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The Witness and I
New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1974. 1 volume in-8, 314 pp., black hardback, a Chinese stamp on the title page, library documents on end pages, library stamps on edges, decorated with a frontispiece, good condition.
Contents: The Cold War and Diplomacy - Historical Excursion I-Nationalist China - Historical Excusion II- War and Civil War - The Witness and I - "The Gods Are Athirst - Guilty until Poved Innocent - Dangerous Thoughts - "Quick, Thy Tablets, Memory!" - High Court of Suspicion - "All on Evidence" - The Oligarchical Complex and Foreign Policy - Selected Bibliography.
China & Russia - The "Great Game"
New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1971. 1 volume in-8, 578 pp., red hardback with an illustrated dustjacket, enriched with 2 maps and some photos, quite good condition.
Contents: Preface - Introduction : Chinese, Russians, and Mongols - 1) The Meeting of Empires - 2) "The Normalization" of Russo-Manchu Relations - 3) The Kiakhta Agree ment and Mongol Disaster - 4) Triangle in East Asia - 5) Confrontation in the West Pacific, Mid-Nineteenth Century - 6) The "Great Game" in Central Asia - 7) Confrontation in Central Asia, Mid-Nineteenth Century - 8) Fin de Siècle in East Asia - 9) War, Revolution, and Imperialism - 10) Revolution and the Manchu Borderlands - 11) The Russian Revolution and China - 12) China, Outer Mongolia, and the Far Eastern Republic - 1) Turmoil in Central Asia - 14) Reestablishment of State Relations - 15) Peking-Moscow Relations in Crisis - 16) Moscow and Chinese Revolutionaries, 1923-1926... 36 Confrontation in the Borderlands - Epilogue: Chinese, Russians, and Americans - Notes, Glossary - Abbreviations - Selected Bibliography - Publications of the East Asian Institute - Index.
Twentieth Century China
New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1966. 1 volume in-8, xii-470 pp., hardback, red cloth covers wrapped by a grey paper dust-jacket decorated by an illustration of a red dragon, the upper part of the dust-jacket is a bit torn, flat spine, a red Chinese name stamp on the title page, enriched with 16 illustrations and 5 maps, very good condition in general.
Contents: Introduction: "Confucian" China - Part I. Collapse of the Confucian Order: 1 Decay of the Dynastic Principle - 2 The Revolution That Failed - 3 The Birth of Modern Chinese Nationalism - 4 Revolutionairies against the Warlords - Part II. The Nationalist Interregnum: 5. "First Pacification, Then Resistance"- 6 The Resurgence of Chinese Nationalism - 7 The Second Sino-Japanese War - 8 Kuomintag-Communist Struggle: Final Stage - Part III. The Communist Era in China - 9 The New Regime - 10 Peking at the Crossroads - 11 Shift in Peking's Foreign Policy - 12 Communist China Today - Notes - Time Chart - Bibliographical Notes - Index.
Communism in China: As Reported From Hankow in 1932
USA, Columbia University Press, 1968. 1 volume, hard-cover with dust-jacket, in-8, x+123 pp., 1 map, 2 photographs, very good copy.
Contents: Memorandum - Table of Contents - List of Abbreviations Used - Introduction - Armed Revolt - The Chinese Soviets - The Chinese Communist Party - Conclusion - Annexes.
