Good Women of China- Hidden Voices
Vintage Books, January 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Vintage Books, January 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Harper Perennial, May 2009. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"--New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"--Time) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge.....
Foreign Language Press, 1981. Hardcover. 83 pages. Beautiful illustrations in color. 'Ashima' is a poem handed down orally by the Sani people in Yunnan, a branch of the Yi, one of the minority peoples in Southwest China. Second edition. A very good copy in Blue cloth with red lettering on.....
Stanford University Press, October 1990. Trade Paperback. Within the common destiny is the individual destiny. So it is that through the telling of one Chinese peasant woman's life, a vivid vision of Chinese history and culture is illuminated. Over the course of two years, Ida Pruitt--a bicultural social worker, writer.....
Houghton Mifflin, Sentry Edition, January 1967. Trade Paperback.
Deutschland-Institut, 1945. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 405 pages. Limited to 350 copies. Otto Franke (1863-1946) was a German diplomat and sinologist, the leading German sinologist of his time. Text in German. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in original wrappers (paperback).
The Pilot Press, 1944. Hardcover. 35 pages. 4 essays meditating on post-war China. Reprint edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Rewi Alley, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 446 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in cloth covers with red and black lettering on front cover and black lettering on spine. Silk page ribbon present. Corners bumped. Former owner name on front pastedown. Dust jacket with edge and corner.....
Phoenix, August 2000. Trade Paperback. Theirs was a rich civilization in which emperors are magnified, bureacrats satirized, women worshipped, nature revered, parting and death mourned, and war reviled. Dawson shows how Chinese art and literature are linked by the magic of the calligraphic brush-stroke, and the lasting influence of ancient.....
Dover Pubns, March 1983. Trade Paperback.
Imprensa Nacional, 1949. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 219 pages. Letterpress printed in blue ink. A collection of a couple of hundred anecdotes, culled from history, literature, and the author's personal experience about the role of women in Chinese society. Text in Portuguese. OCLC records 10 copies. First edition (first printing).....
Ch'eng Wen Publishing Taipei, January 1968. Hardcover.
Oriental Society, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 769 pages. A guide to help librarians with Chinese and Japanese surnames. Contents: Alphabetical list of romanized Chinese surnames; Chinese surnames in Oriental stroke-order; Alphabetical list of romanized Japanese surnames; Japanese surnames in Oriental stroke-order; Library of Congress classification most used in Chinese-Japanese collections;.....
(Privately printed), 1924. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 578 pages. 'The reactions of non-Christian peoples to Protestant missions from the standpoint of individual and group behavior: Outline, materials, problems, and tentative interpretations'--from the title page. Price (1888-1964) was a sociologist who studied, among other topics, the impact of Christian missions in.....
Literature House, 1964. Hardcover. 440 pages. A facsimile of the 1874 first edition. Spine a bit faded, else a very good hardcover; no dust jacket.
Asia Publishing Company, 1921. Trade Paperback. The first two, of four, installments of Watkins' account of marrying a Chinese man at the height of the anti-Asian sentiment in the US. Her story was ghostwritten by a young Katherine Anne Porter and serialized in four issues of Asia magazine (the first.....
University of California Press, April 1998. Trade Paperback. Blood Road is a complex mix of social history, literary analysis, political biography, and murder mystery. It explores and analyzes the social and cultural dynamics of the Chinese revolution of the 1920s by focusing on the mysterious 1928 assassination of Shen Dingyi-revolutionary.....
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010. Trade Paperback. 334 pages. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining. In this timely book, a group of leading scholars provides a comprehensive assessment of China's polity, economy, and society. Taking the thirtieth anniversary of Beijing's adoption of reform and opening.....
N/A, January 1977. Trade Paperback.
Frank C. C. Tong. Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4 to, 10.5 x 7.75 inches. Red cloth covers with gold lettering to covers and spine. Stated first edition. Preface and listed contents in English, pages 1-34. Rest of book, 103 pages,in 10 chapter, in Chinese.....