‎Porcelaine chinoise‎

‎CHINA‎

‎Tourists' Guide to China.‎

‎Shanghai: California Directory Association and the Shanghai Times 1926. A well-preserved example of this scarce guide for American visitors to China recorded in just four institutions on WorldCat. Produced during a golden age of East Asian travel this convenient compendium lists places of interest and suggested itineraries for major cities alongside dozens of advertisements for hotels curio shops and luxury goods. Foreign tourists in East Asia were not a new sight in the early 20th century but the construction of railway lines from the late 19th century caused a dramatic increase in the ease and possibilities of travel. In Hong Kong Shanghai and other large cities the number of businesses catering to the foreign tourist market ballooned with many listed in this guide. Inside travellers could find information on the Hong Kong Hotel and the famous Grand Hotel des Wagon-Lits in Peking's Legation Quarter as well advertisements for firms as varied as the Hong Kong and Kowloon Taxicab Company the outfitters Aux Chic Parisien U. B. Pilsener Beer of Shanghai Strehlneek's Chinese Art Studio and Clerici Bedoni & Co. importers of fine Italian wines. Two pages of pidgin English phrases are provided to help travellers ask for the "Sing-song house" the theatre or "Smelleum water" Eau de Cologne. The California Directory Association produced a number of tourist guides for travellers to the Far East all of which are now rare. Duodecimo. With 2 folding maps of central Hong Kong and Shanghai half-tone illustrations in text advertisements throughout. Original red card wrappers title and Chinese dragon to front cover in black. Wrappers lightly creased with small chip to lower tip of front cover internally clean and bright larger folding map with small closed tear partially tape repaired to verso. A very good copy of this vulnerable publication. unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 145415

‎China‎

‎Translation of the Chinese Bankruptcy Code of 1905‎

‎BiblioLife. Used - Good. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day.Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre.' Ex-library but has been well cared for. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. BiblioLife unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : Z1-S-026-02188 ISBN : 111342253x 9781113422538

‎China‎

‎Treaties Conventions Etc. Between China and Foreign States Vol. 1: Russia International Protocol Great Britain United States of America France Import Tariff Agreement Classic Reprint‎

‎hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 0366475266.G ISBN : 0366475266 9780366475261

‎China‎

‎Vergangenheit - Gegenwart - Zukunft‎

‎Aus dem Englischen von Ursula Bischoff. München, terra magica / Herbig, 2008. 4to. Durchgängig mit teils farbigen fotografischen Abbildungen. 271 S. Or.-Pp. mit Schutzumschlag. [6 Warenabbildungen]‎

‎Schöner Fotoband mit Beiträgen von Henri Cartier-Bresson, Olivier Pin-Fat, Mark Leong, Edward Burtynsky, Sebastiao Salgado u.a.‎

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‎China 20th Century Hong Kong‎

‎Circa 1909 Postcard China the Most Horrible Way of Executing Criminals is the "Linchi" Cutting Into Pieces. When One Murdering Their Parents and Other Capital Crimes Would be Under Penalty of Such Torture‎

‎Hong Kong: M. Sternberg 1909. Color printed postcard. Not dated; circa 1909. An unused postcard; light wear; in very good condition. . Postcard. Not Bound. Very Good. M. Sternberg paperback books‎

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‎CHINA BOXER REBELLION‎

‎A Picture of Commander-in-Chief Dong's Plan to Attack the Western Forces at Yang Village‎

‎China 1899. Colour-printed woodblock. Paper toned. Minor nicks to margin. Very good condition. A Chinese print depicting a battle during the Boxer Rebellion.<br/> <br/>During the Boxer Uprising one of the ways the Boxers spread their message throughout China was through widely circulated pictures known as nianhua or "New Years' pictures." These pictures were often used to illustrate celebrations and festivals but also current events such as military victories. Since there were many people in the countryside who were illiterate the Boxers used various examples of imagery including posters placards and flags to coordinate the mass peasant movement and communicate their message of heroism and resistance against imperial powers. This print gives a close look at the battle at Yangcun. Chinese commanders led by Dong Fuxiang and his Gansu Braves were gathered in an encampment which the Western forces planned to attack. They built a bridge in order to cross the river to the encampment but the Chinese had planted mines which caused the bridge to explode and the Western forces to retreat. The print shows the Chinese forces waving swords as well as the flags of their commanders surrounding the Western soldiers from many sides as they attempt to flee some jumping off the bridge and drowning. "On the 14th day of the 7th month the Western armies arrived at Yang village. Western officers ordered the foot soldiers to build a footbridge across the river to attack the encampment. They were hit by Commander-in-Chief Dong and General Lis secretly placed mines. Our armies attacked from different directions. The Western army was decisively defeated and half of them were killed. A picture by the Daoist of Mount Song" caption translated by the National Archives. The celebratory nature of the illustration shows that it was meant to evoke feelings of patriotism and increase morale amongst the Chinese people and not intended to depict a realistic and historically accurate military scene. The pictorial style combines elements of traditional Chinese woodblock printing with some Western details with the bright colors following the nianhua tradition of the colorful New Year pictures. The prominent red color splashed across the print draws attention to the fire and smoke blood and foreign uniforms.<br/> <br/>MIT Visualizing Cultures "The Boxer Uprising ll. unknown books‎

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‎CHINA CULTURAL REVOLUTION TEXTILES Artists unknown‎

‎Two Monumental Hook-Work Parade Banners: Chairman Mao Reviewing The Great Army of the Cultural Revolution‎

‎Urumqi XinJiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi / Xinjiang Army Divisioni 1967/8. Two extraordinary hand-crafted parade banners ca. 110" x 84" 9 feet x 7 feet one slightly smaller. Each entirely composed of hook-work with colored yarns on white muslin backing. Slight age-toning and soil; a few threads loose but no significant losses; Near Fine condition overall. Folded and stored in original velvet draw-string carrying bags as found. Both banners bear the inscription "Chairman Mao Reviewing the Great Army of the Cultural Revolution" and depict the August 1966 mass rally at Tiananmen Gate where more than 10 million Red Guards from all over China converged to express their solidarity with Mao and his second-in-command Lin Biao. Additional text on the lower banner reads "Long Live Chairman Mao for ten thousand years" and "Sailing in the ocean requires a helmsman" -- both quotes from Lin Biao. The agencies responsible for the banners are identified in lower right of each: "Cultural Revolution Committee of Xinjiang Army Division 1968" upper banner and "Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi 1967" lower. <br/><br/>The presence of Biao the figure to the right of Mao holding the Little Red Book in the top banner is of particular interest. Biao compiler of The Quotations of Chairman Mao popularly known as the "Little Red Book" and coiner of the phrase "Maoism" was probably more responsible than any other figure for creating the cult of personality around Mao particularly at the time of the Cultural Revolution. He quickly ascended Party ranks and was widely seen as Mao's obvious successor. But in 1971 Biao was exposed in the process of an apparent coup attempt the details of the event have never been made public. He died in an airplane crash attempting to leave China and from this point forward was officially condemned as a traitor by the Communist Party; any record of his achievements on behalf of the Revolution was expunged from the official record and any positive image of Biao would have been confiscated and destroyed as a matter of course -- suggesting either that these banners left China prior to 1971 or that they remained out of sight until some later date. The second possibility is plausible given whence the banners issued - both were created by Red Guard branches in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region an extremely remote province in China's northwest corner and for many years the center of a militant independence movement for Uyghur and other Turkic minorities. In any case the precise manner in which these banners left China will likely never be known; they surfaced at a New England antiques show in 2011. Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi / Xinjiang Army Divisioni unknown books‎

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‎CHINA Bridgman, Elijah Coleman ( Editor)‎

‎MAP OF THE CHOO KEANG Or Pearl River "‎

‎Board of Managers of the Baptist General Convention 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. fine. Octavo; map measures approximately 9 x 5.5 inches / 231 x 140mm; this volume is original half calf with marbled boards. NOTE: the first half of this volume was used as a scrapbook and has at least 32 engravings of scenes military men and literary person glued to the pages not affecting the map which is bound in place. <br/><br/>This map is a variant of the original map which appeared in the third volume of THE CHINESE REPOSITORY. That map measures 14 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches and has titles in Chinese ideograms and in English. THIS MAP has names in English or the English equivalent of the Chinese identifications. This map accompanies an article "MIscellany" with sub-title " Canton and the River Tigris " another section of which is "The Physical and Moral evils inflicted on the Chinese by a Christian people for the love of gain". More of the entry discusses at length the problems of opium as previously described in the Calcutta Christian Observer with supporting remarks. Rev. Bridgman was the editor of THE CHINESE REPOSITORY. He was the first American Protestant Christian missionary sent to China and America's first Sinologist. NOTE: This volume also includes missionary reports by Rev. Abilone Abel Bingham to the Ojibwa Indians of Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula. Other matter on the Ottawas. Board of Managers of the Baptist General Convention hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 20220460

‎CHINA -‎

‎17 Arch Bridge on the Island of the Summer Palace - Peking.‎

‎1927. Taken by me in August 1927. Original photograph measuring 16 by 27.5 cm; in the original plain black frame under glass with handwritten label signed by the photographer on verso. unknown‎

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‎CHINA -‎

‎Great Wall of China - about 50 miles beyond Pekin at top of Nankow Pass.‎

‎1927. Taken in 1927 Original photograph measuring 16 by 27.5 cm; in modern replica of the original plain black frame under glass. unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 2119243

‎China - Pieper, R‎

‎Unkraut Knospen und Blüten aus dem "blumigen Reiche der Mitte".‎

‎1900. Steyl Missionsdruckerei 1900. 25 : 19 cm. 729 pages with many b/w plates and illustrations and 4 coloured lithographed plates. Coloured illustrated original cloth. First edition richly illustrated. - Smal stamp on upper title-page otherwise a mint copy. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 14305AB

‎CHINA - BERRY, Charles Edmond, Yeoman 2nd Class, US Navy‎

‎Photograph album titled on front cover: In Memory of My China Cruise.‎

‎Chefoo Yantai Shanghai Singapore: 1934-37. Battleships baseball and the Bund An evocative album containing over 300 photographs both personal and from commercial studios recording the active service of the USS Parrott DD-218 on the China Station with the Asiatic Fleet - part of Destroyer Division 58 - including the Asiatic neutrality patrol in 1935 and 1936 offering a wealth of images of China Japan the Philippines and the South Pacific on the eve of the Second Sino-Japanese War 7 July 1937-9 September 1945 and the Second World War. Studio photographs include a number from the renowned commercial photographers Afong based in Yantai formerly Chefoo Joseffa and Skvirsky both established in Shanghai. It was compiled by Yeoman 2nd Class E-5 Charles Edmond Berry and opens with two fine photographs of the officers and crew of the Parrott on deck two colour-tinted photographs showing the ship at anchor and a humorous pictorial advertising photo from the Afong studio including an image of the studio exterior - clearly issued to all ships passing through Yantai - and featuring the Parrott at the centre. There follows an often joyful evocation of life onboard a US Navy destroyer prior to the Second World War with photos of the after-parties at the famed Beach Cafe in Chefoo which featured White Russian "hostesses" and tremendous amounts of alcohol as well as the morning-after breakfasts. Berry has also included panoramic photos of the Asiatic fleet in harbour at Chefoo Yantai and Hong Kong even including a humorous photographic pictorial "Bootlegger's Map of the United States." There are a series of photos showing the other US Navy Clemson-class destroyers on station with the Parrott the USS Pillsbury USS Bulmer USS John D. Ford USS Paul Jones USS Smith Thompson and USS Pope as well as various shipboard shenanigans baseball games battleships and destroyers on maneuvers gunnery practice loading of shells crew pets Liberty parties sailors carousing down the Bund in Shanghai buying souvenirs in Cuba sailing through the Panama Canal sightseeing trips to a walled city in Northern China the Great Wall of China cremation ceremonies in Bali riding rickshaws snake charmers and more. There are photos of Pan American Airways flying boats landing and unloading passengers in China many street scenes in Shanghai Hong Kong Tsing Tao Qingdao including the beheading of Chinese robbers outside the town Peking and Singapore. Of special interest are the series of photos showing Chinese Naval Ships from the Republic of China Navy in the mid-1930s including the CNS Yixian sunk by Japanese aircraft in September 1937; CNS Yisheng which had been converted into a gunboat in 1928 later sunk the CNS Shin Shey built in 1911 converted to a gunboat in 1929 sunk in 1938 and many others. There are also images of Kobe Yokohama street cars in Shanghai parks in Tokyo street scenes in Kyoto and views of the temples there. The USS Parrott DD-218 was a Clemson-class destroyer laid down by William Cramp & Sons Philadelphia and launched in 1919 commissioned in 1920 with a complement of 157 officers and enlisted men. The Parrott spent most of her career sailing with the Asiatic Fleet was awarded the Yangztze Service Medal in part for humanitarian assistance during the flooding of 1931-32 operating through the Chinese Civil War which resulted in considerable naval activity in Chinese waters collecting hydrographic data in and around Saigon then French Indochina in 1935. By 1940 she had served successively as station ship at Amoy Xiamen and Swatow Shantou China. From 7 July to 4 October she patrolled China waters based at Tsing Tao Qingdao and then made calls to other northern Chinese ports returning to Manila on 11 October. There in the early months of 1941 she was refitted with anti-mine and detection gear for anti-submarine warfare. The Parrott saw action in several theatres of war: South China Sea Battle of the Java Sea Atlantic Convoys and the bombardment of Spanish Morocco. She was accidentally rammed by the SS John Morton in Norfolk Naval Shipyard in 1944 and so severely damaged that she was decommissioned that same year and saw no further active service. Thick oblong quarto 380 x 280 x 51 mm. 319 corner-mounted original photographs ranging in size from 102 x 63 mm to 292 x 240 mm including 6 colour-tinted images and 4 panoramas 292 x 145 mm many studio prints captioned in the negative often with the photographer's stamp at lower corner a few with manuscript annotations verso coloured and patterned tissue guards intact white pink blue and jade-green. Contemporary heavily embossed black padded-calf post-binder photo album front board with devices of a Chinese Dragon a junk the Great Wall a life-preserver and anchor title in gilt as above nickel-plate posts rounded corners 52 leaves of black heavy card-stock most of the original tissue guards preserved. Together with a very appealing group of related ephemera and publications including: The Missions to Seamen The Sailors' Institute Anson Road Singapore; The Short Cut to Beauty: Hong Kong's Peak Tram; jocular Subpoena and Summons Extraordinary Royal High Court of the Raging Main Domain of Neptunus Rex two copies; U.S. Naval Despatch USS Parrott; Voyage Smoker USS Henderson en route to Honolulu T.H. to Guam M.I.; Radio Press News en route Manila P.I. to Guam M.I. 23 March 1937; Map of Shanghai dog tags and Bakelite Jesus medallion all preserved together in the original canvas sailcloth bag with stud fasteners. A few slight scuffs to binding occasional creasing to the mounting leaves very minor damage to a couple photographs overall in excellent condition. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 115861

‎China - Braun, Erich‎

‎China-Fahrt und China-Geschichten.‎

‎Königsberg, Ostpreußische Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt, 1901.‎

‎8°, X, 225 Seiten mit zahlr. Abbildungen, farbig illustr. OLeinen - Einband fleckig und best., Rücken einger. und Bindung locker sonst guter Zustand - 1901. Selten Originalausgabe. b70287‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 68530

‎China - Cheng Tso-Hsin (Zheng Zuo-Xin)‎

‎A Synopsis of the Avifauna of China‎

‎P. Parey Hamburg 1987. Ill. OU., Olwd. XVI, 1223 S. 4&deg; Ausgiebiges Lexikon zur Klassifikation der Vögel Chinas mit umfangreichem Kartenmaterial in Englisch Gebrauchsspuren,, gebundene Ausgabe, guter Zustand‎

‎Vögel 3490125185 +++++ 30 Jahre Antiquariat Christmann in Wiesbaden +++++ Wir liefern außer nach Deutschland, nur noch nach Schweiz / Holland / Belgien / Italien / GB / USA / +++ We now only deliver to Switzerland / Holland and Belgium / Italy / GB / USA +++ Keine Lieferung nach Österreich ++++‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 1874

‎China - GRÜNEBERGER Ralph und PFRENZINGER Burkhard‎

‎Wir wir die Terrakotta-Armee nach Deutschland brachten. Abenteuerliches und Kurioses aus dem Reich der Mitte. (Einbandtitel: Wir wir die Terrakotta-Armee nach Deutschland holten).‎

‎Erfurt. Terra Präsenta GbR. 2. Auflage 2004. 46 Seiten. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Farbig ill. Originalbroschur. 24x21 cm‎

‎* Dabei: Farbiges Werbeblatt für die Ausstellung in Stuttgart, eine farbige Original-Ansichtskarte u. zwei Zeitungsauschnitte. Selten!‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 65897

‎China - JACOB, C‎

‎China. Bericht über Wollenwaaren und einige andere Europäische Importe. Als Manuscript gedruckt. (aus: Handelsberichte der Kaufmännischen Begleiter der Ostasiatischen Importe‎

‎(Berlin, gedruckt in der Königlichen Geheimen Oberh-Hofbuchdruckerei (R. Decker). Ohne Jahr. (Wahrscheinlich 1. Auflage von 1861). 41 Seiten. Mit 3 kleinen Abbildungen im Text u. mehreren Listen (Verzeichnisse aus China gesandter Warenmuster). Unbedruckter Halbleinwand-Einband der Zeit. 27x22 cm‎

‎* Sehr selten ! - Canton-Markt u. Shanghae (Shanghai)-Markt. / Tuch-Qualitäten: Habith-Cloth Medium-Cloth Superfine Broad-Cloth u.a. Strumpfwaaren, Baumwollen-Waaren, Glas- und Glaswaaren; Russische Tuche; Thee; Seide; Zucker. Münzen, Maaße u. Gewichte; Zoll-Bestimmungen; Schiffahrt. Einige Worte, über die Plätze, welche ich besucht habe: Hongkong. Canton, Shanghae, Macao. Inhalts-Verzeichnis der nach Berlin gesandten Kiste. Einigen nachträgliche Notizen zu meinem Berichte über China. Verzeichnis der von Hongkong gesandten Muser u.a.‎

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‎China - KRIEGER Silke / TRAUZETTEL Rolf (Hrsg.)‎

‎Konfuzianismus und die Modernisierung Chinas.‎

‎Mainz. v. Hase & Koehler Verlag 1990. (4), 572 Seiten. Farbig ill. Originalbroschur. 21x15 cm‎

‎* Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Internationales Institut Schriftenreihe Band 20.‎

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‎China - Kuan, Yu-chien und Petra Häring-Kuan‎

‎China : Kunst- u. Reiseführer mit Landeskunde. Kuan Yu-Chien ; Petra Häring-Kuan, Kohlhammer-Kunst- und Reiseführer‎

‎Stuttgart ; Berlin ; Köln ; Mainz : Kohlhammer 1983. 757 S. : 189 Ill. (z.T. farb.), graph. Darst. u. Kt. ; 19 cm Pp., gebundene Ausgabe, leichte Gebrauchsspuren‎

‎Kohlhammer 3170077422 +++++ 30 Jahre Antiquariat Christmann in Wiesbaden +++++ Wir liefern außer nach Deutschland, nur noch nach Schweiz / Holland / Belgien / Italien / GB / USA / +++ We now only deliver to Switzerland / Holland and Belgium / Italy / GB / USA +++ Keine Lieferung nach Österreich ++++‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 2625

‎China - LILIUS Aleko E‎

‎Ich segle mit chinesischen Piraten. Ins Deutsche übertragen von Reinhard Roehle. Mit 20 Abbildungen auf 7 Tafeln nach Aufnahmen des Verfassers.‎

‎Stuttgart. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft. Dritte Auflage. (Ohne Jahr. Um 1926). 210. (2) Seiten u. sieben Bildtafeln. Dekorativ illustrierter Original-Leinwand-Einband in guter Erhaltung. (Eine Tafel lose). 20x14 cm‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 26399

‎China - Munsterberg, Oskar‎

‎Chinesische Kunstgeschichte. Band1: Vorbuddhistische Zeit. Die hohe Kunst. - Band 2: Die Baukunst. Das Kunstgwerbe.‎

‎1910. Volume 1 off 2 Esslingen Neff 1910. 26 : 18 cm. XIII pages 1 leaf 360 pages with 15 coloured plates and 321 illustrations. Original half calf gilt title on spine and front board. A large panoramic study of Chinese art profusely illustrated partly with coloured plates. - Spine damaged at the top. unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 16564AB

‎China - PELKA Otto‎

‎Ostasiatische Reisebilder im Kunstgewerbe des 18. Jahrhunderts. Mit 1224 Abbildungen auf 87 Tafeln in Lichtdruck.‎

‎Leipzig. Verlag Karl W. Hiersemann. 1924. 58, (1) Textseiten u. 87 Tafeln. Dekorativ ill. u. zweifarbiger Original-Leinwand-Einband. (Einband etwas verblasst u. gering berieben). 32x25 cm‎

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‎China - RICHTER J. W. Otto‎

‎Die preußische Expedition in China (1861). Nach dem großen amtlichen Werk dargestellt von Prof. Dr. J. W. Otto Richter in Godesberg a. Rh. Vollbild von R. Scholz. Buchschmuck von R. Starcke.‎

‎Altenburg. Stephan Geibel Verlag. 1908. 208, (1) Seiten. Mit einer farbigen Tafel. Dekorativ geprägter Original-Leinand-Einband. (Einband an den Kanten etwas berieben. Tafelrückseite mit handschriftlichen Einträgen versehen). 18x13 cm‎

‎Das erste für den deutschen Welthandel bahnbrechende Unternehmen unserer Marine (1859-1862). Deutsche Seebücherei Band 18-20.‎

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‎China - Rosthorn, Arthur‎

‎Geschichte Chinas.‎

‎Stuttgart-Gotha, Perthes, 1923. 8°. 226 S., (= Weltgeschichte in gemeinverständlicher Darstellung, Bd. 10). Halbleinenband der Zeit. Vorsatz im Falz angebrochen, insgesamt wohlerhalten.‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 30637

‎CHINA - SNOW, Edgar‎

‎Unpublished typed letter signed from Lawrence Salisbury to Ida Pruitt concerning the divorce of the famous journalists Edgar Snow and Helen Foster Snow Nym Wales.‎

‎Higganum Connecticut: 30 November 1948. I hope you won't reply to this" - a sinological circle rent asunder A window onto the collapse of the marriage of Edgar and Helen Snow the 20th century's most important bridges between China and the Western world. As shown in this terse exchange between two of their friends the split sowed distrust and trapped some of the leading lights of American sinology in a quagmire of pettiness. Enjoying privileged access to top Chinese political and social figures Edgar 1905-1972 and Helen Foster Snow 1907-1997 also known as Nym Wales and "Peg" shaped Western views of China and its people to an extent unmatched by any other journalist or academic. Edgar Snow's career was bookended by Red Star Over China 1927 the work that introduced Mao Zedong to the English-speaking world and the historic 1972 Nixon visit to Beijing for which he laid important groundwork in the 1960s. Helen Snow reporting and writing from China in the 1930s and 1940s opened American eyes to the country's deteriorating political and refugee situations earning two nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. With Rewi Alley the Snows co-founded the Indusco "Gung Ho" co-operative movement to promote economic recovery and they are lionized in China today. Their 1932 marriage ended acrimoniously in the late 1940s following their permanent return to the US and divided their sinological circle. This letter written by the State Department China expert Lawrence Salisbury 1891-1976 was sent in reply to Helen Snow's close friend the medical missionary Ida Pruitt 1888-1985 at the New York headquarters of Indusco. There are no opening niceties. "Your letter just came. You and I must not talk about the Snows to each other. I have known them for fifteen years. Peg is a liar". There follows several paragraphs listing Helen Foster Snow's character faults "unreasonable" "unprincipled" and "willing to blacken people" and her attempts to take advantage of Edgar Snow. "On Ed's side I find no lies. I find that he has been hitched to a selfish self-seeking pathological woman who is set to destroy him financially and/or in reputation. When I told him that Peg was responsible for the arrival at my farm in early this month of two men to serve a writ to attach most unreasonably his car and his river property he would not at first believe me". A pencilled note in the margin states that "I can give many underlined other instances". Salisbury also accuses Helen of greed and money-grabbing and sneers at her "feminist theories" and her inability to produce commercially viable books. In the final third of the letter he flatly rejects Pruitt's suggestion that he intervene to soften Edgar Snow's mind ending with a word of advice: "I hate to see you waste your time and emotional strength in so undeserving a cause. I hope you won't reply to this." Provenance: by descent through the Pruitt family; recently in a private collection in Hong Kong. Single sheet 275 x 215 mm text one side only. With mailing envelope typed address "Miss Ida Pruitt Indusco Inc. 425 Fourth Avenue New York 16 N.Y.". Envelope split along 3 edges otherwise fine. unknown‎

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‎CHINA - VAN LOON, (JAN).‎

‎Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio. Auctore Joh. van Loon.‎

‎Amsterdam Gerardi Valk et Petri Schenk n.d. around 1694. 465 x 52 cm. Engraved map China in orig. handcolouring. Showing all the Chinese provinces Korea and the island of Formosa in the south. Ships in the sea and cartouche with Chinese costumes. A small rupture in a border due to etching from the colour used no loss. Left margin with a small tear no loss. Right very broad margin with a tear not reaching the image. <br/><br/><em>This fine decorative map was first printed in "Atlas Novus" by J. Janssonius in 1658. This issue bearing the names of Valk and Schenck was published around 1694. </em> unknown‎

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