‎Porcelaine chinoise‎

‎[China] Merwin, Samuel‎

‎On Taku Bar‎

‎New York: The Ridgway Company 1913. Paperback. Very good. A story which takes place on the steamer 'Admiral von Tirpzen' traveling in the early 1900's from Tientsin to Shanghai when it runs aground at Taku Bar. Sml 8vo pamphlet tan paper wraps with orange decorative borders 27pp very good. HKD350. The Ridgway Company paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 15082

‎[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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 15361

‎[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] PERRY, Elizabeth J.‎

‎Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor‎

‎Stanford: Stanford University Press 1993. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards dustjacket;187pp. Includes bibliography. Fine copy free of markings or wear in crisp unworn dustwrapper. Stanford University Press unknown‎

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‎[China] Post card‎

‎Chinese Sunday School Children‎

‎Color post card of large group of Chinese children dressed in Sunday best clothes the little girls in charming dresses of red blue yellow and pink and with the number 1-119 at the upper right corner of the card. Not mailed with sword logo of Pacific Novelty Co. San Francisco on the verso of the card. Very good. HKD155. hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 14642

‎[China] Quarterly Review‎

‎Art. II. Voyages ê Peking Manille Et L'Isle De France Faits Dans L'Intervalle Des Annäes 1784 ê 1801. Par M. De Guignes Resident De France ê La Chine Attachä Au Ministåre Des Relations Extärieurs. . - Disbound from the Quarterly Review 1809‎

‎London: John Murray. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1809. First Edition; First Edition. Disbound. Pages 255-275. Light wear. This is an original book review from the 19th century. ; Octavo standard book size . John Murray unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 25873

‎[China] Queen Anne Bouquet trade card‎

‎Queen Anne Bouquet handkerchief extract‎

‎Queen Anne Bouquet advertising card "a fragrant and lasting extract for the handkerchief" with an illustration of a Chinese woman holding a lantern with the logo price and manufacturing information printed at the top of the card. Not dated. 2 1/2 x 5 in. Colors bright and fresh; no text on verso o/w very good. HKD270. unknown‎

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‎[CHINA] RUSSELL, Maud (ed)‎

‎Far East Reporter: How the Chinese are Conquering the Food Problem‎

‎New York: Maud Russell Publisher 1961. First Edition. Octavo. Staple bound pamphlet; 16pp; Publisher's addendum laid in. Light rubbing; else a very good or better copy with no interior markings. Maud Russell Publisher unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 15621

‎[China] sewing machine trade card‎

‎The "Household" Sewing Machine‎

‎Sewing machine manufactured by Providence Tool Co. Boston advertising card with illustration of a small Chinese boy in straw hat playing a violin to a small dog standing on its hind legs; on a gilt background. Without text at verso but with name and address of agents at lower margin of card. Not dated. 3 x 4 1/4 in. Very sml mark upper right corner of card o/w very good. HKD270. unknown‎

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‎[China] Stereoscopic view‎

‎No. 374 Superstitious Chinese Children Covering their Faces to Avoid Being Photographed‎

‎1893. Very good overall. Printed color photograph with several small Chinese children seated on stools on a raised platform covering their faces as their photograph is taken. With text on the verso describing the children "little Chinese children were shrewdly employed at the entrance to the concession . and attracted great crowds of people. . The children are under government inspection . each child was under a bond of $500 to secure their safe return to China after the exposition. Possibly from an exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago 1893. unknown‎

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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], [CHINESE Women]‎

‎Women's Liberation: A Communist View‎

‎China WOMEN October League Marxist-Leninist. Chicago: October League 1976. 16 pages. 5.5" x 8.5" illustrated with black and white photos of Women's Day marches the woman are all performing tasks at work on the image. The Liberation of Women in China. Printed by Highland Park: Internationals Socialists n.d. 49 pages. 5.5" x 8.5" inches. Original wrappers Pamphlet. Argues that the liberation of women in China had become subordinate to the needs of the state and industrialization. Highland Park: International Socialists n.d. circa 1970s. Original printed wrappers 49 pages. 5.5 × 8.5 inches. Tables footnotes.<br /> <br /> A scarce radical pamphlet issued by the International Socialists examining the gender politics of post-revolutionary China. The work critiques the Chinese Communist Party’s claims to women’s emancipation contending that the liberation of women had been made subordinate to the demands of state-building and industrial growth. In opposition to official party rhetoric the pamphlet situates women’s issues within the broader political economy arguing that while the Communist revolution opened limited avenues for women’s participation in the labor force and public life genuine equality was sacrificed to the state’s overriding needs of production modernization and social control. Tables and statistical data are included to support its argument with footnotes directing readers to both Chinese sources and Western Marxist analysis. Pamphlets from the International Socialists are relatively uncommon especially those with sustained attention to global feminist and socialist struggles. This text is significant in documenting how New Left and Trotskyist organizations in the United States attempted to reframe Chinese Communism through a feminist lens situating women’s emancipation not as a fulfilled revolutionary promise but as a deferred and compromised project. For institutional collections it offers an important perspective on the intersections of gender Marxism and internationalism in the mid-20th century while also reflecting the intellectual currents of American socialist critique. Mild wear to wrappers otherwise well-preserved. Overall Very Good. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 15383

‎[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]. [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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 53915

‎[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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 53912

‎[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]. [SOWERBY, Arthur de Carle (Ed.) & MOISE, Clariece S. (Manager)].‎

‎Ten thousand ages gone in a night; Celebrating the ancient Dragon Boat Festival; Lin Yen Shan; Travel and Exploration Notes; When China goes to press; The Mermaid. . . In: The China Journal Vol. XXVII No. 1.‎

‎Shanghai China: China Journal Printed by The Mercury Press July 1937. Tall 8vo. A32 4 52 A33-52 pp. With photo plates photo text illustrations illustrated ads including index. Colour-illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art of bamboo fronds lettering in orange & black minor soiling foxing still VG copy. First edition of this installment in the storied journal founded by Sowerby 1885-1954 the naturalist and explorer who had originally accompanied Robert S. Clark on his 1908-09 Expedition to the Shaanxi & Gansu provinces in northern China and remained in China afterwords collecting specimens. He was interned by the Japanese during World War II and returned to the US in 1949. 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]. 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]. 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]. 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 51571

‎[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]. 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 106033

‎[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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 46533