Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1979. Second Edition. Two volumes. Volume One: 247pp; boards trifle bumped at corners. Volume Two: 253-496pp, index. Both volumes: Black & white photographic plates; upper edges little marked, dustjackets slightly worn, a good set; 21 x 15cm. From the library of Professor Anthony Reid, with his..... More

Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1983. Reprint, Second Edition. Two volumes. Volume One: 247pp. Volume Two: 253-496pp, index. Both volumes: Black & white photographic plates; red ribbon bookmarks; edges slightly foxed, dustjackets little worn at extremities, otherwise a very good set; 21 x 15cm. Aisin-Gioro Puyi's seminal autobiography, penned following his..... 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

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. 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. 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

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..... 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. 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