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 about STARS AND STORMS OVER CHINA, 1931-1945
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 about PICTURESQUE CHINA: Architecture and Landscape - A Journey through Twelve Provinces
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 about BEHIND THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA: Photographs from 1870 to the Present
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 about CHINESE PAPER OFFERINGS
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 about CHINESE OPERA AND PAINTED FACE
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 about The Author's Typescript of SON OF HEAVEN: A Biography of Li-Shih-Min, Founder of the T'ang Dynasty
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 about THE UNEQUAL TREATIES: China and the Foreigner
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 about HOW THE FAR EAST WAS LOST: American Policy and the Creation of Communist China, 1941-1949
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Tang dynasty is often called China’s 'golden age,' a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to..... More about CHINA'S COSMOPOLITAN EMPIRE: The Tang Dynasty
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 about THE LATE POEMS OF MENG CHIAO: Translated by David Hinton
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 about CHINESE ENCOUNTERS
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 about SCIENCE AND CIVILISATION IN CHINA, Volume 2: History of Scientific Thought
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 about THE WHITE PONY: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
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 about PACING THE VOID: T'ang Approaches to the Stars
New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Presents a collection of Buddhist paintings, textiles, and manuscripts discovered in 1900 in a cave at Dunhuang in western China. Edited by Anne Farrer, with contributions... More about CAVES OF THE THOUSAND BUDDHAS: Chinese art from the Silk Route
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 about IMPERIAL CHINA: Photographs 1850-1912