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. 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

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, 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

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

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

上海.[Shanghai]. 上海人民出版社.[Shanghai ren min chu ban she]. 1981. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Black and white illustrations, 509pp, appendices, light offsetting marks upper pastedown, otherwise very good paperback copy. Text in Chinese. 林则徐 [Lin Zexu] (1785-1850), high ranking Qing official. He was most famous for his campaign to suppress opium and..... More

London. Cassell & Company Ltd., 1903. 1st Edition. Black & white frontispiece and 5 plates and a folding Political Map of China and Japan. Original green cloth with dragon device stamped in gilt on front cover, spine lettered in gilt. viii, + 356pp. plus [16]pp publisher's adverts. Cloth slightly flecked..... More

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

Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1979. 2nd Edition revised and enlarged. 2 volumes, translated, black and white photographic illustrations, dustjackets lightly worn. Volume 1: 247pp, Qing House genealogical table. Volume 2: 253-496pp, index. Good set in slightly sunned and marked dustjackets. Pu Yi was the last Chinese Emperor. (When referring to..... More

Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 1971. 244pp, notes, bibliography, glossary, index, cloth faded, a good hardback copy with bright, clean contents. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 154167). More