Search Results: China from Books of the World

New York: Macmillan. Hardcover. September 1935. First Edition / no additional printings listed. Green cloth over boards with black lettering and lamp decoration to front cover. Yellow endpapers. Lavishly illustrated. Very Good book / no dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown. Text block unmarked. Binding tight. Fading to spine and both covers, but black lettering is still dark. Not from a library. See photos. 16 pages. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. Here is the Famous Old Tale of that Strange & Wonderful Lamp which brought the Boy Aladdin great Riches, a marvelous Palace built all in one night and a beautiful Princess for a Wife. By rubbing this Magical lamp, from a poor lad in Rags he became the rich merchant Aladdin. Elizabeth Mackinstry adds new luster to this oldest of fairy tales with her pictures in gorgeous colors and carefully patterned black-and-white. The jewels in the secret cave glow with Oriental richness; jovial genii, grinning broadly, build Aladdin's palace in a sapphire night, while the… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, September 2001. Hardcover. First American Edition (stated). Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Not from a library. Not a remainder. Not clipped.At the height of Mao's infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for "re-education." The narrator and his best friend, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain, they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding paths. Their meager distractions include a violin-as well as, before long, the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. But it is when the two discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation that their re-education takes its most surprising turn. While ingeniously concealing their forbidden treasure, the boys find transit to worlds they had thought lost forever. And after listening to their dangerously seductive retellings of Balzac, even the… Read More

New York: Vintage International, September 2001. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / Full number line. Very Good+. Corner wear. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 240 pages. A collection of comical and deeply moving tales of contemporary China that are as warm and human as they are surprising, disturbing, and delightful. Contents: Saboteur, Alive, In the Kindergarten, A Tiger Fighter is Hard to Find, Broken, The Bridegroom, An Entrepreneur's Story, Flame, A Bad Joke, An Official Reply, The Woman from New York, After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town.

Paris: Flammarion, September 1995. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition (no additional printings indicated). Near Fine. Interior is pristine. Spine is square, tight and uncreased. Covers are lightly rubbed with small chip to bottom corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Suitable for gifting. 358 pages.A comprehensive introduction to three thousand manifestations of the Buddha in Asia. With the aid of abundant illustrations, this volume distinguishes each holy figure, providing clear and concise explanations of the differing names and attributes by which they are known in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet, South-East Asia, China and Japan. Profusely illustrated with photographs & line drawings.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, July 2008. Trade Paperback. New. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Not a remainder. Not damaged. xiv + 204 pages. Contents: Introduction : a new kind of threat -- Saudi Arabia : oil fields ablaze -- Pakistan : loose nukes -- Mexico : a flood of refugees -- China : collapse of a great power -- Conclusions : the coming storm.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. Trade Paperback. First Edition / full number line. Near Fine book. Text block pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased but sun faded. Foxing to top edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. No tears, no creases, no folds. viii + 293 pages.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1984. Trade Paperback. Third Edition. Good+. Prior owner's name to front page. Some underlining. Spine straight with light creases. Dust stains to top edge. Edgewear to cover. Not from a library. 400 pages.

Taipei. Dunhuang and Houghton Mifflin. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Spine is square and tight. Interior is unmarked. Cover is clean. 18 x 24 cm. 472 pages. "This book is a slight reworking of the materials on China in the 1978 revised edition of East Asia: Tradition and transformation"--rear cover. Contents include The Setting of Chinese History; China and the Barbarians: The Mongol Empire; Invasion and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century China a.o., and various maps and charts.

New York: Times Books, August 1994. Hardcover. First Edition / second printing. Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Binding straight and tight. Light dust stains to top edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 502 pages. Two Pulitzer Prize-winning Beijing correspondents for The New York Times examine the evolution of China as it struggles for economic and political power, providing a fascinating portrait of the human implications of recent Chinese events.

Boulder & London: Westview Press, November 1984. Trade Paperback. First Edition / full number line. Interior unmarked other than original bookseller's price stamp. Spine square and tight. Rubbing to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 354 pages.

Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, December 1981. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Unmarked. Binding square and tight. Covers clean and crisp. Corners sharp. Foxing to top edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 536 pages.

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. New. No remainder mark. Not damaged. xiv + 159 pages.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press. July 1984. Hardcover. Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Binding square and tight. Cover clean and crisp, but spine faded. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 286 pages.

Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1900. Hardcover. No additional printings listed. Illustrated boards backed in yellow cloth. Good+ book / no jacket. No prior ownership marking. Spine straight and sound. Edges and corners worn to boards. Not from a library. 160 pages; frontis, profusely illustrated.

London: Arrow Books / Random House, September 2000. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Near Fine. Interior lightly tanned, otherwise pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 323 pages. A unique modern memoir of growing up in rural China, Colours of the Mountain is a powerful and moving story of supreme determination and extraordinary faith against the most impossible odds. Da Chen was born in 1962 in a town over 50 hours train journey from Beijing. Persecuted because of his family's landlord status, Da was an easy target for the farmer-teachers and bullying peasant boys. Whilst his older brother and sisters were forced to work in the fields, Da tired of the chaotic schooling of the Cultural Revolution and found solace with a band of good-time thugs. Following the death of Mao, an academic meritocracy was reintroduced. Da determined to escape Ch'ing Mountain, where he ran around barefoot and… Read More

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1985. Trade Paperback. Second Edition, first printing / full number line. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, faded with a light crease. Dust stains to edges. Light edge and reading wear. Not from a library. 391 pages.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Slight rubbing and corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 349 pages. Now in paperback, here is the stunning true tale of a remarkable woman trained as an elite soldier in the Chinese army, her forbidden love for an American, and her seemingly impossible escape--with his help--from the nation to which she had pledged her life. An astonishing testament to the enduring resilience of love and the human spirit in the face of even the most oppressive, hopeless conditions, Daughter of China offers a compelling look at life inside the rigid walls of Communist China, revealing in fascinating detail Meihong Xu's inculcation into the system--a process so effective that she would willingly betray a friend or family member to prove her loyalty. Written with clear-eyed candor and stark eloquence, Daughter of China is… Read More

Cambridge: Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, March 1982. Trade Paperback. A Rand Corporation Research Study. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and crisp. Dust stains to top edge. Light edgewear. Not from a library. vii + 307 pages. An intriguing study of the psychological bases of mainland Chinese politics. According to Pye, the driving force of Chinese politics is the tension that arises out of the clash between the Chinese cultural imperative for conformity and consensus and the contradictory longing for personal security gained through special relationships. Pye shows how the resolution of this basic tension plays a key role in the policy process and in the resolution of PRC leadership struggles. The endless process of forming and reforming of clusters and networks of officials at times consolidates into fairly coherent factions. Those upholding the consensus tend to be suspicious that others are acting against it. Therefore they threaten the others and… Read More

Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing. Paperback. 1995. Very Good. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, September 1995. Paperback. Very Good. No markings. Includes the pa kua mirror. Does not include the feng shui com pass and ruler. Not from a library. 112 pages. .

New York: Grove Press, May 2002. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. As New book in an As New jacket. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xviii + 364 pages. In 1949, at the height of U.S. concern about the Soviet Union's atomic experiments and the spread of communism in China, the CIA sent two officers on an mission into Tibet intended in part to keep the kingdom's uranium deposits from falling into Russian hands as well as to deliver arms to the Tibetan resistance. Douglas Mackiernan was killed during the mission, the first CIA officer to die in the line of duty. Frank Bessac, with several other cohorts, trekked through Tibet on foot, gathering atomic intelligence and establishing regional contacts. The mission was a failure on all counts and Laird argues that it may have precipitated China's 1950 invasion of Tibet which China claimed was playing into the hands of enemy imperial powers.