 1949, David Kidd, an exchange student of Chinese culture living in Peking, married Aimme, Fourth Daughter of the venerable Yu family. Peking Story vividly portrays the beauty, customs... More
The Story of Hua Guan Suo.
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
The House of Confucius.
London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1988. Translated. Edited with an introduction by Frances Wood. Endpaper plans, black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 180pp, index, little browning, otherwise very good in dustjacket. Kong Demao, a direct descendant of Confucius, tells the story of her family in the 20th century. The family... More
Golden Lilies.
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
The Bitter Sea. Coming of Age in a China Before Mao.
Australia. Griffin. 2008. Black and white photographic plates, 283pp, paperback, lower corners bumped otherwise very good. In 1940, Li Na was born as the youngest son of a government official in a mansion in Nanjing. China was in the throes of World War II and the Sino–Japanese War; Nanjing itself... More
Su Man-shu (1884 - 1918). A Sino-Japanese Genius.
London. China Society. 1960. 51pp, notes, hardback. Dustjacket trifle yellowed at edges, endpapers lightly foxed, a very good copy. China Society Sinological Series No. 6. "Many features combined to make of Su Man-shu a controversial and fascinating figure: his mixed parentage, his poetic gifts, his involvement in the intellectual life... More
That Chinese Woman. The Life of Sai-chin-hua.
Allen & Unwin. 1959. Translated. black and white photographic illustrations and line drawings, 208pp, portion of label on upper cover, ex-library, remainder mark lower edge, minor wear covers, reading copy only. The story of the romance between Sai-chin-hua and Field-Marshal Count Waldersee, who took charge of the Forbidden City after... More
Marxist Literary Thought in China. The Influence of Ch'u Ch'iu-Pai.
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1981. Frontispiece, xvii + 259pp, notes, index, dustjacket single closed tear front cover, a very good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 149517). More
From Emperor to Citizen. The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi.
Beijing. Foreign Languages Press. 1989. Reprint. 2 volumes in 1. Translated by W.J.F. Jenner. Black and white photographic illustrations, 496pp, index, dustjacket, annotation in English and Chinese front free endpaper, ribbon bookmark, good copy. Pu Yi was the last Chinese Emperor whose involvement with the Japanese made him a very... More