STARS AND STORMS OVER CHINA, 1931-1945
Vienna, Virginia: BHA Publications, 1996. First Edition. Trade paperback. Signed by the author on the title page. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A very good copy. More
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PROTEINS, ANCIENT GREEKS AND T'ANG POETRY: A Round-Eyed Cyclopaedia
Edinburgh: Polygon, 1994. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A fine, unread copy. More
BEHIND THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA: Photographs from 1870 to the Present
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. A companion to the celebrated 1972 exhibition of photographs at the Metropolitan Museum, with an introduction by Weston J. Naef. Inscribed by the editor..... More
CHINESE PAPER OFFERINGS
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. A volume in the Images of Asia series. Small octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. More
CHINESE OPERA AND PAINTED FACE
Taipei, Taiwan: Mei Ya Publications, Inc, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 243 p. Preface by Lin Yutang. Colorfully illustrated throughout. First edition in English. An exhaustive study of origin and development of Chinese opera and its..... More
THE VANISHING BORDER: A Retrospective of China and Hong Kong through Maps.
Hong Kong: Credit Lyonnais Securities (Asia) Ltd., 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 3,000 copies. "This book, which comprises a selection of previously unpublished maps from Mr S.C. Tam's collection and maps drawn by non-Chinese..... More
The Author's Typescript of SON OF HEAVEN: A Biography of Li-Shih-Min, Founder of the T'ang Dynasty
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. A copy of the first trade edition, together with the author's typescript of the manuscript with the original hand-drawn maps. The second emperor of the Tang Dynasty..... More
THE UNEQUAL TREATIES: China and the Foreigner
London: John Murray, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. "This book traces the history of China so far as it has had contact with England and other European Countries from the eighteenth century. The author also brings..... More
HOW THE FAR EAST WAS LOST: American Policy and the Creation of Communist China, 1941-1949
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 480 p. Foreword by Charles Callan Tansill. Influential revisionist study of the Far Eastern policy pursued during the Roosevelt-Truman administrations. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with silver..... More
AT THE CHINESE TABLE
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. A volume in the Images of Asia series. Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A very good copy. More
CHI PO AND THE SORCERER: A Chinese Tale for Children and Philosophers
Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated by Mandel on the half-title. The delightful story of how young Chi Po, aided by the sorcerer Bu Fu..... More
THE LATE POEMS OF MENG CHIAO: Translated by David Hinton
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. "Late in life, Meng Chiao (A.D. 751--814) developed an experimental poetry of virtuosic beauty, a poetry that anticipated landmark developments in the modern Western tradition by a...... More
SCIENCE AND CIVILISATION IN CHINA, Volume 2: History of Scientific Thought
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Reprint. The second installment in Science and Civilisation in China, a monumental series initiated and edited by British biochemist and China scholar Joseph Needham (1900-1995). They deal exhaustively with..... More
CHINA'S MANAGEMENT OF THE AMERICAN BARBARIANS: A Study of Sino-American Relations, 1841-1861, with Documents
New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, 1953. Second Edition. Hardcover. This comprehensive work includes selections from a wide array of Chinese documents dealing with the United States, as well as extensive glossaries listing Chinese..... More
THE TAO OF PAINTING: A Study of the Ritual Disposition of Chinese Painting, with a Translation of the Chieh Yuan Hua Chuan or Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting 1679-1701
New York: Pantheon Books, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. "...an exploration of certain ideas that have traditionally motivated and governed Chinese painting, and of the technical methods used to express them. Its core is a translation..... More
IMPERIAL CHINA: Photographs 1850-1912
New York: Penwick Publishing, Inc., 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 151 p. With a Foreword by Harrison Salisbury. Profusely illustrated. "In these masterpieces of photography, we see the landscape, people, and events that shaped the world's..... More
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