Search Results: History of Asia & China & Japan from Elk Creek Heritage Books

New York: Scribner, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line including the number one. Hard cover in very good condition with white boards, red spine cloth and silver gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing; no markings to note. Title page photograph of the Skyline of Pudong, A Special Economic Zone in Shanghai, the financial capital of China, by Dan Bibb. 342 numbered pages. Concludes with section of Notes, a Selected Bibliography, and an extensive Index. Dust jacket very good with only a ghost of shelf & edge wear; no tears; tiny chip / wear at top front corner. Not price clipped. * From the front jacket flap (note that book was published in 2005), ""China today is visible everywhere - in the news, in the economic pressures battering America, in the workplace, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential, this dramatic account of China's growing dominance as an… Read More

New York: Random House, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition. Complete number line including the number one. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards & gold gilt spine lettering. Three numbers in red ink on back paste down which are not visible when dust jacket is on. Interior text block clean & tight; papers show beginning of mellow age toning; no writing, no markings to note. Contains a section of 8 leaves / 16 pages of glossy colored photographs. 322 numbered pages. Concludes with a Select Bibliography and an extensive Index. Dust jacket in very good condition with just ghost of shelf & edge wear; crease from top to bottom of back jacket flap. Not price clipped. * From the front jacket flap, ""In this utterly surprising, deeply personal book, acclaimed NPR reporter Rob Gifford, a fluent Mandarin speaker, takes the dramatic journey along Route 312 from its start in the boomtown of Shanghai to its end on the border… Read More

Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4th Printing Hard cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. No writing, no markings noted. Dust Jacket likewise very good; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world."" Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate across the globe. . . . . [This book] traces these tremors from Beijing to Europe to the Midwest as China's ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food - and its export of goods, workers, and investments - drastically reshape world trade and politics. . . provides alternative explanations for China's explosive transformation, revealing many of the usual reasons given for its growth to be myths. Most important for the future, [the author] details China's deep, systemic weaknesses - rampant fraud, crippling environmental crises, a corrupt banking… Read More

New York: Times Books: a Division of Random House, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition with number line beginning with number two which is how Random House identified First Editions in the 1990s [McBride]. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards (Chinese letters on front board) and red spine cloth with gold gilt spine lettering. End papers contain a map of ""the People's Republic of China."" Interior text block clean & tight; no writing; no markings to note. Deckled side edges. Dust jacket very good with ghost of shelf & edge wear; not price clipped. * On the Title Page is a quote attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, ""When China wakes, it will shake the world."" The jacket flap continues, ""That moment is now at hand. ... With the Chinese economy on a trajectory to overtake Japan and the United States in the coming decades....a spectacular economic boom ....[but concern looms because] China… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. Stated: First Touchstone Edition 1993. Softcover in very good condition. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Wraps very good with only gentlest shelf & edge wear.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition with complete number line including the number one (number line is on the last page of the volume.) Hard cover in very good condition with red and black boards with gold gilt stars on front board and lettering on spine. End papers contain map of China. Text block clean & tight; no writing; no markings to note. 459 numbered pages. Contains two section of glossy black & white photographs, in total 12 leaves / 24 pages. Also contains maps, appendices, and an extensive Index. Dust jacket very good with light shelf & edge wear; tiny chips/wear at top & bottom of folds. Not price clipped. * From the beginning of the author's Acknowledgments: ""This book is intended to contribute to the literature illuminating aspects of the history of China from the period of the civil war (1946-49) to the visit of President Nixon in February 1972. Most of the… Read More

New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition. Same date on Title Page & Copyright (1990) Hard cover in very good condition with green boards; gold gilt spine lettering and author's initials on front board also in gold gilt. Former owner's name & address in ink at top right corner of front free end paper. No other writing noted. Text block clean & tight; no markings to note. Deckle edges on the side text block. 245 numbered pages; concludes with a Chronology of pertinent dates in Chinese history from 1839 to1989. Dust jacket very good with only ghost of shelf & edge wear; not price clipped. * From the front jacket flap, ""....It is the testament of a woman who is at once profoundly a daughter of her ancestral China - she was born in Shanghai - and, equally, a child of the America where she was raised from age eight. It is the work of a writer who is known to millions of American as an acclaimed best-selling… Read More

HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5th or later Printing First published in Great Britain in 2006. Hard cover in very good condition with green boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Contains four maps by Reginald Piggott. Dust jacket very good; only ghost of shelf & edge wear; not price clipped. * From the jacket, ""....records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months.....perhaps the most difficult and ambitious journey he has undertaken in forty years of travel.....""

Ithaca, New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1992. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Stated: First Edition USA 1992. Soft cover in fine condition with bright shiny wraps. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Overall presents as new and unread. * From the book, ""In 1949 the Chinese Communists announced their intention to ""liberate"" Tibet, and Chinese armies began crossing the eastern borders of the country. These events set in motion a gradual process of occupation and repression that culminated in the crushing of the 1959 Tibetan popular uprising against Chinese rule.. . . . presents the inspiring and unforgettable accounts of two Tibetans who tell what it was like to be Tibetans in Chinese hands during thirty years of the Chinese hands during thirty years of the Chinese occupation. . . . a vivid picture of the final fall of Tibet.""

New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First American Edition. Originally published in Denmark as ""Revolution"" with copyright 1979. Tiny red stamp of a house on top text block. Hard cover in very good condition with yellow boards and off-white spine cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine and front board. Boards show light shelf wear with dust dulling; about 5 vertical inches of light foxing to the spine cloth on front; light warp to front board. Gift inscription at top of front free end paper, no other writing in text. Text block otherwise clean & tight; no markings to note. Includes a section of 8 leaves / 16 pages glossy black & white photographs. 207 numbered pages. Dust jacket in very good condition with only ghost of shelf & edge wear; has been price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""Jan Bredsdorff is a young Danish author who has written five books on China, having lived there on and off… Read More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1st Printing First Edition per same date (1964) on Title Page & Copyright Page with no other printings noted. Hard cover in very good condition with red boards, black Chinese letters on front board, and black panels with silver gilt lettering on spine. Small white spot on front board. Top stained red. Former owner's name in ink on top back of front board. Contains a section of 4 leaves / 8 pages of 16 illustrations / b&w photographs. Also five maps. Less than 40 pages in the last chapters have unobtrusive ink lines / brackets in margins / underlining with two or three tiny margin notes. 470 numbered pages; concludes with Section of Notes to the chapters, Section of a Bibliography Note, and an extensive Index. Dust jacket in good condition with shelf & edge wear; chips to head & heel of spine and corners; rubbing; several scratches; age toning to the white of the back of jacket & flaps; not… Read More