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Manners and Customs in Manchoukuo
Masatoshi Kobayashi; Noboru Hidaka
Manchoukuo: The Manchuria Daily News, 1942.A detailed and thoroughly illustrated guide in English to life and culture in Manchuria. Published at the height of WWII, depicting a completely normal world inside the Japanese puppet state with chapters on races and tribes, costumes, residential houses, food and drink, salutation and etiquette, tastes and pastimes, annual festivals, religions, symbols of religious faith, and happy and unhappy affairs.
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[Manshu Showa Jugonen: Kuwabara Kineo shashin shu]
Kineo Kuwabara
Tokyo: Shobunsha, 1974.Photobook by Japanese photographer Kineo Kuwabara (1913-2007) documenting his trip to Manchuria in 1940.
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Chiang Kai-shek
Hollington K. Tong
Taipei: China Publishing Company, 1953.The revised edition of Tong’s biography of the Chinese leader. Tong was a journalist and diplomat, serving as the Ambassador of the Republic of China to Japan when this edition was published later as the Ambassador to the United States. This revised edition, published 16 years after the first edition, condenses the story of Chiang Kai-shek’s life pre-1936, which was covered at length in the two volume first edition, and focuses on the epic years which followed, 1937-1953. This copy inscribed by Tong in Tokyo, 1953, to the polyglot Boris Strjeshevsky, an officer in the Imperial Russian Army that fled to China where he learned English and Chinese and taught Russian to the Chinese, before moving to Japan in 1939 where he learned Japanese and taught languages, before finally moving to Queensland, Australia, where he taught Russian at the University of Queensland.
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Painting Collection of Mrs. S. K. Ling
S. K. Ling
Kowloon: C. S. Ling, 1935.Foreword and epilogue is in English and Chinese, primarily illustrations. 32 colour plates and one colour photograph of Mrs. S. K. Ling.
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The Boxer Rebellion
Adriano Madaro
Quinto di Treviso: Europrint Editore, 2001.A new historical review on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Boxer Rebellion, copiously illustrated throughout. Originally published in Italian as ‘La Rivolta dei Boxer Pechino 1900’ and here translated into English for the first time by Elizabeth Tomlin.
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The Tragedy of Paotingfu
Isaac C. Ketler
New York, Chicago, and Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1902.An Authentic Story of the Lives, Services and Sacrifices of the Presbyterian, Congregation and China Inland Missionaries who Suffered Martyrdom at Paotingfu, China, June 30th and July 1, 1900.
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A Thousand Miles of Miracle in China
Archibald E. Glover
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906.A Personal Record of God’s Delivering Power from the Hands of the Imperial Boxes of Shan-si. An account of fleeing China during the Boxer Rebellion by a missionary of the China Inland Mission. The second, or Popular Edition.
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Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel (4 Volumes)
Luo Guanzhong
London: The Folio Society, 2013.Translation and introductory essay by Moss Roberts, introduction by Ma Jian. FORD-SMITH 1836.
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Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: Their Plan and its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life
J. Prip-Moller
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1967.A labour of love originally published in 1937 by Danish architect Johannes Prip-Moller (1889-1943). Thoroughly researched and illustrated throughout with photographs, floor plans, and architectural illustrations, this tome is still regarded as the definitive work on the subject and provides invaluable insight into Chinese Buddhist monastic life.
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South Manchuria Railway 1935
South Manchuria Railway Company
Dairen: South Manchuria Railway Company, 1935.Traces the history, development, and administration of The South Manchuria Railway Company as it expanded its enterprises to influence almost all areas of economic, political and social life in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. This copy with the company’s New York office stamp to the title page and with the 1936 Statistical Abstract laid in.
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New Zealand’s China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less Than Complete Success
Chris Elder
Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2012. -
Shan Tung Pictorial
Takayoshi Yamashita
Qingdao: Aoshima Souvenir Museum, 1940.Japanese souvenir photobook of Shandong Province, China, produced during the second Japanese occupation of Tsingtao (Qingdao). Photographs are captioned in English and Japanese and depict the people, the city, and surrounding landscapes and temples, as well as battle relics of the first occupation during WWI, and important Japanese buildings. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC or CiNii.
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Red Azalea: Life and Love in China
Anchee Min
London: Victor Gollancz, 1993. -
Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China
Liz P. Y. Chee
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2021.“A history of the rising use of “medicinal animals” in modern China. While animal parts and tissue had been present in Chinese medicine from an early date, the book argues that their role in the Chinese pharmacopiea greatly expanded and became systematized in the changed political and economic circumstances of the early Communist period. Mao’s Bestiary is the first book to place medicinal animals squarely within the historiography of Chinese medicine. In an age of controversy over the ethics and efficacy of faunal medicalization, its perpensity to foster zoonotic diseases and its devastating effect on wildlife conservation in China and worldwide, the book contributes a much-needed historical perspective, explaining the modern origins of what is too casually taken to be traditional practice” (publisher’s blurb)
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Collection of Pictures on Japanese Military Germ Warfare
Jin Chengmin
Hulunbuir: Inner Mongolia Culture Press, 2010.Photographs and details on Japan’s chemical warfare Unit 731.