Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. 2007. Reprint. Maps, black and white photographic plates, xxii + 399pp, notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket. A very good copy with a very lightly sunned spine. When referring to this item please quote stockid 162819. More

United States: Princeton Architectural Press, 2014. Beautiful black and white illustrations, pictorial endpapers, 167pp, signed by author(s)?, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. 39.5 x 20cm. "Beijing is China's capital city and one of the most populous in the world. Its history dates back three millennia and as a result..... More

London. Allen Lane. 2008. Maps, black and white photographic plates, viii + 370pp, bibliography, notes, index, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Details of the event in Hong Kong organised by the Royal Asiatic Society at which this copy was..... More

London. Hutchinson. 1961. First Edition. Black and white photographic illustrations, 255pp, dustjacket faded on spine, paper repairs on its reverse. A good hardback copy. Blofeld's delightful account of his happy years in pre-WWII Peking. An immensely readable and charming work now no longer easy to find in the first edition..... More

Tokyo. John Weatherhill, Inc., 1965. First edition. Maps, plans, many colour and black and white plates, some full page, xiv + 263pp, index, bibliography, chop and prior owner's signature on title-page, gilt lettering cloth covers, dustjacket with some wear along extremities and some loss on spine, even browning along edges..... More

No place of publication. No details of publisher. (circa 2010). Photographic illustrations in colour, 61pp, front free endpaper and upper pastedown little rubbed, good. Text in Chinese and English. 16.1 x 24.6cm. Snapshots of life on the streets of Beijing with three wheeled bicycles highlighted. Photographs by Thomas Deighton, Murray..... More

China. People's China Publishing House (PCPH), 1992. Pictorial endpapers, extensive black and white photographic illustrations, city plan, 76pp torn with some loss, reverse of dustjacket a little stained lower spine, dustjacket a little worn with closed tear on lower spine, good hardback copy. 28.6 x 22.1cm. Text in Chinese and..... More

London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1945. Reprint. Colour frontispiece by Chiang Yee, 176pp, portions of dustjacket laid down front free endpaper, spine faded, neat date handwritten on front free endpaper. Novel by the author of Brave New China, Portrait of a Chinese Lady and Two Gentlemen of China. When referring to..... More

London. Hodder and Stoughton. 1944. [Reprint]. Colour frontispiece by Chiang Yee, 175pp, carelessly opened pages have left 2 leaves torn at lower corners, binding patchily faded, gilt lettering upper cover, hardback, contents clean and sound. Novel by the author of Brave New China, Portrait of a Chinese Lady and Two..... More

Beijing. China Photographic Publishing House. 1998. Profusely illustrated throughout with colour photographic plates by Hu Chui, 96pp, slightly yellowed spine, very good hardback copy. 28.5 x 21.5 cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 213924. More

New York. Oxford University Press. 1994. First Edition. Tables, xvi + 163pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix, dustjacket, trifle foxed upper edge, a very good copy. A revealing look at the model of factory management and organization and through this the consolidation of communist rule in China in the 1949 -..... More

Beijing: Foreign Language and Teaching Press. 2008. [Reprint]. Black and white photographic illustrations, xviii + 255pp, introduction in Chinese, very good paperback copy with French flaps. Peking Revisited：Introductory Chapters include: ;In a Peking Garden: How the Court Came back to Peking; Official and Rank Distinctions; Imperial Funeral; Pekingese Dogs and..... More

Berkeley. University of California Press. 2000. Reprint. Maps, black and white illustrations, xxxv + 816pp, appendices, bibliography-glossary, index, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the city's temples as her..... More