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Item #330205 The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked...

Winchester, Simon

The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom (P.S.)

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.....

Price: $9.00

Yang, Gladys (translator). Huang Yongyu (illustrations)

Ashima

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.....

Price: $20.00

Ning, Lao Toai-Toai, Pruitt, Ida

A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman

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.....

Price: $8.50

Alley, Rewi

The People Sing: More Translations of Poems and Songs of the People of China

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.....

Price: $60.00

Carvalho e Rego, Francisco de

Da virtude da mulher chinesa

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).....

Price: $95.00

Chen, Charles [Chengzhi]

A Librarian's Handbook for Use in Chinese-Japanese Collections

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;.....

Price: $40.00

Mayers, William Frederick

The Chinese Reader's Manual: A Handbook of Biographical, Historical, Mythological, and General Literary Reference

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.

Price: $20.00

Porter, Katherine Anne [Mae Munro Watkins]

[My Chinese Marriage] Asia: The American Magazine on the Orient, June and July 1921

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.....

Price: $100.00

Fewsmith, Joseph

China Today, China Tomorrow: Domestic Politics, Economy, and Society

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.....

Price: $12.50

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