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[China] La Federation des Syndicats de Chine
Apercu General Sur La Culture Physique et les Sports de la Chine Nouvelle
Peking: L'Edition Ouvriere 1956. Paperback. Sports magazine folio unpaginated in French and Chinese; with a color photo of Chairman Mao Tse-toung sic. A magazine promoting sports and health published six years after the establishment of the Republique Populaire de Chine; with a goal of preparing the athletes for the Olympic games in Melbourne in 1956. Photographs of ping pong basket ball soccer crew swimming ice hockey skiing bicycling etc; and with a list of athletes who achieved new records. In French. Many photos b&w and color. Slight damage at right hand page edges early o/w very good. HKD580. L'Edition Ouvriere paperback
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[China] Linebarger, Paul Myron
La Chine et la Judee. trop vieilles pour mourir. Une esquisse des revolutions de Sun Yat-Sen
Washington DC: Editions Mid-Nation 1937. Pamphlet 64pp ex-lib with perforated stamp on title bound with original wrappers in brown stiff card boards. The author's father had close ties to the leaders of the Chinese revolution of 1911. His godfather was Sun Yat-sen. While at Duke University from 1937 to 1946 he became an expert in Far Eastern affairs. In 1943 while with the newly formed Office of War Information and Intelligence Board he was sent to China and became a confidant of Chang Kai-shek. He was the author of "Psychological Warfare" considered a classic text. HKD735. Editions Mid-Nation unknown
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[China] Linebarger, Paul Myron
Livret-Questionnaire pour les Etudiants sur Les Doctrines Politiques de Sun Yat-Sen
Washington DC: Editions Mid-Nation 1937. Pamphlet 30pp ex-lib with perforated stamp on title bound with original wrappers in brown stiff card boards. The author's father had close ties to the leaders of the Chinese revolution of 1911. His godfather was Sun Yat-sen. While at Duke University from 1937 to 1946 he became an expert in Far Eastern affairs. In 1943 while with the newly formed Office of War Information and Intelligence Board he was sent to China and became a confidant of Chang Kai-shek. He was the author of "Psychological Warfare" considered a classic text. HKD735. Editions Mid-Nation unknown
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[China] Lin-Le (Lindley, Augustus F)
Ti-Ping Tiem-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution Including A Narrative of the Author's Personal Adventures
London: London Day & Son 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Good condition. An account of Augustus F. Lindley 1840 -1873 British officer writer and adventurer who fought for the Taiping insurgents in their rebellion against the Manchu dynasty one of the largest and bloodiest civil wars in history. The Taiping Rebellion 1850-64 was instigated by Hong Xiuquan and his followers whose goal was to create a "Heavenly Kingdom" in China with Christianity as the official religion. Lindley was a Royal Navy officer stationed in Hong Kong who resigned his commission in 1860 to work for a Taiping general as an artillery instructor. He also became a spokesperson for the cause courting Western support and procuring weapons and supplies. His wife Maria the daughter of the Portuguese consul at Macau served in the rebellion as a sniper and was killed in an ambush. Lindley remained in China until the fall of the Heavenly Kingdom in 1864. Two years later he wrote this work the only detailed account written of the Taiping Rebellion from the rebels' perspective.<br /> <br /> Two volumes royal 8vo: Vol I xvii iii 424pp; Vol II: vii i 425-842 complete. Folding color frontispiece 20 chromolithographs 9 wood engravings two folding maps. Original publisher's maroon pictorial gilt cloth covers with blind stamped borders gilt illustrations at upper covers. An ex-library copy with bookplates library stamps to plates only on versos. Archivally restored with the original spines laid down. OCLC: 3467844. London Day & Son hardcover
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[China] Manetti, Saviero
Cucule celeste della China Plate LXXX engraving from "Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo e adornata di figure intagliate in rame e miniate al naturale"
Florence Italy: Giuseppe Vanni 1766. Print. Very good condition. Period hand-colored copper engraving from the Natural History of the Birds Treated Systematically and Adorned with Copperplate Engraving Illustrations in Miniature and Life-Size 1766-1777. <br /> <br /> The work carries some interesting historical importance according to Peter Dance: "The production of its five massive folio volumes must have been one of the most remarkable publishing ventures ever undertaken in Florence. Begun in 1767 and based on birds taken from the collection of Giovanni Gerini it was completed ten years later. It was larger better engraved and more vividly coloured than any previous work on birds but these are not its only claim to fame. The attitudes of the birds themselves give this book its unique character. Strutting parading posturing and occasionally flying.are birds whose real-life counterparts would surely disown them and not without reason for Manetti seems in these pictures to be depicting the human comedy the habits and mannerisms of contemporary Italian society. His book may still be rated among the very greatest bird books if only for its magnificent comicality" S. Peter Dance The Art of Natural History: Animal Illustrators and their Work. London 1978.<br /> <br /> Approx. 10 5/8 x 13 1/2" platemark on watermarked paper measuring 14 1/2 x 18". The original images were drawn by Lorenzo Lorenzi Violante Vanni or Manetti himself. HKD3680. Giuseppe Vanni unknown
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[CHINA] MACKERRAS, Colin [ED]
The Uighur Empire; According to the T'ang Dynastic Histories
Columbia South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press 1972. First Limited Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Unnumbered copy from a limitation of 999. Publisher's black cloth spine over red marbled paper boards titled in gilt and red to spine. 226pp. 1. Very light wear a little scuffing to the spine housed in a matching marbled slipcase; internally clean and fresh from the library of noted translater oand poet Nathaniel Tarn bearing his bookplate; page edges stained red; in a strong clean slipcase with a little light edgewear. A very good copy indeed. <br /> <br /> An academic history of the Uighur Empire and its relations with larger Chinese cultures between the 8th and 9th centuries. University of South Carolina Press unknown
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[China] McLean, Thomas, publ, Doyle, John, artist
Hoo - Loo - Choo Alias John Bull and the Doctors
London: Thos. McLean 1831. Very good. Hand colored lithograph by the artist John Doyle. A satirical look at the state of "John Bull" the personification of Britain during an intense period of political reform in Britain. John Bull is dressed in Chinese attire a long striped jacket and enormous gray waistcoat and wearing a pointed black cap sits sprawled in an armchair and addresses Lord Grey. Bull says to Grey "I can't say that my bodily health was ever better or that I ever felt stronger tho' to be sure I am not growing younger; but then every one is telling me how deformed I am grown of late & this tumour which I have had from my infancy is all a Mass of Corruption". Lord Grey responds "" This deformity is quite inconsistent believe me with the nature of your Constitution and therefore must be got rid of . ". Lord Grey was in the process of attempting to push through parliamentary reform at the time and a Reform Act was finally passed in 1832 which increased the male electorate substantially. Grey's colleagues depicted are Althorp Russell Peel and Wellington. With the initials HB at lower left and "HB Sketches 124" at the upper right. 15 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. Slt chipped at corners with short crease at lower right corner o/w very good. Thos. McLean hardcover
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[China] Meyer, Vilhelm; Ferguson, Charles J, ed; Li, Guangzhao
Andersen Meyer & Company Limited of China. Its History: its Organization Today Historical and Descriptive Sketches Contributed by Some of the Manufacturers it Represents. March 31 1906 to March 31 1931
Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh 1931. Hardcover. Very good condition. A presentation copy of a scarce volume celebrating the 25th anniversary of a Danish engineering company that brought western technology to the industrial development of 1900s China and secured the exclusive right to represent General Electric in China. <br /> <br /> Andersen Meyer first worked on a joint basis with an American import export firm based in Shanghai named Fearon Daniel & Company to set up an engineering firm in China. In 1907 it won the right to represent G. E. in China and in 1908 secured its first large contract with the Mukden Electric Light Works. <br /> <br /> The firm quickly diversified from the construction and engineering fields to partner with American makers of textile machinery and equipment selling the first cotton mill entirely equipped with American machinery. It also expanded into power plant machinery electrical machinery including Xray equipment plumbing and heating equipment agricultural machinery and drugs and chemicals. Offices were located in Tientsin Peiping Harbin Mukden Hankow Tsingtao Tsinan Hong Kong and Canton. Meyer Andersen represented the major American manufacturers of the day from G. E. American Radiator International Harvester Masonite Parke Davis once America's oldest and largest drug maker Sherwin Williams and more.<br /> <br /> This is a signed presentation copy to a long term business associate who was the principal of a company acquired by Pittsburgh Coal Co. from the founder Vilhelm Meyer and signed below Meyer's frontispiece portrait: "F. L. Robbins with thanks for your long and loyal cooperation. From your old friend Vilhelm Meyer. March 1931".<br /> <br /> The first section is written in English; the second section in Chinese translated and prepared by Kuang Chao Lee with a special title page and separate pagination with Chinese numerals. The volume is impressive for its wide array of b&w photographic illustrations in all the areas in which the company operated including staff portraits showrooms of the various departments interior views of factories including cotton & silk mills power plants lighting of Shanghai buildings railway and locomotive equipment and workshops and bridge construction. There is an unusual double spread photograph of the Bund in Shanghai with 29 numbered buildings and a chart below listing all the heating supplies provided by Andersen Meyer to the prominent landmark buildings all along the waterfront! pp92-93. The many images in a broad range of fields provide a vivid sense of the tremendous impact of western technology on China's industrial growth.<br /> <br /> In 1934 Vilhelm Meyer died and the ownership of the company passed to its main American partner General Electric. In 1949 following the founding of the People's Republic of China many international firms in Shanghai were nationalized including Andersen Meyer. By 1950 it was completely Chinese controlled.<br /> <br /> Large 4to 247pp; 134pp frontispiece b&w photographic illustrations including portraits of staff maps. With the book plate of F. L. Robbins at the front paste down. Dark blue stamped buckram covers title in English at front cover in Chinese at rear cover original titles in yellow somewhat dulled.<br /> <br /> We located four copies at the National Library of Singapore National Library of Australia the University of Hong Kong and Stanford. OCLC: 123199443. Libraries Australia ID 5041194. Kelly and Walsh hardcover
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[China] Mudge, Hannah
Ivory coated Embossed Coated Calling Card of Hannah B. Mudge with Chinese characters
Boston: Dickinson 1840. Good condition. The embossed coated calling card of an American woman in China possibly a medical missionary as the caduceus is embossed at each side of her calling card. There is a vignette within an oval at the bottom of the card showing goods packed in crates at the dock tall-masted sailing ships and a locomotive in the distance. With Mudge's name in elaborate contemporary ink with Chinese characters below. "Dickinson" embossed at lower left corner. 3 3/4 x 2 1/2". Small chip at left edge of card. Dickinson unknown
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[China] Nevius, John L
China and the Chinese: A general description of the country and its inhabitants; its civilization and form of government; its religious and social institutions; its intercourse with other nations; and its present condition and prospects
New York: Harper & Brothers 1869. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. The important work of an American Protestant missionary with much material on missionaries in China: "Missionary Life in China" Different Methods and Agencies Employed in Missionary Work" "Results of Missionary Work" "Character and Experiences of Native Christian and Inquirers" "Roman Catholic Missions in China" and "Influence of the Chinese in California" this is just before the Exclusion Act. Much discussion of missionaries and the Bible. <br /> <br /> Sml 8vo 456pp 8 printed pp of woodblock illustrations along with decorations within text folding map. Stamped blue cloth with gilt title at spine. Covers slt rubbed and marked. Internally sml previous owner name at ffep Moore Butlers Bay. and Contents o/w very good. OCLC: 562019862. Harper & Brothers hardcover
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[China] Oberlin Shansi Memorial Schools J'aiku, Shansi, China
A Chinese student's accordion book "Made in China by the students of the Self Help Club" Shansi China
China 1930. Very good overall. An example of student's work from the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Schools an accordion book with the label "Made in China By the students of the Self Help Club of the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Schools J'aiku Shansi China" inside the front board at the back. <br /> <br /> In 1881 the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology decided to form “The Oberlin Band†to do mission work in China’s then remote Shansi Province now romanized as “Shanxi†under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ABCFM. In 1900 thirteen of them and many Chinese Christians were killed in the Taiyuan Massacre during the Boxer Uprising. The school continues to this day. <br /> <br /> Accordion book 4 1/4 x 6 3/4" with yellow & red tassel marker and slipcase with yellow & red applied design on the front. A child has illustrated the word "Animal" inside the back page. A rather undeveloped attempt at making a book and case but one must start somewhere. Most likely a fund raising effort. The date of 1930 is a guesstimate which could be wildly incorrect. unknown
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[China] ORTELIUS, A / BARBUDA, Luis Jorge de
A FINE EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN MAP OF CHINA IN ENGLISH<br>IN RICH ORIGINAL HANDCOLOR<br>Chinae olim Sinarum regionis nova descriptio. London 1606.
14 3/8 x 18 3/8 inches. Fine original hand color; slight split at centerfold fine condition. <br /><br /><p>A brilliant example in rich original hand color of the rare and only English language edition of the earliest printed folio-size western map specifically of China and "the first to show the Great Wall"Nebenzahl. "This map remained the standard type for the interior of China for over sixty years" Tooley. Although 2 pocket-sized English language editions of an abbreviated version of Ortelius' <i>Theatrum</i> entitled <i>Epitome</i> were published previously in 1601 and 1603 with brief texts in English the English text in the present edition runs to 2 large folio pages printed on the back of the map giving an extensive description of China drawn from recent publications of observations by European travelers to the area particularly Jesuits. With its three lushly designed cartouches and many illustrations of indigenous shelters modes of transportation i.e. the famous wind wagons and animals this is one of Ortelius's richest engravings and among his rarest. </p><p>Nebenzahl <i>Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond </i>4.6; van der Krogt 8410:31:051; Tooley <i>Maps and Mapmakers</i> p. 106 pl. 78 p. 108; Walter <i>Japan: A Cartographic Vision</i> 11F p. 186.</p>
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[China] Post card
Chinese Junk
1920. Otherwise very good condition. Hand made color post card with charming collage illustration of a Chinese junk made of strips of postage stamps. Not mailed with 'Made in China' at the lower edge verso of card. Verso of card evenly toned. unknown
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[China] Post card
Landscape with Camel Caravan
Otherwise very good condition. Color post card with charming illustration of a man leading three camels along a very twisting road with a Chinese walled city in the distance. Not mailed with 'China' at the upper left corner verso of card. Verso of card toned with traces of sticky tape at edges. HK581. unknown
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[China] Rose Series
Stereoscopic view: Railway Station Tientsin China
Sydney: The Rose Stereographs 1905. Very good condition. A fascinating large image of the train and the bustle on the platform. Number 6209 with the additional text "this railway extends to Peking and belongs to a European company. Travelling on this line is quite up to date". Text at verso explains "this railway which connects Tientsin with Peking was made use of by the Japanese Government to convey soldiers to the front during the war with Russia in 1904 but the Chinese authorities apparently yielding to outside pressure temporarily closed the line to prevent trouble". Visible in the crowd awaiting departure are commission agents "touts" for the various hotels and Japanese soldiers. Card measures 7 x 4" The Rose Stereographs unknown
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[China] Royal Geographical Society, Markham, Clements; Charles, W R
The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. 12 1898 July - Dec
London: Royal Geographic Society 1898. Hardcover. Important material on China Central India the Yangtse Chiang Tibet and Mt. Everest including: The Fourth Centenary of Vasco da Gama's Voyage to India by Sir Clements Markham; The Yangtse Chiang by W. R. Charles; Through Tibet to China by Captain H. S. Wellby; Tirah by Colonel T. H. Holdich; The Environs and Native Names of Mount Everest by Major L. A. Waddell. All folding maps present. Three quarter black leather and black boards gilt title to red spine label spine rubbed and chipped front and rear boards loose but holding. Royal Geographic Society hardcover
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[China] Shanghai
Collection of 26 miniature photographs of Shanghai
1930. Very good overall. 26 small photographs of the city of Shanghai in a paper envelope stamped 'Good Luck Book Shop - S'Hai Victory Photo' with Chinese characters. Some of the photographs are titled for example: Broadway Mansions North Station Shanghai; Bubblind sic Well of Shanghai; Post's Head Office; Soochow Creek; The Sun Company; Platforms of Three Companies; Yu Ya China Road; Bund Garden; Garden Bridge; Lungmen Road; Willow Tea House; and Race Course. 3 1/4 x 2 1/4" HK1744. unknown
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[CHINA] SMEDLEY, Agnes
Battle Hymn of China w/ ALS
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1943. First Edition. First printing. Laid-in is a 2-pp ALS dated Dec. 26 1944 on Agnes Smedley's letterhead to Lt. Eugene S. Brewer Jr. see note below. Octavo 21cm. Original red cloth boards titles in gilt on spine; dustjacket; maroon top-stain; viii528xvi pp; illus. Folding map inserted before half-title. A Very Good copy with expected evidence of reading and use; there is a small closed tear in the margin of the folding map which is otherwise clean and complete. In the original dustwrapper unclipped priced $3.50 generally rubbed and soiled with old clear tape reinforcements at flap-folds; just VG. Ownership and bookplate of Eugene S. Brewer Jr.; a 4¢ "Sun Yat Sen" U.S. postage stamp affixed to front free endpaper. Additionally laid-in is a folded circular printing the "Statement of Policy" of the Committee for a Democratic Policy Toward China later the Committe for a Democratic Far East Policy. Jacket design by Jean Carlu. The revolutionary journalist's major work a memoir of her twelve years as a correspondent on the front lines of both the Chinese revolution and the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1929 to 1942. Smedley 1892-1950 was a prolific left journalist and probable spy known for her active support of Chinese and Indian revolutionary causes and for her many writings on Maoist China. <br /> <br /> The laid-in letter of about 250 words is dated Dec. 26 and addressed to a young Army lieutenant from Michigan Eugene S. Brewer. Smedley discusses the recent U.S. Presidential elections stating that she voted for Roosevelt despite disagreeing with "many things Roosevelt has done and still does.but I was afraid of Dewey and his rotten reactionaries. Now I grow more and more afraid of Churchill and it would be a godsend if he'd fall dead or if someone would kindly bump him off." She comments on British policy in India: "As long as Nehru remains in prison I have no hearing for any agent of the British" - and concludes with a description of her work for China relief "raffling off things for 2 weeks to aid cultural workers in Chung King.I'm tired tramping the streets selling chances for 10¢! So much work for so little." <br /> <br /> Eugene S. Brewer 1914-2001 was a 1935 graduate of the University of Michigan. He won a 1938 Avery Hopwood Prize for a proletarian novel apparently never published "Some Brass and No Groceries." After a brief and apparently unremarkable scriptwriting career in Hollywood Brewer returned to his home town of Owosso Michigan where he was for many years a county planner and surveyor. Brewer's connection to Smedley is uncertain but likely dated from his student days at Michigan. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
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[China] Taylor, George; Stewart, Maxwell, ed
Changing China
Webster Publishing Company 1942. Paperback. Very good overall. A cooperative project between American Council Institute of Pacific Relations and Webster Publishing. Contents include: China and the Chinese; Old China; A Century of Imperialism; and The New China. Sml 8vo 94pp b&w ills maps. Webster Publishing Company paperback
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[China] Veritable Extrait de Viande trading cards
French trading card collection China: Temple de Ha-Ha-Men a Pekin; Porte du port de Takou sur le Pei-Ho; Pont sur un canal a Tien-tsin; Une rue a Chang-Hai; Troupes imperiales chinoises et boxers dans l'arsenal de Tien-tsin; Pai-Lo Porte triomphale a Pekin entre les villes chinoise et tartare
Paris 1880. Very good. French meat extract 'Veritable Extrait de Viande Liebig' chromolithographic trading card collection with illustrations of Chinese city scenes and with the meat extract pictured in the lower right corner. Paris not dated ca. 1880 4 x 2 1/2" with advertising copy on the back. Colors bright and fresh; matted very good. unknown
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[CHINA].
City of Nanking.
Liverpool Jabez Vale n.d. circa 1840. . Broadside 31 x 29.5 cm. approx printed in blue ink with a large pictorial vignette surrounded by an ornamental border.<br /> Rare Liverpool printed broadside. The text consists of a quote from Lord Byron followed by a nineteen-line text praising the city and giving details of its topography and features of interest.<br /><br />Nanking porcelain was a major export item and the city would have been of great interest to people in the West. The blue on white of the broadside presumably reflects the distinctive blue-and-white porcelain itself.<br /> Liverpool, Jabez Vale, n.d. circa 1840. unknown
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[CHINA].
Correspondence Respecting Insults in China. Presented to the House of Commons by command of Her Majesty 1857.
London Harrison and Sons 1857. . First edition; 4to 32 x 20 cm; original printed blue wrappers rebacked with a few small tears to spine light stains to covers corner wear internally a very good copy; viii 228 pp.<br /> Scarce parliamentary paper detailing the diplomatic incidents between 1842 and 1856 that precipitated the Second Opium War.<br /><br />After the first 'unequal treaty' was signed between China and Britain following the First Opium War the British continued to exploit the still illicit opium trade and were often targets of hostility from local Chinese inhabitants. The Qing government already highly insulted by the Treaty of Nanking were repeatedly affronted by British officers who would overstep their authority and diplomatic parameters when seeking justice. A large section of the paper is concerned with the attack on the missionaries of the London Missionary Society Press Walter Medhurst William Muirhead and William Lockhart in 1848. Rutherford Alcock 1809-1897 then consul at Shanghai used the diplomatic incident to push for greater protection of missionaries as well as securing trade access to Nanking and diplomatic access to the Viceroy of the region. <br /><br />Some of the other incidents described are: disturbances at Canton and the burning of factories; persecution of Chinese in British employ at Amoy; attacks on British at Foo-chow; and an affray between Americans and Chinese at Whampoa.<br /> London, Harrison and Sons, 1857. unknown
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[CHINA].
First Report from the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company.
London Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 8 July 1830. . First edition; 4to 34 x 22 cm; numerous tables in text some very light occasional spotting; later half-calf to style marbled boards gilt spine in six compartments with gilt black lettering piece all edges marbled a very good copy; xxiii 500 173 pp.<br /> This was the final large-scale inquiry into the East India Company in China before their monopoly was revoked in 1833. Since the revocation of their monopoly in India twenty years prior the Company's trading power had been more and more heavily relying on tea exports through which they were able to control prices. The six sessions of the parliamentary Select Committee between February 15th and June 3rd clearly laid out the inadequacies of the Company supplying the potential trade on offer with China and more importantly the additional costs upon the British consumer through the inefficiencies associated with the Company. After 1833 the East India Company was a purely administrative body whose army was used as part of the British force in the First Opium War.<br /><br />Opium was one of the issues raised early on in the sessions in particular in regards to its legality and whether it therefore laid under the jurisdiction of the Company: 'is not the opium trade in China. entirely an illicit trade'. Part of the reason for revoking the Company's monopoly was that the stance they had to take in regards to opium that it was a prohibited product precluded both themselves and any other private merchants from profiting from a 'trade which is open to the rest of the world'. <br /><br />The rest of the report is largely concerned with the primary export from China: tea. The charts in the appendices helpfully lay clear the extent of the trade showing that on average the Company exported nearly 130000 tonnes of tea to England and America every year and the duties paid by the Company on tea to the Crown alone exceeded £3000000 a year. In large part the inquiry concerned itself with the high prices for the end English consumer resulting from the inefficiencies and protectionist practices inherent in a monopoly. The difference between the cost of tea in America versus England is highlighted with some teas being double the price in England compared to America as well as costs of ship production when compared with both America and the Crown. One of the witnesses states that 'the Company has been always anxious to promote the consumption of tea' knowing they would struggle to provide 'an adequate supply for any increased demand'.<br /><br />Rare in commerce with none at auction in the last 30 years.<br /> [London], Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 8 July 1830. hardcover
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[CHINA].
The six horses of Tang Tai Tsung; Tai Chi Shang Yuan -- The Chinese astrological theory of creation; The inscribed bones of Shang; Agricultural rites in the religion of Old China; Old problems concerning the Nestorian monument; Geophysical prospecting for gold metallic ores and petroleum and its possible application in China. . . . In: Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Volume LXVII . . .
Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh Ltd. 1936. 8vo. 6 xvi 251 1 pp. Photo frntsp. numerous plates maps tables text illustrations. Yellow-tinted softcovers minor creasing & wear to spine VG copy. First edition of this installment of the famed journal on Chinese history and culture. The list of Royal Asiatic Society Members provides an invaluable reference. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., paperback
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[CHINA]. [HELMER, Frederic F (Ed)].
A long journey to the Coast; The waiting harvest fields of Kweichow; China -- the world’s problem; On the roof of the world describing the work of Mr. Hunter and Mr. Mather of the China Inland Mission; Sinkiang or Chinese Turkistan; First baptisms among the Lahu; Back at Yangchow. . . In: China’s Millions The Organ of the China Inland Mission Vol. XXXVI Nos. 2 4 6.
Philadelphia & Toronto: China Inland Mission Feb.-June 1928. Three vols. 4to. 17-31 1; 47-63 1; 81-95 1 pp. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations maps self-printed softcovers minor creasing edgewear couple leaves w/ corners worn folded still VG set. First editions of these very scarce China Inland Mission periodicals published for supporters and as fundraiser during the 1920s for the noted interdenominational missionary society originally founded by Hudson Taylor in 1865. The 1920s were a period of great unrest famine and ongoing conflicts between various warlords as reflected in these contemporary missionary accounts. The China Inland Mission actively recruited women missionaries who in turn often proselytized to Chinese women to promote Christianity public health measures increased education and more. These issues have a number of letters and first-hand accounts of the ongoing internal battles between the Nationalist forces of Chiang-kai Shek and Mao-tse-tung’s Communists. China Inland Mission, paperback
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[CHINA]. [HELMER, Frederic F (Ed)].
China’s need; Toil and conflict on the Honan plain; A visit to Peking; New Year Feasts writing from Szechwan; Reaching China; Through Anhwei Province; Headquarters at Shanghai; Faithful believers among head-hunters and Lisu; Kansu and the great beyond; The witness of Wenchow women; A journey Further Northwest outside the Great Wall; To the tribes work in Szechwan. . . In: China’s Millions The Organ of the China Inland Mission Vol. XXXIV Nos. 1-3 5 9-10.
Philadelphia & Toronto: China Inland Mission Jan.-Oct. 1926. Six vols. 4to. 15 1; 17-31 1; 33-47 1; 65-79 1; 129-143 1; 145-159 1 pp. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations maps self-printed softcovers minor creasing edgewear couple leaves w/ corners worn folded still VG set. First editions of these very scarce China Inland Mission periodicals published for supporters and as fundraiser during the 1920s for the noted interdenominational missionary society originally founded by Hudson Taylor in 1865. The 1920s were a period of great unrest famine and ongoing conflicts between various warlords as reflected in these contemporary missionary accounts. The China Inland Mission actively recruited women missionaries who in turn often proselytized to Chinese women to promote Christianity public health measures increased education and more. China Inland Mission, paperback
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[CHINA]. [HELMER, Frederic F (Ed)].
On the Tibetan border; Under the red flag; A hospital waiting for its staff. . . Luan Hospital; The occupation of Hankow; Down the Yellow River from Kangsu; Strenuous times in Anhwei; Panghai after six years; A brigand raid; Contending armies in Anhwei . . . In: China’s Millions The Organ of the China Inland Mission Vol. XXXV Nos. 2-3; 9-12.
Philadelphia & Toronto: China Inland Mission Feb.-Dec. 1927. Six vols. 4to. 17-51 1; 153-231 1 pp. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations maps self-printed softcovers minor creasing edgewear couple leaves w/ corners worn folded still VG set. First editions of these very scarce China Inland Mission periodicals published for supporters and as fundraiser during the 1920s for the noted interdenominational missionary society originally founded by Hudson Taylor in 1865. The 1920s were a period of great unrest famine and ongoing conflicts between various warlords as reflected in these contemporary missionary accounts. The China Inland Mission actively recruited women missionaries who in turn often proselytized to Chinese women to promote Christianity public health measures increased education and more. These issues have a number of letters and first-hand accounts of the ongoing internal battles between the Nationalist forces of Chiang-kai Shek and Mao-tse-tung’s Communists. In addition there are a few special mentions that the “Christian†Chinese are the most resistant to the Communists forces. Of special interest are the inclusion and special centerfold supplements of the Young China magazine which was issued for children in the China Inland Mission and young children in China. China Inland Mission, paperback
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[CHINA]. [HELMER, Frederic F (Ed)].
Preaching the gospel in forty-nine villages; Witch-Doctor’s books; A river journey in Inland China; Opium persecutions; Our Christmas as seen by a government school students; Mohammedan treatment of apostates; Tibetans and prayers; The earthquake at Tali; The good news proclaimed in a Tibetan lamasary; A girl’s school re-opened; A Mongolian Prince; How the bandits held Shenkiu; On the edge of Tibet; Removal of ladies frmo Chungking; Among Manchurian women. . . In: China’s Millions The Organ of the China Inland Mission Vol. XXXIII Nos. 5-12.
Philadelphia & Toronto: China Inland Mission May-Dec. 1925. Eight vols. 4to. 65-191 1 each issue paginated continuously pp. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations maps self-printed softcovers minor creasing edgewear couple leaves w/ corners worn folded still VG set. First editions of these very scarce China Inland Mission periodicals published for supporters and as fundraiser during the 1920s for the noted interdenominational missionary society originally founded by Hudson Taylor in 1865. The 1920s were a period of great unrest famine and ongoing conflicts between various warlords as reflected in these contemporary missionary accounts. The China Inland Mission actively recruited women missionaries who in turn often proselytized to Chinese women to promote Christianity public health measures increased education and more. These issues encompass a range of topics including depredations by Chinese bandits working to keep girl’s schools open expanding the missionary efforts into Tibet and southeast Asia and much more. Of special interest is the article on the persecutions and killings of Chinese Christians who refuse to cultivate opium poppies. China Inland Mission, paperback
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[CHINA]. [SOWERBY, Arthur de Carle (Ed) & MOISE, Clariece S (Manager) & HARKNESS, Ruth].
The grandeur of the Yun Kang Caves Kin-Ka-San; A winter journey from Shanghai to North Anhuei; Reclaiming China’s great North-West; A baby Panda comes to town. . . In: The China Journal Vol. XXV No. 6.
Shanghai China: China Journal Printed by The Mercury Press Dec. 1936. Tall 8vo. A32 4 311-354 A33-60 pp. With photo plates 1 colour plate photo text illustrations illustrated ads including index. Colour-illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art of pink & yellow blossoms on black background lettering in green & black minor soiling minor chipping head & foot of spine minor tear & creasing to lower corner still G copy. First edition of this installment in the storied journal founded by Sowerby 1885-1954 the naturalist and explorer. Of particular interest in this installment is the first published announcement of Ruth Harkness’ d. 1947 as the first person to bring a living Giant Panda out of China a female named Su Lin. Her husband William Harkness zoologist and adventurer had headed an expedition to capture Giant Pandas but died before he even entered the habitat. Ruth traveled into Wenchuang County of Sichuan Province then onto Baoxing County where she discovered the cub less then 2 kilometers from Jiajin Mountain and was later donated to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. China Journal, Printed by The Mercury Press, paperback
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[CHINA]. [JOHNSON, C]
The Yangtse Gorge: a photographic souvenir Cover title.
Shanghai China: C. Johnson ca. 1915. Small 4to. 6.5 x 8 in. 30 pp unpaginated. on thick paper stock with 14 silver gelatin photographs tipped-in each sized 4 x 4.1 in. all w/ printed captions below black printed borders and textured tissue guards between each image and facing explanatory text 1 large folding map at rear “Ichang to Chungking†indicating the sailing root. Textured maroon-coloured cloth stapled at gutter margin title in silver on front cover pulling & minor tearing to ffep. at gutter margin minor crease fold to front border minor bumping to corners still VG- copy w/ all images crisp & bright. First and only edition of this surprisingly uncommon photographic souvenir of cruising down the magnificent Three Gorges of the Yangtze River which traditionally sailed from Nanjiang in Jiangsu Province to Chongqing. Originally these cruises were begun by the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911 emperors to inspect their territory cruising along in opulent wooden ships. Despite the first Sino-Japanese War 1895 the 1911 Chinese Revolution and other disruptions by 1915 the Yangtze River had become a popular tourist excursion riding paddle steamers in the early 20th Century. The photographs depict San Yu Tung Shooting a Rapid The Hsintan rapids Granary Gorge Patung Pagoda Kuantukou Wushan Gorge Wind Box Gorge False Gorge Shihpaochai Sampan Man A Casualty depicting a beached steamship and others. The folding map carefully shows the route and the distances quoted in the tables occasionally facing the respective photos representing the sights to be seen offer “a fair average speed of 7.5 knots for the upbound vessel the time of passing the various places can easily be calculated.†No copies in Worldcat. C. Johnson, hardcover
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[China]. [Travel]. Goodnow, Minnie
Typed Letter Signed Written to Missionary Friends Reporting on Travels in China Including Visits to Hospitals
Peiping China: June 4 1936. About very good. 2pp. Folio. Old fold lines minor wear a few contemporary annotations. Letter written by a nurse visiting China relating her itinerary in China which includes numerous trips to local hospitals and leper colonies. Minnie Goodnow was a registered nurse who served in France during the Great War. After her return to the U.S. she was a nursing administrator in several hospitals before embarking on this journey. She writes: "I am having a trip that is no less than wonderful. I had three objectives in mind for it -- to see the world or some bits of it; to see hospitals and learn something of what was being done in nursing education in several lands; and to see something of missions at first hand. I'm doing all three of them -- superficially but with great profit to myself. . I went up to Chiengmai with some of the mission people staid with Dr. and Mrs. Cort saw the wonderful leper colony and had a marvellous time. Here in China I have had a steady diet of missions and hospitals and done sight-seeing too." She goes on to relate her itinerary which includes trips to Shanghai Nanking Hankow and Changsha as well as a stay at a Buddhist monastery -- "Can you fancy the thrill I got from spending the night on top of a sacred mountain in a Buddhist monastery in the heart of China!"<br /> <br /> She continues: "Miss Stephenson went with me to two 'country' hospitals -- to complete -- or add to -- my education! They were those at Siaokan and Tiean and were most interesting. I also saw the old-fashioned leper asylum at Tiean which is on the way to becoming new-fashioned. Then I came here to Peiping where I have been for nearly four weeks. I am giving a short course in History of Nursing and doing sight-seeing also meeting people." She tells her reader that after China she plans to travel on to Indian with a similar mission. An interesting look into the culture of American travel and mission work in China in the 1930s. June 4 unknown
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[China]. BARROW, John
A Sketch of a Journey from Zhe-Hol in Tartary by Land to Pekin and from thence by Water to Hang-Tchoo-Foo in China
London: George Nicol 1796. Very Good. London George Nicol April 12th 1796. A large engraved map printed surface 640 × 451 mm sheet size 812 × 557 mm. Engraved by B. Baker. Horizontal centrefold crease as issued; occasional spots of foxing mainly in the margins; two small faint stains to the left-hand margin well clear of the printed surface; old guard on the verso with some light associated tanning on the recto about the fold; in excellent condition with wide margins. John Barrow later first Baronet was attached to the first British diplomatic mission to China led by George Macartney in 1792-94. The map is plate 9 from the atlas to the official account of the embassy George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China .'. <p>The journey shown here was from Chengde formerly Jehol to Beijing and then south to Hangzhou along the Grand Canal. While Macartney failed to secure any concessions from the Qianlong Emperor the expedition nevertheless collected important information about the geography culture population and politics of the Chinese Empire. George Nicol unknown
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[CHINA]. BLAND, J[ohn] O[tway] P[ercy]. & BACKHOUSE, E
Recent events and present policies in China. . . .
Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Co. William Heinemann 1912. Tall thick 8vo. xi 1 481 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates 2 large folding maps 1 colour map of China & Japan with Corea Korea. Gold cloth red lettering on front cover & spine t.e.g. slightly shaken front hinge starting minor foxing to fore-edges of textblock still G copy. First edition of this scarce and informative work describing the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion the impact of western education on the Chinese the efforts of the Dowager Empress comparison of China & Turkey political reforms land reform and the policies of the British and Americans in China the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War the impact of Opium and even a strong rebuttal of the persistent Yellow Peril myth. J.B. Lippincott Co., William Heinemann, hardcover
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[CHINA]. CAPA, Cornell (Ed).
Behind the Great Wall of China. Photographs from 1870 to the present. With an introduction by Weston J. Naef. . . .
New. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0870991205 ISBN : 0870991205 9780870991202
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[CHINA]. COLQUHOUN, Archibald R
Overland to China. . . .
New York & London: Harper & Brothers 1900. 8vo. xi 1 464 2 pp. plus 2 pp. publ. ads. Photo frntsp. numerous photos text illusts. plates 4 large folding colour maps 1 w/ repairs to hinges. Blue cloth gilt lettrng mnr rubbng mnr soilng to ffep couple sml clsd tears still a G copy. First edition of this excellent history and travelogue through Siberia Manchuria Eastern Mongolia and down the Yangtze Valley. Harper & Brothers, hardcover
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[CHINA]. DARDESS, John W
A Ming society. T’ai-ho County Kiangsi fourteenth to seventeenth centuries.
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press 1996. 8vo. xi 1 316 pp. Maps. Half-blue cloth over blue boards silver lettrng w/ d.j. NF/Nf. First edition of this excellent work revealing the influence of major figures during Ming China native to T’ai-ho. Univ. of California Press, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 40539 ISBN : 0520204255 9780520204256
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[CHINA]. ETHERTON, Colonel PT & TILTMAN, H Hessell P T
Manchuria the cockpit of Asia. . . .
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1932. 8vo. x 327 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 15 photo plates 1 folding map. Yellow-ribbed cloth black lettering on front cover & spine minor soiling slight lean minor wear to corners front inner hinge starting ex-lib stamps on endpapers title d.j. flaps mounted on endpapers G- reference copy. First edition of this insightful and prescient account of Manchuria publishes just after the Japanese began their invasion of China to set up the puppet state called Manchukuo which lasted until the end of World War II. Frederick A. Stokes Co., hardcover
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[CHINA]. GUNGWU, Wang
The structure of power in North China during the five dynasties.
Stanford CA: Stanford Univ. Press 1967. 8vo. viii 6 257 1 pp. Numerous maps. Green cloth black lettering NF copy. First Stanford Press edition of this scarce work examining the history of the Wu-tai period between the T’ang and Sung dynasties in China. The author examines the military governors and the T’ang Court; the growth of central power; The Liang court; the control of the provinces; and finally the emergence of a new power structure 926-947 A.D. Stanford Univ. Press, hardcover
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[CHINA]. HOLLISTER, Mary Brewster
South China folk.
New York NY: Fleming H. Revell Co. 1935. 8vo. 141 1 pp. Blue cloth yellow lettering on spine very slight interior toning minor shelfwear w/ d.j. Art Deco silhouette cover art minor edgewear rubbing still VG/VG copy from the library of David G. Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. First edition of this anthology of short stories set against the backdrop of changing culture and society in Nationalist China prior to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Mary Brewster Hollister 1892-1975 was the daughter of Methodist missionaries in China married George Hollister 1891-1967 born of Methodist missionary parents in Bangalore India and served as missionary in China on and off from about 1910 until the Communist takeover of China in 1950. They often both taught and were professors on mission sabbatical from 1927-1932 in New York before return to China and then to Delaware OH where George taught at Ohio Wesleyan University and Mary wrote and edited Methodist Missionary publications. Fleming H. Revell Co., hardcover
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[China]. JOUON, Rene
Geographie de la Chine 1930
Zi-Ka-Wei near Shanghai: Imprimerie de l'Orphinat de T'ou-Se-We 1930. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Zi-Ka-Wei near Shanghai Imprimerie de l'Orphinat de T'ou-Se-We 1930 second edition/ 1929. Large quarto iv 68 pages with numerous illustrations vignettes line illustrations and maps plus 35 pages of maps mainly full-page colour maps and a folding colour map. Flush-cut quarter cloth and colour-pictorial title-wrappers a little marked creased and sunned; bottom and leading edges a little marked with minor impact on some blank margins; head of the spine a little bumped; top corners creased at the rear; trifling signs of age and use; a very good copy. Loosely inserted are three contemporary maps in French neatly hand-drawn and hand-coloured in outline of China Indo-China and the French colonies in the Pacific and a printed map in English removed from another book showing the coast and river services of the China Navigation Co. Ltd. Imprimerie de l'Orphinat de T'ou-Se-We paperback
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[CHINA]. MORRISON, Hedda
A photographer in old Peking. With a foreword by Wang Gungwu.
Oxford Hong Kong & New York: Oxford Univ. Press 1985. 4to. ix 1 266 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates throughout. Gray boards gilt lettering on spine maps on endpapers minor shelfwear w/ d.j. NF/NF copy. First edition of this striking photographic memoir of northern China from 1933 to 1946 by a photographer who had escaped Nazi Germany in 1933 to take charge of a German-owned photographic studio in Peking. She is considered to have been one of the finest photographers who has ever worked in Asia. Oxford Univ. Press, hardcover
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[CHINA]. MANNERHEIM, C[arl] G[ustav].
Across Asia from West to East in 1906-1908. Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura -- Sociee Finno-Ougrtienne. Kansatieteelliia Julkaisuja VIII Travaux Ethnographiques.
Oosterhout The Netherlands: Anthropological Publications 1969. Two vols. 4to. 741 1; 246 pp 9 sections separately paginated. Photos text illustrations diagrams 15 maps 14 large folding. Blue linen gilt & blue spine labels NF set. Facsimile edition sponsored by the Fenno-Ugrian Society describing the extensive expedition on a 14000 mile trek across 1906-1908 by the Finnish author through Russian Turkestan Chinese Turkestan Western China the provinces of Kan Su Shensi and Shansi to Beijing. The initial objective had been to make military assessments by Mannerheim and his unit but it quickly extended to an extensive archaeological ethnological and geographical study. The second volume includes descriptions of manuscripts from Eastern Turkestan physical anthropology Buddhist manuscript fragments in Sanskrit and Khotanese Uigur documents fragment of Mongolian script and more. Anthropological Publications, unknown
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[CHINA]. MILLARD, Thomas F
China: where it is today and why.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Co. 1928. 8vo. vi 2 356 pp. Red ribbed cloth gilt lettering on spine slight shelfwear very slight bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. cover art of Chinese pennants flying slight shelfwear rubbing VG/NF copy w/ bookseller’s label on rear pastedown for Woodward & Lothrop Washington D.C. ownership signature on ffep. First edition of this work describing the results of the Chinese Revolution from 1925 through 1927including the anti-foreignism aspirations and plans of the new Chinese nationalism the anti-Christian movement and the emergence of the Chinese Communist party. Scarce in original dustjacket. Harcourt, Brace and Co., hardcover
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[CHINA]. MARSH, James Reid
The charm of the Middle Kingdom. . . .
Boston 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64142
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[CHINA]. MILLARD, Thomas F
The end of exterritoriality in China.
Shanghai: The A.B.C. Press 1931. 8vo. 8 278 pp. Burgundy-coloured cloth gilt lettering chipping head & foot of spine rubbing to spine some edgewear front hinge starting still G copy. First edition of this analysis and appeal to end extraterritoriality in China by foreign powers mostly the United Kingdom the United States and Japan who operated their own courts their own trade systems and zones in Shanghai and other protected enclaves in China. The author points out that the Chinese Parliament had voted to abolish the treaty obligations imposed upon China in the Treaty of Nanking after the First Opium War and that there had been progress in China’s legal system a new constitution and other changes. The A.B.C. Press, hardcover
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[CHINA]. ROWE, William T
Hankow: conflict and community in a Chinese city 1796-1895.
Stanford CA: Stanford Univ. Press 1989. 8vo. xiv 2 440 pp. Numerous photos maps diagrams. Red cloth gilt lettering minor bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. slight shelfwear minor scuffing to fore-edges very minor bumping to couple corners VG/VG copy. First edition of this groundbreaking and dynamic social history examining the ethnic diversity occupations and mobility of Hankow Hankou China during the waning decades of the Qing Dynasty in the 19th century. Stanford Univ. Press, hardcover
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[CHINA]. SPRAGUE, Roger
From Western China to the Golden Gate: the experiences of an American University graduate in the Orient. . . .
Berkeley: Lederer Street & Zeus Co. 1911. 8vo. 128 pp. Photo frontisp. 29 photo plates. Mustard-yellow publisher’s cloth black lettering & decoration on front cover minor soiling & thumbing to covers minor tear at gutter margin of ffep. slight wear & bumping to corners still G copy. First edition of this relatively scarce and frank memoir by a Berkeley graduate teacher at Miss Horton’s Girl’s School in Berkeley CA and later professor at UC Berkeley. He details traveling through China by sedan chair the often appalling poverty in cities such as Shanghai his experiences sailing by Chinese Junk up the Yangtze River the disappearance of planted poppy fields driving the opium trade in 1909 as well as the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion in China. Lederer, Street & Zeus Co., hardcover
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[CHINA]. TYAU, Min-Ch'ien TZ T Z
China awakened. Illustrated.
New York: The Macmillan Co. 1922. 8vo. xv 3 475 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates 1 double-page map. Orange cloth black lettering on front cover in Chinese and spine in English toning to first few leaves minor shelfwear rubbing still a VG copy w/ former ownership signature on ffep. First edition of this well-illustrated work detailing the social and economic changes in China at the beginning of the 20th century against the backdrop of many foreign-educated students returning to China to set up new educational institutions the reforms to the opium trade encouraging of Western Medical practices and new sanitation and hygiene movements the rising opposition to slavery and concubines and more. Still there was tremendous unrest during this period with much of China subject to regional warlords fighting for power the May 4th movement in which Chinese students boycotted foreign goods and more. Tyau was a British-educated adviser to the League of Nations and the Chinese President at the time who believed that China was making great strides after World War I. See: Harlan P. Beach A Chinese Discusses China International Review of Missions Vol. 11 pp. 597-598. The Macmillan Co., hardcover
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[CHINA]. WHITE, [Herbert Clarence & James Henry].
Romantic China: an album containing . . . photographic studies of China’s historic monuments and charming beauty spots. Complete with descriptive and historical notes. . . . .
Shanghai China & St. Helena CA: Published by Browhite Arts 1930. 4to. 96 pp unpaginated. Including printed photo frontisp. 41 printed photographic plates all w/ decorative woodcut engraved borders. Raised embossed & decorated burgundy pebbled cloth publisher’s binding gilt dragon & ornament on front cover minor edgewear & rubbing light uniform interior toning minor ink staining to fore-edge of textblock not affecting text or images still G copy. First edition of this wonderfully illustrated compilation of photographs documenting China before the Second Sino-Japanese War including images of the Great Wall Bridge of the Jade Green Waters Spirit Mountain Monastery a Foochow Junk on the Min River The Moon Gate in Peking the Camel Back Bridge in the Palace Gardens the Lama Abbott in the monastery in Peking and many others. James Henry 1896-1954 and Herbert Clarence 1896-1962 were Australian-born twins who grew up in California and went to China as Seventh Day Adventist missionaries in 1921 and 1923 and Henry was an excellent photographer and filmmaker who took photographs and movies in China and then selling them as a fundraiser for the brothers’ missionary efforts in China. Prior to World War II they both went on frequent lecture tours presenting photos and movies to audiences across the West. Published by Browhite Arts, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 54650
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[CHINA]. WIESE, Kurt
The Chinese ink stick. Text and drawings by. . . .
New York: Doubleday and Co. Inc. 1946. 8vo. vi 2 199 1 pp. Colour frontisp. 3 colour plates numerous black & white plates. Blue pictorial publisher’s cloth black illust. cover art by Wiese front cover black lettering illustrated endpapers slight shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Wiese minor chipping head & foot of spine couple closed tears still NF/VG- copy. Early printing of this very uncommon Kurt Wiese title first published in 1929 and reissued in 1946 by Doubleday after he was awarded the Caldecott Honor Award for his “You Can Write Chinese.†This charming work follows the adventure of a Chinese ink stick made out of “Hei Du†black earth first used by an old bamboo painter then a letter writer a tea merchant’s son and more. Scarce in original dustjacket. Doubleday and Co., Inc., hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 62723
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