Home Life In China

London: Methuen & Co., 1914. Book. Illus. by 4 color plates and 12 in black/white. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An author, missionary and academic in China from 1890 to circa 1914, his wife a physician to the Emperor Dowager and her royal family. He taught science at Peking University. Home Life… Read more about this item

Methuen & Co 1914. FIRST EDITION, SCARCE IN D/W, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, blind stamp lettering & rule to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, xii + 319pp, illus/photos, VG (sl bruising & moderate discolouration to spine & boar dextrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, eps, prelims… Read more about this item

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New. Originally published in 1914, this text describes L.T. Headland and his wife's experience in China in the early twentieth century. With a focus on home life this study explores issues such as children, marriage and education as well as food, religion and concubinage as well as presenting anecdotes and personal stories from the families… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New.

Routledge, 2016. Hardcover. New. 336 pages. 7.79x5.07x0.94 inches.

Hardback. New.