This is a collection of family photos of Quong "Chan" Wong (Panyu District, near Guangdong, China, 1888 – New Hampshire, 1956) and his wife, the New Hampshire native Alice Abbott (1872–1956). The Wongs were a rare example of a "mixed" Chinese-Caucasian marriage in the first half of the 20th century.....

First Edition. Short biographies of prominent men in the Territory of Hawaii at the start of the Depression. Japanese and Chinese men are reasonably well represented. Native Hawaiians are few and far between, even less common than women of achievement. 603 pages. Illustrated throughout with halftone photographs. First edition (of.....

Second Edition. The author spent some years in the United States as the editor of the San Francisco-based Confucian Digest. She wrote frequently on the relevance of Confucianism to overseas Chinese. Prior to the Second World War, relatively few books by Asian women were published in the US. This book.....

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.....

A trade catalog of lamps designed by Ray See under the See-Mar brand name of mid-century modern furniture, featuring 25 original 8-by-10-inch black-and-white photographs of lamps in furniture showroom settings, followed by a three-page price list ($35 to $150). These contents are housed in a three-prong paper folder with title.....