China and Taiwan - Four Books

Norma Diamond

K'un Shen
A Taiwan Village
Holt Rinehart 1969 pb Part of "Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology" series. ISBN: 0030809606. Content: This is the first study in this series of a Chinese community. 111 pages gc.This is a fishing village on the island of Taiwan. The people do not have strong national identification.
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Han Suyin

The Crippled Tree
China Biography,History, Autobiography
Jonathan Cape 1968 reprint hb dj gc.447pp Her life and the Sino-French War, the 1911 Revolution, the emergence of Chiang Kai-Shek and more bw photos
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Inge Morath, Arthur Miller

Chinese Encounters
Secker & Warburg. 1979 1st Ed hb dj gc many bw photos. 256 pages ex lib but gc. Dark-blue cloth-bound boards with silver type to spine, design to front, 12 colour plates (most double-spreads), over 100 b/w photos. Acclaimed husband & wife team (writer & photographer) provide account of China after death of Mao, and Gang of Four. Remarkably candid look at problems of Chinese artistic expression.
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Keith Buchanan

The Transformation of the Chinese Earth
Perspectives of Modern China
Aspects of the Evaluation of the Chinese Earth from Earliest Times to Mao Tse-Tung.
G.Bell London 1970 1st Ed.8vo - over 7" - 9" tall Hard Cover Very Good 071351549X VG/VG-, grey cloth gilt & dec, xviii + 336pp, many b&w photos, maps, tables, bibliog, index. Academic study of the economic geography of China; standard work.The study of modern China was completed during the twentieth anniversary year of the People's Republic. It embodies results of long research from extensive travel between 1958 and 1966. To the task of the geographer Professor Buchanan has added an interpretation of the manner in which the chinese view their problems and an evaluation of the relevance of China's development techniques to the underdeveloped regions of the world. 255 x 165mm., ppxvii, 336, b/w plates, index,
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