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
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
Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1945. First Edition. Edited with a preface by Harley Farnsworth MacNair. Endpaper plans, 229pp, black and white photographic and line illustrations, appendices. Dustjacket upper cover torn with loss, mended on reverse by a prior owner, a sound secondhand copy. A delightful collection of letters, lectures..... 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
Heinemann. 1932. Reprint. 358pp, index, Bradford Library and Literary Society labels front pastedown, library markings on spine, head and tail of spine torn with a little loss, original cloth soiled, lower edge marked, contents clean and sound. A reading copy only. "The purpose of this book is to describe and..... More
London. Herbert Jenkins. 1938. Black and white photographic illustrations, 282pp, hardback covers worn, edges browned, foxing preliminary and final leaves, a good advance review copy. A novel set amongst Hong Kong outlaws. When referring to this item please quote stockid 168463. 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
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
Vancouver. UBC Press. 2010. Maps, xxviii + 180pp, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. Very good copy. This work deals with the acquisition of arms and the tools of war necessary to maintain political and military power during the warlord era of 1916 to 1928. When referring to this item please quote..... 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
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
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
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
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
London. Elm Tree Books. 1985. Endpaper maps, black and white illustrations, 184pp, glossary, index, dustjacket, nice copy. 24.5 x 19cm. British reminiscences of life in China in the period between the two World Wars. When referring to this item please quote stockid 170936. More
Leiden. Brill. 1950. Fold out maps, xi + 335pp, index, deacquisitioned ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166871. More
China Economic Review. 2007. With a new foreword. Xv + 296pp, paperback. When referring to this item please quote stockid 162752. More
Oxford University Press, 1986. Reprint. With an introduction by H.J. Lethbridge. Folding maps and plans, xviii + 390 + index, paperback. When referring to this item please quote stockid 162754. More
Boston. Marshall Jones. 1938. vi + 312pp, notes, edges, preliminary and final leaves slightly browned, otherwise a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166358. More
New York. Columbia University Press. 2001. xvi + 441pp, black and white photographic illustrations, index, appendices, bibliography, character list, spine showing slight fading, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Examines the radical changes in Chinese society during the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of the..... More
United Kingdom. Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd., 1992. Black and white line illustrations, xii + 251pp, bibliography, index, very good copy in lightly faded dustjacket. "The first systematic study of a topic which cuts straight through the heart of many aspects of intellectual life in modern China and has hitherto..... 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..... More
London. Macmillan. 1946. Endpaper maps, black and white photographic plates, vi + 216pp. Few preliminary leaves lightly foxed, pages 213-216 upper portion foxed, boards little worn near spine, dustjacket worn with tail of spine cellotaped, otherwise a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166685... More