Beijing. Foreign Languages Press. 1986. 3rd printing, 2nd edition. Two volumes. Volume one, 247pp, marks to rear board and dustjacket front cover. Volume two, 253-495pp, index, light foxing to fore-edge. Black and white photographic plates, 20.9 x 14.9cm, very good copies. Puyi was the last Emperor of the Qing dynasty..... More
Oxford. Oxford University Press. 1987. Reprint of 2nd edition. Signed by translator. Afterword by Simon Winchester. Black and white photographic plates, xv + 502pp, index, 19.6 x 12.8cm. A good paperback copy. Puyi was the last Emperor of the Qing dynasty, whose involvement with the Japanese through the 1930s-40s as..... More
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. Reynal & Hitchcock. 1936. 302pp,foxing endpapers, a prior owner's inscription front free endpaper, dustjacket chipped with loss and repaired on reverse with paper, good hardback copy. Biography of Pearl Buck's missionary father and his life in China. "Companion volume to 'The Exile', a biography of the author's mother..... 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
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
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
Shanghai. The Commercial Press, Ltd., 1929. Black & white map of Tsinan Area, a photographic portrait frontispiece of the General and 3 photographic illustrations throughout the text. viii + 107pp. Black cloth covered boards, lettered on the spine and upper front board in gilt. An extremely good copy except for..... 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. 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
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
![李白与杜甫. [Li Bai and Du Fu]. [Li Bai and Du Fu]. MORUO GUO, 郭沫若](/pictures/thumb/169728.jpg?v=1592953937)
北京.[Beijing]. 人民文学出版社.[Ren min wen xue chu ban she]. 1972. Quotations of Mao Zedong, 279pp, chronology, light signs of wear on covers, very good in paperback. Text in Chinese. 20.2 x 14.1cm. Li Bai and Du Fu are regarded as China's greatest poets. This book mainly looks more at their social..... More
Sydney. Angus and Robertson. 1943. Bookplate with author's signature laid down front free endpaper. Map, 290pp, 22.3 x 14.8cm. Front hinge split, free endpapers browned, dustjacket worn with some loss, now protected, a good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 171653). More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 1988. 272pp, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. Some foxing to outer edge, fading to dustjacket spine and upper edge, otherwise in very good condition. Li Yu, 1610 - 1680, was a brilliant comic writer and entertainer, a thoroughgoing professional whose life was in his work -..... 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
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
![曾國藩評傳. [Zeng Guofan ping zhuan]. [A Critical Biography of Zeng Guofan]. YIKUN HE,...](/pictures/thumb/169655.jpg?v=1594170958)
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. Paul Hamlyn. 1969. Black and white photographic illustrations, v + 192pp, appendices, index, a prior owner's details obscured by black ink front free endpaper, occasional foxing, opening between gatherings in one place, author's name neatly inked on spine, hardback in dustjacket. Account of the author's experiences and observations of..... 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
London. HarperCollins. 1991. Reprint. Signed title page from paperback copy loosely inserted. Black and white photographic plates, 524pp, index, 24 x 16cm. Remainder mark on lower edge, dustjacket spine lightly sunned, otherwise a very good copy. "Combining the intimacy of memoir with the epic sweep of a great novel, Wild..... More
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
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
China. Constable. 2009. Map, colour photographic illustrations, x + 358pp, touch of foxing lower endpaper, very good paperback copy. China Cuckoo: How I lost a fortune and found a life in China is the remarkable true story of a witty and eccentric Sinophile Englishman and his Chinese tree-change. Set in..... More
Edinburgh. Mainstream Publishing. 2000. 240pp, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. The author, the child of a wealthy railway administrator who became active in the resistance against the Japanese, tells the story of his childhood in Beijing during this time. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 166086). 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
