Item 163591The Food of China
Yale U., 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover. 263pp, octavo, hc w/jacket in mylar, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards with sharp corners, blind stamp, light soiling to top page edges, clean jacket with light wear.
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Item 166998Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979
U. of California, 1994. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Large octavo hc w/jacket, 568pp, green cloth, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards, faint wear to the corners, and a light bump to top of spine, Very Good. Jacket is clean and colorful with a .25" tear at top of spine, Good+.
Item 90564In Search of Old Peking
Paragon Book Reprint Corp, 1967. Reprint. HARDCOVER. 382pp, octavo.
Item 166999A History of Cultic Images in China: The Domestic Statuary of Hunan
Chinese U. of Hong Kong, 2020. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Smaller quarto hc w/jacket, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards with sharp corners & bright spine titles, spine ends lightly worn, mild bump to lower right corner of fronttt board, Very Good+. Clean and colorful jacket with mild wear across the top.....
Item 167052Fortune-Tellers and Philosophers: Divination in Traditional Chinese Society
Westview, 1991. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Octavo hc w/jacket, lightly marked in ink on 6 pages, tight binding, clean red cloth boards with bright spine titles and sharp corners, Fair. Jacket is clean and colorful with light edge wear and a m ild fade to top of spine, Very Good.
Item 164784Risky Business in Rising China
Author, 2023. 1st Ed. Paperback. Signed by author. 257pp, octavo paperback. wraps clean and sharp, tight binding, interior text clean. signed by author.
Item 166992The Ming Tribute Grain System
U. of Michigan, 1969. 1st thus. SOFTCOVER. Small octavo softcover, 112pp, tight binding, clean throughout, clean wraps with faint toning along the spine and light edge wear, Very Good. Michigan Abstracts of Chinese and Japanese Works on Chinese History No. 1.
Item 104319The Magical Powers of the Horse as Revealed in the Archeological Explorations of Early China, Volume One (V.1 ONLY)
UMI Dissertation Infomation Service, 1989. 1st edition. PAPERBACK. 601pp, square octavo.
Item 122478Chinese Society and Culture
Shannxi People's Publishing House, 2007. Paperback edition. PAPERBACK. 482pp. 8vo in wraps. B&W photos. Light creasing to wraps; small stains to textblock edges else interior unmarked. Signed by author Baorong on title page. Text in English with notes in Chinese.
Item 167054Cadres, Bureaucracy, and Political Power in Communist China
Columbia U., 1967. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Octavo hc w/jacket, 563pp, four pages of the preface are underlined in ink, tight binding, clean boards with touches of corner wear, clear black spine titles, Good. Jacket is worn and price clipped with small tears at the edges, Good.
Item 114470China Takes Off: Technology Transfer and Modernization
U. of Washington, 1986. 1st edition. HARDCOVER. inscribed by Bauer, 227pp, octavo. inscribed.
Item 160582Naxi Paper Books (using the precious Dongba Paper Printing) 16 Format (CHINESE EDITION)
Yunnan Fine Arts, 2000. 1st thus. Paperback. 89pp, quarto in illustrated envelope, tight binding, clean throughout, clean and colorful wraps, clean and colorful envelope.
Item 167524Du Fu Transforms: Tradition and Ethics amid Societal Collapse
Harvard U. Asia Center, 2021. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Octavo hc w/jacket, 411pp, the first 10 pages are underlined in pen, all other pages are unmarked, tight binding, clean boards with sharp corners, slight bow to front cover, Fair. Jacket is colorful and glossy with light wear, Near Fine. Harvard Yenching.....
Item 167093Many Faces of Mulian: The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China
University of Washington Press, 2017. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. SOFTCOVER. Octavo; softcover; 248 pp. Tight binding; interior clean throughout; front wrapper has one spot of light soiling, likely from fingerprints; Very Good.
Item 159754The Tenacity of Chinese Folk Tradition
Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1975. 1st edition. Paperback. 32pp, quarto, tight binding, clean throughout, mild soiling and wear to the wraps, owner's name stamp on cover & bottom page edges.
Item 159719The Chinese Classic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography of Chiefly English-language Studies
Garland, 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover. 302pp, small octavo, green cloth, tight binding, clean throughout, sharp corners, bright gilt spine titles.
Item 121899The Cuckoo Comes at Harvest: Two "Old Heads" on a Chinese Campus
Peggy Bickford, 1998. 1st edition. HARDCOVER. inscribed by Bickford, quarto, 112 pp.
Item 157866Stories from a Ming Collection
Indiana U., 1958. 1st edition. Hardcover. 205pp, small octavo, hc w/jacket, tight binding, clean throughout, corner wear, clean boards, complete jacket is mildly soiled and mildly worn.
Item 162434South China in the Sixteenth Century:: Being the narratives of Galeote Pereira, Fr. Gaspar da Cruz, O.P., Fr. Martin de Rada, O.E.S.A. (1550-1575)
The Hakluyt Society, 1953. 1st thus. Hardcover. 388pp, octavo, blue cloth, gilt titles and decor, fold-out map, tight binding, clean throughout, mild wear & soiling to the boards, mild wear to spine ends. The Hakluty Society Series II, Vol. CVI.
Item 129617Technology and Society in Ming China (1368-1644)
Society for the History of Technology, 2000. Paperback edition. PAPERBACK. 89pp. Octavo paperbound, tight binding. Wrap lightly worn. Interior clean throughout.
Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1990. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. Square 12mo; softcover; 23 pp. Tight binding; interior clean throughout; Near Fine.
Item 83383Mr. Selden's Map of China Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer
New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. First American edition. HARDCOVER. 211pp color, b/w illustrations octavo cloth.
Item 159798Hudson Taylor: The Man Who Dared
The China Inland Mission, 1938. Reprint. Paperback. 72pp, 12mo, clean throughout, colorful illustrated cover, heavy soiling to the back cover, bottom .5" of spine is torn, wear to the wraps.
Item 138788Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan
U. of California, Inst. of East Asian Studies, 1996. 1st edition. PAPERBACK. 335pp, octavo, tight binding, clean throughout, clean wraps with light wear to a couple corners. China Research Monograph.
Item 167070Land Utilization in China: A study of 16,786 farms in 168 localities, and 38,256 farm families in twenty-two provinces in China, 1929-1933
The Council on Economic and Cultural Affairs, Inc., 1956. Reprint Edition. SOFTCOVER. Octavo softcover; 494 pp. B/w plates, maps, and tables. Tight binding, clean throughout. Discoloration and wrinkling to spine (not impacting text block); one 1 inch closed tear to spine; toning consistent with age. Good. Note: No text/title to.....