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
Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth Century China : Society, Culture, and Modernity in Li Yü's World.
Chang, Chun-shu and Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.
Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj. Top corners slgihtly bumped. 452 p. w/glossary, extensive biblography, and index. A study of the extensive changes in Chinese society, culture and the state though the life of playwright, novelist, and publisher Li Yü (1611-1680).
Price: $25.00
China and Christianity : the Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism 1860 - 1870. Harvard East Asian Series.
Cohen, Paul A.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967.
Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dj. Call number written in ink on top front of dj, but book is NOT ex-library..Spine lettering a bit faded. Cloth slightly scuffed. 392 p. w/notes, bibliography, index.
Price: $75.00
Studies in Early Chinese Culture : First Series.
Creel, Herrlee Glessner.
Wakefield: The American Council of Learned Societies, 1948.
Quarto-sized. Ex-library with many of the flaws, marks, and stamps associated with that condition including white call numbers on spine, bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, due date slip and pocket on rear free endpaper, and a few penciled in numbers on front free endpaper. Wear to edges of boards with bumping to heel of spine and some scuffing to covers. 266 pages with footnotes, list of books cited, and index. Includes essays on sources for Shang era, the Hsia dynasty, and Shang culture.
Price: $35.00
Ch'ing Administrative Terms : A Translation of The Terminology of the Six Boards with Explanatory Notes.
E-tu Zen Sun, translator and editor.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to heel of spine. Dj has wear along edges with many small tears and a larger chip/tear, about 3 inches in length, on upper edge of the front cover near the head of spine. Dj has some light scuffing and browning to covers. Page edges are lightly browned. 421 pages with notes, list of sources, and indices.
Price: $30.00
Two Studies in Ming History : Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies No. 12. Hu Tsung-hsien's Campaign Against Hsü Hai, 1556 [ with ] Su-chou and the Agents of Wei Chung Hsein 1626.
Hucker, Charles D.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 1971.
Thin octavo. Yellow covers somewhat soiled/ Slight wear to edges and corners. 83 p. w/maps, notes, and additional 2 p. on other works published by the Center.
Price: $45.00
The Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China, 1635 - 1834. Volume II.
Morse, Hosea Ballou.
Taipei: Ch'eng-Wen Publishing Company, 1966.
Octavo. Ex-library with many of the stamps, marks, and flaws associated with that condition including call numbers written on spine in an inch long area where the binding has been cut away, stamps on front pastedown endpaper, stamps on page edges, and remains of removed card pocket on rear pastedown endpaper. Wear to edges of boards with bumping to heel of spine. Page edges are browned. 435 pages plus section on Company's ships at Canton 1775-1804 with maps, few notes, appendices. A detailed look at the East India Company's China trade and relations with the Qing dynasty. Reprint of Oxford University Press edition.
Price: $45.00
The Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China, 1635 - 1834. Volume III.
Morse, Hosea Ballou.
Taipei: Ch'eng-Wen Publishing Company, 1966.
Octavo. Ex-library with many of the stamps, marks, and flaws associated with that condition including an inch long area where the binding has been cut away on the spine, stamps on front pastedown endpaper, stamps on page edges, and remains of removed card pocket on rear pastedown endpaper. Wear to edges of boards with bumping to head of spine. Light scuffing to covers. Upper postion of rear free endpaper is torn away. Page edges are browned. 388 pages plus section on Company's ships at Canton 1805-1820 with map, some illustrations, few notes, appendices. A detailed look at the East India Company's China trade and relations with the Qing dynasty to 1820. Reprint of Oxford University Press edition.
Price: $45.00
The Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China, 1635 - 1834. Volume IV.
Morse, Hosea Ballou.
Taipei: Ch'eng-Wen Publishing Company, 1966.
Octavo. Ex-library with many of the stamps, marks, and flaws associated with that condition including an inch long area where the binding has been cut away on the spine, stamps on front pastedown endpaper, stamps on page edges, and remains of removed card pocket on rear pastedown endpaper. Wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Light scuffing to covers with a few brown smudges on front cover. Page edges are browned. 427 pages with sections on Company's ships at Canton 1821-1833 and opium trade, some illustrations, few notes, appendices. A detailed look at the East India Company's China trade and relations with the Qing dynasty to 1834. Reprint of Oxford University Press edition.
Price: $45.00
A Diary of the Siege of the Legations in Peking.
Oliphant, Nigel.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901.
Octavo in red cloth with silver lettering to spine. Slight wear to edges and corners. Hea dand heel of spne bumped. A few small spots of soiling to covers. Endpapers browned and a bit brittle, as are adjacent pages to a lesser extent. First free endpaper has some chipping. 227 p. w/ fold out color map, diagrams of different actions, index. The story of the most well known event of the Boxer Rebellion. Oliphant was a British employee of the Chinese Imperial Postal Service, and his brother David was killed in the siege. His record is considered one of the more even handed of the event.
Price: $225.00
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: $65.00
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
