The Rise and Splendour of the Chinese Empire

by Grousset, Rene

Description: Very Good; Fair+ Jacket. 1953 University of California Press. First American edition, stated. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Black and white frontispiece, plates and maps. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Small faded spot at tail of spine. Pages clean and unmarked. 312 pages. Translated by Anthony Watson-Gandy and Terence Gordon. ... Read More

Taoist Feng Shui: the Ancient Roots of the Chinese Art of Placement

by Levitt, Susan

Description: Very Good. 1999 Destiny Books. Trade paperback. Black and white diagrams and illustrations. 148 pages. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased. Book is in excellent condition with only a hint of shelf wear and a small faint smudge to the fore edge of the pages. Pages clean and unmarked. Read More

A Generation Lost: China Under the Cultural Revolution

by Luo, Zi-Ping

Description: Very Good. 1991 Avon Books. Trade paperback. 342 pages. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Bottom front corner bumped. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. Read More

Chinese Painting: an Escape From the "Dusty" World

by Williams, Marjorie L.

Description: Very Good. 1981 Cleveland Museum of Art-Indiana University Press. NOT Remaindered. Softcover. Oblong, 8.5 x 7 inches. Tan paper covers with black illustrations and black spine lettering. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Four-panel fold-out illustration at rear. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased. Covers have very light surface wear. Pages have a light curl. Pages clean and unmarked. 72 pages. A book in the Themes in Art series. Read More

Resolution on Cpc History (1949-81)

by N/A

Description: Good. 1981 Foreign Languages Press. First edition, stated. Small softcover. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Vertical lines in blue ink in the margins marking passages on 10 pages at the beginning of the book. One page is dog-eared. 126 pages. Series: Chines Documents. On cover: "Authoritative Assessment of: -Mao Zedong-The Cultural Revolution-Achievements of the People's Republic". First Edition. Read More

Hongyu, the Fox Fairy

by Ying, Lin

Description: Good. 1984 Foreign Languages Press. First edition. Drawings By Wang Jusheng. Softcover. Color illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine creased. Corners and spine ends worn and rounded. Front cover has a light corner creases. Paper covering of one-quarter inch of tail of spine peeled up. Some pages have light creasing from handling. Front endpapers have a small peeled spot at center where some sort of sticker was removed. Pages clean and unmarked. 54 pages. Adapted by Lin Ying from Pu ... Read More

Beijing

by N/A

Description: Very Good; No jacket. 2003 China Travel & Tourism Press. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Oblong hardcover has pictorial paper-covered boards. Color photographs. High-quality glossy paper. Text in English and Chinese. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Covers have very light surface and edge wear. Pages clean and unmarked. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Read More

Stories From Chinese Proverbs

by N/A

Description: Very Good. Doctor House. No date in book. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Softcover. Parallel text in Chinese and English, on opposite pages. Black and white illustrations. 250 pages. Binding tight. Spine has only a trace of a crease. Pages lightly tanned, more so at periphery, but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. Read More

Chinese Whispers: Feng Shui Techniques for Transforming Life, Work, and Home

by Dexter, Rosalyn

Description: Very Good. 2000 Rizzoli. Oversize hardcover, 8.75 x 11 inches, has pictorial paper-covered boards with a central rectangular cut-out that exposes lettering on the front free endpaper. Color photographs and illustrations. High-quality glossy paper. Red woven index ribbon. 157 pages + index. Printed and bound in Italy. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Covers have very light surface and edge wear. Pages clean and unmarked. No dust jacket, as issued. Carefully ... Read More

Seven Maids of Far Cathay: Being English Notes From a Chinese Class Book

by Ding, Bing (Compiler)

Description: Good; No jacket. 1916 Paul Elder and Company Publishers. No edition stated. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has green cloth-covered boards with yellow and black spine and cover lettering and decorations. Top page edges are orange. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Illustrated by Ai Lang. Tipped in black and white plates; some are photographs, and some are illustrations. Text pages have a red border and first page of each section has additional illustrations at the borders ... Read More

The Complete I Ching: the Definitive Translation By the Taoist Master Alfred Huang

by Huang, Alfred

Description: Very Good; Very Good Jacket. 1998 Inner Traditions. Hardcover has cream paper-covered boards with burgundy cloth-covered spine and gold spine lettering and cover decorations. 539 pages. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has very light edge and surface wear, with light wrinkling at the corners and spine ends and a small tear at the top of the back panel; rear inner flap creased. Dust jacket is NOT ... Read More

China From the 1911 Revolution to Liberation

by Chesneaux, Jean; Le Barbier, Francoise; Bergere, Marie-Claire

Description: Very Good; Very Good Jacket. 1977 Pantheon Books. First US Edition, stated. No additional printings listed. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering. Maps. 372 pages. Translated from the French by Paul Auster, Lydia Davis and Anne Destenay. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light surface and edge wear, with chips at ... Read More

Bai Lian Tu (One Hundred Lotus Figures)

by Ma Yuanhao

Description: Very Good. 1994 Shang hai gu ji chu ban she (Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House). NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Softcover. Oversized, 8.25 x 11.25. Color photographs. Over 100 color photographs of lotus flowers and lotus plants by Ma Yuanhao. High-quality glossy paper. Text in Chinese. Pages clean and unmarked. 92 pages. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. Read More

A World-Famous Tourist City in China: Shanghai

by N/A

Description: Very Good; No jacket. 2003 China Travel & Tourism Press. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Oblong hardcover has pictorial paper-covered boards. Color photographs. High-quality glossy paper. Text in English and Chinese. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Covers have very light surface and edge wear. Pages clean and unmarked. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Read More

I Ching: Book of Changes

by Wilhelm, Richard (Translator)

Description: Very Good. 2003 Axiom, Stepney, South Australia. Second printing, copyright 2001. Softcover with folded-in flaps. Text and diagrams in brown on sepia-tone pages. 128 pages. Translated from the Chinese by Richard Wilhelm. Foreword by Carl Gustav Jung. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased. Bottom corner lightly bumped. Pages clean and unmarked. Read More

Chinese Landscape Painting

by Lee, Sherman E.

Description: Good. 1954 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. First Edition. 1954 printing stated on last page. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Softcover. Somewhat oversized, 7.5 x 10 inches. Black and white illustrations. Binding tight. Covers have moderate edge and surface wear. Spine NOT creased. Name in ink at the top outer corner of front cover. Some underlining, markings and marginalia in pencil throughout first 27 pages and the two-page bibliography at end. No markings on other ... Read More

Sung and Yuan Dynasty Paintings: Miyabi 6

by Setsu, Iwao; Etoh, Shun

Description: Very Good. 1982 Setsu Gatodo Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. Miyabi VI. Exhibition catalog. Text primarily in Japanese. NOT ex-library. Oversize softcover, 22.5 x 25cm, has stiff cardstock boards covered with gray textured paper; gold spine and cover lettering. 15 tipped-in glossy plates, each with caption in Japanese and English. Two-page English introduction and eight-page Japanese essay with stapled binding are laid in. Essay is by Shun Etoh. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. ... Read More