Hong Kong. Eastern Horizon Press. Volume XIII. Number 1.1974- Volume XIV Number 6. Broken run of 6 periodicals in original pictorial wrappers. Some occasional marking and insect damage, generally very good sound copies. Most issues include two articles by Rewi Alley. Issues included in this broken run are: Volume XIII..... More
Peking. New World Press. 1963. Folding map, black and white photographic plates, 129pp, paperback, few small tears and wear to dustjacket, spine faded, spine a little insect damaged. Inscribed by Rewi Alley. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 131607). More
Peking. New World Press. 1957. Illustrations, 228pp, hardback, pictorial papercovered boards a little worn and very lightly marked. Inscribed by Rewi Alley. Short biographical essays from China, Vietnam, Korea and Mongolia. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 131592). More
Peking. New World Press. 1963. Black and white illustrations, 112pp, hardback. Inscribed by Rewi Alley. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 131591). More
Peking. New World Press. 1963. Black and white illustrations, 112pp, hardback. Inscribed by Rewi Alley. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 137829). 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
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 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
Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1928. 4 folding maps including Map of Shanghai showing Various Areas of Municipal Districts, folding chart, tables, xiii + 630pp, appendices, index, spine little darkened, gilt lettered upper cover and spine, lower corners bumped, light even browning endpapers, folding map at frontis creased, overall very..... More
Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1928. 4 folding maps including Map of Shanghai showing Various Areas of Municipal Districts, folding chart, tables, xiii + 630pp, appendices, gilt lettered upper cover and spine, light even browning endpapers, folding map at frontis creased, overall very good hardback copy with serviceable protected dustjacket..... More
London. Elm Tree Books. 1985. Endpaper maps, black and white illustrations, 184pp, notes, glossary, index, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 143476). More
Berkeley. University of California Press. (c.1948). ix + 299pp, index, bibliography, upper edges little marked, very good in little sunned and worn dustjacket. "Mr. Dirlik examines the application of the materialist conception of history to the analysis of Chinese history in a period when Marxist ideas first gained currency in..... More
Chicago. Daily Worker Publishing. 1926. Maps, black and white illustrations, 267pp, original wrappers marked and torn along upper joint, label on section of upper and lower cover. Text is sound and clean. Left wing view point on the changes taking place in China at the time. (When referring to this..... More
Paris. Librairie Armand Colin. 1937. Maps, 210pp, original wrappers bound in modern blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine, some browning throughout as usual, occasional marginal pencilling, good copy. Text in French. Discusses Chinese civilisation and reconstruction. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 132719). More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1976. xi + 324pp, notes, bibliography, glossary, index, hardback, a good copy in dustjacket with little chipping and few small closed tears to edges, lightly foxed edges, name front endpaper. In this work the author seeks the social and political origins of the 1911 Revolution..... More
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 2002. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, x + 278pp, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, paperback, small square octavo, a very good copy. "In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and tour buses to imperial palaces, cinema houses compete with..... More
Paris. Librairie Plon. 1914. Folding map, 13 black and white photographic illustrations, 401pp, wrappers, foxing, spine chipped with loss, large closed tear upper wrapper, wrappers lightly creased. Text in French. The author, an academic at the Collège Libre de Sciences Sociales, comments on many aspects of time spent in China..... More
Canberra. Department of Far Eastern History, Australian National University. March1979. Issue no.19 of the excellent scholarly journal Papers on Far Eastern History, a special issue on China's 1911 Revolution. Appendix, 228 pp, typescript in original wrappers. Spine and covers a little faded, but overall in very good condition. This issue..... More
Clayton. Monash Asia Institute. 1999. Black and white illustrations, xxv + 290pp, index, paperback in very good condition. "Women's dress, women's writing, women's bodies, women's work, women as portrayed by themselves and others in literature and the arts: these are among the topics addressed in this wide-ranging collection of essays..... More
Berkeley. UCP. 1977. xvii + 237pp, index, paperback, verso lower cover little browned and creased, occasional marking, otherwise a good copy. Looks at the transitional period of the Chinese Revolution, 1911-1919, with a particular focus on the identification of causes of the intellectual's rejection of liberalism and the rise of..... More
Canberra. Australian National University. 1981. Maps, illustrations, tables, viii + 349pp, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index, dustjacket, good copy. Describes the military reform which led to the establishment of the New Army and the relationships of the New Army with the social order. (When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More
Michigan. The Michigan State College Press. 1953. First edition. Black and white frontispiece, x + 225pp, dustjacket chipped at head and tail of spine, a very good copy. The Twentieth Century has been one of prodigious changes. Few of its years have known peace on earth, and certrainly its outstanding..... More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 1970. 420pp, bibliography, glossary, index. Ex-library with library labels lower endpapers and discard stamp on title page. Cloth a little faded in places, contents clean and sound, a good clean ex-library hardback. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 166018). More
London. Methuen. 1968. Translated. Maps, black and white photographic plates, xviii + 477pp, index, good copy in faded, on spine, and worn dustjacket. Jacques Guillermaz was a diplomat in Peking, Chungking and Nanking in the 1930s and 1940s and his experience and personal acquaintance with many of the protagonists of..... More
Canberra. Pandanus Books. 2004. First edition. Map, black and white illustrations, x + 194pp, sources and references list, a very good paperback copy. "Jottings from a lost era, notes from the fragile days that saw the Old China give way to the New. These historical marginalia penned by an Australian..... More
