Search Results: Authors starting with C from Asia Bookroom

London.: University of London Press.. 1946.. Endpaper maps, numerous black and white photographic plates, diagrams and illustrations, 160pp, index. Yellow cloth-covered boards, name on the front free endpaper, the striking dustjacket is chipped at the head and tail of spine with some loss but now protected. A pleasing copy. Missionary authors describe immediate post-war China. The interesting black and white photographic illustrations depict daily life in China. .

London.: Hodder & Stoughton.. Reprint.. 1946.. Two maps (1 folding), three colour plates, many photographic illustrations, 301pp, light browning, inscription front free and neat label of a prior owner front endpapers, corners a little bumped. Spine a trifle darkened but overall a very good copy in bright original cloth binding. .

Hong Kong.: The Chinese University Press.. Revised ed.. 2003.. xlii + 387pp, index, bibliography, mark lower section of fore edge, lower endpapers a touch foxed, paperback covers a little rubbed and bumped, good copy. "The tremendous success of China's economic reform, in contrast with the vast difficulties encountered by the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries in their transition, has attracted worldwide attention. Using a historical, comparative and analytic approach grounded in mainstream economics, the authors develop a consistent and rational framework of state-owned enterprises and individual agents to analyze the internal logic of the traditional Chinese planning system. They also explain why the Chinese economy grew slowly before the market-oriented reform in 1979 but became one of the fastest growing economies afterwards, and why the vigor/chaos cycle became part of China's reform process. The book also addresses the questions: Can China continue its trend of reform and… Read More

北京.[Beijing].: 人民文学出版社. [Ren min wen xue chu ban she].. 1979.. 167pp, some browing particularly on spine. Good paperback copy. From the library of Professor Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys) 李克曼. .

Stanmore.: Cassell.. 1975. Maps, black and white photographic plates, xiii + 196pp, index, bibliography, appendix, paperback. Covers lightly creased, occasional very light foxing, otherwise a good copy. Intended as a way for readers to learn general information about Japan. Chapters titles include: Buy Australian? Buy Japanese?; Fishing and Fisherman; Energy; Transport and Communications; Politics and the People; Communities; and Japanese Lifestyles. .

Tokyo: Hokuseido Press.. 2nd Edition.. Showa 15. [1940].. 4 colour plates, 2 folding, numerous black and white photographic illustrations, xi + 141pp. Attractive purple cloth covered boards, contrasting red cloth title label upper cover, Japanese binding with tassle ties, cloth worn with loss at corners and edges. Good copy. The author writing in the 1930s notes the young Japanese are becoming more Westernized "their bobbed heads buzz with thoughts of cinemas and sports. So it is that every year a decreasing number really understands the significance of the festival figures and their tiny trappings." The book is divided into two parts: The Girls Festival and The Boys Festival with an appendix. .

Stanford.: Stanford University Press.. 2017.. xvi + 297pp, notes, bibliography, index, 22.9 x 15.2cm. A very good paperback copy. "Japan grew explosively and consistently for more than a century, from the Meiji Restoration until the collapse of the economic bubble in the early 1990s. Since then, it has been unable to restart its economic engine and respond to globalization. How could the same political–economic system produce such strongly contrasting outcomes? This book identifies the crucial variables as classic Japanese forms of socio-political organization: the "circles of compensation." These cooperative groupings of economic, political, and bureaucratic interests dictate corporate and individual responses to such critical issues as investment and innovation; at the micro level, they explain why individuals can be decidedly cautious on their own, yet prone to risk-taking as a collective. Kent E. Calder examines how these circles operate in seven concrete areas, from food supply to consumer… Read More

USA: Powerhouse Publishing.. 2003.. Illustrated with arresting black and white photographic plates throughout, 165pp, dustjacket, quarto. A photographic essay with an "introduction by Antonin Kratochvil. Spirits And Ghosts: Journeys Through Mongolia delves into the transitions and changes in Mongolia since 1996, addressing the issues and problems of this country still steeped in the murkiness of the post-Communist era, and awkwardly adapting to a new democratic system. Calfee documented the role of shamanism and ritual in this mysterious land, participating in the winter migration of a female shaman and her family over the mountains, sleeping on ice-covered fields at -40 degrees C, and taking photographs of her private seances, rarely seen by anyone outside of this exclusive nomadic culture. Calfee also spent years documenting the social ills of this little-understood East-Central Asian republic, spending days and nights in different prisons with adolescents, women, alcoholics, murderers, and many… Read More

London.: Davis-Poynter.. 1978.. Map, 190pp, index, hardback, dustjacket spine sunned, a very good copy. Herbert 260. From the Politics and Strategy of the Second World War series, edited by Noble Frankland and Christopher Dowling. Professor Callahan's work includes writing on various aspects of World War II. .

New Delhi.: Manohar.. 1992.. 335pp, index, bibliography. Boards somewhat marked, dustjacket little worn, a good copy. .

London.: Phaidon.. 2015.. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, 303pp, glossary, bibliography, index, section of spine sunned, head of spine bruised, otherwise very good paperback copy with French flaps. 27.5 x 21.1cm. "An authoritative and wide-ranging visual essay on the aesthetics of Japan, now in a beautiful paperback edition. Japan Style, written by one of the world's most respected scholars of Japanese art and culture, defines what 'Japan style' is. It explores specific achievements in Japanese art and architecture, but also offers an in-depth analysis of the whole of Japanese culture, its vision of the world and of humankind." (Publisher's description). .

Manila.: University of Philippines Press.. 1997.. 207pp, appendices, paperback, sunned spine creased. Translations of selected dispatches from the French consuls in the Philippines during the Philippine Revolution. .

Urbana.: University of Illinois Press.. 1998.. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xi + 314pp, index, references, glossary, covers trifle worn, pencilling throughout text, a sound secondhand copy. .

Hong Kong.: Oxford University Press.. 1982.. Maps, illustrations some in colour, bibliography, index, appendices, 277pp, a prior owner's inscription front free endpaper with ink remnant on title page, very light foxing on reverse dustjacket, otherwise very good in hardback. .

London.: Century.. 1984.. Maps, black and white and colour illustrations, 248pp, appendices, bibliography, index, edges and lower cover of price clipped dustjacket a little foxed, hardback in very good condition. 27 x 20cm. Traces the formation of the Himalayas through to the explorers, scientists and climbers of the twentieth century. .

Hong Kong.: Oxford University Press.. 1975.. Maps, black and white photographic and line illustrations, 369pp, glossary, bibliography, covers trifle shelf worn, a good paperback copy. 25.3 x 18.7cm. "From Bondage to Liberation unfolds in fine detail the events of the century starting in 1860. It discusses the policies of the governments and their servants who were involved, and attempts brief portraits of most of those intimately concerned." Used in Hong Kong as a late high school text; also suitable for general reading. .

New York.: Facts on File.. 1984.. Maps, black and white and colour illustrations, 248pp, appendices, bibliography, index, dustjacket spine little sunned, some foxing first leaves, remainder mark lower edge, a good hardback copy. 27 x 20cm. Traces the formation of the Himalayas through to the explorers, scientists and climbers of the twentieth century. .

Topsfield.: Salem House.. Maps, black and white and colour illustrations, 248pp, appendix, bibliography, index, 26.7 x 19.7cm. A very good hardback copy in dustjacket. .

London.: Century Hutchinson.. 1987.. Maps, colour & black and white photographic illustrations, 248pp, appendices, bibliography, index, a good copy in little worn dustjacket with small closed tear upper cover, quarto. Describes the physical creation of the Pacific, and suggests how the ocean's multitude of islands may have been first populated by those true discoverers of the ocean, the Polynesians. It brings vividly to life the epic voyages of the Spanish, Dutch, British, French, Russian and American explorers as they battled against the vast distances of the Pacific and the appalling weather conditions of the ocean's polar approaches. It recounts the excesses of the exploiters - the freebooters, sealers, whalers, missionaries and traders - who followed in the explorers' wake. .

New York.: Octagon Books.. 1963.. 223pp, appendices, bibliography, index, prior owner's name front free endpaper, covers trifle shelf worn, a very good hardback copy. .