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Stephen Chow [Producer]; Alibaba Pictures Group; China Film Group Corporation (CFGC); Star Overseas [Production Company];
Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back
Sony Pictures 2017. dvd. UsedVeryGood. 0x7x5. Very Good Condition CD/DVD. Case or cover show minimal wear. Not Satisfied Contact us to get a refund. Sony Pictures unknown
Bookseller reference : BRG-1_13_212
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China Mieville
The City & The City
Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A brilliantly original masterpiece of speculative fiction fusing weird fiction with the police procedural genre from one of the world's most decorated SF writers. paperback
Bookseller reference : ria9781035060245_inp ISBN : 1035060248 9781035060245
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China Mieville
The Book of Elsewhere
Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A paperback
Bookseller reference : ria9781529160260_inp ISBN : 152916026x 9781529160260
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CHRISTIANITY IN EARLY CHINA.
Rubbing of the Nestorian Stele.
Xi'an China: c.1900. China's "Christian Rosetta Stone" A rubbing of the most famous document of Chinese Christianity. When rediscovered the Nestorian Stele transformed understanding of the cross-cultural history of Tang dynasty China. "The discovery of this monument is what made Westerners aware of the presence of Christianity in China prior to the mission of the Franciscans in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and those of the Jesuits" Nicolini-Zani p. 117. The Nestorian stele was carved in 781 and stands at almost three metres tall. The Chinese inscription in the calligraphy of a local official Lu Xiuyan describes how Christians arrived at the Tang capital of Xi'an in 635 and with official permission founded churches. The stele also introduces in Chinese and Syriac some of the community's senior clergy and the present state of the Nestorian church. "Erecting a stone monument to describe commend and propagate its teachings was no small undertaking for the Tang Christian community. Putting up stone monuments was an expensive exercise because of the price of the stone and the fee of the expert artisan who engraved the text. The monument itself makes an important statement about the place of Christianity within Tang society" Nicolini-Zani pp. 120-1. In 845 Christianity was banned by Emperor Wuzong and the stele was buried. Rediscovered by Chinese antiquarians around 1625 it brought to light a lost dimension to China's history and translations soon appeared in Jesuit sinological writings including Kircher's China Monumentis 1667 which includes the first printed reproduction of the text. The stone now stands at the Beilin Museum in Xi'an and is listed among the small number of protected antiquities that will never be exhibited abroad. Rubbings from the original are no longer permitted. Provenance: the theologian and sociologist Y. Y. Tsu 1886-1986 also known as Chu Yu-Yu. Born in Shanghai Tsu studied at St John's College Shanghai and at Columbia where he was one of the first Chinese students of sociology to study abroad. In 1912 he became Professor of Sociology at St John's and later served as religious director of the Peking Union Medical College. "In 1940 he was consecrated an Episcopal bishop in Shanghai and was named Assistant Bishop of Hong Kong and Bishop of Kunming where he began his Burma Road work. Bishop Tsu was known. as the 'Bishop of the Burma Road' because of his efforts to befriend Allied troops traveling the international highway that ran through his district" obituary in New York Times. In 1931 Tsu held a visiting lectureship at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley California. This rubbing was gifted to the institution by Tsu and displayed there during the 1930s. It is regularly mentioned as a point of interest in contemporary tourist guides to the state. Rubbing from stone on multiple paper sheets arranged soon after execution to form 120 x 320 mm curved headpiece 100 x 588 mm title and 1825 x 870 text body mounted on four long pieces of paper joined to form area of 2338 x 958 mm edges of mount reinforced with old decorative white paper. Rubbing generally sharp and legible a few surface blemishes sectional joins expertly reinforced in places on verso: a very good example of an imposing piece. Matteo Nicolini-Zani The Luminous Way to the East: Texts and History of the First Encounter of Christianity with China 2022. unknown
Bookseller reference : 174874
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COMMUNITIES, CRIME AND SOCIAL CAPITAL IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA -
Communities Crime and Social Capital in Contemporary China
new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 24161446-n ISBN : 1138878588 9781138878587
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CHINA.
Shice Hangzhou Xihu tu "Map of Hangchow and West Lake and Environs".
Shanghai: Commercial Press Limited 1923. The city of poets the city of dreams First edition first printing of this large and rare map identifying major landmarks and features in both Chinese and English. The picturesque city is most closely associated with the poet Su Shi whose careful stewardship of Hangzhou restored the West Lake to its former glory and preserved its beauty for generations to come. We have traced a single institutional copy only University of Manchester. The scenery and calm of Hangzhou has inspired numerous poets and artists from the Tang dynasty down to the present day including the Tang master Bai Juyi and the Yuan dynasty's Zhao Mengfu. An inset map shows the Gushan region of outstanding natural beauty. Colour lithographed map 1090 x 780 mm folding away to 275 x 200 mm as issued housed in original printed paper sleeve. Light toning couple of splits along folds; sleeve with losses at edge as expected: a very good copy. unknown
Bookseller reference : 168267
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Mi� ville, China
Embassytown
Del Rey 2012T. paperback. Acceptable. 1.0630 in x 7.6378 in x 5.1575 in. Used books may not include access codes or one time use codes. May have writing underlining highlighting loose and/or ripped pages. Proven Seller with Excellent Customer Service. Choose expedited shipping and get it FAST. Del Rey paperback
Bookseller reference : sun0000018455 ISBN : 033053307x 9780330533072
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Mieville China
City & The City
Picador 2025. Paperback. New. 384 pages. 5.12x0.79x7.76 inches. Picador paperback
Bookseller reference : __1035060248 ISBN : 1035060248 9781035060245
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Tavares , Rafael/ Guran, Paula/ Gaiman, Neil/ Mieville , China/ Kiernan, Caitlin R.
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird
Prime Books 2011. Paperback. New. 528 pages. 8.80x6.00x1.50 inches. Prime Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 1-1607012898 ISBN : 1607012898 9781607012894
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China Mieville
London's Overthrow
The Westbourne Press 2012-09-03. Paperback. Very Good. 0.7614 in x 17.5127 in x 10.6599 in. Book is warped Sun Damage to edge of Pages. The Westbourne Press paperback
Bookseller reference : mon0000848409 ISBN : 1908906146 9781908906144
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Medical Missionary Society in China
Report of the Medical Missionary Society in China; Including the Thirteenth Report of the Ophthalmic Hospital in Canton
new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 43853836-n ISBN : 1013920155 9781013920158
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Medical Missionary Society in China
Report of the Medical Missionary Society in China; Including the Thirteenth Report of the Ophthalmic Hospital in Canton
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Bookseller reference : 43853836 ISBN : 1013920155 9781013920158
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[CHINA EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].
A Group of Four Butterflies.
Canton ca. 1860. . Watercolour and gouache studies on pith paper overall dimensions 33 x 23.5cm. framed and glazed.<br /> Pith seems not to have been adopted for painting until about 1820. Some European museums claim that their paintings on pith often erroneously called "rice paper" or "mulberry pith" come from the end of the eighteenth century but there do not seem to be any dateable examples that are so early. There is a record of the Kaiser Franz of Austria buying some albums from an English Consul-General Watts in 1826. We know of an Italian Count who visited Canton in 1828 and had over 350 paintings on pith in his baggage when he died in Ambon two years later. In the British Library there is a scrap-book containing six pith paintings and a journal entry by a serving British officer who sent them home from India in 1829. These examples and contemporary accounts by visitors to Canton suggest that there was a flourishing trade in pith paintings by the early 1830s.<br /><br />Pith presumably came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small inexpensive and easily transported souvenirs following the massive growth in the China Trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Paintings in oils on board and canvas were costly and difficult to carry home. Earlier and more prestigious export water-colours had often been on a larger scale and painted on fine Chinese paper or on paper imported from Europe. The albums of pith paintings and later the little glass-fronted boxes were inexpensive light easy to pack and gave the pictures some protection on the long voyage home. Because many were sold in albums and hence protected from the light they retain their bright colours to this day.<br /><br />Pith comes from the central column of spongy cellular tissue in the stem of a small tree called Tetrapanax Papyrifera native to south-west China. It has had a variety of uses some going back many centuries. At the imperial court both men and women wore coloured flowers made from pith in their hair. For use in painting it is cut by hand with a knife into thin sheets from short lengths of the spongy tissue. Cutting is highly skilled and the constraints of the process mean that the finished sheets for painting seldom if ever measure more than about 30cms by 20cms. The sheets are dried trimmed and used for painting without any further processing.<br /><br />Because of the nature of pith and its cellular structure the gouache used by the Chinese sat on the surface and produced a bright and even sparkling effect. Very fine detail could be achieved but pith did not lend itself to the flat wash of colour favoured for European watercolours. <br /><br />Carl Crossman in his book The Decorative Arts of the China Trade originally published under the title The China Trade gives an excellent list of export painters with a note of those known to have painted on pith. These include Tingqua Sunqua and Youqua. From 1757 until 1842 Canton was the only Chinese port open to trade with the west and it is no surprise that of the eight studios identified by Crossman as producing works on pith six were in Canton. <br /><br />It seems that the 1830s and 1840s may have been the heyday of pith painting. The international trading bases the waterfront 'factories' on the 'Hongs' in Canton where they were produced were partially burnt during the First Opium War 1839-41 and totally destroyed in a fire of 1856. The foreign trading companies then moved to Honan and subsequently put up splendid new offices on reclaimed land at Shamian Island a little up river. As the result of the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 additional Chinese ports were opened up for foreign trade and Hong Kong was established as a major trading centre. <br /><br />By 1860 references to China in the Illustrated London News plentiful three years earlier were few and far between. That is not to say that painting on pith ceased. Nicholas the second was given paintings on pith when he visited Canton in 1891 and the last Emperor is said to have sent him a gift which included pith paintings in 1907 though these could have been examples of much earlier work. <br /><br />Painters on pith did not in general sign their work the sole exception is Sunqua whose name can be found on the face of three paintings on pith. <br /><br />There are collections of paintings on pith in the Ashmolean the British Museum the Fitzwilliam the Hermitage the Peabody/Essex Museum in Massachusetts and the Hong Kong Museum of Art. However because paintings on pith are not in general regarded as fine art they are usually to be found in ethnographic or specialised collections.<br /> Canton, ca. 1860. unknown
Bookseller reference : 109513
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CHINA.
Tourist Guide to Shanghai - North China.
Shanghai: California Directory Association 1930. Today she stands supreme as the greatest city of all the Orient First edition first printing of this charming and hard-to-find travel guide. Tourists are invited to listen to the "snappy dance orchestra" at the Old Carlton on Shanghai's Ningpo Road or explore Beijing's famous Camel Bell curio shop based at the Grand Hotel. For trips that went awry readers could turn to page 49 and its advertisement for "the best equipped Funeral Establishment in the Orient". Small octavo. Folding map of Shanghai at rear; illustrations and advertisements in text. Original illustrated card wrappers wire-stitched as issued front cover lettered in white with illustration of Shanghai's Willow Pattern Tea House. Occasional pencil marking in text. Extremities lightly rubbed contents clean: near-fine. unknown
Bookseller reference : 179497
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ANTI-CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA - JOHN, Griffith (ed.).
The Cause of the Riots in the Yangtse Valley.
Hankow: no stated publisher 1891. Anything more horribly beastly and disgusting than these painted representations it would be impossible to imagine Sole edition of this collection of 32 images used by anti-Christian agitators in central China to whip up anti-foreign sentiment. They "appeal directly to the folk and elite traditions of China's classical past. In vivid colours they depict graphic violence. and show graphically the growing conflict between western missionary views of China and Chinese views of the Western presence" Perdue. The treaties signed at the end of the Opium War authorized western missionaries to proselytise in the Chinese hinterland. During the late 19th century when Chinese agriculture and rural life faced steep decline missionaries became popular scapegoats. "The original causes might be a dispute over land or water rights or an inappropriate marriage or an illicit love affair but the conflict could easily metastasize into large scale violence" Perdue. During the 1891 riots hundreds of Chinese Christians and two western missionaries were killed. The editor the missionary John Griffith based this publication on a pamphlet attributed to the Hunanese official Zhou Han 1842-1911 who used a publishing outfit in Changsha to disseminate a large quantity of anti-foreign literature. Zhou's images employ colour allegory and popular folk custom to "attack religious heterodoxy and sexual deviance with violent rhetoric. They portray the Christians as animals who know nothing of the moral codes that define humanity. The pictures portray the Western missionaries as goats and their Chinese followers as pigs. The play on words linking 'Jesus' as 'master' zhu with 'hog' zhu or 'Westerner' yang with 'goat' yang reduced the Christian believers to a bestial level. The use of the color green indicating 'cuckold' in the characters referring to Christians signified the undermining of the family by the alien believers. In a number of these images the animalistic Christians are brought before a god or magistrate who sits in judgement and offers them as sacrifices by having their throats slit" Purdue. Landscape quarto. With 32 full-page colour woodblocks colour Chinese title page. Original printed wrappers recent purple thread xianzhuang stitching front cover lettered in black rear cover with decoration and Chinese text in red black and green. Housed in custom burgundy quarter morocco box. Contemporary manuscript notation on front cover. Wrappers and edges of leaves creased and bumped rear cover rather worn recent adhesive tape repair to Chinese title page verso of final folded leaf sometime laid down onto rear wrapper illustrations bright stab-holes from original binding visible in gutter: a very good copy of a fragile work. Peter Perdue "The Cause of the Riots in the Yantgse Valley 1891 - Introduction" available online. unknown
Bookseller reference : 175500
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NAVIGATION IN CHINA.
30 Photographs Taken on Accurate Bearings of Some of the Most Important Headlands & Outlying Islands of the China Coast Between Gulf of Pechili and Hongkong.
Shanghai: Brewer & Co. c.1900. From the Chefoo Bluff to Lamtong Head Sole edition untraced institutionally the copy of Vice-Admiral Seymour's chief of staff in Tianjin during the Boxer Uprising. This photographic guide is designed for "the navigator of this changeable and frequently foggy locality" preface. We have traced only one other copy which appeared in commerce in 2017. Navigators in the late Qing period could rely on only a small network of lighthouses and fixed navigational aids when sailing the Chinese coast. "In thick weather even a person familiar with the coast is at a loss to identify a well-known Islands with its summit" preface. The thirty views include the Chefoo Bluff in the Pechili Gulf the waters near the Hieshans Light House Zhejiang and Hong Kong's Lamtong Head. A concerted period of lighthouse-building in the 1910s and 1920s obviated the need for further publications of this kind. Provenance: though unmarked as such this copy was owned by Captain Edward Henry Bayly C.B. 1849-1904 Commander of the International Forces at Tianjin in June 1900. Bayly had a lifelong career in the Royal Navy. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in September 1873 commander in June 1887 and captain in January 1894 having served overseas in numerous ships. Bayly captained HMS Pelorus during the fleet review for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897 and in 1899 became captain of the armoured cruiser HMS Aurora on the China station. During the Boxer Uprising he replaced the wounded John Jellicoe as chief of staff to Seymour was mentioned by Seymour in dispatches and remained at Tianjin until the withdrawal of naval forces. He retired at his own request in February 1904. Landscape octavo. With 30 mounted collotypes within red frames. Original red cloth front cover lettered in gilt white coated endpapers leaves hinged with white linen as issued. A little shaken binding sunned and stained contents well preserved a little toning at fore edges: a very good copy. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 176895
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Reeves, Keanu/ Mieville, China
The Book of Elsewhere
Thorndike Pr 2024. Hardcover. New. large print edition. 559 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.25 inches. Thorndike Pr hardcover
Bookseller reference : x-1420518720 ISBN : 1420518720 9781420518726
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Lenox China (Firm)
Table-ware Desk and Toilet Articles: Manufactured in the Celebrated Lenox Belleek / by Lenox Incorporated.
like new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 43843157 ISBN : 1014410649 9781014410641
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Wang China Science Publishing & Medi
Pyrolysis of Biomass
like new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 28696504 ISBN : 3110374579 9783110374575
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Lyttleton BSc (Hons) (NZ) MPhil (UK) Dip TCM (Aus) Cert Acup (China) Cert Herbal Med (China), Jane
Treatment of Infertility with Chinese Medicine
like new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 19495819 ISBN : 0702031763 9780702031762
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China
Paper Cut in China: The Twelve Symbol Animals
China ca. 2008. Hardcover. Good. Original pictorial boards decorated endpapers illustrations in colour tissue guards to all the paper cuts intact in illustrated red box 4to. China hardcover
Bookseller reference : 350372-KM36
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China Forum- Thomas Geiger (Hg.)
Schweigen = Tod. China ein Jahr nach dem Massaker.
Zürich Paranoia City 1990. 4° 65 S. zahlr. Abb. Brosch. Tadellos. Am 22. April 1989 besetzten zehntausende Studierende im Zuge der offiziellen Trauerfeier den Tiananmen-Platz „Platz des himmlischen Friedens“. Sie protestierten gegen das Regime und forderten mehr Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit.Die Proteste weiteten sich aus – auch auf andere Städte. Mitte Mai demonstrierten mehr als 1 Mio. Menschen auf dem Platz. Die Regierung geriet unter Zugzwang und rief am 20.5. das Kriegsrecht aus.In der Nacht auf den 4.6. rückte das Militär – die Volksbefreiungsarmee – mit Panzern gegen die Demonstrierenden vor und eröffnete das Feuer.Eine genaue Rekonstruktion der Ereignisse ist schwierig. Amnesty International geht von bis zu 3.000 Opfern aus die chinesische Regierung spricht von etwa 300 Toten.Bis heute wird das öffentliche Gedenken an das Massaker unterbunden. Proteste auf dem Platz des himmlischen Friedens und Meldungen über das Massaker werden verhindert.Trotz Einschüchterung setzen sich u.a. die „Tiananmen-Mütter“ weiter für eine Aufarbeitung ein. 010 Zürich, Paranoia City, 1990 unknown
Bookseller reference : 103603
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Intl Poverty Reduction Center in China (Corporate Author)
Poverty Alleviation Case Analysis in China: Poverty Alleviation Best Practice Via Practices and Sdg Strategies
Springer Nature 2024. Paperback. New. 138 pages. 9.25x6.10x9.21 inches. Springer Nature paperback
Bookseller reference : x-9819745365 ISBN : 9819745365 9789819745364
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Mieville, China Reeves, Keanu
El libro de otro lugar
New. unknown
Bookseller reference : 9788412794434 ISBN : 8412794435 9788412794434
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MiA©ville, China
The Book of Elsewhere: The Sunday Times bestselling novel by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville
Paperback. Good. paperback
Bookseller reference : GOR014013168 ISBN : 1529150531 9781529150537
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Ning, Beijia (Editor)/ Ltd., China Science Publishing & Media (Contributor)
Analog Electronic Circuit
new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 33891858-n ISBN : 3110595400 9783110595406
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China Development Research Foundation
China's Sustainable Use of Natural Resources
new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 44019715-n ISBN : 1032236345 9781032236346
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Foundation, China Development Research
China's Rural Areas: Building a Moderately Prosperous Society Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 28606017-n ISBN : 1138705004 9781138705005
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Homer Laughlin China Company
China Book
new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 46703407-n ISBN : 1019480785 9781019480786
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China Development Research Foundation (Corporate Author)
Medicines in China’s National Health Insurance System
new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 44644064-n ISBN : 103235111x 9781032351117
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China Development Research Foundation
Medicines in Chinaâs National Health Insurance System
new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 47617988-n ISBN : 1032351136 9781032351131
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Mi!Ville, China,
October
new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 29457900-n ISBN : 1784782785 9781784782788
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Mieville, China,
Un Lun Dun
new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 5330952-n ISBN : 0345458443 9780345458445
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China Financial Policy Research Center, Renmin University Of China,
Realizing Rational Exuberance: An Appreciation of the Mundell-Huang Da Lectures
like new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 9617575 ISBN : 9814295329 9789814295321
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Mieville, China,
Between Equal Rights
like new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 4100590 ISBN : 1931859337 9781931859332
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Jiang, Xiaoyuan (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, China)
Chinese Astrology And Astronomy: An Outside History
like new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 42251316 ISBN : 9811223459 9789811223457
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Foundation, China Development Research,
Reforming China's Healthcare System
like new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 28631520 ISBN : 1138738816 9781138738812
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Hong, Yinxing (Nanjing Univ, China)
Theoretical Study On China's Political Economy
like new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 44051776 ISBN : 981124152x 9789811241529
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China, Mills,
Decolonizing Global Mental Health
new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 19780763-n ISBN : 1848721595 9781848721593
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Wang China Science Publishing & Medi
Pyrolysis of Biomass
new. unknown
Bookseller reference : 28696504-n ISBN : 3110374579 9783110374575
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FINE PRINTING IN CHINA.
Felicity and Other Poems.
Shanghai: Privately printed by Kelly & Walsh Ltd for G.S.J. 1919. A Shanghai expat's otherwise unrecorded tribute to his goddaughter inscribed by the author on the first blank "To Irene from Stewart with all good wishes. 22nd October 1919 Shanghai". G. Stewart Jones "G.S.J." in the imprint ran the Shanghai office of the chemicals giant Brunner Mond & Co. Jones composed his poems in Shanghai Tianjin on the Yangtze River and in England. His collection is a rare surviving example of the bespoke luxury printing and bookbinding service provided by Kelly & Walsh Asia's largest publisher-printer. Octavo pp. 16. Contents printed in blue. Original decorative black and blue brocade front cover lettered in gilt edges untrimmed binder's ticket on rear pastedown. Boards lightly rubbed and bowed foxing to endpapers and edges: a very good copy. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 176501
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Mi?ille, China
This Census-Taker: A Novel
Del Rey 2017-01-03. Reprint. paperback. New. 5.40x0.40x8.20. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Del Rey paperback
Bookseller reference : DADAX110196734X ISBN : 110196734X 9781101967348
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More, Thomas, Saint/ Le Guin, Ursula K. (Contributor)/ Mieville, China (Contributor)
Utopia
Verso Books 2016. Paperback. New. 272 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.60 inches. Verso Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 1-1784787604 ISBN : 1784787604 9781784787608
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MiA©ville, China
The Book of Elsewhere: The Sunday Times bestselling novel by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville
Paperback. Very Good. paperback
Bookseller reference : GOR013941686 ISBN : 152915054X 9781529150544
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Happy China • Learning Chinese Group
Happy China: Learning Chinese - XI'an
Beijing Language & Culture University PressChina. Good. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear such as markings highlighting slight damage to the cover minimal wear to the binding etc. but they will not affect the overall reading experience. Beijing Language & Culture University Press,China unknown
Bookseller reference : 7561916094-11-1 ISBN : 7561916094 9787561916094
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CHINA.
The China Provincial Atlas and Geography.
Shanghai: Printed and Published by the North-China Daily News and Herald Ltd 1934. First edition first printing of this guide to China's 24 provinces Japanese-controlled Manchuria and the city of Shanghai including a short essay by Arthur de Carle Sowerby on "the regional distribution of China's Fauna and Flora". Information on physical geography is accompanied by summaries of communications and industrial infrastructure. The maps were first published in the North-China Daily News but extensively revised for this publication. "The far away interior northern and southern provinces which life of all beaten tracks and through which no railways have penetrated remain shrouded in mystery except where the veil has been slightly lifted by exploration expeditions" introduction. Folio. Maps and illustrations in text. Original blue cloth front cover lettered in gilt within blind panel and frames. With dust jacket. Cloth clean spine ends bumped contents lightly and evenly toned; jacket unclipped losses at foot of panels and spine a few closed splits: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 176034
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Fodor's Essential China (Full-color Travel Guide) Guide)
Fodor's Essential China Full-color Travel
Used - Very Good. Very Good Condition! Cover may have light wear pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have minimal notes or highlighting. Very Good Condition! Cover may have light wear pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have minimal notes or highlighting. unknown
Bookseller reference : 1640971297-VG ISBN : 1640971297 9781640971295
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RIVER MANAGEMENT IN CHINA.
Plan of Hai Ho from Tientsin City to the Sea.
China: Hai Ho Conservancy Commission 1937. An imposing cartographic document A rare plan untraced institutionally produced on the cusp of the Japanese invasion of Tianjin showing the fruits of a multi-decade effort to turn the city into a major international port. "Connected with the sea by an artificial river Tianjin's status as a seaport was heavily dependent on the continuous conservancy efforts of the Haihe and its tributaries" "River Conservancy". Formed in 1897 the Hai Ho Conservancy Commission focused on opening the channel to shipping for example by straightening the channel and thereby cutting the route to the sea by 17 miles. This plan shows the river's winding course marked with hundreds of survey stones and the build-up of warehouses and wharves by the foreign concessions Tanggu and Xidagu. Also shown are the results of the most recent survey of the seabed at the river's mouth. Although Japan declared war on China in July 1937 it respected the integrity of Tianjin's foreign concessions and river management remained in the hands of the British French and American authorities until Pearl Harbor. At the same time Japan started development of Tanggu Xingang - the foundations of which blossomed into the present-day megaport at Tianjin. Diazoprint plan 67 x 274 cm printed in reddish brown text primarily in Chinese. Contemporary black ink and red crayon marking and annotations in Chinese and Japanese on both sides. Toned old folds a few small splits and losses neatly conserved with tissue: a very good example of a fragile document. "River conservancy and the undetermined future of the port of Tianjin" Open Rivers available online. unknown
Bookseller reference : 176095
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CHINA.
Map of China Shewing Railways Telegraphs & Treaty Ports.
London: War Office 1913. Modernity's steel rails The 1913 version of a map that was issued periodically throughout the 1910s. Drawn and printed at the Ordnance Survey Office in Southampton it highlights railways built in progress and proposed and two inset maps show links to Beijing and in Manchuria. A column of notes gives gauges mileages and notes on construction. The map shows that at the onset of Republican rule China had around a dozen lines in progress or planned - including a stretch linking Hankou to Canton - to complement the main lines connecting Beijing to Hankou Shanghai and Mukden. The side notes address the complexity of the railway network's governance and administration - lines were variously built managed and worked by combinations of foreign and Chinese organizations. Colour lithographed map 740 x 990 mm. Sometime folded occasional scuffing and edge toning two panels on verso browned: a very good example. unknown
Bookseller reference : 168261
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NAVIGATION IN CHINA.
Lower Yangtse sailing directions: collection of notices to mariners.
Likely Shanghai: 1928-34. Mariners are warned to exercise due caution when approaching and when in the waterways A collection of otherwise untraced notices to mariners compiled by a civilian captain who plied the lower Yangtse during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Yangtse shipping was regulated by the Maritime Customs Service which issued around 100 navigational advisories per year. During the late 1920s shipping traffic on the Yangtse rebounded after several years of decline during the Warlord Era. Low water however continued to pose problems for navigators and increased the need for effective river management. The 39 notices are technical directions concerning specific parts of the channel. They specify when vessels may and may not enter stretches of water warning of the persistent presence of Chinese craft not subject to the same notices offer guidance for navigating buoyed channels provide optimum bearings and relay a change to the position of the Bend and Gravener Island beacons due to the erosion of the channel. The majority date from 1929. The identify of the "Captain Smith" referenced on the front cover has proved elusive but he may be the individual pictured in photograph Sw13-045 G. Warren Swire collection SOAS. Landscape octavo. Contemporary brown half cloth binder with metal clasp spine lettered in gilt buff paper sides front board with manuscript label "Captain Smith" boards lined with pink paper typescript list of charts on inner front cover 39 sheets each typed one side only in black or blue most duplicate typescript a few top copy. Boards lightly soiled clasp rusted sheets generally well preserved a few creased or with holes near clasp legibility unaffected typescript list with a few losses to text: a very good example. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 174745
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