New York. Ives Washburn. 1936. Black & white photographic plates, 317pp, index. Leaves occasionally pencilled, half title and upper edge little marked, spine trifle sunned, overall a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166457. More
London. Bodley Head. 1941. Endpaper map, 395pp, index, dustjacket, front endpapers and edges stained and browned, inscription verso front free endpaper, text sound and clean. Author was the Far Eastern correspondent for The New York Times. He was eye-witness to many of the crucial events that took place in the..... More
Christchurch. Caxton Press. 1973. 58pp, paper wrappers little marked and slightly creased, very good. Story written during Chiang Kai-shek's Anti-Communist campaign. Based on stories told to the author. When referring to this item please quote stockid 171027. More
Hong Kong. Oxford. 1985. Foreword by N.J. Miners. Maps, tables, black and white illustrations, xxiii + 302pp, appendices, bibliography, glossary, index, endpapers browned, good in dustjacket. Study of British and Chinese administrative methods in Weihaiwei which the British leased from China in 1898 and governed until 1930. When referring to..... More
Boston. Houghton & Mifflin Company. [ 1925]. Folding map, illustrated with black and white line drawings by Lucille Douglass, 464pp, decorative boards, now rather worn. Endpapers trifle browned, edges worn with loss, contents clean and sound. The author attempts, in this attractive book, to show Chinese life as she observed..... More
Bristol. Pomegranate Books. 2011. Black and white illustrations, 95pp, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Written by her relative, Tony Beckingsale, extensive records were edited and compiled in this book as well as personal photographs to record her first-hand accounts of the 1911 Chinese revolution. When referring to this item..... More
Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1989. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Map, x + 356pp, notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket, hardback in very good condition with dustjacket event browned and a trifle shelf worn. Favoured by the exceptional economic circumstances of the First World War and the immediate post-war years, Chinese entrepreneurs made..... More
New York. John Day. 1939. Endpaper maps, black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 340pp, reference list, dustjacket very lightly worn, very good hardback copy. James Bertram stayed six months with the Red Army after the brief siege of Peking, talking to characters from all backgrounds compiled into a book..... More
Manchester. Manchester University Press. 2012. Maps and plans, 290pp, bibliography, index, very good paperback copy. Studies in Imperialism series. "In the new world order mapped out by Japanese and Western imperialism in East Asia after the mid-nineteenth century opium wars, communities of merchants and settlers took root in China and..... More
London. Jonathan Cape. 1951. 292pp, appendix, index, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, light foxing first and last edges and edges, price-clipped, chipped dustjacket worn, lettering on spine of dustjacket worn but overall still a good hardback copy. "Derk Bodde's diary from 6-month period before and after the Communist forces..... More
Stockport. Lane Publishers. 1997. First Edition. Black and white photographic illustrations, 136pp, appendices, glossary, author's name written on side of spine, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 165925. More
Hong Kong. Oxford University Press. 1990. Endpaper maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xi + 294pp, notes, bibliography, index, glossary, prior owner's name half title, dustjacket little worn with spine trifle sunned, a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178428. More
Taipei. Southern Materials Center, Inc., n.d. Reprint. Taipei reprint, originally published in 1978. Maps, black and white illustrations, illustrations somewhat indistinctly reproduced, tables, 296pp, bibliography, character list, index, bookplate front free endpaper, edges very lightly foxed, otherwise a very good hardback copy with gilt lettering upper cover and spine. In..... More
New York. Franklin Watts. 1976. xiii + 249pp, notes, selected bibliography, index, reverse of slightly worn dustjacket mended on reverse with tape by prior owner, sunned spine, otherwise very good hardback copy. On the decade of change in an important transitional change for China. When referring to this item please..... More
Aberdeen. Hong Kong University Press. 2006. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xv + 283pp, notes, bibliography, glossary, index, deacquisitioned ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, dustjacket trifle shelf worn, a sound secondhand hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166731. More
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 1992. xi + 300pp, appendices.Very good hardback in dustjacket. Studies of the East Asian Institute. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166756. More
Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1958. Tables, 101pp, edges and wrappers lightly browned, covers marked, text sound and clean. When referring to this item please quote stockid 213753. More
Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1919. vii + 380pp, appendices, index, 19.7 x 13.6cm. Some pages little soiled and browned, dustjacket worn with head of spine chipped with little loss, protected by a previous owner, otherwise a good copy. Histories of the Nations series. "This book is an attempt to deal with..... More
New York. W. W. Norton & Company. 1999. First Edition. xx + 530pp, sources, upper edge trifle foxed, blue and black pen underlining and comments throughout first 71 pages of text, paperback, a sound secondhand copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166772. More
London. Methuen. 1943. 5th Edition. Endpaper maps, colour frontis, black and white illustrations, vii + 88pp, foxed endpapers, dulled cover and spine, still a good hardback copy. During Japanese occupation the need to find a new route to get supplies through to the armies in China was pressing. This novel..... More
Peking. Chinese Social and Political Science Association. Vol. XXIV, No. 1. April-June, 1940. Quarterly publication of the Chinese Social and Political Science Association, issue 24, no.1, folding plan of the 太学 "Imperial Academy", 109pp, errata loosely inserted, some pages unopened, wrappers chipped with considerable loss. Papers in this issue are..... More
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 1977. Black and white photographic illustrations, x + 340pp, notes, index, dustjacket has a non-obvious damp stain and sunned spine, slight foxing on edge otherwise very good hardback copy. Remainder mark upper edge. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166802... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson. 1947. Endpaper maps, frontispiece, black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 379pp, inscription on endpaper, bibliography, pages evenly browned and foxed on edges and endpapers, a good hardback copy. Frank Clune's travels in China and Manchukuo. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166828... More
New Haven. Yale University Press. 1983. Double page map, black and white illustrations, xxvi + 290pp, appendices, bibliography, index, good copy in little sunned dustjacket. Collection of 84 responses to an advertisment placed in newspapers and magazines throughout China in the spring of 1936 calling upon people to contribute to..... More
Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. n.d. c 1918. xiii + 304pp, blue cloth covered boards, slightly marked, lettered in gilt, roughly cut edges, a very clean and firmly bound copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166841. More