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

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

Melbourne. The Book Depot. 1949. Eagle Books 41. 32pp, lightly browned paper covers and leaves, little extremities wear, still a good copy, in protective sleeve. Desribes an episode of the life of Dr. Duncan Main in China, a Scottish medical missionary in China. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 127339). 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

Sydney. Robert Hutcheon. 2000. Maps, black and white illustrations, 246pp, sources, bibliography, index, black tape spine, a very good paperback copy. Biography of George Marden who was at one time the chief executive and chairman of Wheelock Pacific a leading Hong Kong company. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 155939). 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

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

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

Berkeley. University of California Press. 1981. Frontispiece, xvii + 259pp, notes, index, dustjacket single closed tear front cover, a very good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 149517). 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

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