‎China‎

‎Shapiro, Judith;Liang, Heng‎

‎Cold Winds Warm Winds: Intellectual Life in China Today‎

‎Wesleyan University Press 1986. Trade Paperback. Very Good. bent cover. clean unmarked copy. <br/> <br/> Wesleyan University Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 342316 ISBN : 0819561681 9780819561688

‎Roberts, J. A. G.‎

‎A Concise History of China‎

‎Harvard Univ Pr 1999. Trade Paperback. Fine. <br/> <br/> Harvard Univ Pr paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 340678 ISBN : 0674000757 9780674000759

‎Reardon-Anderson, James‎

‎Yenan and the Great Powers: The Origins of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy 1944-1946‎

‎Columbia Univ Pr 1980. Hardback. Fine/Torn. <br/> <br/> Columbia Univ Pr hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 335883 ISBN : 0231047843 9780231047845

‎Schein Louisa‎

‎Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics‎

‎Duke Univ Pr 2000. Paperback. Very Good. bumped corners <br/> <br/> Duke Univ Pr paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 022607 ISBN : 082232444x 9780822324447

‎Hucker, Charles O.‎

‎China's Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture‎

‎Stanford Univ Pr 1975. Hardback. Very Good/Lightly Worn. <br/> <br/> Stanford Univ Pr hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 327771 ISBN : 0804708878 9780804708876

‎Vollmer, John E.;Keall, EJ.;Nagal-Berthrong, E. E. J.‎

‎Silk Roads China Ships: An Exhibition of East-West Trade‎

‎Toronto Ontario Canada: Royal Ontario Museum 1983. Trade Paperback. Fine. Oversize. <br/> <br/> Royal Ontario Museum paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 326653 ISBN : 0888543018 9780888543011

‎Knight Nick‎

‎Li Da and Marxist Philosophy in China‎

‎Boulder Colorado U.S.A.: Westview Pr 1996. Hardback. Fine/Fine. <br/> <br/> Westview Pr hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 323146 ISBN : 0813389933 9780813389936

‎Ethridge, James‎

‎China's Unfinished Revolution: Problems and Prospects Since Mao‎

‎South San Francisco California U.S.A.: China Books & Periodicals 1990. Hardback. Very Good/Worn. Dust jacket has some wear and tear. <br/> <br/> China Books & Periodicals hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 320243 ISBN : 0835121968 9780835121965

‎Wolf, Margery‎

‎Revolution Postponed: Women in Contemporary China‎

‎Stanford Univ Pr 1985. Trade Paperback. Fine. clean unmarked copy. <br/> <br/> Stanford Univ Pr paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 320290 ISBN : 0804713480 9780804713481

‎Gates Hill‎

‎Chinese Working-Class Lives: Getting by in Taiwan‎

‎Ithaca New York U.S.A.: Cornell Univ Pr 1987. Trade Paperback. Very Good. <br/> <br/> Cornell Univ Pr paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 320302 ISBN : 0801494613 9780801494611

‎Ebrey, Patricia B. (editor); Watson, Rubie S. (editor)‎

‎Marriage & Inequality in Chinese Society Studies on China‎

‎Berkeley CA U.S.A.: University of California Press 1991. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A few small Chinese characters in ink on the bottom edge. <br/> <br/> University of California Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 301442 ISBN : 0520071247 9780520071247

‎Chao, Linda; Myers, Ramon H.‎

‎The First Chinese Democracy : Political Life in the Republic of China on Taiwan‎

‎Baltimore MD U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins University Press 1998. Hardback. Fine/Fine. <br/> <br/> Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 310607 ISBN : 0801856507 9780801856501

‎Rozman, Gilbert‎

‎The Chinese Debate about Soviet Socialism 1978-1985‎

‎Princeton University Press 1987. Hardback. Fine/No Dust Jacket. <br/> <br/> Princeton University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 011503 ISBN : 0691094292 9780691094298

‎Riskin Carl; Khan Azizur Rahman‎

‎Inequality and Poverty in China in the Age of Globalization‎

‎Oxford University Press 2001. Hardback. Fine/Fine. <br/> <br/> Oxford University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 305814 ISBN : 0195136497 9780195136494

‎Entwisle, Barbara; Henderson, Gail‎

‎Re-Drawing Boundaries : Work Household and Gender in China‎

‎Berkeley CA U.S.A.: University of California Press 2000. Hardback. Fine/No Dust Jacket. <br/> <br/> University of California Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 307886 ISBN : 0520220900 9780520220904

‎Yi, Zeng‎

‎Family Dynamics in China : A Life Table Analysis Life Course Studies‎

‎Madison WI U.S.A.: University of Wisconsin Press 1991. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Corners bumped. <br/> <br/> University of Wisconsin Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 310576 ISBN : 029912634x 9780299126346

‎Schak, David C.‎

‎A Chinese Beggars' Den: Poverty and Mobility in an Underclass Community‎

‎Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 1988. Hardback. Fine/No Dust Jacket. clean unmarked copy. <br/> <br/> Univ. of Pittsburgh Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 011484 ISBN : 0822938227 9780822938224

‎Wright, Mary Clabaugh‎

‎The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism; the T'ung-Chih Restoration 1862-1874‎

‎CA: Stanford 1962. 2d Printing . Hardback. Good/No Jacket. Boards have wear corners bumped. Owner's name in ink. <br/> <br/> Stanford hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 301151

‎Wood, Alan T.‎

‎Limits to Autocracy : From Sung Neo-Confucianism to a Doctrine of Political Rights‎

‎University of Hawaii Press 1995. Hardback. Very Good/Torn. bumped corners <br/> <br/> University of Hawaii Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 305805 ISBN : 0824817036 9780824817039

‎Davis-Friedmann, Deborah‎

‎Long Lives : Chinese Elderly and the Communist Revolution‎

‎Palo Alto CA U.S.A.: Stanford University Press 1991. Expanded Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. clean unmarked copy. <br/> <br/> Stanford University Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 308774 ISBN : 0804718083 9780804718080

‎Kelliher Daniel‎

‎Peasant Power in China : The Era of Rural Reform 1979-1989‎

‎New Haven CT U.S.A.: Yale University Press 1992. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. <br/> <br/> Yale University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 304201 ISBN : 0300054653 9780300054651

‎Weamys, Anna‎

‎A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia. Edited by Patrick Colborn Cullen.‎

‎Oxford 1994. Hardback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Women writers in English 1350-1850. <br/> <br/> Oxford hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 016063 ISBN : 0195078845 9780195078848

‎Shakya, Tsering‎

‎The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947‎

‎Columbia Univ Pr 1999. Hardback. Very Good. Light wear on dust jacket. <br/> <br/> Columbia Univ Pr hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 314445 ISBN : 0231118147 9780231118149

‎Pyotr Petrovich Semyonov Tyan Shansky 1827 1914 edited by Colin Thomas‎

‎Petr Petrovich Semenov/Travels in the Tian'-Shan' / 1856-1857‎

‎xliii269 pages with 15 color plates 4 maps glossary bibliography and indexes. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship <i>Victoria</i> to front cover in original jacket. Translated by Liudmila Gilmore Colin Thomas and Marcus Wheeler. Second Series volume 189. First edition.<br /><br />In the mid-nineteenth century the eyes of western European explorers were firmly fixed on advancing inland from former maritime colonies in the Americas Africa the Indian sub-continent and Australasia their motives often being inextricably bound up with concerns of imperial politics and commerce. Simultaneously further east Russians resumed their perceived mission to civilize Asia following their own country's humiliation during the Crimean War. From a springboard of Siberian territories acquired gradually over the previous three centuries discovery and expansion radiated from the Imperial Russian Geographical Society founded in 1845 and incorporating initiatives drawn from descendants of immigrant French and German scientists who themselves inspired a new generation of liberal intellectuals. A key personality in that movement was the Society's library and secretary of it physical geography section P P Semenov 1827-1914 a member of a minor gentry family who had been tutored by a pupil of Linnaeus and who had studied under Titter and von Humboldt at Berlin during a tour of Europe in 1853-4. From them he conceived the notion of traveling to the virtually unknown lands of Central Asia ostensibly to verify opinions on the existence there of active volcanoes and glaciers. In reality his ambition was to penetrate beyond the Kazakh steppe and to reach the fabled Celestial Mountains the Tian'-Shan' range which constituted the politically sensitive border between Russia and China and the equally hostile buffer zone of Muslim khanates. Accompanied only by a serf servant in May 1856 Semenov embarked on an 18-month journey from St Petersburg through Kazan' to Semipalatinsk and thence via the Altai to the newly established Russian settlement of Vernoe later Alma-Ata now Almaty. Subsequently he received a Cossack escort on his trek into the high plateaus and ridges surround Issyk-kul' to "the very hear of Asia;. Throughout his travels his collection of geological and botanical specimens together with topographical and meteorological observations and sketches made by the artist Pavel Kosharov provided a cornucopia of primary data on hitherto sparsely documented environments alongside ethnographic information and unique insights into the social and economic life of rival nomadic pastoral clans of the Kirgiz. While presenting a European view of Central Asia before the large-scale influx of Russian peasant settlers that followed the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 a process in which Semenov was also instrumental his journal of 1856-7 explicitly set out a strategy for imperial expansion that was accomplished within the next three decades and which in turn laid the foundations for the multi-ethnic agricultural and industrial developments in the region during the Soviet period.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />A fine copy in like jacket. Hakluyt Society hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : BOOKS001006 ISBN : 0904180603 9780904180602

‎Puyi. Pu Yi, Aisin-Gioro.‎

‎From Emperor To Citizen.‎

‎Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1979. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vos 496 pages clothbacked boards inked name on endpapers; ex libris Elleva Joslyn Patten. <br/><br/>Puyi was the last of the Ching dynasty. This autobiography inspired the film "The Last Emperor" which was the first movie granted permission to film in The Forbidden City in Beijing which employed 19000 extras and won 9 Academy Awards. Translated by W. J. F. Jenner. Photogravures. Foreign Languages Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 0007706