Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Some soiling to top and foredge of textblock. 417 p. w/ endnotes, bibliography, charts, and glossary-index. Covers the transition from monarchical rule to ministerial administration. More about Monarchs and Ministers : the Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China 1723 - 1820

Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies / Harvard University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 403 (3) p. w/ illus., maps, endnotes, bibliography, index. Examines Buddhism's relationship to Neo-Confucianism, growth of tourism to sites, and motives... More about Praying for Power : Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late Ming China

Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe Inc., 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. 166 p. A collection of translated documents and excerpts with an in depth opening introduction with analysis. More about The Chinese Communist Party's NOMENKLATURA System : a Documentary Study of Party Control of...

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 550 (12) p. w/ footnotes, endnotes, character list, bibliography, index. A study of Qing rule in China, focusing on the six southern tours of emperor Qianlong... More about A Court on Horseback : Imperial Touring and the Construction of Qing Rule 1680 - 1785

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 370 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, index. An exploration on examining and translating the corpus of Masters Literature through various displines, instead of philosophy. More about The Dynamics of Masters Literature : Early Chinese Thought from Confucius to Han Feizi

Taipei, Taiwan: SMC Publishing, 2001. reprint from the original University of California edition. Trade Paperback with french flaps. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 847 p. w/ footnotes, tables, bibliography, index. In English. More about A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (oversize). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xxix, 864 p. w/ tables, maps, footnotes, bibliographical essays, bibliography, glossary, index. A history of the non-Chinese regimes (Khitan, Tangut, Jurchen) that giverend many parts of northern China and... More about Alien Regimes and Border States 907 - 1368. The Cambridge History of China Volume 6

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1990. Trade Paperback. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 374. p. w/ endnotes, bibliography, index. A study of permitted violence in the early imperial era : warfare, hunting, sacrifice, punishment, and vengeance. More about Sanctioned Violence in Early China

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 450 (13) p. w/ endnotes, bibliography, character list, index. A look at the intellectual, social , and local history of the Xuehaitang (Sea of Learning Hall)... More about The Sea of Learning : Mobiliy and Identity in Nineteenth Century Guangzou

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Thick octavo (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 816 p. w/ maps, illus., tables, appendices, bibliography, and a combined glossary-index. A detailed study of the relationship between the city and the temples (incl. churches) and... More about Peking : Temples and City Life 1400 - 1900

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 469 p. w/ maps, 2 appendices, endnotes, character list, bibliography, index. A study of Fukien province when it was one of the most prosperous regions of... More about Prosperity, Region, and Institutions in Maritime China : the South Fukien Pattern, 946 - 1368

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... More about Labor and the Chinese Revolution: Class Strategies and Contradictions of Chinese Communism,...