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1946206897New York: N.P. 1946. Pencil notations at upper and left margins folded twice; very good. Mimeographed broadside leaflet 8-1/2 x 11 in. on pink paper. Announcement and schedule of event for a "Bring Home Our Troops from China" rally featuring speakers Ilona Ralf Sues author of Shark's Fins and Millet journalist Maud Russell Rep. Vito Marcantonio and others. N.P. unknown
1948178144Higganum Connecticut: 30 November 1948. I hope you won't reply to this" - a sinological circle rent asunder A window onto the collapse of the marriage of Edgar and Helen Snow the 20th century's most important bridges between China and the Western world. As shown in this terse exchange between two of their friends the split sowed distrust and trapped some of the leading lights of American sinology in a quagmire of pettiness. Enjoying privileged access to top Chinese political and social figures Edgar 1905-1972 and Helen Foster Snow 1907-1997 also known as Nym Wales and "Peg" shaped Western views of China and its people to an extent unmatched by any other journalist or academic. Edgar Snow's career was bookended by Red Star Over China 1927 the work that introduced Mao Zedong to the English-speaking world and the historic 1972 Nixon visit to Beijing for which he laid important groundwork in the 1960s. Helen Snow reporting and writing from China in the 1930s and 1940s opened American eyes to the country's deteriorating political and refugee situations earning two nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. With Rewi Alley the Snows co-founded the Indusco "Gung Ho" co-operative movement to promote economic recovery and they are lionized in China today. Their 1932 marriage ended acrimoniously in the late 1940s following their permanent return to the US and divided their sinological circle. This letter written by the State Department China expert Lawrence Salisbury 1891-1976 was sent in reply to Helen Snow's close friend the medical missionary Ida Pruitt 1888-1985 at the New York headquarters of Indusco. There are no opening niceties. "Your letter just came. You and I must not talk about the Snows to each other. I have known them for fifteen years. Peg is a liar". There follows several paragraphs listing Helen Foster Snow's character faults "unreasonable" "unprincipled" and "willing to blacken people" and her attempts to take advantage of Edgar Snow. "On Ed's side I find no lies. I find that he has been hitched to a selfish self-seeking pathological woman who is set to destroy him financially and/or in reputation. When I told him that Peg was responsible for the arrival at my farm in early this month of two men to serve a writ to attach most unreasonably his car and his river property he would not at first believe me". A pencilled note in the margin states that "I can give many underlined other instances". Salisbury also accuses Helen of greed and money-grabbing and sneers at her "feminist theories" and her inability to produce commercially viable books. In the final third of the letter he flatly rejects Pruitt's suggestion that he intervene to soften Edgar Snow's mind ending with a word of advice: "I hate to see you waste your time and emotional strength in so undeserving a cause. I hope you won't reply to this." Provenance: by descent through the Pruitt family; recently in a private collection in Hong Kong. Single sheet 275 x 215 mm text one side only. With mailing envelope typed address "Miss Ida Pruitt Indusco Inc. 425 Fourth Avenue New York 16 N.Y.". Envelope split along 3 edges otherwise fine. unknown
196772618China: China. Fine. 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Portfolio of 50 posters from the Chinese revolution plus two posters containing only writing. All text is in Chinese. Most of the posters depict Mao and other Party icons including Marx Lenin and ordinary workers. Paper is thin and light tan. Images are red and black. Size is 12 1/4" x 15". Quality is As New with the very tips bent on a few of the prints. . China paperback
1992H8050Nanjing: Jiangsu ren min chu ban she : Jing xiao Jiangsu sheng xin hua shu dian 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Quarto cloth in dust jacket jacket a little shelfworn endpapers of book slightly rubbed else very good 174 pp heavily illustrated. OCLC locates two copies: National Library of China and LOC. Text in Chinese. Jiangsu ren min chu ban she : Jing xiao Jiangsu sheng xin hua shu dian hardcover
1977009021Wiesbaden Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH 1977. Book. Near Fine. Original Wraps. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vol.I published 1977 Vol.II 1979 Vol.III 1981 Vol. IV 1988 Vol. V 1994. Five volumes Near Fine corner creases top corner Vol. V. Internally clean bright and unmarked. There was also a Vol. VI published in 1998 not included in this offering. Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH Paperback
1930008986Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften 1930. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE. Published 1930-32. "On the Medicine of the Uighurs". Text in German.Two volumes bound in contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards gilt lettering back beige end papers original wrappers bound in at rear. 2 25 2 plates 2 50 pp. 3 plates wrappers. From the collection of noted Inner Asian Studies scholar Denis Sinor 1916-2011 his bookplate front paste down and his signature at each title page. Sinor founded and directed the Asian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University and served as editor of the Journal of Asian History. Near Fine light wear at head of spine. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften Hardcover
1998509278University Press of America 1998. First Edition. Trade Paperback. FINE. SIGNED by co-author Karl Luckert on the title page. ix 345pp. First Edition published simultaneously with the hardcover. Like-new author's copy from the publisher. We acquired this along with Dr. Luckert's personal scholarly library and he graciously signed all of his author-copy. 'Uighur Stories from Along the Silk Road is a collection of folktales legends and myths collected in English for the first time. The Uighur people who lived along the northern rim of the Tarim Basin encountered foreigners from Europe Arabia Persia India China Mongolia and Japan who traveled through their land along the Silk Road the major trading route between Europe and China. This interaction began a rich multicultural heritage that gave birth to these tales and continued to flourish once the sea replaced the land route for trade. The stories encapsulate Uighur history in the words of the people who migrated from the Northern Mongolian Plateau to Central Asia. They reveal the effects of the gradual conversion to Islam as well as those of earlier beliefs involving Buddhism Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism on the personality of the people.'. University Press of America paperback
19872090202120401556China UFO Research Society 1987. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 China UFO Research Society paperback
19852090202120401136Sichuan UFO Research Society 1985. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Sichuan UFO Research Society paperback
19364569Peiping China: June 4 1936. About very good. 2pp. Folio. Old fold lines minor wear a few contemporary annotations. Letter written by a nurse visiting China relating her itinerary in China which includes numerous trips to local hospitals and leper colonies. Minnie Goodnow was a registered nurse who served in France during the Great War. After her return to the U.S. she was a nursing administrator in several hospitals before embarking on this journey. She writes: "I am having a trip that is no less than wonderful. I had three objectives in mind for it -- to see the world or some bits of it; to see hospitals and learn something of what was being done in nursing education in several lands; and to see something of missions at first hand. I'm doing all three of them -- superficially but with great profit to myself. . I went up to Chiengmai with some of the mission people staid with Dr. and Mrs. Cort saw the wonderful leper colony and had a marvellous time. Here in China I have had a steady diet of missions and hospitals and done sight-seeing too." She goes on to relate her itinerary which includes trips to Shanghai Nanking Hankow and Changsha as well as a stay at a Buddhist monastery -- "Can you fancy the thrill I got from spending the night on top of a sacred mountain in a Buddhist monastery in the heart of China!"<br /> <br /> She continues: "Miss Stephenson went with me to two 'country' hospitals -- to complete -- or add to -- my education! They were those at Siaokan and Tiean and were most interesting. I also saw the old-fashioned leper asylum at Tiean which is on the way to becoming new-fashioned. Then I came here to Peiping where I have been for nearly four weeks. I am giving a short course in History of Nursing and doing sight-seeing also meeting people." She tells her reader that after China she plans to travel on to Indian with a similar mission. An interesting look into the culture of American travel and mission work in China in the 1930s. June 4 unknown
19115251London: March 29 1911. Very good. 1p. Previously folded. Contemporary manuscript annotation is left margin. Light toning. A brief but interesting letter dated March 29 1911 from Marshall Broomhall Editorial Secretary of England's China Inland Mission to the Rev. Arthur H. Smail a prominent American Missionary in China. Broomhall had recently published a book Islam in China in which he promoted the use of Arabic-speaking missionaries to proselytize Chinese Muslims. The book used information received from Smail about the Chinese Muslim population but Broomhall at certain points managed to confuse Beijing Peking and nearby Tongzhou Tungchow while apparently attempting to criticize Smail's statements. This letter apologizes to Smail for his error though the American seems to have still been cross -- having received the letter Smail noted in the left margin "Two pages gives to demolishing what I never said! March 29 unknown
1930036752Los Angeles: Herman Sachs 1930. 1st Edition . No Binding. Near Fine. Original Photographs. Two Photographs One Mounted On Card Of Modernist Ceramics By Herman Sachs An American Artist And Architectural Decorator Who Also Worked In Textiles And Ceramics Of Modernist Design. Born In Romania To Jewish Parents Herman Hermann Sachs Immigrated To The U.S. As A Child. He First Trained Under His German-Born Father A Painter In The Court Of Queen Elisabeth Of Romania. Sachs Continued His Artistic Training In Europe Spending The 1910-1920 Period In Germany Where He Founded The Munich School Of Expressionists Munich Expressionist Werkstätten. Upon Returning To The United States In 1920 Sachs Exhibited At The Art Institute Of Chicago And Established The Chicago Industrial Art School Which Soon Failed Due To Lack Of Sufficient Funding. Afterward Sachs Became The First Director Of The Dayton Museum Of Fine Arts Now The Dayton Art Institute. During This Time He Also Served As The U.S. Representative Of Artist George Grosz. Around 1924 Sachs Moved To Los Angeles Where He Designed The Interiors Of The New Gas Company Building. As A Muralist And Decorator Sachs Went On To Design The Interiors Of Many Los Angeles Landmarks Including The Bullocks Wilshire Building Now Home To Southwestern Law School Union Station Los Angeles City Hall And The Title Insurance And Trust Company Building. An Educator As Well As An Artist Sachs Also Directed The Creative Art Students League Of Los Angeles. Sachs Was Active Within The L.A. Weimar Exile Community Of Artists Writers And Filmmakers. His Friend The Architect Rudolph Schindler Designed Sachs' L.A. House The Manola Court Apartments. <br/> <br/> Herman Sachs unknown
196716838Urumqi XinJiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi / Xinjiang Army Divisioni 1967/8. Two extraordinary hand-crafted parade banners ca. 110" x 84" 9 feet x 7 feet one slightly smaller. Each entirely composed of hook-work with colored yarns on white muslin backing. Slight age-toning and soil; a few threads loose but no significant losses; Near Fine condition overall. Folded and stored in original velvet draw-string carrying bags as found.<br /> <br /> Both banners bear the inscription "Chairman Mao Reviewing the Great Army of the Cultural Revolution" and depict the August 1966 mass rally at Tiananmen Gate where more than 10 million Red Guards from all over China converged to express their solidarity with Mao and his second-in-command Lin Biao. Additional text on the lower banner reads "Long Live Chairman Mao for ten thousand years" and "Sailing in the ocean requires a helmsman" -- both quotes from Lin Biao. The agencies responsible for the banners are identified in lower right of each: "Cultural Revolution Committee of Xinjiang Army Division 1968" upper banner and "Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi 1967" lower. <br /> <br /> The presence of Biao the figure to the right of Mao holding the Little Red Book in the top banner is of particular interest. Biao compiler of The Quotations of Chairman Mao popularly known as the "Little Red Book" and coiner of the phrase "Maoism" was probably more responsible than any other figure for creating the cult of personality around Mao particularly at the time of the Cultural Revolution. He quickly ascended Party ranks and was widely seen as Mao's obvious successor. But in 1971 Biao was exposed in the process of an apparent coup attempt the details of the event have never been made public. He died in an airplane crash attempting to leave China and from this point forward was officially condemned as a traitor by the Communist Party; any record of his achievements on behalf of the Revolution was expunged from the official record and any positive image of Biao would have been confiscated and destroyed as a matter of course - suggesting either that these banners left China prior to 1971 or that they remained out of sight until some later date. The second possibility is plausible given whence the banners issued - both were created by Red Guard branches in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region an extremely remote province in China's northwest corner and for many years the center of a militant independence movement for Uyghur and other Turkic minorities. Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi / Xinjiang Army Divisioni unknown
192400005797Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1924 316 pages backstrip is faded book is cocked front hinge starting previous owner's signature in pencil one page of illustration is loose but all illustrations are present and the cloth is clean. 1923 on copyright page small font. This may be the first edition although I am not positive. J. B. Lippincott & Co. hardcover
1908217946London Durban Perth Colombo Singapore Hongkong Shanghai Bangkok Batavia and Cairo.: Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company Ltd. 1908. Maps numerous black and white photographic illustrations 848pp; full pebble-grained morocco gilt decorated spine gilt-lettered and ruled between raised compartments edges fully gilt 31 x 24cms modern marbled endpapers and hinges neatly strengthened worming to the boards and mainly affecting the preliminary leaves and the final fifty leaves the boards with a little edgewear a few gatherings a little proud but otherwise a good sound clean and complete copy of a work uncommon on the market. A good copy of a now remarkably scarce work profusely illustrated with remarkable black and white photographic portraits and panoramas and detailed chapters on everything from history geography culture and specific industries like shipping manufacturing agriculture and trade. Whilst earlier works in the series focussed exclusively on British colonial interests Western Australia Natal Ceylon and British Malaya the editor notes that: <br>"More than one half the imports and exports of China passes through the various Treaty Ports and it would have been a negation of one of the avowed objects of these publications if no attempt had been to show the present-day tendency of this trade and how the proportion borne by the British Empire compares with that of its competitors". The series served as a handsome soft power testament to British colonial might and aspiration. . Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company, Ltd. hardcover
1984MASTER232944IPublished by Author. VG- IN DARK RED BOARDS WITH GILT LETTERING AT SPINE. Pages: 58. . 1984. HARDCOVER. LIGHT SOILING TO PAGES. A FEW BRIEF NOTATIONS OR CORRECTIONS. BINDING TIGHT. . Published by Author. hardcover
1992I6577Beijing: White Lotus Press 1992. Paperback. Good/no dj. 3.00. Treasures 300 Best Excavated Antiques from China White Lotus Press paperback
1928157632London.: Routledge. 1928. 2 volumes. Volume I: Double page map xliv 387pp. Volume II: viii 406pp publisher's catalogue at rear index. Spines lightly faded occasional light foxing book plate front paste down of volume I very good. The Broadway Traveller's Series. . Routledge. unknown
19021206T006London: Hodder and Stoughton 1902. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 285. Very Good. 5.75 x 8.5 inches 15 x 21 cm. First UK Edition. Half red morocco leather binding with pink buckram boards. Gilt decoration to spine marbled page edges and endpapers. Spine darkened and has slight rubbing to edges. Good solid binding clean text throughout. Prize bookplate tipped in to front free endpaper Edgehill Girls College Bideford dated 1904 previous owner's name stamp to corner of first blank. Includes the first printing of the diary of Annie Royle Taylor who in 1892 became the first woman to travel into Tibet. Overall condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £21.00; Oceania £26.00; Rest of World £26.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 5.75 x 8.5 inches 15 x 21 cm. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1937AG-10069<p>Translation by Examples with Exercises by Su Zhaolong. Shanghai: Published by Shanghai Ching Wen Book Company 1937 second edition. English has been realized to be an important language for the Chinese at that time this book was written mainly for high school students English language workers researchers and advanced English learners to study as a reference book they got the contribution from professors of China. It illustrated technics of translating from both English to Chinese and Chinese to English. v 165 3 pp. 12mo <i>minor loss to the left top corner of front cover and small loss from paper flaw at pp 123/4 spine and back cover partly defective right top corner of front cover creased.</i></p><p>本书于1937年由上海竞文出版社出版，è‹å…†é¾™ç¼–辑，第二版。本书为了æ高英è¯å¦ä¹ 者ã€æ•™å¸ˆç‰äººçš„英è¯æ°´å¹³ï¼Œç”±ä¸å›½å„地的大å¦æ•™æŽˆæŠ•ç¨¿ç¼–辑而æˆã€‚本书共有164页，尺寸13.5×17cm，å°é¢å’Œè£…订处ã€å°åº•å‡æœ‰å°‘许缺失，其他å“相很好。</p> Shanghai Ching Wen Book Company paperback
1960707483PN. New. 1960. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1986N1124Beijing: White Lotus Press 1986. Paperback. Good/no dj. 2.40. Traditional Architecture in Beijing White Lotus Press paperback
1906177159London.: H.M.S.O. June & July 19061907. Three House of Commons Command Papers 24.3 x 15.6 tables original stab sewn blue title-wrappers in all 47 pp with the neat the ink stamp of the University of Hull Library to each of the front wrappers previous owner's pencilled name to the head of the final report slight edge wear and toning but in very good condition. Accompanied by official letter of the de-acquisition of these reports. Three comprehensive trade reports for Shanghai for 1901-4 1905 and 1906. The final by British diplomat explorer and businessman Archibald Rose 1879-1961 notes "Th port of Shanghai is now recognised as the greatest distributing centre of the Far East.it becomes each year of greater interest to the manufacturer and producer both in the United Kingdom and in India Canada and Australia.and the port.now ranks as the eighth shipping port in the world." <br>De-accessioned from the University of Hull Library sold with their letter of consent. . H.M.S.O. unknown
19752092902141204809Toyobunko 1975. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Toyobunko paperback
19762092902141202894Toyobunko 1976. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Toyobunko paperback
