What's Wrong With China
Language: English
Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1927
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Peking Man Bookshop, Nyack, NY, U.S.A.Peking Man Bookshop
AbeBooks seller since April 17, 2026
Condition: Used - Good
£ 23.14
Quantity: 1 available
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Hardback. 315 pp. No map. Good. Minor foxing. Spine rubbed. Name on endpapers. Astute, Chinese-speaking Gilbert lived in China for 17 years, and wrote serials for the Shanghai North China Daily News, from which much of the book is drawn. While he "likes, admires and loves" China and the Chinese, he feels it necessary to "spank" the "spoiled and capricious" "winsome and temperamental jade," which is "consistently overpraised and overrated." Excellent reading from the heady 1920s.
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Peking Man Bookshop
Nyack, NY, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since April 17, 2026
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Peking Man Bookshop has been selling subject collections of Chinese, Japanese, Manchukuo and other Asia-themed books, printed matter and ephemera to university libraries, private collectors, and the trade for the past 40 years. Clients include, Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, Leiden, Lyon, Library of Congress, Chinese University of Hong Kong. In addition to books in Chinese, Japanese and English, we have a collection of over 10,000 objects--letters, photos, documents, pamphlets and almost anything one can imagine on paper, reflecting the foreign presence--military, medical, diplomatic, educational, political, recreational and personal--in China and Japan, from the early 19th century onwards. Special collections include posters and maps, juvenalia, Manchukuo, Christianity, health and hygiene, shunga, Maoism, Mongolian sacred objects, and propaganda leaflets from the Sino-Japanese Wa (1931-45) and the Korean War.…
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