Vintage, August 2012. Trade Paperback. A new copy. From one of China's most acclaimed writers: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades. Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words uses personal stories and astute analysis to reveal as.....
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.....
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.....
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).....
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;.....
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.
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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.....
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.....