Chapel Hill. Algonquin Books. 1997. First edition. Maps, 224 pp., dustjacket, hardback, very good copy. A young traveller's account of his journey to the Drung people of South-western China, a place unvisited by another European for over a century. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 151567). More
London. Cresset Press. 1941. Maps, black and white photographic plates, 280pp, index, dustjacket cellotape repaired on reverse and chipped in places, a very good copy of an uncommon book. Study of the Min Chia culture in the 1940s, with particular focus on religion. Includes two useful sections on Min Chia..... More
Washington D.C. Smithsonian Institution. 1958. 16 black and white photographic plates, black and white line illustrations in text, 115pp, bibliography, index, uncut, largely unopened, library markings upper cover and neat stamp title page, a good copy. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 135, Number 1. The Qiang people are one of the..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 2001. xi + 321pp, bibliography, index, paperback, foxing upper edge, a very good copy. Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most people outside China have never heard the name. This book, the first scholarly study in a western language on the..... More
Bangalore. White Lotus. 2008. [Reprint]. Folding maps, black and white photographic plates, xx + 269pp, index, originally published in 1904, paperback, chop on title page, 21 x 15cm, very good copy In 1900 a party of British citizens fleeing the Boxer Rebellion left China using the back-door. This unusual group..... More
Brookvale. Child & Associates. (c.1987.). Photographs by Paul Lau. Colour map, pictorial endpapers, profuse colour illustrations, 128pp, table, index, dustjacket. Quarto, very good copy. A beautifully and profusely coloured photographic portrait of some of the ethnic minorities of China, Tibet and Mongolia. (When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More
Bangkok. White Lotus. 2001. Maps, colour plates, black and white illustrations, xii + 334pp, references, notes, appendix, paperback, a very good copy. First book in the Studies in Asian Tourism series. This book brings together papers presented at the International Conference on Anthropology, Tourism and Chinese Society held at Yunnan..... More
