Search Results: Cultures - China from Riverwood's Books

Elsevier / Nelson Books. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 0525666222 . Hardcover clean, with all pages intact, very small remainder mark bottom edge of pages. Bumping to spine ends. Jacket has light edgewear and few small tears, light watermark stain/light wrinkling to rear of jacket. B/w photos. "Young Joe, like many Chinese-Americans, has long wanted to visit the homeland of his parents, experience the New China for himself, and search out the sites of his father's boyhood memories. As last the chance has come, and he flies to Hong Kong, takes the train to the border of the People's Republic of China, and crosses the bridge to meet his origins....; 8vo .

D. Van Nostrand Company. Very Good. 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tight, light wear and a little scuffing to covers. Pages unmarked. 138 pages. B/w illus. "The author brings to this study his intimate knowledge of china as he searches out the fundamental features & the historical development that preceeded the present triumph of Communism...." (*shipping will be reduced on this lighter book) [osl-185]; 8vo .

Marlowe & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 1569247420 . Ex-library book with usual ex-lib type markings. Pages are clean & tight. Last page has been taped at spine. Jacket has light scuffing & light edge/corner wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 322 pages; "In the late 1940's, the Chen family gathered for a dusk-time ritual at their hillside home in Berkeley, California to "watch the sun go home" to their native China. Having fled persecution in Chungking during the Sino-Japanese war (1937-45) , the Chens settled briefly in Peking, then escaped to the U. S. During the intensifying civil war. Repatriated and classified as "national bourgeois", they were yet to endure the violence of the Cultural Revolution - separation, imprisonment, internal exile, and "re-education" in the "cadre schools" designed for ideological criminals. Chen Chen was labeled a counter-revolutionary, and after… Read More

Viking/Penguin. Near Fine. 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover is near fine, very light wear to edges/corners, very light soiling to back and outer edge of pages, light creasing to covers/corners. 268 pages. "This superbly told saga of family loyalties and disaffections reads more like a novel than an actual chronicle of Chan Sam, a Chinese peasant who left his family in 1913 to seek his fortune in the "Gold Mountain" of western Canada. There, though always planning to return to them, he set up a second family with the beautiful, headstrong concubine he brought with him from China. The story is narrated in the third person by his granddaughter, a Canadian economist, who creates an unsentimental portrait of both families: of Huangbo, the patient "home-wife" who raised their son and the two children the concubine, May-ying, left behind, and survived the Japanese occupation of China and the rule of Mao Tse-tung; of May-ying, whose earnings as… Read More

Peking: Foreign Languages Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. Third Edition. Hardcover. HC/DJ - near fine/VG. Third edition. Originally published in 1958. Light edgewear and corner bumping to book, very clean, light soiling outer edge of pages. Pages clean and tight, beautiful illustrations by Liu Tan-Chai. Dustjacket has a few tiny edge tears and one longer closed tear (about 2 1/2") on front, light scuffing, light soiling. "This famous autobiographical novel exercised a most striking influence on China's youth after it first appeared in 1931. It is a searing exposure of a large disintegrating feudal household in China's turbulent 1920's; of love affairs and broken marriages; of stupid cruelties and hyprcritical conventions. , and of an awakening younger generation that fights back, breaking away from the old and decadent. " (700); 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

University of Chicago Press. Near Fine. 1985. First Edition. Softcover. 0226895491 . Very nice condition, only light wear overall. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover has light wear to corners/spine ends, light age tanning and old price stickers on rear. 408 pages. Synopsis: Through interviews with city residents, the authors provide a unique survey of urban life in the last decade of Mao Zedong's rule. They conclude that changes in society produced under communism were truly revolutionary and that, in the decade under scrutiny, the Chinese avoided ostensibly universal evils of urbanism with considerable success. [454-noto]; 8vo .

Penguin Books. Fair. 1988. Softcover. 0140123407 . Pages are clean however the first section of book has a stain (watermark? ) & light wrinkling which affects upper corner of first section of pages. Pages are otherwise unmarked. Cover has moderately heavy edge/corner wear, creasing & one edge tear to front. [235os]; 8vo .