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Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Not Listed. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Stories written for readers of Urdu published in popular Urdu magazines in Pakistan and India.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy.
Barcelona, Iberia, s.a. (hacia 1933). 4to.; 208 pp. Encuadernación en tela.
8vo cloth, as new,
8vo, hardcover dj .At the height of the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s,john Paton Davies,jr., was summoned to the State Department one morning and fired. His offense? The career diplomat had counseled the U.S. government during World War II that the Communist forces in China were poised to take over the country~ which they did, in 1949. Davies joined the thousands of others who became the victims of a political maelstrom that engulfed the country and deprived the United States of the wisdom and guidance of an entire generation of East Asian diplomats and scholars. The son of American missionaries, Davies was born in China at the turn of the twentieth century. Educated in the United States, he joined the ranks of the newly formed Foreign Service in the 1930s and returned to China, where he would remain until nearly the end of World War II. During that time he became one of the first Americans to meet and talk with the young revolutionary known as Mao Zedong. He documented the personal excesses and political foibles of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai~shek. As a political aide to General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, the wartime commander of the Allied forces in East and South Asia, he traveled widely in the region, meeting with colonial India's Nehru and Gandhi to gauge whether their animosity to British rule would translate into support for Japan. Davies ended the war serving in Moscow with George F. Kennan, the architect of America's policy toward the Soviet Union. Kennan found in Davies a lifelong friend and colleague. Neither, however, was immune to the virulent anticommunism of the immediate postwar years. China Hand is the story of a man who captured with wry and judicious insight the times in which he lived, both as observer and as actor. John Paton Davies,Jr. (1908~99) was a Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Department of State from 1931 to 1954. He was also the author of Foreign and Other Affairs and Dragon by the Tail: American, British,Japanese, and Russian Encounters with China and One Another
8vo, br. ed. 417 pages. James Lilley's life has been entwined with China's fate since 1917, when his father started selling kerosene for Standard Oil along the Yangtze River. China Hands recounts his adventures as well as those of three generations of his family - all of them absorbing, many of them exciting, and one unduly tragic. It is a fascinating and moving look at America in Asia, Asia itself, and the remarkable life of one especially capable American. Includes an Index. ". . . a splendid memoir - as engaging as it it informative." - James Schlesinger, Former Director of the CIA (Key Words: Memoirs, James Lilley, China, Jeffrey, Asia, Foreign Relations, Tiananmen Square, Taiwan, Ronald Reagan, South Korea, North Vietnam, North Korea, Kaos, Hong Kong, Den Xiaoping, Chou En-lai, Cambodia, George H. W. Bush).
1000 piece jigsaw puzzle featuring a white kitchen hutch with shelves full of lovely old blue & white china.[ID # No. 771624] Puzzle size: 68x47cm / 19.25x 26.25" Box size 14x10x2.5" Book
Quarto. Pp. 302, (2). Colour frontispiece. Illustrated throughout. Bound in the original stiff pictorial wrappers. In a very fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ First edition. Published to coincide with the exhibition at the same name in Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel.
Quarto. Pp. 302, (2). Colour frontispiece. Illustrated throughout. Bound in the original stiff pictorial wrappers. In fine condition. ~ First edition. Published to coincide with the exhibition at the same name in Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel.
Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiv + 447 pp., x + 354 pp including index, ix + 484 pp. including index. Papers presented at the inaugural conference of the Center for Political Study at the University of Chicago. Foreword by Charles U. Daly. A fine set of three volumes
8vo, 22x14cm, vg black cloth gilt, in very good dj. 237pp, map, illus, bibliog, index. 1st ed. From Foreword: 'Francoise Geoffroy-Dechaume is a painter, as well as a government official and an author. He has written a book which is learned, penetrating and wise; but which, above all, is instinct with the life and thinking of the Chinese
8vo, br. "Chinese people should consume Chinese products!" This slogan was the catchphrase of a movement in early twentieth-century China that sought to link consumption and nationalism by instilling a concept of China as a modern "nation" with its own "national products." From fashions in clothing to food additives, from museums to department stores, from product fairs to advertising, this movement influenced all aspects of China's burgeoning consumer culture. Anti-imperialist boycotts, commemorations of national humiliations, exhibitions of Chinese products, the vilification of treasonous consumers, and the promotion of Chinese captains of industry helped enforce nationalistic consumption and spread the message--patriotic Chinese bought goods made of Chinese materials by Chinese workers in factories owned and run by Chinese.In China Made, Karl Gerth argues that two key forces shaping the modern world--nationalism and consumerism--developed in tandem in China. Early in the twentieth century, nationalism branded every commodity as either "Chinese" or "foreign," and consumer culture became the place where the notion of nationality was articulated, institutionalized, and practiced. Based on Chinese, Japanese, and English-language archives, magazines, newspapers, and books, this first exploration of the historical ties between nationalism and consumerism reinterprets fundamental aspects of modern Chinese history and suggests ways of discerning such ties in all modern nations.ed.
IN 8. CART [BE]. 226 PP. ENV 100 ILL EN NOIR. [BE]
xi + 338pp. + frontispiece, 25cm., softcover, Academic dissertation ('Dissertatio ad lauream in Facultate Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pontificiae Universitatis Gregorianae", text clean and bright, good condition, R103723
A musical adaptation of the famous Drigo 'Serenade'. 6 pages. Sheet music for voice and piano. Nicely color-illustrated front cover. Pages separated but all present. Above-average wear with short tape repair to lower corner of front cover and handwritten name in top corner. A worthy and rare vintage copy. Book
large 8vo [26.5 x 18 cm]; [vi], x [i] 408 pp, frontis, plus 60 plates, folding map partly colored at end (short tear at stub), index, title page printed in red and black. original decorated cloth, gilt spine title lettering, top edge gilted, cover lightly rubbed, interior near fine and clean copy, signed by author on the half title plage. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Wilson was one of the prime botanical collectors in China and Japan in the early 1900's, introducing many species. Besides his descriptions of the plants he found, including some fascinating adventures in little explored places, he describes the geography, the native peoples and tribes, temples, timber trees, cultivated gardens and fruits, agriculture plant products, tea and tea-yielding plants, etc, during his extensive explorations, including Szechuan, Ancient Kingdom of Pa, Sungpan Ting, the Chino-Tibetan border area, Tachienly, Omei Shan, Laolin. 'He crossed the Laolin from north to south, probably the only European to have done so' [Coats - The Plant Hunters, p. 120]. There is also a much more common unsigned edition printed at the same time.
First Edition, roy 8vo [26.5 x 18 cm]; [vi], x [i] 408 pp, frontis, plus 60 plates, folding map partly colored at end, index, title page printed in red and black. orig decorated cloth, gilt spine title lettering, top edge gilted, very lightly rubbed at spine ends but a fine, bright and clean copy. Wilson was one of the prime botanical collectors in China and Japan in early 1900's, introducing many species. Besides his descriptions of the plants he found, including some fascinating adventures in little explored places, he describes the geography, the native peoples and tribes, temples, timber trees, cultivated gardens and fruits, agriculture plant products, tea and tea-yielding plants, etc, during his extensive explorations (including Szechuan, Ancient Kingdom of Pa, Sungpan Ting, the Chino-Tibetan border area, Tachienly, Omei Shan, Laolin. 'He crossed the Laolin from north to south, probably the only European to have done so' [Coats - The Plant Hunters, p. 120] scarce.
8vo, br. ed. 'I am Zhang, alone with my light, and in that light I think for a moment that I am free.' Imagine a world where Chinese Marxism has vanquished the values of capitalism and Lenin is the prophet of choice. A cybernetic world where the new charioteers are flyers, human-powered kites dancing in the skies over New York in a brief grab at glory. A world where the opulence of Beijing marks a new cultural imperialism, as wealthy urbanites flirt with interactive death in illegal speakeasies, and where Arctic research stations and communes on Mars are haunted by their own fragile dangers. A world of fear and hope, of global disaster and slow healing, where progress can only be found in the cracks of a crumbling hegemony. This is the world of Zhang. An anti-hero who's still finding his way, treading a path through a totalitarian order - a path that just might make a difference. Maureen F. McHugh was born in Loveland, Ohio, and educated at Ohio University and New York University. She taught in Chinafor a year, and her experiences there and in New York formed the basis of her first novel, China Mountain Zhang. She has lived in New York City, Shijiazhuang, China, and Austin, Texas. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
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