HO, PING-TI - The Ladder of Success in Imperial China - Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911

New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0231025483. 385 pages. Index. Bibliography. Footnotes. Glossary. Thirty-eight tables. "Twenty-seven detailed case histories provide vivid examples of upward, downward, and arrested mobility." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper, otherwise book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Ladder of Success in Imperial China - Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911. Good in Fair dust jacket .

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