China

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped with red decoration. Ex-library with bookplate and mild residue to rear end papers. The story of a Chinese boy who starts school, attractively illustrated in black and white with soft drawings by Laura Bannon.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Asia Center, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 544 pages. Minor corner and edge wear, spine bump, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, faded blue pebbled cloth, 456 pages, gilt title on spine. The work of an American Protestant missionary, with much material on missionaries in China. Many b&w engravings, fold-out map.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, just a bit age-yellowed. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine, bound in red cloth. Other than a slight age-yellow, pages clean and unmarked inside. Touch of foxing to top edge and back of dust jacket. In great shape.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. From one of Chinas most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the countrys meteoric economic and social transformation.Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular-people, leader, reading, writing, Lu Xun (one of the most influential Chinese writers of the twentieth century), disparity, revolution, grassroots, copycat, and bamboozle-China in Ten Words reveals as never before the worlds most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright jacket, 137 pages, b&w illustrations. (The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures, 1988) This engaging book challenges the traditional notion that Japan was an isolated nation cut off from the outside world in the modern era. This familiar story of seclusion, argues master historian Marius B. Jansen, results from viewing the period soley in terms of Japan's ties with the West, at the expense of its relationship with closer Asian neighbors. Taking as his focus the port of Nagasaki and its thriving trade with China in the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, Jansen not only corrects this misperception but offers an important analysis of the impact of the China trade on Japan's cultural, economic, and political life. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Asia Center, 1st pbk, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 445 pages, b&w illustrations. In China Made, Karl Gerth argues that two key forces shaping the modern world-nationalism and consumerism-developed in tandem in China. Early in the twentieth century, nationalism branded every commodity as either "Chinese" or "foreign," and consumer culture became the place where the notion of nationality was articulated, institutionalized, and practiced. Based on Chinese, Japanese, and English-language archives, magazines, newspapers, and books, this first exploration of the historical ties between nationalism and consumerism reinterprets fundamental aspects of modern Chinese history and suggests ways of discerning such ties in all modern nations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in dark green, 290 pages with index. Includes six life-histories of Chinese gentry families by Yung-teh Chow. Illustrations based on drawings by Hames K. Y. Kuo. Studies the social role of the scholar-gentry in imperial and modern China. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Softcover. Honolulu, University of HawaiinPress, 2nd pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 362 pages, b&w illustrations and photos. China's Old Dwellings is the most comprehensive critical examination of China's folk architectural forms in any language. It begins by tracing the interest in Chinese vernacular buildings in the twentieth century. Early chapters detail common and distinctive spatial components, including the interior and exterior modular spaces that are axiomatic components of most Chinese dwellings as well as conventional structural components and building materials common in Chinese construction. Later chapters examine representative housing types in the three broad cultural realms--northern, southern, and western--into which China has been divided. Knapp completes his survey with an exploration of China's old dwellings in the context of the rapid economic and social changes that are destroying so

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 228 pages. Photographs by Robert Capa, Lois Conner, Stuart Franklin, Zhang Hai-er, Wu Jialin, Wang Jinsong, Hiroji Kubota, Sebastiao Salgado, Liu Heung Shing, and others. This magnificent volume unfolds a series of in-depth portfolios by twenty of the most important Chinese and Western photographers of the era, conveying the extent of their involvement in politics, culture, and everyday life.

Hardcover. Philadephia, Temple University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 275 pages. Min Zhou examines how an ethnic enclave works to direct its members into American society, while at the same time shielding them from it. Focusing specifically on New York's Chinatown, a community established more than a century ago, Zhou offers a thorough and modern treatment of the enclave as a socioeconomic system, distinct form, but intrinsically linked with, the larger society. Zhou's central theme is that Chinatown does not keep immigrant Chinese from assimilating into mainstream society, but instead provides an alternative means of incorporation into society that does not conflict with cultural distinctiveness. Concentrating on the past two decades, Zhou maintains that community networks and social capital are important resources for reaching socioeconomic goals and social positions in the United States; in Chinatown, ethnic employers use family ties and ethnic resources to advance socially. Relying on her family's networks in New York's Chinatown and her fluency in both Cantonese and Mandarin, the author, who was born in the People's Republic of China, makes extensive use of personal interviews to present a rich picture of the daily work life in the community. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NA, NA, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1022 pages. Red cloth covers with titles in gilt. Clean, tight copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 258 pages. The beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party, and the personalities and backgrounds of the two party founders, Ch'en Tu-hsiu and Li Ta-chao. Analyses of the perculiar nature of the Communist-Kuomintang alliance of 1924. Very good, no dust jacket.

Singapore, Asiapac Books, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover 121 pages. The infamous and powerful eunuchs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties come to life in this graphic novel. Illustrated in b&w line.

Softcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages. Paperback with faded paper wrappers. Black and white and colored pictures throughout. Tight copy

Hardcover. London ; Boston, Unwin Hyman, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 226 pages. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, previous owner's signature in front, faint foxing to top edge, else a very neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cleveland OH, World Publishing Co., 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound. A top-flip book rather than side-flip. Color illustrations by Ed Young. Soilng to covers. Spinewear.

Hardcover. London/NY, Castle Books (Thomas Nelson & Sons), 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket with some light spotting to rear panel. 204 pages, 24 color plates, 96 b&w illustrations and 9 Figure illustrations. "Previous books on the subject have often been based on inaccurate and varying translations of Chinese writings. Mr. Thiel, on the other hand, has carefully and studiously avoided speculation and fantasies, confining himself absolutely to the facts. Beginning with Chou and Ha Dynasties of 1122-206 B.C. and covering the periods up to and including the Ch-ing Dynasty of 1644-1912 A.D.; all that a collector needs to know about style, workmanship, color, texture, glaze is included here with stress on exact information. chapters are devoted to the all-important T-ang and Ming Dynasties."

Hardcover. London, Ernest Benn, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, four volume set complete. Matching gray-brown buckram cloth with gilt front cover decoration and gilt spine lettering. Set from architect Albert Kahn's library with his pencil signature on each fly leaf. Vol. 1 Text, cxlvi plus 168 page index with detailed descriptions of plates. B&w frontispiece. Vol. II Plates 1-205. Vol. III Plates 206-421. Volume IV Plates 422- . Small stickers on bottom of spine. An exceptional set and reference. Very heavy volumes. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Gretchen Schields. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR. Clean, tight copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. Beijing, Zhaohua Publishing House, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages. Lovely color illustrations throughout by Zhu Chengliang. Clean copy. An adventure story set in old China.

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 298 pages. Commodifying Communism is an ethnographic study of the role of personal ties between private entrepreneurs and local officials in the organization of China's emerging market economy. It is based on almost two years of fieldwork in Xiamen City, Fujian, one of China's five special economic zones. A close examination of how private business is conducted through these ties sheds light on the dynamism of China's market economy and its political consequences. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Soft Skull Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 287 pages. It's 1983. Scott Savitt, one of the first American exchange students in Beijing, picks up his guitar and begins strumming Blackbird. He's soon surrounded by Chinese students who know every word to every Beatles song he plays. Scott stays on in Beijing, working as a reporter for Asiaweek Magazine. The city's first nightclubs open; rock 'n' roll promises democracy. Promoted to foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times then United Press International, Scott finds himself drawn into China's political heart.Later, at 25 years old, Scott is the youngest accredited foreign correspondent in China with an intimate knowledge of Beijing's backstreets. But as the seven week occupation of Tiananmen Square ends in bloodshed on June 4, 1989, his greatest asset is his flame-red 500 cc. Honda motorcycle--giving Scott the freedom to witness first-hand what the Chinese government still denies ever took place. After Tiananmen, Scott founds the first independent English language newspaper in China, Beijing Scene. He knows that it's only a matter of time before the authorities move in, and sure enough, in 2000 he's arrested, flung into solitary confinement and, after a month in jail, deported. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Garden City NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations by Ed Young. Dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book.