Rare Books on China & East Asia

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The Library has been digitizing its rare books located in the Special Collections with the purpose to promote resource sharing via online access of its full-text. To give users a glimpse of the Chinese and East Asian cultures and histories in western eyes between 18th and early 20th century, this collection contains the rare books on China and East Asia which were mainly published in western countries between 1704 and 1922. Users can also browse different topics by its subcollection including Chinese Literature, Missionary, Religions in China, Social Life and Customs in China, Statistics of China Commerce, Travel in China, etc.

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A Tibetan-English dictionary : with Sanskrit synonyms. Part 2
Title:
A Tibetan-English dictionary : with Sanskrit synonyms. Part 2
Creator:
Das, Sarat Chandra, 1849-1917
Date:
1902
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Chinese Language
A Tibetan-English dictionary : with Sanskrit synonyms. Part 1
Title:
A Tibetan-English dictionary : with Sanskrit synonyms. Part 1
Creator:
Das, Sarat Chandra, 1849-1917
Date:
1902
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Chinese Language
An historical, geographical and philosophical view of the Chinese empire : comprehending a description of the fifteen provinces of China ... . Volume 2
Title:
An historical, geographical and philosophical view of the Chinese empire : comprehending a description of the fifteen provinces of China ... . Volume 2
Alternative Title:
View of the Chinese empire
Creator:
Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829
Date:
Approximately 1796
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Travel in China
An historical, geographical and philosophical view of the Chinese empire : comprehending a description of the fifteen provinces of China ... . Volume 1
Title:
An historical, geographical and philosophical view of the Chinese empire : comprehending a description of the fifteen provinces of China ... . Volume 1
Alternative Title:
View of the Chinese empire
Creator:
Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829
Date:
Approximately 1796
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Travel in China
China and the allies. Volume 2
Title:
China and the allies. Volume 2
Creator:
Landor, Arnold Henry Savage, 1865-1924
Date:
1901
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Travel in China
Subcollection:
History of China
China and the allies. Volume 1
Title:
China and the allies. Volume 1
Creator:
Landor, Arnold Henry Savage, 1865-1924
Date:
1901
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Travel in China
Subcollection:
History of China
The Shi King : the old "poetry classic" of the Chinese
Title:
The Shi King : the old "poetry classic" of the Chinese
Alternative Title:
Shi jing
Alternative Title:
Sir John Lubbock's hundred boks ; 11
Creator:
Jennings, William, 1847-1927
Date:
1891
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Chinese Literature
Chinese junks : a book of drawings in black & white
Title:
Chinese junks : a book of drawings in black & white
Creator:
Donnelly, Ivon A.
Date:
[1920]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
Port catalogues of the Chinese customs' collection at the Austro-Hungarian universal exhibition, Vienna, 1873 : to illustrate the international exchange of products
Title:
Port catalogues of the Chinese customs' collection at the Austro-Hungarian universal exhibition, Vienna, 1873 : to illustrate the international exchange of products
Alternative Title:
Imperial maritime customs. III, Miscellaneous series ; no. 3
Creator:
China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Date:
1873
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
On a Chinese screen
Title:
On a Chinese screen
Creator:
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965
Date:
c1922
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Travel in China
Studies in the Chinese drama
Title:
Studies in the Chinese drama
Creator:
Buss, Kate
Date:
1922
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Social Life and Customs in China
Chinese novels
Title:
Chinese novels
Creator:
Davis, John Francis, Sir, 1795-1890
Date:
1822
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Chinese Literature
Chinese stories
Title:
Chinese stories
Creator:
Douglas, Robert K. (Robert Kennaway), Sir, 1838-1913
Date:
1893
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Chinese Literature
Essay on the language of the southern Chins and its affinities
Title:
Essay on the language of the southern Chins and its affinities
Creator:
Houghton, Bernard
Date:
1892
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Chinese Language
A lute of jade : being selections from the classical poets of China
Title:
A lute of jade : being selections from the classical poets of China
Alternative Title:
Wisdom of the East
Creator:
Cranmer-Byng, L. (Launcelot), 1872-1945
Date:
1918?
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Chinese Literature
The wisdom of the Chinese : their philosophy in sayings and proverbs
Title:
The wisdom of the Chinese : their philosophy in sayings and proverbs
Creator:
Brown, Brian, 1881-
Date:
c1920
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Chinese Language
A Revelation of the Chinese revolution : a retrospect and forecast
Title:
A Revelation of the Chinese revolution : a retrospect and forecast
Creator:
Mullowney, John J. (John James), 1878-1953
Date:
c1914
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
Changing China
Title:
Changing China
Creator:
Gascoyne-Cecil, William, 1863-1936
Date:
1912
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Missionary
Subcollection:
Social Life and Customs in China
The Chinese revolution
Title:
The Chinese revolution
Creator:
Brown, Arthur Judson, 1856-1963
Date:
c1912
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
Memoirs of Li Hung Chang
Title:
Memoirs of Li Hung Chang
Creator:
Li, Hongzhang, 1823-1901
Date:
1913
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
Li Hung-Chang
Title:
Li Hung-Chang
Creator:
Bland, J. O. P. (John Otway Percy), 1863-1945
Date:
1917
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
China's only hope : an appeal
Title:
China's only hope : an appeal
Alternative Title:
Quan xue pian
Creator:
Zhang, Zhidong, 1837-1909
Date:
1900
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
Personal narrative of occurrences during Lord Elgin's second embassy to China in 1860
Title:
Personal narrative of occurrences during Lord Elgin's second embassy to China in 1860
Alternative Title:
Earl of Elgin's second embassy to China
Alternative Title:
Narrative of events in China
Alternative Title:
Personal narrative of events in China in 1860
Creator:
Loch, Henry Brougham, 1827-1900
Date:
1900
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
History of the insurrection in China : with notices of the Christianity, creed, and proclamations of the insurgents
Title:
History of the insurrection in China : with notices of the Christianity, creed, and proclamations of the insurgents
Alternative Title:
Insurrection en Chine
Creator:
Callery, J. -M. (Joseph-Marie), 1810-1862
Date:
1853
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
Six months with the Chinese expedition; or, Leave from a soldier's note-book
Title:
Six months with the Chinese expedition; or, Leave from a soldier's note-book
Alternative Title:
Leave from a soldier's note-book
Creator:
Jocelyn, Robert Jocelyn, Viscount, 1687 or 1688-1756
Date:
[1840]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
An introduction to Mandarin
Title:
An introduction to Mandarin
Creator:
Whitewright, J. S. (John Sutherland), 1858?-1926
Date:
1918
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Chinese Language
Old Chinese porcelain
Title:
Old Chinese porcelain
Alternative Title:
Masterpieces of handicraft ; v2
Alternative Title:
Masterpieces of handicraft. First series, Old china
Creator:
Mew, Egan
Date:
[1909]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Chinese Art
An introduction to the history of Chinese pictorial art
Title:
An introduction to the history of Chinese pictorial art
Creator:
Giles, Herbert Allen, 1845-1935
Date:
1918
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Chinese Art
A Mandarin primer
Title:
A Mandarin primer
Alternative Title:
英華合璧
Creator:
Baller, F. W. (Frederick William), 1852-1922
Date:
1911
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Chinese Language
Japan in art and industry : with a glance at Japanese manners and customs
Title:
Japan in art and industry : with a glance at Japanese manners and customs
Creator:
Régamey, Félix, 1844-1907
Date:
c1892
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of the Far East
Lhasa and its mysteries, with a record of the expedition of 1903-1904
Title:
Lhasa and its mysteries, with a record of the expedition of 1903-1904
Creator:
Waddell, L. A. (Laurence Austine), 1854-1938
Date:
1905
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Religions in China
Subcollection:
Travel in China
Returns of trade at the port of Amoy, for the year 1864
Title:
Returns of trade at the port of Amoy, for the year 1864
Alternative Title:
Trade returns in Amoy
Creator:
China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Date:
[1864?]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
Returns of trade at the port of Shanghai, for the year 1864
Title:
Returns of trade at the port of Shanghai, for the year 1864
Alternative Title:
Trade returns in Shanghai
Creator:
A. H. De Carvalho
Date:
[1864?]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
Returns of trade at the port of Ningpo, for the year 1864
Title:
Returns of trade at the port of Ningpo, for the year 1864
Alternative Title:
Trade returns in Ningpo
Creator:
A. H. De Carvalho
Date:
[1864?]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
Returns of trade at the port of Foochow, for the year 1864
Title:
Returns of trade at the port of Foochow, for the year 1864
Alternative Title:
Trade returns in Foochow
Date:
[1864?]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
Returns of trade at the port of Kiukiang, for the year 1864
Title:
Returns of trade at the port of Kiukiang, for the year 1864
Alternative Title:
Trade returns in Kiukiang
Creator:
A. H. De Carvalho
Date:
[1864?]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
Returns of trade at the port of Hankow, for the year 1864
Title:
Returns of trade at the port of Hankow, for the year 1864
Alternative Title:
Trade returns in Hankow
Creator:
A. H. De Carvalho
Date:
[1864?]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
Returns of trade at the port of Chinkiang, for the year 1864
Title:
Returns of trade at the port of Chinkiang, for the year 1864
Alternative Title:
Trade returns in Chinkiang
Creator:
A. H. De Carvalho
Date:
[1864?]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
Statistics of trade at the port of Shanghai, for the period 1863-1872
Title:
Statistics of trade at the port of Shanghai, for the period 1863-1872
Alternative Title:
Trade statistics in Shanghai
Creator:
China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Date:
1873
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
Statistics of trade at the port of Kiukiang, for the period 1863-1872
Title:
Statistics of trade at the port of Kiukiang, for the period 1863-1872
Alternative Title:
Trade statistics in Kiukang
Creator:
China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Date:
1873
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
Statistics of trade at the port of Chinkiang, for the period 1863-1872
Title:
Statistics of trade at the port of Chinkiang, for the period 1863-1872
Alternative Title:
Trade statistics in Chinkiang
Creator:
China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Date:
1873
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
Statistics of trade at the port of Foochow, for the period 1863-1872
Title:
Statistics of trade at the port of Foochow, for the period 1863-1872
Alternative Title:
Trade statistics in Foochow
Creator:
China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Date:
1873
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
Trade statistics of the treaty ports, for the period 1863-1872
Title:
Trade statistics of the treaty ports, for the period 1863-1872
Creator:
China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Date:
1873
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
Chinese customs
Title:
Chinese customs
Creator:
Parker, Edward Harper, 1849-1926
Date:
1899
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Social Life and Customs in China
Peeps into China; or, the missionary's children
Title:
Peeps into China; or, the missionary's children
Alternative Title:
Missionary's children
Creator:
Phillips, E. C. (Edith Caroline)
Date:
[1882?]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Social Life and Customs in China
Subcollection:
Missionary
Glimpses of China and Chinese homes
Title:
Glimpses of China and Chinese homes
Creator:
Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925
Date:
1902
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Social Life and Customs in China
Subcollection:
Travel in China
The willow pattern
Title:
The willow pattern
Creator:
Friend, Hilderic, 1852-1940
Date:
[1883]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Social Life and Customs in China
China and its people : a book for young readers
Title:
China and its people : a book for young readers
Creator:
Collins, H. (Helen), Mrs.
Date:
[1862?]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Missionary
Subcollection:
Social Life and Customs in China
China's past & future
Title:
China's past & future
Creator:
Holcombe, Chester, 1844-1912
Date:
[1904]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
These from the land of Sinim : essays on the Chinese question
Title:
These from the land of Sinim : essays on the Chinese question
Creator:
Hart, Robert, Sir, 1835-1911
Date:
1901
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
Recent events and present policies in China
Title:
Recent events and present policies in China
Creator:
Bland, J. O. P. (John Otway Percy), 1863-1945
Date:
1912
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
Leaves from my Chinese scrapbook
Title:
Leaves from my Chinese scrapbook
Creator:
Balfour, Frederic Henry
Date:
1887
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
A little history of China ; and, A Chinese story
Title:
A little history of China ; and, A Chinese story
Alternative Title:
Chinese story
Creator:
Brebner, Alexander
Date:
1895
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
China's open door : a sketch of Chinese life and history
Title:
China's open door : a sketch of Chinese life and history
Creator:
Wildman, Rounsevelle, 1864-1901
Date:
c1900
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
General regulations and local rules for the Port of Canton
Title:
General regulations and local rules for the Port of Canton
Alternative Title:
廣州口引水總章並分章
Creator:
Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs
Date:
1918
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Social Life and Customs in China
China expedition
Title:
China expedition
Creator:
Hogg, James
Date:
1854
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
Manufacture , produce, and bullion
Title:
Manufacture , produce, and bullion
Creator:
Pease, Joseph
Date:
1884
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
Our Chinese chances through Europe's war
Title:
Our Chinese chances through Europe's war
Creator:
Linebarger, Paul Myron, 1871-1939
Date:
1915
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Social Life and Customs in China
With the Russians in Mongolia
Title:
With the Russians in Mongolia
Creator:
Perry-Ayscough, Henry George Charles
Date:
[1914]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of the Far East
Statistics of trade at the port of Ningpo, for the period 1863-1872
Title:
Statistics of trade at the port of Ningpo, for the period 1863-1872
Creator:
China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Date:
1873
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
A short history of China : an account for the general reader of an ancient empire and people
Title:
A short history of China : an account for the general reader of an ancient empire and people
Creator:
Boulger, Demetrius Charles, 1853-1928
Date:
1900
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
My lady of the Chinese courtyard
Title:
My lady of the Chinese courtyard
Creator:
Cooper, Elizabeth, 1877-1945
Date:
c1914
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Social Life and Customs in China
Chinese characteristics
Title:
Chinese characteristics
Creator:
Smith, Arthur H., 1845-1932
Date:
1890
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Social Life and Customs in China
Life and sport in China
Title:
Life and sport in China
Creator:
Ready, Oliver George, 1864-1940
Date:
1903
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Social Life and Customs in China
In the land of the blue gown
Title:
In the land of the blue gown
Creator:
Little, Archibald, Mrs., 1845-1926
Date:
1912
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Social Life and Customs in China
Subcollection:
Travel in China
Peking dust
Title:
Peking dust
Creator:
La Motte, Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold), 1873-1961
Date:
c1919
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
John Chinaman at home : sketches of men, manners and things in China
Title:
John Chinaman at home : sketches of men, manners and things in China
Alternative Title:
Sketches of men, manners and things in China
Creator:
Hardy, E. J. (Edward John), 1849-1920
Date:
1905
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Social Life and Customs in China
China and the Chinese
Title:
China and the Chinese
Creator:
Giles, Herbert Allen, 1845-1935
Date:
1902
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Chinese Language
Across Mongolian plains : a naturalist's account of China's "great northwest"
Title:
Across Mongolian plains : a naturalist's account of China's "great northwest"
Creator:
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960
Date:
1921
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Travel in China
China at the conference : a report
Title:
China at the conference : a report
Creator:
Willoughby, Westel Woodbury, 1867-1945
Date:
1922
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
The opium monopoly
Title:
The opium monopoly
Creator:
La Motte, Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold), 1873-1961
Date:
1920
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
Statistics of trade at the port of Amoy, for the period 1863-1872
Title:
Statistics of trade at the port of Amoy, for the period 1863-1872
Alternative Title:
Statistics of trade at the port of Xiamen, for the period 1863-1872
Creator:
China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Date:
1873
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
My Chinese days
Title:
My Chinese days
Creator:
Alsop, Gulielma Fell, 1881-1978
Date:
1918
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Missionary
Twelve years in China : the people, the rebels, and the mandarins
Title:
Twelve years in China : the people, the rebels, and the mandarins
Alternative Title:
12 years in China : the people, the rebels, and the mandarins
Creator:
Scarth, John
Date:
1860
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Travel in China
A year in China, 1899-1900
Title:
A year in China, 1899-1900
Creator:
Mersey, Charles Clive Bigham, Viscount, 1872-1956
Date:
1901
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Travel in China
China
Title:
China
Creator:
Douglas, Robert K. (Robert Kennaway), Sir, 1838-1913
Date:
1887
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Travel in China
The French in Tonkin and South China
Title:
The French in Tonkin and South China
Creator:
Cunningham, Alfred, 1870-1918
Date:
[1902]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Travel in China
The Shantung case at the conference
Title:
The Shantung case at the conference
Creator:
Millard, Thomas Franklin Fairfax
Date:
1921
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
Statistics of trade at the port of Canton, for the period 1863-1872
Title:
Statistics of trade at the port of Canton, for the period 1863-1872
Creator:
China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Date:
1873
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Statistics of China Commerce
The Chinese language and how to learn it : a manual for beginners
Title:
The Chinese language and how to learn it : a manual for beginners
Creator:
Hillier, Walter, Sir
Date:
1913
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Chinese Language
Lion and dragon in northern China
Title:
Lion and dragon in northern China
Creator:
Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir, 1874-1938
Date:
1910
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Travel in China