‎Porcelaine chinoise‎

‎China Inland Mission‎

‎WITH P'U AND HIS BRIGANDS‎

‎1922. Taylor Mrs. Howard First edition hardback no dustjacket. Frontispiece xiii 1 76 pages. The binding has some light wear only and remains sound the spine has faded. The endpapers are browning and have owners' inscriptions. There is some light edge foxing througho ut the text is otherwise very clean. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : MS3807

‎China) International Conference on Advances in Structural Dynamics (2000 : Hong Kong‎

‎Dirichlet Forms and Stochastic Processes Proceedings of the International Conference Held in Beijing China October 25-31 1993‎

‎like new. unknown‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 2312133 ISBN : 3110142848 9783110142846

‎China Inland Mission‎

‎ONE OF CHINA'S SCHOLARS. THE EARLY LIFE & CONVERSION OF PASTOR HSI; PASTOR HSI. BOUND WITH THE COMPANION VOLUME PASTOR HSI ONE OF CHINA'S CHRISTIANS.‎

‎1931. Howard Taylor Mrs. Hardback no dustjacket; ix 195 & xx 398 6 pages. The binding has some light wear and the spine has faded it is sound. There is some light edge foxing throughout with the first and last few pages more extensively affected. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : MS4219

‎Mieville, China‎

‎Un Lun Dun‎

‎London: MacMillan. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. Bumped top corners.; Simply signed on the title page by China Mieville. Full number line.; 528 pages; Signed by Author . 0230015867 . MacMillan hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 44210 ISBN : 0230015867 9780230015869

‎Mieville, China‎

‎King Rat‎

‎hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 0312890737.G ISBN : 0312890737 9780312890735

‎China / Wuhan‎

‎Wuhan China‎

‎1986. Ortsangabe für uns nicht lesbar Verlagsangabe für uns nicht lesbar 1986 quadr.4° 107 S. mit sehr zahlr. Farb-Abb. rote Vorsätze die 2. Vorsatzseite aus schönem Reispapier Text außer dem Impressum zweisprachig: englisch-chinesisch original Leineneinband mit dem illustr. original Schutzumschlag im original Pappschuber mit goldener Deckel- und Rückenbeschriftung sehr schönes sauberes Exemplar Ganz wunderbarer Bildband der noch das alte Wuhan aus den 80er Jahren zeigt. Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main Nordend ggü. Musterschule möglich. Das spart die Portokosten. Pickup at the store in Frankfurt am Main Nordend close to Musterschule is possible. It saves the shipping costs. unknown‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 39530AB

‎Andersen, Meyer & Company Limited of China - Charles J Ferguson (Hg)‎

‎Andersen Meyer & Company Limited of China. Its History: Its Organization Today Historical and Descriptive Sketches Contributed by Some of the Manufactureres it Represents. March 31 1906 to March 31 1931.‎

‎Shanghai Kelly and Walsh 1931. 4° Frontispiz Titelbl. 4 Bl. 247 S. m. Abb. oft a. Taf. 66 Bl. chin. Text OLwd. m. Präg. Obere Ecke etw. bestossen Buchblock min. knickspurig Einbandtitel verblasst Vs. etw. gebräunt; allg. gutes Ex. EA. Sehr seltene Festschrift mit den Kapiteln: «Historical Introduction» «The Company Today» 38 «Historical and Descriptive Sketches». Im hinteren Teil die chinesische Übersetzung. Die ersten 25 Jahre der vom Dänen Vilhelm Meyer in Shanghai gegründeten Firma die bald u. a. die amerikanische General Electric in China vertrat Die Auflistung 1931 umfasste das «Head Ofice» u. a. ein «Textile Machinery Department» «Power Plant Machinery Department» «Electrical Installation Department» «Domestic Refrigerator Section» «Building Construction Department» «Building Supplies Department» «Agricultural Machinery Department» «Drug and Chemical Department» u. a. m. Filialen existierten in Tientsin Harbin Mukden Hankow Tsingtao Tsinan Hongkong. 010 Shanghai, Kelly and Walsh, 1931 unknown‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 83756

‎Mieville, China‎

‎King Rat‎

‎New York: Tor Books. 1999. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. International orders may require additional postage.; Full number line.; 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.7 Inches; 318 pages . 0312890737 . Tor Books hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 27514 ISBN : 0312890737 9780312890735

‎Galland, China‎

‎The Bond between Women‎

‎Brand: Riverhead Trade 1999-08-01. First Paperback. paperback. New. 5.75x1.00x8.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Riverhead Trade paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : DADAX1573227390 ISBN : 1573227390 9781573227391

‎Hosie, Lady‎

‎Two Gentlemen of China‎

‎Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1924 316 pages backstrip is faded book is cocked front hinge starting previous owner's signature in pencil one page of illustration is loose but all illustrations are present and the cloth is clean. 1923 on copyright page small font. This may be the first edition although I am not positive. J. B. Lippincott & Co. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 00005797

‎China Trade Bureau‎

‎China Review Volume I no. 2 to Volume VI no. 5‎

‎New York: China Trade Bureau August 1921 to June 1924. 2 volumes large 4to lacking vol. I no. 1 and volume VI no. 6 but otherwise complete from volume I no 2 to volume VI no. 5 - 34 issues in all and contained in a library binding of blue cloth gilt-lettered spine; ex-Purdue University lightly marked. Issues range from 24 to 56 pages. Illustrated throughout. Publication was suspended during June July and August 1924 and finally folded withg the publication of volume VI no. 6 in September 1924. The China Review "is the only magazine published in the United States and edited by Chinese that deals exclusively with all phases of China political social industrial etc." Regular features include: book reviews China's Business Barometer; Finance Industry and Commerce; Foreign Press Comments; The Month in the East; Trans-Pacific Sailings; and Home and General News; together with feature articles by Nathaniel Peffer Cornelius Vanderbilt Charles Hodges Charles W. Mason Nora Waln Loretta Shaw Chungshu Kwei Dr. P. W. Kuo Genevieve Wimsatt K. H. Li Ma Soo James D. Bush and Robert Harris among others writing on various topics relating to China including Chinese Pagodas The Modern Chinese Girl The Future of American Trade in China China's Mathematics - The Oldest Approach and Development of Chinese Markets The Mongolian Situation Selling to the Chinese Millions China's Silk Industry China and the Four Power Treaty Tibet - The Closed Country The Part Birds Play in Chinese Life and many others of interesting content. China Trade Bureau, August, 1921 to June unknown‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 64072

‎REPUBLICAN CHINA‎

‎Peking: North China South Manchuria and Korea.‎

‎Beijing: Thos. Cook & Son 1920. Fourth and revised edition first printing of this tourist handbook published during a golden age of travel. The folding maps and plentiful photographs capture some of the spirit of Beijing and its East Asian surroundings. Foreign tourists coming to East Asia were not a new sight in the early 20th century but the building of railway lines from the late 19th century onwards along with the development of other modern conveniences caused a dramatic increase in the ease and possibilities of travel. Thomas Cook published the first iteration of this guide in 1910 and established its China presence in 1911 in Shanghai. The adverts some driving business to Cook's local partners market the services and wares of railway companies art dealers hotels tea shops and tobacconists - everything the China traveller needed to enjoy their visit in comfort. Small octavo. With 3 folding maps illustrations throughout text. Original green cloth title to spine in black printed paper label on front cover Thomas Cook emblem in black below advertisement endpapers. Cloth lightly rubbed endpapers and first 2 maps somewhat browned: a very good copy. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 168012

‎MAO'S CHINA‎

‎Shanghai 1949-1959.‎

‎Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe c.1959. The preferred deluxe issue First edition first printing of this photobook issued by the Shanghai Municipal Government to celebrate ten years of Communist rule as well as Chinese culture history and art. Shanghai's status as the country's economic powerhouse is stressed through numerous pictures of heavy and light industries smiling workers and modern housing developments as well as of consumer goods such as fountain pens sewing machines and bicycles. Space is given to healthcare culture and the arts the historic architecture of the Bund parades and tourism. Unlike other propaganda from the period the message is uniformly forward-looking centring on developments achieved under socialism rather than recycling shop-worn condemnations of the Republican and imperial eras. Copies of this extravagant production were also issued housed in a paper box. Folio. With 21 tipped-in plates 16 colour 2 folding colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Title page printed in brown and grey. Binding designed by Ren Yi Chen Zhichu Zhang Suyu Cai Zhenhua and Qian Zhenzhi. Original red cloth spine elaborately decorated in gilt gilt calligraphic title on front cover foot of front board blocked in blind floral-patterned endpapers. Housed in publisher's folding grey cloth case title to front panel in gilt bone ties. Spine bright boards lightly soiled extremities worn spine ends and tips a little finger soiling internally else bright. A very good copy indeed in very good case with some soiling lining foxed. Parr & WassinkLundgren The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present pp. 189-92. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 168621

‎QING CHINA‎

‎Manuscript recording a voyage to China and impressions of its major cities.‎

‎At sea & China: 1842-48. This ground is under English control though their authority is might makes right An American second mate's illustrated eyewitness account of China in the immediate aftermath of the First Opium War. Sailing east on a Jardine Matheson specie and opium runner he becomes an old China hand and a sharp observer of early colonial Hong Kong and Shanghai coastal trade and maritime life. The opening section consists of diary entries kept during the outward voyage from the United States describing a life of adventure entered almost by accident. "On the 1st of Sept. 1842 being in Boston and out of employ … I shipped in the Schr Gazell" p. 1. The Gazelle - an Aberdeen-built schooner illustrated in watercolour at the front of the manuscript - sailed on 19 September 1842 with guns muskets and nine boxes of specie. Some 30 pages trace the passage with detailed daily entries including latitudes and longitudes weather hazards marine life shipboard routines and the rituals of crossing the Equator. After rounding the Cape the vessel encounters American traders off China and reaches Macao on 22 February 1843. The remainder of the manuscript comprises reflective recollections written later in the 1840s. Macao is judged healthy and pleasant but eclipsed after the war by Hong Kong now the hub of British trade. The Gazelle is reassigned to opium running along the coast bringing higher pay and extended travel. The author recalls Hong Kong in 1844: the nightly curfew gunshot the opium fleet at Whampoa and the crowded Pearl River illustrated with pencil sketches of local craft. His view of the Chinese population is unsympathetic though he offers a vivid portrait of "Boston Jack" a wealthy comprador and indispensable intermediary to American ships. Further chapters describe Canton the forts of the Bogue Amoy and its junks and Chusan praised for its industry and abundance. Shanghai emerges as a newly important centre of opium exchange its foreign settlement firmly under British control. The author sketches the harbour notes the thousands of junks and contrasts the city's "civil and obliging" inhabitants with those of Canton. The manuscript breaks off mid-sentence on page 50 leaving the writer's later life unknown but preserving a detailed first-hand record of a China on the threshold of colonial modernity. Octavo notebook 252 x 165 mm. Opening full-page watercolour 12 illustrations and plan in pencil. Original blue linen pink patterned endpapers edges sprinkled blue 49 pages neatly written in black ink 38 unused blanks. Notebook worn and shaken with sewing loose a few closed tears internally touching a few letters only. A very good example. unknown‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 170558

‎NAVIGATION IN CHINA‎

‎Sailing Directions for the Coast of China‎

‎Washington DC: United States Navy Department Hydrographic Office 1943. First edition first printing pleasingly with all the printed supplement tickets still present and the detailed maps well preserved. Updated chapters offer information on general subjects such as pilotage storm and weather signals quarantine regulations and ocean currents as well as detailed discussion of stretches of river and ocean along China's east coast down to Hong Kong and up the Yangtze. While common institutionally as expected copies are now seldom encountered in commerce. Octavo. With 2 folding maps 2 diagrammatic plates illustrations in text. With all 8 leaves 4 blank of printed supplement tickets bound in at front as issued. Original brown card wrappers spine and front cover printed in black. Ex-Civil Affairs Training School University of Chicago with its ink stamps on front cover and "discard" noted in pencil. Wrappers well preserved first map with stub tear just touching neatline second map split along one fold neatly repaired on verso with archival tape couple of small nicks and chips internally not affecting text: a very good copy. unknown‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 172166

‎HYDRO-ENGINEERING IN CHINA - SAVAGE, John Lucian‎

‎Preliminary Report on Yangtze Gorge Project;‎

‎United States: Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation 1944. The genesis of the Three Gorges Dam Number 4 of a small number of copies of this report by the engineering mind behind the Hoover Dam on harnessing the mighty Yangtze River for hydroelectric power generation - a vision finally realized over half a century later. We have traced only four other surviving examples all found in institutions. The author John Lucian Savage 1879-1967 was an American civil engineer who became the Chief Designing Engineer at the Bureau of Reclamation in 1924. "In this capacity he designed dams canals and other irrigation-related structures throughout eleven western states the most impressive projects being Hoover - the supreme engineering feat of its day - Grand Coulee Parker and Shasta dams. Because the first three were respectively the highest widest and deepest dams in the world at the time of their construction Savage and his design team developed trial-load analysis for determining actual versus theoretical stresses in arched dams as well as models for determining concrete deterioration land subsidence and increased seismicity caused by the weight of a mammoth dam" ANB. Since the 1930s Savage had been fascinated with both the idea of damming the Yangtze and the prospect of co-operation between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Chinese government. Chiang Kai-Shek's administration was equally keen. Amidst Chinese efforts to repel a Japanese invasion in 1943 the National Resources Commission of Chiang's government invited Savage to China to devise concrete plans - an opportunity Savage described to the State Department as a "signal honor" and "an opportunity to be of service to the valiant people of China" quoted in Rowley & Gahan p. 584. Even as Chinese-Japanese armed engagements raged nearby Savage spent the period from May to November 1944 researching feasibility and necessary administrative and financial arrangements. This resulting report outlines several different plans for constructing a dam reservoir and power plant to generate up to 11 million kilowatts of power 74 million acre feet of water for irrigation and 22 million acre feet of flood storage. Savage projects a final cost of around 1 billion US dollars and annual revenues exceeding 50 million US dollars. The main 98-page technical report is accompanied by his 238-page discussion of four hydro-projects located on important tributaries discussing costings and technical details. The two reports are supported by dozens of technical maps plans and diagrams. Savage's time in China only reinforced his belief in the possibilities of a project unprecedented in its scope and ambition: "The Yangtze Gorge Project is a 'CLASSIC'. It will be of utmost importance to China. It will bring great industrial developments in Central and Western China. It will bring widespread employment. It will bring high standards of living. It will change China from a weak to a strong nation. The Yangtze Gorge Project should be constructed for the benefit of China and the World at large" p. 6. An accompanying typescript letter dated 2 April 1946 from Walker R. Young Chief Engineer in the Bureau of Reclamation confirms that as many as 50 Chinese engineers will soon be available to orchestrate the Yangtze project but also hints at the impact of the Chinese Civil War on the National Resources Commission - the war proved the ultimate undoing of efforts to act on Savage's vision. The letter states that numbered copies of the report are being distributed in preparation for a formal planning conference involving American and Chinese engineers. The number of recipients - nine western engineers - gives a good indication of the report's small circulation. Savage's copy is housed with some of his papers at the National Museum of American History. Copies are also found at the US National Archives the Colorado School of Mines and Purdue University where Savage served as a faculty member. The National Library of China has a version with a Chinese title page - the precise nature of this copy awaits further research. Folio. With 73 large folding maps plans and diagrams. Original black cloth spine lettered in gilt hinges reinforced with brown linen as issued buff endpapers text printed in photostat typescript. Cloth lightly soiled and rubbed internally clean. A fine copy. William D. Rowley & Andrew H. Gahan The Bureau of Reclamation: From Developing to Managing Water 1945-2000 2006. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 172481

‎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

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 176095

‎CHINA - SNOW, Edgar‎

‎Unpublished typed letter signed from Lawrence Salisbury to Ida Pruitt concerning the divorce of the famous journalists Edgar Snow and Helen Foster Snow Nym Wales.‎

‎Higganum Connecticut: 30 November 1948. I hope you won't reply to this" - a sinological circle rent asunder A window onto the collapse of the marriage of Edgar and Helen Snow the 20th century's most important bridges between China and the Western world. As shown in this terse exchange between two of their friends the split sowed distrust and trapped some of the leading lights of American sinology in a quagmire of pettiness. Enjoying privileged access to top Chinese political and social figures Edgar 1905-1972 and Helen Foster Snow 1907-1997 also known as Nym Wales and "Peg" shaped Western views of China and its people to an extent unmatched by any other journalist or academic. Edgar Snow's career was bookended by Red Star Over China 1927 the work that introduced Mao Zedong to the English-speaking world and the historic 1972 Nixon visit to Beijing for which he laid important groundwork in the 1960s. Helen Snow reporting and writing from China in the 1930s and 1940s opened American eyes to the country's deteriorating political and refugee situations earning two nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. With Rewi Alley the Snows co-founded the Indusco "Gung Ho" co-operative movement to promote economic recovery and they are lionized in China today. Their 1932 marriage ended acrimoniously in the late 1940s following their permanent return to the US and divided their sinological circle. This letter written by the State Department China expert Lawrence Salisbury 1891-1976 was sent in reply to Helen Snow's close friend the medical missionary Ida Pruitt 1888-1985 at the New York headquarters of Indusco. There are no opening niceties. "Your letter just came. You and I must not talk about the Snows to each other. I have known them for fifteen years. Peg is a liar". There follows several paragraphs listing Helen Foster Snow's character faults "unreasonable" "unprincipled" and "willing to blacken people" and her attempts to take advantage of Edgar Snow. "On Ed's side I find no lies. I find that he has been hitched to a selfish self-seeking pathological woman who is set to destroy him financially and/or in reputation. When I told him that Peg was responsible for the arrival at my farm in early this month of two men to serve a writ to attach most unreasonably his car and his river property he would not at first believe me". A pencilled note in the margin states that "I can give many underlined other instances". Salisbury also accuses Helen of greed and money-grabbing and sneers at her "feminist theories" and her inability to produce commercially viable books. In the final third of the letter he flatly rejects Pruitt's suggestion that he intervene to soften Edgar Snow's mind ending with a word of advice: "I hate to see you waste your time and emotional strength in so undeserving a cause. I hope you won't reply to this." Provenance: by descent through the Pruitt family; recently in a private collection in Hong Kong. Single sheet 275 x 215 mm text one side only. With mailing envelope typed address "Miss Ida Pruitt Indusco Inc. 425 Fourth Avenue New York 16 N.Y.". Envelope split along 3 edges otherwise fine. unknown‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 178144

‎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

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 179497

‎[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

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 62723

‎PUBLIC HEALTH IN CHINA‎

‎Catalogue for Tiande Pharmaceuticals.‎

‎Shanghai: Tiande dayaochang c.1911. An encyclopaedic catalogue issued amid the rapid expansion of the Chinese modern medicine market listing products to treat ailments such as heart disease diabetes problems with vital organs and depression as well as sexual problems impotence and premature ejaculation. Tiande was formed from the merger of Bayer Meister Lucius & Brüning and three other German chemical and pharmaceutical companies creating a corporation with a production plant of unprecedented size. Octavo. Illustrations in text most pages with decorative orange border. Text in Chinese. Original reddish brown cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt purple endpapers with orange logos. Title page verso dated "1911" in Chinese in manuscript. Binding rather worn and gilt rubbed: a good copy of a book prone to heavy use. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 183826

‎[CHINA -- SINO-JAPANESE WAR NAVAL HISTORY]. [SINO-JAPANESE WAR COMMEMORATIVE NAVY PHOTO ALBUM PUBLICATION COMMITTEE].‎

‎In Japanese. å ±é“写真海è»ä½œæˆ¦è¨˜éŒ„ HÅdÅ shashin kaigun sakusen kiroku Report photographs: Navy strategic record: the continent.‎

‎Tokyo: å›½éš›å ±é“ Kokusai hodo 昭和 Showa 19 1944. Tall 8vo. 232 pp inpaginated. With 100’s of photo illustrations two-colour maps sections chapter titles in green & black. Blue publisher’s cloth white lettering on spine turquoise-coloured lettering front cover some scuffing & rubbing edgewear minor sunning to spine still G copy from the library of Otto C. Winzen 1917-1979 pioneering German-American aeronautical engineer was interned during World War II and later significantly advanced material and construction of high-altitude balloons after World War II. First edition of this very scarce photographic history of the Imperial Japanese movements battles and actions in the Sino-Japanese War and across China later in World War II. Many of the photos and text focus on the impact of the Japanese Naval Air Force with photos of amphibious aircraft aerial bombing campaigns and continued action across Japanese- and Chinese-controlled areas. Worldcat locates 2 copies TX A&M National Diet Library. å›½éš›å ±é“ Kokusai hodo, hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 63313

‎CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA‎

‎Sing Iak S Fok-Iung Su The Four Gospels in romanized Shanghainese.‎

‎Shanghai: American Bible Society 1905. The Word on the street First edition traced in two institutions only designed to aid Christian missionaries preaching to China's 18 million Shanghainese speakers. Although unstated on the title page this version was prepared by John Alfred Silsby a presbyterian missionary eventually resident in the city for four decades. During the 19th century Christian missionaries produced transliteration and romanization systems for over 20 Chinese dialects. The first romanized Shanghainese gospel was published in 1856 Matthew edited by Chao Yin Sung and the first romanized New Testament appeared in 1870-1. Silsby 1858-1939 issued the Gospel of Matthew as a standalone work in 1895 and this edition of the gospels followed a decade later. In 1913 he completed his important reference An English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect. This work was printed by the Presbyterian Mission Press on behalf of the American Bible Society. Copies are held by Cambridge University and National Taiwan University. Octavo in 4 parts. Original brown moiré cloth over limp card covers spine lettered in gilt. A few contemporary pencilled notes on one page. Spine sunned tidemarks at foot of inner front cover and first blank endleaves browned: very good. Thousand Tongues 252. hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 184601

‎CHINA‎

‎The Tenth Anniversary of the People's Republic of China.‎

‎Beijing: no stated publisher 1959. A grandiose photobook First and only edition with a printed compliments card from the preparatory committee for the anniversary celebrations. Though unmarked as such this copy was owned by Solomon Adler one of the select group of Westerners permanently resident in China during the Mao era. The 1959 festivities signalled China's growing independence on the international stage and its stepping out of the Kremlin's shadow. This lavish production carefully compiled and printed at great expense is a comprehensive pictorial review of events held on and around 1 October 1959. It begins with the text of addresses by Liu Shaoqi Zhou Enlai Lin Biao Deng Xiaoping and Song Qingling followed by vistas of famous architectural landmarks such as Tiananmen Square and the Museum of the Chinese Revolution. Photos of a meeting and banquet held in the Great Hall of the People accompany shots from the National Day parade showing fireworks dancing and flowers. Mao and Khrushchev feature prominently as do images of diplomatic events and of politicians inspecting industrial exhibits architectural landmarks and cultural artefacts. An economist by training Adler 1909-1994 worked in the US in the 1940s but later fell under suspicion during the "red scare." After a period spent at Cambridge University he moved to China in 1962 living in Beijing until his death three decades later and working on the official Chinese translation into English of Mao's Selected Works. Folio. With tissue-guarded portrait frontispieces of Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi tipped in many illustrations 9 folding in text. Original white cloth spine lettered in gilt on red ground compartments elaborately tooled in gilt front board with gilt and red emblem of the People's Republic of China "1949-1959" lettered below in gilt silver silk bookmarker. With dust jacket. Housed in original card box. Binding with touch of wear couple of illustrations slightly proud where incorrectly refolded; jacket flaps without price as issued a few closed tears and chips scuffing: a near-fine copy in very good jacket and like box with some toning and marking. hardcover‎

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‎CHINA‎

‎Postal savings tin in the shape of a postbox.‎

‎China: c.1930s. The first postal savings bank in China was established in 1919 with an initial presence of 11 branches across the country. The design of this savings box reflects the Western influences on the country's postal service and the text at the base states that the box can be opened at any local post office. Metal tin 165 x 60 mm painted green raised Chinese characters and decoration front face slit. With key. Wear to green paint lock mechanism working well: very good. unknown‎

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