Hong Kong. Oxford University Press. 1986. viii + 619pp, edges evenly browned, covers worn and a little soiled, still a sound paperback copy. First published in 1939 (as Hotel Shanghai in the German edition, Nanking Road in the British and under this title in the US) this edition includes an..... More
China Society. 33pp, bibliography, notes, spiral binding with plastic covers, very good. 29.6 x 21.2cm. China Society Occasional Papers no. 26. It was a lecture given at a meeting of the China Society on March 20th, 1991. When referring to this item please quote stockid 170171. More
London. Allen Lane. 2003. Delightful pictorial maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 410pp, very good hardback in dustjacket with a very lightly sunned spine. 168127 "Shanghai in the wake of the First World War was one of the world's most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities a swarming metropolis of nightclubs..... More
London. Cassell. 1974. 1st UK Edition. viii + 340pp, index, endpapers very lightly foxed, good copy in dustjacket. The author, the daughter of one of the great tea merchants of Shanghai, brings to life pre-WWII Shanghai. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166708. More
United Kingdom. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. Black and white photographic illustrations, xii + 192pp, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, hardback, very good. Thriving on its long-term collective memory of possessing futurity, the mega city of Shanghai on the Eastern seaboard of China is once more jockeying for the position as Asia's foremost..... More
Hong Kong. Oxford University Press, 1986. Reprint. Folding map, black and white illustrations, xviii + 225pp, chronology, business directory, paperback with lightly faded dustjacket. First published in 1934 this guide book describes the sightseeing and shopping available in Shanghai as well as a potted history of the city and some..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 2004. Reprint. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xvii + 465pp, appendices, notes, references, glossary, index, margins trifle yellowed, covers little shelf worn, a good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 167669. More
Hong Kong. Earnshaw Books. (circa 2008). xiv + 114pp, glossary, hardback in dustjacket, very good. This wonderful book is written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. The world of old Shanghai, the life of expats in Asia in..... More
Hong Kong. Joint Publishing. 1983. Maps, colour and black and white illustrations, 143pp, index, paperback, extremities worn, a prior owners signature front free endpaper, author's name circled upper cover, a sound paperack copy in rubbed covers. Pre-1949 Shanghai - how it felt and how it looked. When referring to this..... More
Facsimile. Folding colour map, folding panorama of the Bund in 1928, six other black and white photographic illustrations, xii + 336pp, index, bibliography, very occasional light spotting, a very good copy in dustjacket. Facsimile reprint of the 1928 Kelly & Walsh edition. A history of Shanghai, includes chapters on the..... More
Hong Kong. Hong Kong China Tourism Press. 2001. 2nd Edition, 1st Printing. Map, profuse photographic illustrations in colour, 117pp, indexes, hardback in pictorial colour boards, good. When referring to this item please quote stockid 170169. More
香港.Hong Kong. 中国通出版社. Old China Hand Press. 2003. Attractive colour illustrations throughout, 207pp, appendices, corners a little bumped, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Text in Chinese and English. 28.8 x 25.3cm. Topics include currencies and credit institutions of ancient China; early native banks in Shanghai; foreign-funded banks in Shanghai;..... More
Oxford. Oxford University Press. 1993. Endpaper maps, black and white and colour photographic illustrations, xiv + 65pp, index, glossary, bibliography, a very good hardback copy. 20 x 13.5cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178426. More
Hong Kong. Oxford University Press. 1990. Reprint. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xi + 299pp, bibliography, glossary, index, 21.5 x 14cm. Edges little marked, some wear to paperback covers, a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173456. More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1978. Endpaper maps, xiv + 249pp, bibliography, index, dustjacket worn with few minor closed tears and one with some loss, spine sunned, a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 143874. More
Beijing. Foreign Languages Press. 2005. 3rd Printing. Translated from Chinese into English. Black and white photographic illustrations, 7 + 240 pp, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173642. More