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
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
London. Jonathan Cape. 2019. Map, plates mainly in black and white, index, 374pp, paperback. Very good copy. The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said..... 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
United States. Simon & Schuster. 1999. Map, black and white illustrations, viii + 280pp, sources, note, indices, glossary, paperback copy in good condition. "'China Through the Sliding Door' offers a different insight into this most complex and unpredictable society. Understanding its recent history, John Gittings sheds light on its present..... More
London/New York. Jonathan Cape/Putnam's Sons. 1965- 1969. [Reprint]. 3 hardback volumes in dustjackets. The Crippled Tree (Reprint 1965) 461pp; A Mortal Flower. 412pp. (Reprint 1969) 412pp; Birdless Summer. 347pp. (First Edition 1968). Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, one endpaper trifle creased. Price clipped dustjackets, one spine little faded. A...... More
London. Cape. 1954. Reprint. Map, ix + 7-287pp, price-clipped dustjacket a little browned, cloth boards foxed, edges browned, good hardback copy. Autobiographical account of China in the 1930s. When referring to this item please quote stockid 172839. 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
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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..... More
New York. Grosset & Dunlap. 1926. [Reprint]. Black and white photographic illustrations, 329pp, evenly browned throughout a little heavier on endpapers, few leaves creased, edges spotted. A good copy in dustjacket. Autobiographical account of her experiences on "America's trade frontier in China" by the author of the popular novel "Oil..... 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
Athens, Georgia. University of Georgia Press, 1993. Black and white line map, black and white photographic illustrations, li + 199pp, notes, bibliography, index, glossary, dustjacket with slightly sunned spine and wear on extremities, a good hardback copy. "The compelling autobiography of a woman who lived through the most dramatic changes..... 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
