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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PICTURESQUE CHINA: Architecture and Landscape - A Journey through Twelve Provinces
New York: Brentano's Publishers, 1923. Hardcover. The German architect and historian Ernst Boerschmann (1873–1949) spent his professional life engaged in research on traditional Chinese architecture. This work, his most succesful, features 288 photographs and a.... 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 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 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 dn 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
QING COLONIAL ENTERPRISE; Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 16 color plates, with 17 figures, 6 maps, and 4 tables. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. First edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding... More
SCHOLARS' ROCKS IN ANCIENT CHINA: The Suyuan Stone Catalogue
Trumbull, Connecticut: Weatherhill, Inc., 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. "...one of the most comprehensive and important texts on the collection and appreciation of scholars' rocks (gongshi) in ancient China. The selections included here, the first to... 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
THE CLOSING EVENTS OF THE CAMPAIGN IN CHINA: The Operations in the Yang-Tze-Kiang; and Treaty of Nanking
London: John Murray, 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. "Anxious to see China and witness the operations then proceeding there, I took the opportunity that offered of my return from active service in the Mediterranean to apply... 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
CHINESE ENCOUNTERS
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Arthur Miller’s first visit to China was in the autumn of 1978, immediately before the establishment of Sino-US diplomatic relationship. He was the first contemporary... 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
THE WHITE PONY: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is the first collection of Chinese poetry undertaken by a group of Chinese scholars." Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with silver titles. A bit... More
PACING THE VOID: T'ang Approaches to the Stars
Warren, Connecticut: Floating World Editions, 2005. Trade paperback. "This revised edition incorporates the corrigenda compiled by Professor Schafer." Tall octavo. Original paper wrappers. A fine copy. 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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