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

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

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

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

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

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

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

London. Oates. 1948. Translated. Black and white photographic plates, xiii + 140pp, foxing first and last leaves, damaged dustjacket now protected, ex-library with a neat stamps on endpapers. Biography of the former Chinese Foreign Minister, Lou Tseng-Tsiang who abandoned his former life to become a monk in a Benedictine abbey..... More

New York. Universe Books. 1988. City plan, illustrations, ix + 230pp, glossary, calendar of events, bibliography, index, dustjacket, nice copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 167945). More

Beijing. Foreign Language Press. 1989. Black and white photographic illustrations, 496pp, index, a good hradback copy in dustjacket. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 96193). More