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New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1944 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon cloth, reverse gold titles on spine, blind device on front board, xxi, 282 pp, index. Top corners bumped, slight edge wear, bookplate on front paste-down. DJ has several 2-cm tears, small chips, rear panel somewhat soiled; in Brodart archival cover. Carl Crow joined the newly established China Press in Shanghai just a few months before the 1911 revolt that overthrew the Manchu dynasty. His history of China from then through the Japanese occupation that began in 1937 is based largely on personal experience. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG. 21 X 13 cm.
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China Takes Her Place
by Crow, Carl
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China Watch
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mauve cloth, black titles on spine, grey endpapers, xi, 219 pp, index. DJ slightly rubbed at extremities; in Brodart archival cover. This is a collection of Fairbank's articles, mostly reviews of books on China, originally published in magazines from 1971 through 1985. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16 cm.
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The China of Chiang K'ai-shek
by Linebarger, Paul M. A.
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Boston: 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.
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Dragon Wang's River
by Eliassen, Sigurd
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New York: The John Day Company, 1957 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated from the Norwegian by Katherine John. Black cloth-textured paper-covered boards, red titles on spine & dec. on front board, 256 pp. Extremities lightly rubbed & bumped. DJ soiled, a few tears about 1 cm long, tape residue near bottom of front fore-edge, corners of flaps trimmed slightly; in Brodart archival cover. These are the memoirs of a Norwegian engineer who headed a project to irrigate a large portion of the Chinese province of Shensi during the 1930s. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . VG/VG-. 21 X 14 cm.
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Encyclopedia of China Today
by Kaplan, Frederick, Julian M. Sobin & Stephen Andors
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Fairlawn, NJ: Eurasia Press, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Distributed by Harper & Row. Full brown cloth, gilt titles on spine, endpaper maps, xvi, 336 pp, many b & w illustrations in text. DJ has a hint of edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. Updated Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 28½ X 22 cm.
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From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi
by Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi
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Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown boards, gilt titles on front board & spine, [v], 496 pp, 14 ff b & w photo plates, index. Margin of one leaf torn, else very good, pencil notes & underlining in first few pages. DJ has some creasing, spine faded; in Brodart archival cover. Pu Yi was made emperor of China at the age of 3, abdicated at the age of 6 during the revolution of 1911, was made a puppet emperor by the Japanese in the 1930s, and finally was "re-moulded" into a good Communist. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). . G+/VG+. 21 X 15 cm.
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Half-Crown Colony: A Historical Profile of Hong Kong
by Pope-Hennessy, James
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Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter white cloth, magenta paper-covered boards & titles on spine, blind device on front board, pictorial endpapers, [iv], 150 pp, map, 6 ff b & w plates. DJ has a 1 cm tear, small chip to top of front joint, head of spine rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. This historical profile of the British colony (decidedly from the British perspective) is written by a grandson of Sir John Pope Hennessy, Governor from 1877-1882. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Fine/VG+. 23½ X 16 cm.
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A History of China from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
by Eberhard, Wolfram
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Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1950 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by E. W. Dickes. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, xvi, 374 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, 6 maps, notes, index. Extensive (mostly pencil) underlining in chapters VIII through XI, else near fine. First appearance in English of what has become a standard history of China. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . G/VG. 22½ X 14½ cm.
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Mao: A Biography
by Terrill, Ross
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New York et al.: Harper & Row, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter white cloth, red paper-covered boards, red titles on spine, xi, 481 pp, footnotes, end notes, bibliographic note, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Terrill drew upon interviews with people who knew Mao as well as Chinese documentary sources to produce this biography. According to the DJ, "Terrill describes Mao's family background, why he became a rebel, where he gathered his social and political ideas, his multiple love affairs, how he wrote and organized and shot his way to power. After building a new China Mao had growing doubts about the results of his own handiwork; and in the terrible last years he reigned but could no longer rule." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.
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The Soong Dynasty
by Seagrave, Sterling
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New York: Harper & Row, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth with gilt dragon on front board, xi, 532 pp, 8 ff photo plates, notes, bibliography, index. Spine ends turned in, a few spots near bottom of front board, some edge wear, boards a bit warped. Price-clipped DJ has slight edge wear and chipping at corners and head of spine; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "...descendants of a Chinese runaway who grew up in America under the protection of the Methodist Church in the latter part of the nineteenth century and took the name of Charlie Soong. When Soong returned to China, he made a fortune printing and selling Western Bibles, and secretly backed the republican revolution of Sun Yat-sen against the Manchu dynasty. Of his six children, one daughter, Ching-ling, married Sun Yat-sen and later supported the Chinese Communists against the Nationalists until her death in 1981. But all the other Soongs cast their lot with…
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