Author: Kiuner, N. (Nikolai Vasilevich)
Title: Ocherki Noveishei Politicheskoi Istorii Kitaia (Studies of the Latest Political History of China)
Description: Vladivostok, Knizhnoe Delo, 1927. First Edition. First edition, 1 of 3000 copies; 9 1/4 x 6; pp. [1], VI-XXII, [3], 2-404; beige wraps, printed and decorated in red, black, and gilt; illustrated with photographs and tables; a bit of wear and small nicks to edges of wraps; rebacked, with part of the original spine cover laid on; several paragraphs underlined in pencil; in about very good condition. Nikolai Kiuner (1877 - 1955) was a Russian historian, educator, orientalist, author, ethnographer, lexicographer, and polyglot - said to have mastered sixteen languages. His current work set the history of China at the end of the 19th- and the beginning of the 20th centuries, covering a thirty-year-period from the last years of the Chinese Empire. Very good .

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