Paris. Editions de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, 1960. Black & white photographic frontispiece of the participants. 394pp including Liste des Participants and Table des Matieres. Buckram spine and heavy card boards. An ex library copy from the National Libary of Australia with cancelled stamp on the front & rear pastedowns and..... More
Auckland. New Zealand-China Society. 1964. Black & white photographic illustrations, 23pp 21.2 x14cm. Black & white wrappers. Some archival tape repairs to the spine but in good order. 'This report on China in 1964 is the work of a qualified academic observer who has known China under the Kuomintang -..... More
Christchurch. Canterbury University Press. [ 2017]. Coloured map, illustrations some in colour, 176pp, bibliography, index, very good hardback in dustjacket. Text in Chinese and English. "New China Eyewitness is the fascinating account of the 1956 visit to the People's Republic of China by a group of prominent New Zealanders -..... More
Armonk. M.E. Sharpe. 2004. Map, black and whtie illustrations, index, glossary, very good paperback copy. This title explores the love-hate relationship between the USA and China through the experience of Chinese students caught between the two countries. The book sheds light on China's ambivalence towards the Western influence, and the..... More
London. Longmans. 1967. ix + 222pp, bibliography, index, an ex-library copy, remainder mark, date front free endpaper, a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 153951. More
New York. Norton. 1974. [Reprint]. Endpaper maps, black and white photographic plates, 448pp, notes, index, very good in dustjacket. "A mingling of history and autobiography, of long focus and close-up, this compelling and authoritative book is interwoven with two major themes. One is the collapse of traditional China and the..... More
London. Garnstone. 1970. Pictorial endpapers, xvii + 144pp, appendix, index, a good copy in dustjacket. Part of the Teilhard Study Library. Examines the significance of Chinese social, political, economic & religious experiments within the global pattern of human evolution. Articles by Joseph Needham, Jaon Robinson, William Sewell, Stuart Schram, Ernan..... More
Wellington. Victoria University Press. 2005. Black & white 438pp, notes, index. Upper edge trifle foxed, paperback covers little marked, a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 167064. More
United States. West Georgia College. 1990. Maps, black and white line illustrations, xix + 216pp, appendices, covers a little sunned and rubbed on extremities, inscription by the editor, good paperback copy. Volume XXVII of the West Georgia College, Studies in the Social Sciences. Contents include: The Historical Experience: Georgians in..... More
Stanford. Hoover Institution. 1986. Endpaper maps, 263pp, notes, bibliography, index, some pencil marking, dustjacket lightly faded, a good copy. United States Foreign Policy Series. When referring to this item please quote stockid 94814. More
London. Black. 1968. 2nd Edition. Maps (two folding), xvi + 318pp, index, good copy in price clipped dustjacket. Account of the penetration of China by Western ideas and culture from the seventeenth century. When referring to this item please quote stockid 175393. More
Beijing. Foreign Language Press. 1998. Third printing. 229pp, slightly browned endpapers with some markings, name written on spine with pen, otherwise good paperback copy. 18 x 11cm. The first of its kind ever to come from China, this book offers rich and complex portraits of Westerners in both Europe and..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 2005. Black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 236pp, index, bibliography, notes, very good paperback copy. "Throughout the history of the United States, images of China have populated the American imagination. Always in flux, these images shift rapidly, as they did during the early decades..... More
Canberra. Department of Far Eastern History, The Australian National University. 1966. lvii + 257pp, appendices, short bibliography, indices, typescript, paperback, upper corner of upper cover and first leaves little creased, quarto, good copy. Guide to bibliographies on China and the Far East. When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More
Thailand. Hua Hin, The Elephant Press. 2008. Complete set in 3 volumes. Volume I: 1477 - 1776. Black and white frontispiece, 4 full page colour plates, 264pp. Volume II: 1777 - 1877. Black and white frontispiece, 4 full page colour plates, 374pp. Publisher's cloth, pictorial dustjackets. Supplement: 1477 - 1776..... More
Frenchs Forest. NSW. Child & Associates. 1989. Colour maps, profuse colour and black and white photographic illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers, 288pp, endnotes, index, hardback in dustjacket, inscription one preliminary leaf, extremities a little rubbed, faded spine, good copy. 22 x 30cm. Looks at the different roads taken by nations to..... More
Ames. Iowa State University Press. 1977. Map, xix + 274pp, occasional light browning otherwise good copy in browned dustjacket. Autobiographical account by the former head of the American consulate in Dairen, called at the time "the only American post in Communist China". Although the Chinese were involved in Dairen's civil..... More
London. Harvill. 1993. Second Printing. Translated from the French. Map, colour plates, xxxiii + 630pp, notes, index, spine a little faded, a good hardback copy in dustjacket. 24 x 16cm. This book describes the story of the attempt by the British in 1793 to open the Chinese Empire to Western..... More
London. Collins. (circa 1946). No date. Maps, 11 full page colour plates, numerous black and white plates, 126pp, list of Chinese dynasties, bright cloth binding lightly marked in one place, small stain first few prelims, bookplate and inscription front free endpaper, very good copy. An overview of the relationship between..... More
London. Collins. (circa 1946). No date. Maps, 11 full page colour plates, numerous black and white plates, 126pp, list of Chinese dynasties, bright cloth binding, a little foxing first and last leaves, very good copy. An overview of the relationship between China and Britain includes the navigators, the botanists, China's..... More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 1971. Maps, xiv + 322pp, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index, ex-library with stamps on title page and lower endpaper, library pocket at rear and sticker on spine, otherwise clean and sound. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176773. More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 1980. Second printing. Maps, xiv + 322pp, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index, cloth boards spotted and browned, a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 167356. More
Taipei. IIR National Chengchi University. 1986. viii + 318pp, footnotes, dustjacket a little worn and rubbed along extremities, otherwise a very good hardback copy. Contents include: Literature and the Arts; Academic and Intellectual Influences; Political Ideals and Political Style; Economics, Trade, and Science; Great Power Politics and International Relations; Europeans..... More
New York. Council on Foreign Relations. 1996. xi + 284pp, edges a trifle rubbed, very good in paperback. China is emerging as a new great power in Asia. But what kind of power will China become--a wealthy trading partner or a belligerent adversary? Will expanding economic links between China and..... More
New York. Norton. 1998. First American edition. xviii + 279pp, index, credits, notes, little shelfwear to dustjacket, page fore edges uncut, a very good hardback copy. This work explores the intricacies of Western attitudes towards China as they have developed over centuries of trade, conflict and sometimes edgy co-existence. When..... More
