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87070802Tientsin 1926 Tientsin Press. Blue cloth1335p.very good indexCollege gift book plate: PAYSON J. TREAT COLLECTION small library stamp on title & lower page edge else clean 14.5 x 22 cm. FIRST & ONLY EDITION . . . A COMPREHENSIVE REFERECE RESOUORCE . . . A copious reference source book. Covering a general description of the Republic geology fauna flora climate meteorology people and language products money weights measures manufactures commerce trade statistics communications posts and telegraphs the government defense finance shipping land education public justice constitutional reform religions public health Who's Who Greater China: Mongolia Chinese Turkestan Tibet. China in 1926 Foreigners in China opium capital punishment constabulary doctors lawyers newspapers political societies and parties the Queue trademarks bibliography of recent books customs tariffs &c. &c. Edited by H.T. Montague Bell & H.G. W. WOODHEAD. . Immaculate condition evidence of an old spine mark from the Library an uncirculated reference copy PAYSON J. TREAT COLLECTION. . FIRST AND ONLY EDITION . Color photos are posted to our website. . . unknown
25000902London 1914 Routledge. Yellow cloth 781p. very clean index College gift book plate: PAYSON J. TREAT COLLECTION small library stamp on title & lower page edge else clean 12.5 x 19.3 cm. bright sharp copy. FIRST & ONLY EDITION . . . . A COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCE RESOURCE . . With general descriptions geology fauna flora climate & meteorology people & language products money weights an measures manufactures commerce trade statistics communications posts and telegraphs government defense finance shipping land education public justice. Constitutional development religions public health China in 1914 foreigners in China conservancies opium miscellaneous &c. With a map of Mongolia. . Edited by H.T. Montague Bell & H.G. W. WOODHEAD. . NOTE: Copy 2 is PASON J. TREAT'S SIGNED COPY Immaculate condition evidence of an old spine mark from the Library an uncirculated reference copy PAYSON J. TREAT COLLECTION. . FIRST AND ONLY EDITION . Color photos are posted to our website. . . unknown
87071202Shanghai 1934 N. China Daily News. Blue cloth 855p.very goodindexCollege gift book plate:PAYSON J.TREAT COLLECTION small library stamp on title & lower page edge else clean 14.5 x 22 cm. FIRST & ONLY EDITION . . . A COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCE SOURCE . . With general descriptions geology fauna flora climate & meteorology people & language products money weights and measures manufactures commerce trade statistics communications posts and telegraphs government defense finance shipping land education public justice. Constitutional development religions public health China in 1934 foreigners in China conservancies opium miscellaneous &c. With a map of Mongolia. . Edited by H.T. Montague Bell & H.G. W. WOODHEAD. . Immaculate condition evidence of an old spine mark from the Library an uncirculated reference copy. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION . Color photos are posted to our website. . . unknown
065649574X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
A9781345851748Hardback. New. hardcover
A9781346074542Hardback. New. hardcover
1896184604Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press 1896. China in your hand First edition rare in commerce commercial records showing only one other copy in the last two decades. The publication was effusively welcomed by the Chinese and religious periodical press for it satisfied long-standing demand for a comprehensive and easily accessible survey. The contents offer textual and statistical descriptions of the state of missionary work in different Chinese provinces and cities alongside articles by Timothy Richard and other missionaries on secret societies and on Buddhism Taoism and Islam. Part II the survey of recent progress is subdivided into the dozens of Western groups proselytizing in the country by century's end. Emphasis is placed on educational and medical work and where applicable the operations of printing presses. Octavo 245 x 160 mm. With 2 large colour folding maps 12 full-page maps printed in black and red 3 folding tables tables in text errata slipped tipped in facing p. 335. Contemporary dark red half roan raised bands spine tooled and lettered in gilt black cloth sides marbled sides. Ex-Central Baptist Theological Seminary Kansas City with bookplates title-page ink stamp and traces of removed record card holders. Binding worn and recently repaired folding map at page 56 now detached from stub and repaired with tissue a few ink marks in printed area other maps well preserved: very good. hardcover
1334689482.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2003163774Canberra.: Contemporary China Centre Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Australian National University. July 2003 - January2008. Issues no. 50 to 59 of the China Journal published semi-annually by Contemporary China Centre Australian National University from July 2003 to January 2008 paperback in very good condition. The ten issues cover a wide range of topic on China. Some interesting highlights in the series are: <br> <br>Extramarital Love in Shanghai pp. 1-36 issue no. 50; Suing the Local State: Administrative Litigation in Rural China pp. 75-96 issue no.51; Working until You Drop: The Elderly of Rural China pp. 73-94 issue no.52; Taiwan's Domestic Politics and Cross-Strait Relations pp. 35-60 issue no.53; Bracing for an Uncertain Future: A Case Study of New Coping Strategies of Rural Parents under China's Birth Control Policy pp. 53-76 issue no.54; Institutionalized Rebellion: Governing Tsinghua University during the Late Years of the Chinese Cultural Revolution pp. 1-28 issue no.55; Who Adopts Girls and Why Domestic Adoption of Female Children in Contemporary Rural China pp. 63-82 issue no.56;Working for the Peasants Strategic Interactions and Unintended Consequences in the Chinese Rural Tax Reform pp. 89-106 issue no.57;From Resistance to Adaptation: Uyghur Popular Music and Changing Attitudes among Uyghur Youth pp. 59-82issue no.58;Boss Christians: The Business of Religion in the "Wenzhou Model" of Christian Revival pp. 63-87 issue no.59 etc. . Contemporary China Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. paperback
1996163776Canberra.: Contemporary China Centre Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Australian National University. January 1996 - January2003. A collection of 15 issues of the China Journal issue no.35 -49 published semi-annually by Contemporary China Centre Australian National University from January 1996 to January 2003. Some fading and occasional tear on spine otherwise in good condition paperback. The fifteen issues cover a wide range of topic on China. Some interesting highlights in the series are: <br> <br>Learning Versus Adaptation: Explaining Change in Chinese Arms Control Policy in the 1980s and 1990s pp. 27-61 issue no.35; The Fengshui Resurgence in China: Conflicting Cosmologies Between State and Peasantry pp. 47-65 issue no.36; The Cash Nexus and Social Networks: Mutual Aid and Gifts in Contemporary Shanghai Villages pp. 91-112 issue no.37; Farmers' Preferences Regarding Ownership and Land Tenure in Post-Mao China: Unexpected Evidence from Eight Counties pp. 33-63 issue no.38; The Transformation of China's Mental Health Services pp. 1-36 issue no.39; Exalting the Latecomer State: Intellectuals and the State during the Chinese and Vietnamese Reforms pp. 9-36 issue no.40; Inequality in the Rewards for Holding up Half the Sky: Gender Wage Gaps in China's Urban Labour Market 1988-1994 pp. 55-88 issue no.41; Becoming Dagongmei Working Girls: The Politics of Identity and Difference in Reform China pp. 1-18 issue no.42; The Disarticulation of Hong Kong's Post-Handover Political System pp. 29-53 issue no.43; State Coercion and the Balance of Awe: The 1983-1986 "Stern Blows" Anti-Crime Campaign pp. 93-125 issue no.44; Jiang Zemin's Style of Rule: Go for Stability Monopolize Power and Settle for Limited Effectiveness pp. 45-51 issue no.45; Tears of Rage: Chinese Nationalist Reactions to the Belgrade Embassy Bombing pp. 25-43 issue no.46; Fertility and Family Planning in Rural Tibet pp. 19-39. issue no.47; Cadres Temple and Lineage Institutions and Governance in Rural China pp. 1-27 issue no.48; Democratizing the Neighbourhood New Private Housing and Home-Owner Self-Organization in Urban China pp. 31-59 issue no.49 . Contemporary China Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. paperback
2004163779Canberra.: Contemporary China Centre Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Australian National University. January 2004 - July2011. A broken run of 12 issues of the China Journal no. 51-61 64- 66 published semi-annually by Contemporary China Centre Australian National University from January 2004 to July 2011 paperback in very good condition. The twelve issues cover a wide range of topic on China. Some interesting highlights in the series are: <br>Suing the Local State: Administrative Litigation in Rural China pp. 75-96 issue no.51; Working until You Drop: The Elderly of Rural China pp. 73-94 issue no.52; Taiwan's Domestic Politics and Cross-Strait Relations pp. 35-60 issue no.53; Bracing for an Uncertain Future: A Case Study of New Coping Strategies of Rural Parents under China's Birth Control Policy pp. 53-76 issue no.54; Institutionalized Rebellion: Governing Tsinghua University during the Late Years of the Chinese Cultural Revolution pp. 1-28 issue no.55; Who Adopts Girls and Why Domestic Adoption of Female Children in Contemporary Rural China pp. 63-82 issue no.56;Working for the Peasants Strategic Interactions and Unintended Consequences in the Chinese Rural Tax Reform pp. 89-106 issue no.57;From Resistance to Adaptation: Uyghur Popular Music and Changing Attitudes among Uyghur Youth pp. 59-82issue no.58;Boss Christians: The Business of Religion in the "Wenzhou Model" of Christian Revival pp. 63-87 issue no.59; Ethnicity Rurality and Status: Hukou and the Institutional and Cultural Determinants of Social Status in Tibet pp. 1-21 issue no.60; Empowering the Child: Children's Rights Citizenship and the State in Contemporary China pp. 79-103 issue no.61; Playing the Market Reform Card: the Changing Patterns OF Political Struggle in China's Electric Power Sector pp. 69-95 issue no.64; Factions in a Bureaucratic Setting: the Origins of Cultural Revolution Conflict in Nanjing pp. 1-25 issue no.65; Learning to Serve: Urban Youth Vocational Schools and New Class Formations in Chinapp. 77-99 issue no66. . Contemporary China Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. paperback
1931174493Tientsin.: Tientsin Press. 1931. Five coloured plates and a colour illustrated frontispiece with tissue-guards nine full-page sketch maps throughout the text. 27 x 21cm. Original blue cloth boards stamped in gilt with a Chinese device on the front board and lettered in gilt. 71pp. Some light age toning to text block edges and endpapers but an extremely good clean and bright copy. Chapter headings: The Gulf of Pechili; The Yellow Sea; The Yangtsze Estuary; The Chusan Archipelago; The China Sea; The South China Sea. . Tientsin Press. hardcover
16923St. Austell Cornwall: NP n/d. Limited edition. Hardcover. fair. Folio. 70pp. Decorated stiff boards. Raised lettering on cover faded. Business card of "M. A. Gesner of Hammill & Gillespie Inc." pasted-in on front endpaper small stamp "2nd issue" on same page "No. 1029." Fascinating and thoroughly comprehensive company history of the "English China Clays Ltd." Profusely illustrated with reproductions of photographs in gravure one color map as well as decorated initials at the beginning of each chapter. A complete and exhaustively illustrated history of the company documenting: managing directors; head office and branches; 22 clay pits and workers settling pits and refining mica drags drying kilns and linhays; stone quarries; ground china stone mills; Lee Moor brick works; power plants; water wheels; employees' houses and cottages; horse motor lorry and tramline transport; workshops and stores; export and shipping; and descriptions of clay uses in paper making and pottery. Staining rubbing and scuffing to boards. Parts of decorated top-layer on boards chipped particularly on back. 1" x 2" piece near gutter on bottom of free front endpaper missing. Some age yellowing to pages. Pulling to top edge of last two pages. Binding in fair interior in good condition. Rare. NP hardcover
1941HICH00008Boston: World Peace Foundation 1941 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Deep red cloth gilt titles on spine blind decorations on front board xi 449 pp 2 b & w plates 4 folding charts footnotes glossary index. Corners bumped light soil to cloth bookplate on fpd. Linebarger studies the development of Chinese government or the lack of it from the fall of the Manchu empire in 1911 to the war with Japan with emphasis on the 1930s and the situation current in 1941. Shipping weight 2 lbs. . VG/No dj. 20½ X 14 cm. World Peace Foundation Hardcover
2013x-9814551872World Scientific Pub Co Inc 2013. Hardcover. New. 321 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. World Scientific Pub Co Inc hardcover
658600533World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated pp. xii 321 . Hardback. Used. World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated hardcover
1962002368San Francisco: The China Tiffin Club 1962. The Club describes itself as "A purely social Tiffin Club where former residents of the Orient meet to renew old friendships mad somewhere east of Suez and cherished forever." Includes list of present and former officers speakers of the past three years and details of all present members including details of their Asian sojourn current resident addresses and current position in the USA. Ends with constitution and bylaws of the Club. A virtual Who's Who of old Asia hands in the Bay area. Staple bound 64 pp. Rare. First Edition. Softbound. Fine. 15 x 9 cm. The China Tiffin Club
12912THE CHINA JOURNAL OF SCIENCE & ARTS. 1926. Shanghai: North-China Daily News & Herald 1926. 8vo. Cloth. Frontispiece ii 314 14 pages plates. First edition. With articles on Chinese industry agriculture and cultural arts with many photographs on plates. Occasional foxing on some leaves else very good. unknown
0195132114.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Z1-C-057-02105Oxford University Press. Used - Acceptable. Used - Acceptable. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library with wear and barcode page may have been removed. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Oxford University Press unknown
0195132106.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1884174187London.: Hodder & Stoughton. 1st Edition. 1884. Fold-out map and black & white woodcut illustrations throughout. Original gray cloth covered boards decorated in light and dark blue and gilt some marks spine lightly sunned head & tail slightly frayed. Brown endpapers with inner front hinge cracked edges and corners rubbed page edges age toned some light foxing. Yet still a good firm copy.All edges gilt. 312pp. By Annie W. Marston "old Friend The author of "The Children of India" dedicated to 32 English children who asked for a book on Chinese children. Annie Wright Marston daughter of Dr. C. H. Marston of Devizes Wiltshire was a missionary born at Uley Gloucestershire in 1852. There are gritty descriptions of the treatment of baby girls in China and of women in general. The final chapter of the book asks for help to raise money for Chinese Missionary Societies. . Hodder & Stoughton. hardcover
2003Q-0345441087Del Rey 2003-04-29. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Del Rey paperback
184515596London: T. Ward and Co. Paternoster Row 1845. Hardcover. Very good. With content on China tea South Australia the sea elephant and pearl diving. With a chapter at p67 "Notices of China and the Chinese" with an engraved and illustrated table "Emblems of Trade and Religion in China" stating "Tea first brought to England in 1610. Tea brought to England in 1755 about 4000000 lbs. Tea brought to England in 1844 about 40000000 lbs." A chapter entitled "The First College in South Australia" states "South Australia is a new British colony not ten years old . its population already amounts to 18000 souls" p251. The sea elephant description includes an engraving based on an illustration in Charles Medyett Goodridge's volume of 1820 describing his shipwreck in the South Seas. With a four page article on pearl diving p311. 24mo viii 376pp b&w engravings throughout. Three quarter red leather and marbled boards gilt title at red spine. Covers rubbed esp at marbled boards. Internally child's signature and date 1845 at ffep o/w very good. T. Ward and Co., Paternoster Row hardcover
192264142Boston MA: Little Brown & Company 1922. 8vo. xvi 245 1 pp. Illustrated title page photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Pictorial blue publisher’s cloth gilt red illustration on front cover by Decorative Designers wear to spine minor scuffing rubbing very minor rubbing to front cover still a VG- copy from the library of David Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. First edition of this travelogue through early 20th-Century Republican Era China with descriptions of Shanghai Buddhist temples street scenes and experiences in Tientsin Tjanjin China Beijing and then onto India. Little, Brown & Company, hardcover