China, twentieth century – Pu Yi (Aisin-Gioro), trans. W. J....

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China, twentieth century – Pu Yi (Aisin-Gioro), trans. W. J. P. Janner, From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, 2 vols., Peking, Foreign Language Press, 2nd edn., 1979, small 8vo, quarter black cloth over yellow printed boards, with black titles, gilt titles to spine, d. w., Vol. I: 247pp, 23 monochrome photographic plates; Vol II: 496pp with 33 monochrome photographic plates; Wright (Richard J. N.). The Chinese Steam Navy 1862-1945, London, Chatham Publishing, 2001, small 4to, 208pp, frontis and numerous monochrome photographic plates; grey boards, gilt titles, d. w.; Li (Zensheng), Red-Color News Soldier: A Chinese Photographer’s Odyssey through the Cultural Revolution, London, Phaidon, 2003, large 8vo, 316pp, numerous monochrome photographic plates, white plastic covers, redd. W. with printed wraparound; Mitter (Rana), A Bitter Revolution, China’s Struggle with the Modern World, Oxford, University Press, 2004, 8vo, xix + 357pp, 31 plates, maps to endpapers, black boards, silver coloured titles, d. w.; Sheridan (James E., 1 922-2015), Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yű-hsiang, Stanford, Ca., University Press, 1966, 8vo, 386pp, 10 monochrome photographic plates, green boards, black spine titles, d. w.; Kiernan (Frank A., jr.) & Fairbank (John K.) eds., Chinese Ways in Warfare, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1974, 8vo, xii + 401pp, maps and diagrams, ochre endpapers and boards, black titles, d. w.; Lau (Shaw) trans. King (Evan), Rickshaw Boy, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945, 8vo, 384pp, vignette illus., colour printed endpapers, yellow boards, gilt titles to black reserves to spine; Chiang (Mayling Soong, Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek) We Chinese Women: Speeches and Writings During the First United Nations Year, New York, John Day 5th impr. 1948, large 12mo, v + 55pp, red printed cream boards, red spine titles, d. w., another copy, 1st US edition, 1943, another, same edition, lacking d.w. (11)