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Hong Kong Books & Ephemera
Sou shuyuan 搜書院
by Yang Zijing, et al 楊子靜，等
Hong Kong: Zhonghua shuju 中華書局, 1957. 52p., very good in pictorial wraps, several black and white photos within. Script for "Searching the Academy," a Cantonese opera that was adapted to film and marked one of the PRC's earlier commercial overtures to overseas Chinese audiences.
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$45.00
Asian Labour Update Issue 6 (January 1992)
Hong Kong: Asia Monitor Resource Center, 1992. 24p., wraps, 8.5x11 nches, vertical fold crease. Articles on labor issues across Asia, with some discussion of US labor connections.
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$12.00
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Socialist / Shehui zhuyizhe [four issues]
Hong Kong: Socialist Action / China Worker, 2016. Four issues of the staplebound journal, Chinese-language issues 24, 35 and 37, plus English-language issue 37. 27 to 43 pages per issue. Published by the Hong Kong affiliate of the Committee for a Workers' International. Articles on racism in Hong Kong, corrupt and pro-Beijing local authorities, tribute to Mandela, international events, and more.
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$30.00
East And West
by Patten, Chris
London: Macmillan. 1998. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 340 pages. The last British Governor of Hong Kong on power, freedom and the future . Reprint. Hardback.
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$9.11
Beijing Odyssey: Based on the Life and Times of Liang Shiyi, a Mandarin in China's Transition from Monarchy to Republic
by Au, Steven T
Mahomet, IL: Mayhaven Publishing, 1999. Paperback. x, 447p., paperback, 6x9 inches. Small stamp at bottom edge, else very good. Au was born in Hong Kong and was an engineering professor before turning to writing.
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$12.00
East and West The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future
by Patten, Christopher
Toronto,: McClelland & Stewart. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1998. Trade Paperback. 0771069812 . A Trade Paperback in wonderful condition, looks like it may have been read once. "By the former Chairman of the Conservative Party and the last Governor of Hong Kong, this work offers an analysis of the Asian phenomenon and the future of economic and political liberty in China and East Asia in the 21st century. "; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 340 pages .
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$13.90
Migrant workers: victims of unbalanced development. Report on the workshop on "Responding to migrant workers' needs in Asia." Holy Carpenter Community Center, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, June 20-24, 1992
Kowloon, Hong Kong: Christian Conference of Asia, Urban Rural Mission, 1992. 84p., wraps. URM concerns. Touches on labor migration to the Middle East, Philippine fishermen abroad, South Asian migrants, and others.
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$20.00
![Zhongguo li shi yan jiu gong ju shu xu lu [Research tools to Chinese history: an annotated bibliography] 中國歷史研究工具書敘錄](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/820/594/524594820.0.b.jpg)
Zhongguo li shi yan jiu gong ju shu xu lu [Research tools to Chinese history: an annotated bibliography] 中國歷史研究工具書敘錄
by Tsang, Ying-ching [Zeng Yingjing] 曾影靖
Hong Kong: Longmen shudian 龍門書店, 1968. 8, 325 p., very good hardcover, text printed from handwritten Chinese; ownership signature of a UC Berkeley professor on front endpaper.
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$75.00
Zhongguo hua ji ben hui fa 中國畫基本繪法
by Ren Xun 任遜
Hong Kong: Wan li shu dian 萬里書店, 1961. 134p., stiff wraps, very good but for bumping at corners. On Chinese painting.
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$25.00
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Nu xing xing xing wei [Sexual behavior of women] 女性性行為
by Jin Sai [Alfred Kinsey] 金賽
Kowloon, Hong Kong: Jing Liang Shu Ju, 1953. 48p., staplebound booklet, pages toned, minor handling wear, pictorial wraps depicting sultry western woman in bikini holding a copy of the same booklet; text in Chinese. Although authorship is attributed to Kinsey, this is not a true translation of 1953's "Sexual behavior in the human female" but actually a booklet about Kinsey, his reception in the West, and an outline of his findings, presented for a Hong Kong audience. The publisher was clearly making the...
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$200.00
Liao zhai zhi yi shi yi 聊齋志異拾遺
by Pu Songling 蒲松齡
Hong Kong: Ming de tu shu gong si 明德圖書公司, 1961. 5, 74p., slender paperback; evenly toned, otherwise very good. Ghost stories selected from Pu Songling's famous collection.
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$20.00
Zhongguo jin bai nian shi jiao cheng 中國近百年史教程
by Zhang Jianfu 張健甫
Hong Kong: Wen hua gong ying she 文化供應社, 1949. 6, 366p., paperback, pages toned, light handling wear. Second printing. On Chinese history since the Opium Wars.
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$30.00
Law Uk Folk Museum / Luowu min su guan
by Ding Xinbao
Hong Kong: Urban Council, 1990. 46p., slender booklet, illustrations in color and in black and white.
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$17.00
Li dai shu fa jiang zuo 歷代書法講座
by Mai Huasan 麥華三
Hong Kong: Shanghai shu ju 上海書局, 1964. 3, 7, 172 pages; slender paperback, very good; third printing. On the history of calligraphy.
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$30.00
Shuai jiao jue zhao 摔角絕招
by Wang Fengting 王鳳亭
Hong Kong: Ta han kuo shu kuan 大漢國術舘, 1969. 108p., paperback, rear cover and last few pages creased. Black and white photos show the martial arts techniques described. Text in Chinese.
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$15.00
Zhao hun qu 招魂曲
by Yang, Ruiming 楊瑞明
Hong Kong: Yazhou chubanshe 亞洲出版社, 1954. 202p., wraps, gift inscription on title page, stain and rubberstamp of Asia Press Agency on back cover. Chinese language. Novel.
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$20.00
Liang Zhongxian xian sheng shu hua ji 梁仲憲先生書畫集
by Liang Zhongxian (Leong Chong Hin) 梁仲憲
Hong Kong: Dong ya yin wu you xian gong si 東雅印務有限公司, 1959. Unpaginated paperback, chielfly black and white illustrations captioned in both English and Chinese.
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$30.00
Yu chong gua guo hua pu 魚蟲瓜果書譜
by Ma Tai 馬駘
Hong Kong: Wen guang shu ju 文光書局, 1956. Slender paperback volume, very good. On drawing fish, bugs, and fruits. Ma Tai Hua Bao.
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$30.00
China's imperial way, retracing an historical trade and communications route from Beijing to Hong Kong. Preface by Alain Peyrefitte
by Bishop, Kevin, with additional text by Annabel Roberts
Hong Kong: An Odyssey Book / the Guidebook Company Ltd, 1997. 240p., profuse captioned photos and period images throughout the text, high-density coated paper in trade-size glossy frenchfold wraps, a very good copy. An engaging commercial production.
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$10.00
Shu qing xin ge. Di yi ji 抒情新歌：第一集
by Hai Tian 海天
Hong Kong: Yin yi chu ban she, n.d.. 38p., slender paperback booklet, toned, top of spine chipped. Lyrics to leftist songs.
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$20.00
Voice of reviving Lingnan University / Lingnan daxue fu xiao hu sheng
Hong Kong: the University, 1986. 30p., lightly edgeworn wraps with mild curling, 8.25x11.25 inches. Commemorative booklet; includes history of the school, as well as music and lyrics to several school songs.
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$20.00
Chinese painting for beginners / Guo hua ru men 國畫入門
by Lau Ta Po (Liu Dabu) 劉大步
Hong Kong: Ju zhu lou hua yuan 居竹樓畫院, [196-]. Unpaginated slender paperback, text in both Chinese and English, with black and white photos of artwork (and of the author instructing the governor of Hong Kong). Inscribed on the front cover to [Huang] Keyi, who was part of the San Francisco Chinatown art world. Small chip at bottom of the front cover.
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$95.00
The fourth wall: Jerusalem and China
by Susan
New York: Mount Zion Fellowship, [198-]. 250p., lightly shelfworn wraps. American missionary describes her efforts to proselytize in China and Hong Kong in the 1980s.
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$12.00
Water Lily, for the first audience of my poetry readings
by Yau, Emily
Hong Kong: Poetry World, 1990. Staplebound. 46p., staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch decorated wraps; a very good copy. Signed and inscribed by the author "To the Mission Library." Author has annotated her vita page in pen with several "invitations," including "Invited to be listed in '5,000 Personalities of the World' and 'International Who's Who of Intellectuals.'. Yau was born in China in 1940 and immigrated to San Francisco where she continued writing. She also went by Chiu Yee Ming, Emily Yau Yee Ming, and...
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$15.00
