![Item No: #362880 Portrait of Medical Student Hü King Eng [Cabinet Card]....](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362880.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688490273)
A full standing portrait of the second Chinese woman to study medicine in the United States; she went on to be one of the first Western trained physicians in China. This albumen print on a thin photographer's mount dates from Hü King Eng's four years as an undergraduate at Ohio.....
Price: $1,500
First Edition. A novelization of the life of the Chinese emperor Guangxu (Kwang Hsu) by a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Dowager Cixi. Der Ling was three-quarters Chinese and one-quarter American. Her father was a Chinese diplomat and her maternal grandfather was a a Boston merchant. She learned English and French.....
Price: $250
First Edition. An example of kokumin gaiko, or people's diplomacy, in support of the Japanese Army's occupation of China. Dodo was the editor of Rafu Shimpo, the largest Japanese daily in Los Angeles, and according to newspaper accounts at the time, a frequent lecturer in support of Japan's activities in.....
Price: $400
First Edition. Yang's acclaimed two-volume graphic novel set during the Boxer rebellion in China. Each book follows a different character. In Boxer, a boy grows up to be a leader in the rebellion. In Saint, a girl converts to Catholicism and dreams of Joan of Arc. The two stories intersect.....
Price: $125
First Edition. Yang's acclaimed two-volume graphic novel set during the Boxer rebellion in China. Each book follows a different character. In Boxer, a boy grows up to be a leader in the rebellion. In Saint, a girl converts to Catholicism and dreams of Joan of Arc. The two stories intersect.....
Price: $150
First Edition. The first translation and study in a Western language of the poetry of Fan Chengda, one of the most famous Chinese poets of the twelfth century. 199 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, with minor wear along the top edge.
Price: $40
First Edition. The lecture given by Buck on accepting the Nobel Prize for literature. She was the third American (after Sinclair Lewis and Eugene O'Neill) and fourth woman (after Selma Lagerof, Grazia Deledda, and Sigrid Undset) to win the prize. Buck, whose best-known novel, The Good Earth, is set in China.....
Price: $750
First Edition. The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, claiming to speak for the business community of the West Coast, argues that the success of Chinese merchants in California and the growing trade with China requires armed transport across the Pacific Ocean to ensure the safe passage of gold and silver.....
Price: $150
443 pages. Osiris, volume 13. Fine.
Price: $20
