Category: China
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Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Chemistry - Part 2, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Magisteries of Gold and Immortality
by Needham, Joseph and Lu Gwei-Djen
Price: US $60.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
Volume Five in the epic (now 27 volumes) study of China. This volume,Volume 5, part 2 discusses alchemy, gold and chemistry. Near fine black cloth ... Details
The Anthropology of Taiwanese Society
by Ahern, Martin and Hill Gates (editors)
Price: US $17.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
A fine, unread copy with no edge wear and no prior owner marks. Dust jacket has slight wear along the top edge, but NOT price clipped. The important... Details
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
by Ai Weiwei , translated by Allan H. Barr
Price: US $23.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
"An exquisitely serious masterpiece about his Chine" says Andrew Solomon on the dustjacket. And I agree. It is a biography of his prominent family'... Details
My Chinese Days
by Alsop, Gulielma (1881-1978)
Price: US $37.00
Binding: Decorative Cloth
Book Condition: Good
Binding: Decorative Cloth
Book Condition: Good
A missionary doctor's memoir of years in Shanghai. Early on she mentions turning 27, so this is 1908. She is obviously not only intrepid, but also v... Details
In China
by Arnold, Eve
Price: US $16.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Photos taken by a great lady photographer, the first female member of Magnum, taken in 1979 on a long trek through China focused on the people and cu... Details
The Chinese
by Becker, Jasper
Price: US $10.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
A fine copy in a dust jacket that is not price-clipped and is also fine. Becker is one of those journalists, who lived in China for two decades and f... Details
The Government and Politics of China, 1912 -1949
by Ch'ien Tuan-sheng
Price: US $15.00
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Fine
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Fine
A fine, unread copy with very slight edge wear, as new inside. The best study of the Kuomintang regime. Details
China, The People's Republic, 1949 - 1976
by Chesneaux, Jean
Price: US $4.00
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
Appears unread, but the pages are beginning to yellow, which must be true for all copies. Early Communist China rule under Mao's eratic leadership,... Details
To the Interior
by Clara Yu
Price: US $39.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase
Edition: First Edition
Beautiful poetry, crossing the two cultures of China and the U.S. The author taught at Middlebury when she wrote these, and is now the head of the M... Details
China in Transformation
by Colquhoun, Archibald R.
Price: US $42.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
An exceptionally clean copy. Gilt on spine and front bright. Clean and tight inside and out. Three color, folding maps in a rear pocket, in additi... Details
Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers
by Constant, Samuel
Price: US $1390.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Near fine, original silk embroidered boards with orange silk cord binding in the Chinese style. 16 tipped-in photos, 60 colored plates of peddlers, o... Details
Bibliotheca Sinica, Dictionnaire Bibliographique Des Ouvrages Relaties a L'Empire Chinois, 6 volumes in 3
by Cordier, Henri
Price: US $99.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Original black cloth with no edge wear, clean and tight, with bright gilt titles on all 3 volumes on red spine labels. Very nice inside and out. A ... Details
Karou: A Neolithic Site in Tibet
by CPAM, Tibet Autonomous Region & Dept of History, Sichuan Univ.
Price: US $75.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
SCARCE. This neolithic site was discovered in Tibet in 1977. Pages 179, in a very clean copy with no rubs and no prior owner marks. Profuse text ... Details
Newspaper Chinese
by Creel, Herlee Glessner and Teng Ssu-yu
Price: US $25.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Subtitled "By the Inductive Method". A nice copy protected in mylar dustjacket. Slight edgewear and soiling. Pages viii, 263. This was a labor of ... Details
From Pekin to Calais By Land
by de Windt, H.
Price: US $60.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Very good original brown cloth with an oriental red design across the front. Some soiled and edgewear, with a dull gilt title on the spine. Inside, ... Details
The Contest of the Century
by Dyer, Geoff
Price: US $15.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
A fine, unread copy. Subtitled "The New Era of Competition with China - and How America Can Win". Journalists who have lived in China are writing t... Details
The Chinese
by Ecker, Jasper
Price: US $15.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
A decade old, but this description of China and its people is equally valid as the day it was printed. The author is a superb journalist resident in... Details
South of the Clouds, Exploring the Hidden Realms of China
by Faison, Seth
Price: US $14.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
The author lived in China for 12 years, part of that time as New York Times bureau chief in Shanghai. He learned much about changing China and Tibet.... Details
Souvenir of China, including Four Hundred and Fifty original Photographs
by Gammon, Charles F.
Price: US $550.00
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
Oblong brown cloth with a bright title in light green surrounded by a dragon on the front cover. Profuse early photos from all over China. Very clea... Details
The Changing Face of China, From Mao to Market
by Gittings, John
Price: US $15.00
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
There are lots of excellent books on the complexities of current China, and this one is sourght after. Well written, by an excellent British journali... Details