THE ANCIENT CHINESE HISTORY COLLECTION
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A
truly wonderful collection of over 200 rare, out-of-print books compiled
together for the first time on one unique DVD covering all aspects of the
history and customs of one of the greatest and most ancient nations on earth - CHINA.
Discover
the history, beliefs, customs, traditions and languages of the Chinese empire.
Read about the famous wars that have helped to create the China that
exists today. Uncover the legends, the mythology and the superstitions of this
fascinating empire. Study the arts, religions and literature of this ancient
civilization. Overall, this is a stunning archive and an absolute must for
anyone with an interest in ancient China and the history and customs of the Chinese
people – without doubt the most
extensive collection of its kind available on ebay today……
Some
of the books contained within this collection are extremely rare and will
provide a valuable library of reference material for anyone with an interest in
the history of China
and the Chinese Empire. The full list of titles speaks for itself!
This
wonderful collection of over 200 vintage books provides literally 1,000’s of
pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All
of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf
format - easy to read on your laptop, computer, tablet, smartphone, kindle or
e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.
The
Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:
A history and description of Chinese
porcelain by W. C. Monkhouse (1901)
A journey through the Chinese empire Vols.
1& 2 by M. Huc (1855)
A revelation of the Chinese revolution; a
retrospect and forecast (1914)
A short history of China; an account for the general
reader of an ancient empire and people by D. Boulger (1893)
A sketch of Chinese history by F. L. Pott
(1903)
A sketch of Chinese history, ancient and
modern; comprising a retrospect of the foreign intercourse and trade with China
Vols. 1 & 2 by K. Gutzlaff (1834)
A young people's history of the Chinese by
W. Cunnyngham (1896)
Across China on foot; life in the interior
and the reform movement by E. J. Dingle (1911)
Among the tribes in South-west China
by S. R. Clarke (1911)
An American diplomat in China by P. S. Reinch (1922)
Ancient accounts of India and China by A. Sirafi (1733)
Ancient China. The Shu king, or the
historical classic; being the most ancient authentic record of the annals of
the Chinese Empire by Confucius (1846)
Ancient China simplified by E. H. Parker
(1908)
Ancient Chinese coinage by F. H. Chalfant
(1913)
Behind the scenes in Peking
by M. Hooker (1911)
Beleaguered in Peking;
the boxer's war against the foreigner by R. Coltman (1901)
Bright Celestials; the Chinaman at home
and abroad by A. Lamont (1894)
Canton
and the Bogue - the narrative of an eventful six months in China by W. W. Mundy (1875)
Catalogue of Chinese coins from the VIIth
cent. B. C., to A. D. 621. including the series in the British Museum
by T. de Lacouperie (1892)
Caught in the Chinese revolution - a
record of risks and rescue by E. F. Borst-Smith (1912)
Child life in China by M. I. Bryson (1900)
China
- a general description of that empire and its inhabitants Vols. 1 & 2 by
J. F. Davis (1857)
China - a history of the laws, manners and
customs of the people Vols. 1 & 2 by J. H. Gray (1878)
China - a popular history, with a
chronological account of the most remarkable events from the earliest period to
the present day by O. Oliphant (1857)
China
in a series of views, displaying the scenery, architecture, and social
habits, of that ancient empire Vols. 1 - 4 by G. N. Wright (1800)
China
its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. by M. Breton (1812)
China - its social, political, and
religious life by E. Simon (1887)
China
ancient and modern - a history of the Chinese Empire from the dawn of
civilization to the present time by J. M. Evans (1900)
China
and her mysteries by A. Stead (1901)
China
and her people Vol. 2 by C. Denby (1906)
China and its future - in the light of the
antecedents of the empire, its people, and their institutions by J. Johnston
(1899)
China
and the allies Vols. 1 & 2 by A. Landor (1901)
China
and the Chinese by H. A. Giles (1902)
China
and the Manchus by H. A. Giles (1912)
China
and the powers; a narrative of the outbreak of 1900 by H.C. Thomson (1902)
China
as it really is by A Resident in Peking (1912)
China
by D. Boulger (1898)
China
by R. K. Douglas (1903)
China
by T. de Quincey (1857)
China
by Y. L. Liang (1921)
China
in convulsion Vol. 2 by A. H. Smith (1901)
China
in law and commerce by T. Jernigan (1905)
China opened; or, A display of the
topography, history, customs, manners, arts, manufactures, commerce,
literature, religion etc, of the Chinese empire Vol. 2 by K. Gutzlaff (1838)
China
revolutionized by J. S. Thomson (1913)
China
the mysterious and marvellous, by V. Murdock (1920)
China
through the stereoscope; a journey through the dragon empire at the time of the
Boxer uprising by J. Ricalton (1901)
China
under the empress dowager; being the history of the life and times of Tzu Hsi
by J. Bland (1914)
China, its history, arts, and literature
Vols. 1 - 4 by F. Brinkley (1902)
China,
its marvel and mystery by T. H. Liddell (1910)
China,
past and present by E. H. Parker (1903)
China, pictorial, descriptive, and
historical; with some account of Ava and the Burmese, Siam, and Anam by unknown
author (1853)
China,
the long-lived empire by E. R. Scidmore (1900)
China,
the Orient and the yellow man by D. Boulger (1903)
China,
the yellow peril at war with the world; a history of the Chinese empire from
the dawn of civilization to the present time by J. M. Miller (1900)
China's
open door; a sketch of Chinese life and history by R. Wildman (1900)
China's story in myth, legend, art and
annals by W. E. Griffis (1911)
Chin-chin or, The Chinaman at home by Chên
Chi-tung (1895)
Chinese account of the Opium war by E. H.
Parker (1888)
Chinese Buddhism - a volume of sketches,
historical, descriptive, and critical by J. Edkins (1880)
Chinese characteristics by A. H. Smith
(1900)
Chinese heroes; being a record of
persecutions endured by native Christians in the Boxer uprising by I. T. Headland (1902)
Chinese hotch potch by W. R. Kahler (1910)
Chinese life in the Tibetan foothills by
J. Hutson (1921)
Chinese music by J. A. Van Aalst (1884)
Chinese phonology - an attempt to discover
the sounds of the ancient language and to recover the lost rhymes of China
by Z. Volpicelli (1896)
Chinese porcelain by Hsiang Yuan-pien
(1908)
Chinese pottery and porcelain - an account
of the potter's art in China
from primitive times to the present day Vols. 1 & 2 by R. L. Hobson (1915)
Daughters of China;
or, sketches of domestic life in the Celestial Empire
by E. Bridgman (1853)
Early Chinese history - are the Chinese
classics forged by H. J. Allen (1906)
Early history of the Chinese civilisation
by T. de Lacouperie (1880)
Eighteen capitals of China by W. E. Geil (1911)
Far-Eastern sketches by unknown author
(1906)
Fire and sword in Shansi;
the story of the martyrdom of foreigners and Chinese Christians by E. H.
Edwards (1903)
Foreign magic; tales of every-day China
by J. C. Cochran (1919)
Fourteen months in Canton by J. H. Gray (1880)
From Tientsin to Peking
with the allied forces by F. Brown (1902)
Half a century in China recollections and
observations by A. E. Moule (1911)
Hanlin papers by W. Martin (1894)
Historic China, and other sketches by H. A.
Giles (1882)
Historical tales, the romance of reality Japan and China by C. Morris (1903)
History of the insurrection in China;
with notices of the Christianity, creed, and proclamations of the insurgents by
J. M. Callery (1854)
Home life in China
by I. T. Headland (1914)
Human bullets (Niku-dan); a soldier's
story of Port Arthur
by T. Sakurai (1920)
In the forbidden land; an account of a
journey in Tibet
by A. Landor (1904)
In the land of the blue gown [China]
by A. Little (1908)
In the Mikado's service; a story of two
battle summers in China
by W. E. Griffis (1901)
In the valley of the Yangtse by A. Foster
(1899)
Indiscreet letters from Peking
by B. L. Putnam Beale (1909)
Journey to Lhasa
and central Tibet
by S. C. Das (1902)
Kwang Tung, or Five years in South China by J. A. Turner (1894)
Leaves from my Chinese scrapbook by F. H.
Balfour (1887)
Letters from China and some Eastern sketches by
J. Denby (1911)
Life and sport in China by O. G. Ready (1903)
Life of Tai-ping-wang, chief of the
Chinese insurrection by J. M. Mackie (1857)
Lights and shadows of Chinese life by J.
Macowan (1909)
Manual of Chinese bibliography, being a
list of works and essays relating to China by P. G. von Mollendorff
(1876)
Model-insect money of ancient China
by H. A. Ramsden (1914)
Narrative of the expedition to China,
from the commencement of the war to its termination in 1842 Vol. 1 by J. E.
Bingham (1843)
Nine songs - a study of shamanism in
ancient China
by Y. Qu (1955)
On Chinese currency; coin and paper money
by W. Vissering (1877)
On the trail of the opium poppy; a
narrative of travel in the chief opium-producing provinces of China Vols. 1 & 2 by A. Hosie
(1914)
Pagoda shadows - studies from life in China
by A. M. Fielde (1887)
Peking
the goal - the sole hope of peace by G. Nye (1873)
Pictures of the Chinese, drawn by
themselves by R. H. Cobbold (1860)
Port
Arthur, a monster heroism by R.
Barry (1905)
Rambles round Shanghai by W. R. Kahler (1905)
Religion of ancient china by H. A. Giles
(1905)
Researches into Chinese superstitions Vols.
1 – 10 & 13 by H. Dore (1914)
Science and society in ancient China
by J. Needham (1922)
Sidelights on Chinese life by J. MacGowan
(1907)
Studies in Chinese life by A. Grainger
(1921)
Sun Yat Sen and the awakening of China
by J. Cantlie (1912)
Ten thousand things relating to China
and the Chinese by W. B. Langdon (1852)
The ancient history of China to the end of the Chóu
dynasty by F. Hirth (1908)
The attaché at Peking
by A. Redesdale (1900)
The awakening of China by W. Martin (1907)
The awakening of the East - Siberia, Japan,
China
by P. Leroy-Beaulieu (1900)
The Boxer rebellion; a political and
diplomatic review by P. H. Clements (1915)
The Boxer Rising - a history of the Boxer
trouble in China
by unknown author (1901)
The British in China and Far Eastern trade by C.
A. M. Smith (1920)
The Chinese as they are by J. R. Saunders
(1921)
The Chinese by J. S. Thomson (1909)
The Chinese empire, illustrated Vols. 1
& 2 by T. Allom (1858)
The Chinese system of public education by
P. W. Kuo (1915)
The Chinese war - an account of all the
operations of the British forces from the commencement to the Treaty of Nanking by J. Ouchterlony (1844)
The civilization of China by H. A. Giles (1911)
The development of China by K. Latourette (1917)
The development of the logical method in
ancient China
by S. Hu (1922)
The Englishman in China during the Victorian era by
A. Michie (1900)
The face of China;
travels in east, north, central and western China by E. G. Kemp (1909)
The fight for the Republic in China
by B. L. Putnam Weale (1918)
The Flowery republic by F. McCormick
(1913)
The foreigner in far Cathay
by W. H. Medhurst (1873)
The great empress dowager of China
by P. W. Sergeant (1911)
The great river ; the story of a voyage on
the Yangtze Kiang by G. M. Fitkin (1922)
The great siege - the investment and fall
of Port Arthur
by B. W. Norregaard (1906)
The history of China Vols. 1 & 2 by D. Boulger
(1898)
The imperial history of China, being a history of the
empire as compiled by the Chinese historians by J. MacGowan (1906)
The international relations of the Chinese
empire Vols. 1 - 3 by H. B. Morse (1900)
The land of the Boxers by G. Casserly
(1903)
The languages of China before the Chinese by T. de
Lacouperie (1887)
The lore of Cathay; or, The intellect of China
by W. Martin (1901)
The Manchus, or The reigning dynasty of China;
their rise and progress by J. Ross (1880)
The old Babylonian characters and their
Chinese derivates by T. de Lacouperie (1888)
The oldest and the newest empire - China and the United States by W. Speer (1870)
The oldest book of the Chinese, the
Yh-king, and its authors by T. de Lacouperie (1892)
The passing of the dragon; the story of
the Shensi revolution and relief expedition by
J. C. Keyte (1913)
The problem of China by B. Russell (1922)
The religions of eastern Asia
by H. G. Underwood (1910)
The religious system of China, its ancient
forms, evolution, history and present aspect, manners, customs and social
institutions connected therewith Vols. 1 - 6 by J. de Groot (1892)
The re-making of China by A. S. Waley (1915)
The story of the Chinese crisis by A. S.
Krausse (1900)
The unveiling of Lhasa by E. Candler (1905)
The young mandarin; a story of Chinese
life by J. A. Davis (1896)
Three years' wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China by R. Fortune (1847)
Through China with a camera by J. Thomson
(1899)
Through hidden Shensi
by F. H. Nichols (1902)
Through the Chinese revolution by F.
Farjenel (1916)
Through the Yang-tse gorges or, Trade and
travel in western China
by A. J. Little (1898)
Tibet,
the mysterious by T. Holdrich (1906)
Trans-Himalaya - discoveries and
adventures in Tibet
Vols. 1 - 3 by S. Hedin (1909)
Travels in north and central China by
J. G. Birch (1902)
Travels of a Consular officer in North West China;
with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs by E. Teichmann (1921)
Twelve years in China; the people, the rebels, and
the mandarins by J. Scarth (1860)
Two years in China. Narrative of the Chinese
expedition, from its formation in April, 1840, to the treaty of peace in
August, 1842 by D. McPherson (1843)
Typical women of China - abridged from the Chinese
work Records of virtuous women of ancient and modern times by X. Liu (1891)
Village and town life in China by Y. Liang (1915)
Village life in China; a study in sociology by A.
H. Smith (1909)
Western origin of the early Chinese
civilisation from 2,300 B. C. to 200 A. D. by T. de Lacouperie (1887)
When I was a boy in China by Y. P.
Lee (1887)
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