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

Cambridge, MA: 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 453 p. w/ illus., maps, endnotes, bibliography, Chinese character index, general index. A "biography" of a great Chines artistic and merchant center. More about Speaking of Yangzhou : a Chinese City 1550 - 1850

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 2nd printing. Hardcover w/glossy boards. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued with this printing. 270 p. w/ illus., chapter endnotes, bibliography, index. More about The Making of the Republican Citizen : Political Ceremonies and Symbols in China, 1911 - 1929

Ann Arbor / London: University of Michigan Press / Oxford University Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Myalar cover is good, with smal cracks at the corners and little chipping at the head and heel of spine. xiii (3), 288 p.... More about Chinese Bronze Age Weapons : The Werner Jannings Collection in the Chinese National Palace...

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 504 p. w/ footnotes, appendices, works cited, index, and a finding list of Shenbao articles. A study of the influential Shanghai newspaper Shenbao, a private effort... More about A Newspaper for China : Power, Identity, and Change in Shanghai's News Media 1872 - 1912

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo in red cloth with silver lettering to spine. Slight wear to edges and corners. Head and heel of spine bumped. A few small spots of soiling to covers. Endpapers browned and a bit brittle, as are adjacent pages to a.... More about A Diary of the Siege of the Legations in Peking

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers and dust jacket. 412 (11) p. w/ chapter endnotes, glossary, index. 8 scholarly essays on varius aspects of the Qing dynasty of the 17th and 18th century. More about The Qing Formation in World Historical Time

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,...

Taipei, Taiwan: Ch'eng-Wen Publishing Company, 1966. Reprint of 1938 edition. Hardcover. Thick, small octavo (standard size). Some wear to edges and corners of boards. Head and heel bumped. Spine faded but very legible. Some soiling to top of textblock. Flyleaves darkened a bit. Slightly musty. 775 pgs w/ footnotes, index... More about China's Struggle for Tariff Autonomy 1848 - 1938