Nedlands. University of Western Australia. September1981. Black and white illustrations, 127pp, wrappers. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 140780). More about Westerly. A Quarterly Review. Contemporary China Issue
London. Jonathan Cape. 1971. Reprint. xi + 299pp, front free endpaper signed by previous owner, dustjacket rubbed and foxed on reverse. Good copy. Novel set in China. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 143861). More about The Wallet of Kai Lung
London. Cape. 1987. 189pp, some light browning, Review copy with review stamp on front free endpaper marked out in a black marker. Dustjacket,. Fiction set in Szechuan during the 1920s it tells a story of an expedition in search of the rare and reclusive Giant Panda. (When referring to this... More about The Panda Hunt
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上海.[Shanghai]. 上海人民美術出版社.[Shanghai ren min mei shu chu ban she]. 1981. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. 5 (ex 16) pocket size illustrated books which make up part of a Lianhuahua set. This set tells stories from the famous Chinese classic Hou Long Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber). These 5 volumes are... More about 《红楼梦》连环画. ["Hong lou meng" Lianhuanhua]. ["Dream of the Red...
Edinburgh. Edinburgh U.P., 1973. x + 466pp, dustjacket little torn and patchily faded, neat signature upper edge of dustjacket. The purpose of this book is to introduce the English reader to two contiguous realms of Chinese literature, fiction in the colloquial language and the drama, ranging from the 13th century... More about Chinese Literature. Popular Fiction and Drama
Peiping. Yu Lien Press. 1935. Second Edition. Map, 3 black and white plates, 62pp, pictorial paper covered boards with maroon cloth spine. Spine a little worn, boards a little faded in places, very good copy. Text in English with a preface in Chinese. Published to raise funds for the Tsunhua... More about Popular Chinese Tales
St. Lucia. University of Queensland Press. 1965. First edition. Illustrated with full colour plates of Ian Fairweather's paintings, 161pp. Binding marked and spine damaged with loss including to the title, no dustjacket, some light occasional foxing but generally the contents are very clean and sound. The damage to the binding... More about The Drunken Buddha
![古今谭概 [Gu Jin Tan Gai . Survey of Talk]. FENG MENGLONG 馮夢龍](/pictures/thumb/137902.jpg?v=1541658623)
(Beijing). 文學古籍刊行社 Wen Xue Gu Ji Kan Xing She, 1955. 2 volumes. Volume 1. 790 pg. Volume 2. 830 page. Hardback. Some wear to extremities but otherwise a good sound and clean copy. In comparison with Feng's other works, "Gu Jin Tan Gai" is less literary but rather it is characterized... More about 古今谭概 [Gu Jin Tan Gai . Survey of Talk
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(Beijing): 作家出版社 Zuojia Chubanshe, 1956. 3 volumes. 640pp; 452pp; 647pp Volumes uniformly bound in attractive modern dark blue cloth with original wrappers bound in with the exception of the lower wrapper of volume I. All volumes titled on spine in silver Chinese characters. Foxed and browned throughout. This trilogy is... More about 喻世明言 [Yù shì míng yán . Stories to enlighten the world] 醒世恒言; [Xing Shi Heng...
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1982. 333 pp (Vol 1) and 380 pp (Vol 2), text in Chinese, with English and French annotations, paperback, covers patchily faded and lifting, spine faded, edges rubbed, a good secondhand copy. Anthology of literary writing by various writers, in the Chinese Language Library series. English/French... More about Readings from Chinese Writers. Textes choisis d'écrivains chinois. Vols 1 & 2
London. Jonathan Cape. 1956. 249pp, upper corner little bumped, price clipped dustjacket. foxing on fore-edges, otherwise good in hardback. A story of 3rd B.C. ancient China in social turmoil and its first emperor Qin shi huang (259 B.C.-210 B.C.). (When referring to this item please quote stockid 164556). More about Lord of the East
Taipei. Literature House. 1964. Second Edition. 283 + 279pp, indices, page edges foxed, endpapers little browned, a good hardback copy otherwise. An anthology of short extracts from the works of Chinese authors from various ages, chronologically arranged, covering 550 BC to 1650 CE. Short biographical and dynastic notices included where... More about Gems of Chinese Literature
Beijing. Culture & Fine Arts Publishing House. 1999. xiv + 422pp, paperback, very good. Chpater titles include: 'Songs of the Self', 'Self-enclosure and Self-Absortion', 'Emotions and the Origin of Evil' and 'Weeping and Wailing'. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 154174). More about Minds and Mentalities in Traditional Chinese Literature
Pymble. Fourth Estate. 2004. xviii + 398 pp, glossary, very light browning on edges, otherwise very good in paperback. "Consider Maqiao: a little village, impossible to find, almost dropped off the map, with a few dozen households... set against a stretch of mountain. Sent here for 're-education' during China's Cultural... More about A Dictionary of Maqiao
Stanford University Press. 1936. xxxix + 192pp, bibliography, a prior owner's signature front free endpapers, ex-library copy with perforated stamp title page and remnants of library pocket upper pastedown, occasional light soiling and marking on cloth. Good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 164471). More about The West Chamber. A Medieval Drama. Translated from the Original Chinese With Notes
Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1953. Map, frontispiece, xi + 126pp, dustjacket a little worn with a small tear, good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 149148). More about Chu Yuan. A Play in Five Acts
Beijing. Foreign Language Press. 1981. Colour illustrations, 236pp, hardback, ribbon placeholder, lightly marked dustjacket little chipped along lower edge, a good copy. Classic novel of modern China. Describes the life of a rickshaw boy who attempts to build a decent life for himself. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 129539). More about Camel Xiangzi
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London. Andre Deutsch. vi + 296pp, title page pen marks, endpapers some partial browning, otherwise a good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161849). More about The Before Midnight Scholar. [Jou Pu Tuan
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1992. Translated by Nancy C. Ing and Chi Pang-yuan. xiii + 154pp, frontispiece, lower edge little marked, a good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 143872). More about Memories of Peking. South Side Stories
Melbourne. Heinemann. 1946. First Australian edition. xiv + 495pp, appendices, index, pictorial endpapers by Chiang Yee, spine a little faded with one chip, a prior owner's signature title page. Good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 164670). More about The Importance of Living
Hong Kong. The Chinese University Press. 1984. Black and white illustrations, endpaper maps, 372pp, cover rear, spine and edges discoloured; closed tear bottom right corner front cover, a good hardback copy in dustjacket. Small quarto. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 143484). More about Chinese Middlebrow Fiction: From the Ch'ing and Early Republican Eras
Sydney. Angus and Robertson Ltd., (circa1970). Index, plates and illustrations mainly in colour, 80pp, hardback, dustjacket torn and foxed, 22.2 x 28.3cm. In this book, the long and facinating Chinese history is presented as a series of easy to read stories. The text was originally written for the author's 7... More about The Story of China
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石家庄.[Shijiazhuang]. 河北人民出版社.[Hebei ren min chu ban she]. 1993. Two-volume set housed in decorative case with toggles, 10 plates featuring the main characters, 685pp, title label laid down on case's upper cover and spine, spine and upper edge of case a little browned, trifle rubbing on covers, otherwise very good in... More about 三国演义. [San guo yan yi]. [Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Rutland, Vermont. Charles E. Tuttle Company. 1964. Black and white illustrations, 86pp, price-clipped dustjacket extremities are worn with light foxing, left side of title page little foxed, a good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 155931). More about Chi Po and the Sorcerer. A Chinese Tale for Children and Philosophers
Baton Rouge. Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Translated by Howard Goldblatt. 507pp, hardback in dustjacket, two small marks on fore edge otherwise very good. "In this dazzling, earthy novel Jia Pingwa presents an unforgettable chronicle of rural China, a world at once utterly alien and uncannily familiar. Focussed on the... More about Turbulence
