Results for: China
Justice and Politics in People's China : Legal Order or Continuing Revolution?
Brady, James P.
London: Academic Press, 1982.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with light scuffing to covers. 268 pages with references, and index. An interesting sociological study of the Chinese legal system.
Price: $65.00
Opium Regimes : China, Britain, and Japan, 1839 - 1952.
Brook, Timothy, and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, editors.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Light wear to edges of covers with minor scuffing. Clean, unmarked text. Tight binding. 444 pages with illustrations, tables, notes after each essay, bibliography, and index. A collection of essays on the politics, power, and profits from the opium trade in China.
Price: $20.00
Redefining History : Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in P'u Sung-ling's World, 1640-1715.
Chang, Chun-shu and Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1998.
Good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and minor rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to heel of spine. Slight roll to spine, and a few pages have a very slight crease at their lower corners. Light pencil notation on less than 20 pages. Dj has light wear along edges and light scuffing to covers. 358 pages with appendix, endnotes, glossary, bibliography, and index. A look at the changes happening in the east Shantung region of China during the late Ming and Early Ch'ing dynasties through the life and writings of P'u Sung-ling.
Price: $30.00
Early Chinese Civilization: Anthropological Perspectives.
Chang, K. C.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has some wear and rubbing along edges with a few minor tears and some light scuffing to covers with a few small stainmarks on the front cover. Upper edges of pages are lightly foxed. 229 paages with illustrations, tables. notes, bibliography, glossary, and index. A collection of 9 essays dealing with Shang and Chou society and culture.
Price: $25.00
A Mosaic of the Hundred Days : Personalities, Politics, and Ideas of 1898.
Kwong, Luke S. K.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with some small tears and nicks. Dj is also scuffed on covers and faded along spine. Name of previous owner written on front free endpaper. 356 pages with appendix, endnotes, glossary, bibliography, and index. A study of the Hundred Days reform movement in late Qing China and the role of K'ang-Yu-Wei in it.
Price: $25.00
Rarely Seen Photos of the Great Wall.
Photography by Li Shaobai. Edited by Gao Qin and Zhou Zhiyun.
1995..
First edition. Very good quarto hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear along edges with some scuffing to covers and small chip on lower edge of front cover. 96 pages with illustrations. Text is in Chinese with English translations.
Price: $75.00
Labor and the Chinese Revolution: Class Strategies and Contradictions of Chinese Communism, 1928-1948.
Thomas, S. Bernard.
Ann Arbor: Center of Chinese Studies, the University of Michigan, 1983..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges with a few minor tears and slight scuffing to covers. Gift inscription by author on the front free endpaper to previous owners. Upper and fore-edges of pages are lightly foxed. 341 pages with endnotes, bibliography, glossary, and index.
Price: $20.00
Between Politics and Markets : Firms, Competition, and Institutional Change in Post-Mao China.
Yi-Man Lin.
Cambridge University Press, 2001..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear along the edges of the boards with minor bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Dj also has slight wear along the edges with minor scuffing and scratching to the covers and slight crease on the front flap's lower corner. 255 pages with footnotes, tables, figures, 2 appendices, bibliography, and index. An examination of China's economy as it moves from a centrally planned economic system to one with some capitalistic and market-oriented features.
Price: $30.00
