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
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
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
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. 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
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
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
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
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
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. 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
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
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
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
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
London. Harrap. 1984. Black and white photographs, 349pp, index, dustjacket, spine sunned, a very good hardback copy. Helen Foster Snow lived in China from 1931 until the end of the 1930s. She was the wife of Edgar Snow. Their house was the meeting place of Chinese artists and writers, as..... More
Beijing. New World Press. 1985. Black and white photographic plates, 171pp, little wear to covers, otherwise good in paperback. Autobiography of Tang Diyin, a businesswoman whose career spans both the pre-and post-Liberation eras of Shanghai. After commencing her career at age 14, she eventually worked her way up to the..... More
New York. Morrow. 1984. Black and white photographic illustrations, 446pp, bibliography, index, good copy in trifle worn dustjacket. The amazing life story of Jiang Qing, the often cruel revolutionary who married China's Communist party leader, Mao Zedong. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 93936). More
London. Gollancz. 1934. Reprint. Frontispiece, 383pp, dustjacket chipped and worn, some foxing throughout, still a sound copy. Tan Shih-hua was one of S. Tretiakov's students in the Russian Section of the National University in Peking. This autobiographical account tells the story of an intelligent young man from the days of..... More
London. Macmillan. Reprint of revised edition.1979. Black and white photographic illustrations, 396pp, appendices, bibliography, index, small tear dustjacket, a very good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 36122). More
