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Late Qing China & Colonial PhilippinesABAA

China on the Eve of Revolution: Late Qing Photograph Archive of Public Execution Military Authority Foreign Presence Imperial Peking and the Colonial Philippines 32 Photographs circa 1910

1910réf. 235901910. Late Qing China and Philippines photo archive depicting military authority public punishment foreign presence and imperial architecture circa 1910 in the years immediately before the Xinhai Revolution ended dynastic rule in China. The Chinese photographs show Beijing monuments urban crowds soldiers execution spectators and foreign personnel at a moment when Qing authority remained visible but unstable. The group places tourist views of imperial architecture beside scenes of coercion and military order linking travel photography to the political crisis of the late Qing state. Photo archive of 32 silver gelatin photographs each 2.5 x 4.25 inches cornered in on 11 x 13.5 inch brown album leaves mainly China with several Philippines views circa 1910. The images show Beijing landmarks including the Temple of Heaven palace buildings imperial gates stone lions carved walls ceremonial terraces walled compounds and garden architecture. Several views show Chinese crowds gathered near military or judicial scenes including a public execution aftermath with a severed head displayed from a pole before laughing onlookers and children with a placard stating the events transpired. Other photographs show Chinese soldiers and civilians in open grounds foreign military or naval personnel a group of men in white naval style uniforms seated in a circle Chinese junks harbor traffic street scenes rickshaws and colonial buildings. The Philippines photographs appear to include Manila street and harbor views a woman and girl a domed theater or civic building tropical shoreline and American colonial urban scenes. China in 1910 stood between the punitive settlement that followed the Boxer Rebellion and the republican revolution that began in Wuchang in October 1911. Foreign troops remained in North China under treaty rights imperial and provincial authorities tried to preserve order through policing army reform and public punishment and revolutionary societies used anti Manchu and anti foreign resentment to attack the legitimacy of Qing rule. The execution photographs show law as spectacle with the punished body displayed before civilians and soldiers rather than hidden within prison administration. The Beijing views record the ceremonial architecture of the dynasty at the same time that its political power was nearing collapse while the Philippines views place China within a wider American and European imperial geography of ports garrisons and colonial travel. Light surface wear toning and occasional fading; mounted with photo corners on album leaves. Overall very good condition. A concentrated visual record of military order public punishment foreign presence and imperial space in East Asia immediately before the fall of the Qing dynasty. unknown books

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China magazineABAA

MAGAZINE: Knowledge-Special Issue for 3 Years Anniversary æ‚å¿—ã€ŠçŸ¥è¯†ã€‹çºªå¿µåˆ›åˆŠä¸‰å‘¨å¹´çºªå¿µå·

1949réf. AG20030MAGAZINE: Knowledge-Special Issue for 3 Years Anniversary æ‚å¿—ã€ŠçŸ¥è¯†ã€‹çºªå¿µåˆ›åˆŠä¸‰å‘¨å¹´çºªå¿µå· Shenyang: Published by Northeast Bookstore May 1 1949 special issue for the 3-year anniversary of Knowledge magazine. Volume 11 Issue 2. 8vo 37pp. Printed pictorial wrappers Spine stapled with 4 restapling holes on right minor tears and stained to cover shelf worn overall good condition. Shenyang Northeast Bookstore is the press was led by China Communist Party Propaganda Department. Chairman Mao wrote an inscription of quotation from Confucius "To learn something and timely practice it" for the magazine on the title page. The cover has a picture: Move Forward Under Chairman Mao's Flag depicting a portrait of Mao and the Red Army with army's flag as background troops are moving forward below handwriting on the bottom: Present to Members of All-China Youth Federation music for 'Protect Peace of the World' on the back cover. 1949年5月1æ—¥ï¼ŒçŸ¥è¯†æ‚å¿—ç¤¾Â·ä¸œåŒ—ä¹¦åº—å‘è¡Œï¼Œä½œä¸ºåˆ›åˆŠä¸‰å‘¨å¹´çºªå¿µå·ã€‚ç¬¬åä¸€å·ç¬¬äºŒæœŸï¼Œå…±37é¡µã€‚å°çš®æœ‰è½»å¾®æ’•è£‚å’Œæ±¡æ¸ï¼Œå°ºå¯¸8voï¼Œå“ç›¸è¾ƒå¥½ã€‚ æ²ˆé˜³ä¸œåŒ—ä¹¦åº—å‡ºç‰ˆç¤¾æ˜¯ä¸å…±ä¸å¤®ä¸œåŒ—å±€å®£ä¼ éƒ¨é¢†å¯¼çš„å‘è¡Œæœºæž„ï¼Œæ¯›ä¸»å¸å¼•ç”¨äº†å”åçš„è®ºè¯ä¸çš„"学而时习之"ä¸ºæœ¬ä¹¦é¢˜è¯ã€‚æ‚å¿—å°é¢ä¸ºå›¾ç‰‡"åœ¨æ¯›æ³½ä¸œçš„æ——å¸œä¸‹å‰è¿›"ï¼Œä¸‹é¢æœ‰æ‰‹å†™å—ä½“ï¼šèµ å…¨å›½é’ä»£å¤§ä¼šä»£è¡¨ã€‚ Northeast Bookstore paperback books

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[Missionaries]. [China]ABAA

Mimeographed Letter Signed from an American Missionary in China Regarding Continued Contributions Despite the Chinese Civil War and Forwarding a Lucky-Charm Woodblock Print

1928réf. 6054Shanghai China: February 24 1928. Very good. 1p. plus colored woodblock print 21.5 x 12.5 inches. With original envelope. Old folds minor wear. Mimeographed fundraising letter sent by Reverend H.G.C. Hallock to a supporter in Vermont. Henry Galloway Comingo Hallock 1870-1951 was a West Virginia native who studied at Princeton Theological Seminary. He moved to China as a Presbyterian missionary and teacher in 1905 where he taught Sunday School served as a pastor and also taught theology at St. John's University in Shanghai. He survived war disease famine and a Japanese prison during World War II; he died in China in 1951. One thing that set Hallock apart was his inclusion of local Chinese woodblock prints with his fundraising letters which today have become desirable collectibles. Such a print is present here showing the God of War Wu-ti. His letter opens discussing the print: "Wars in China suggest sending you 'Wu-ti' the Chinese god-of-war. . The general idea about Wu-ti is that he delights in war. That is not the Chinese idea of him. . Officials and scholars worship him as the ideal of loyalty soldiers do it to make them brave and protect them in battle and the people worship him to protect them from war's horrors. He's called 'Peace Bringer Protector Great God of Loyalty.' But he makes not peace nor protects nor makes loyal so is a failure. He's also called 'Warrior Prince.' As to that name he's a great success! There are lots of wars." He goes on to discuss the many conflicts which are like "a real Chinese puzzle" noting that it's not the people of China who are at issue or fault. "Recently I have received letters from America suggesting that since 'China has altogether gone to the bad and the Chinese are absolutely impossible' and since our 'work among them has gone for nothing' then I should 'quit and come home.' I hope you don't think thus. The masses of Chinese tho reminding me of 'dumb driven cattle' are still friendly as ever. The war-lords the Nationalists the Reds the bandits wars and evil propaganda are disturbing elements; but they are NOT China nor the Chinese. . The troubles in China have come from a fiercely aggressive and 'noisy minority' who make the great mass of Chinese suffer untold hardships." He goes on to defend the Christian work being done in China as of great benefit to the people. February 24 unknown books

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis850,00 $US≈ 759,40 €

China Photo Album; The Qing dynasty collapseABAA

the End of Imperial China: Travel Photograph Archive of Beijing and North China in the Opening Years of the Chinese Republic 40 Photographs circa 1912-1918

1910réf. 235921910. Peking and North China travel photo archive circa 1912 to 1918 documenting the former imperial capital during the turbulent opening years of the Republic of China when centuries of Qing imperial rule had only recently ended and Beijing remained the political and cultural heart of northern China. The photographs record a landscape where imperial monuments Buddhist temples ancient roads and rural villages continued to define daily life despite the collapse of the dynasty in 1912. Produced during the era that followed the Xinhai Revolution and preceded the consolidation of the warlord period the archive preserves a city and surrounding countryside poised between imperial tradition and an uncertain republican future. Photo archive of 40 original silver gelatin photographs ranging from approximately 2 × 3 inches to 4 × 6 inches Peking Beijing and North China circa 1912 to 1918. The photographs depict the Temple of Heaven the Summer Palace Pei Hai Beihai Park the Forbidden City and its surrounding walls the White Dagoba at Miaoying Temple monumental ceremonial gateways pagodas temple courtyards the Great Wall north of Peking the Western Hills stone bridges lakes canals and mountain landscapes. Other photographs show Buddhist monks walking through temple precincts camel caravans crossing rocky valleys mule carts on country roads grazing livestock village architecture and rural agricultural scenes beyond the capital. Contemporary manuscript captions identify numerous locations including "The Great Wall of China" "Temple of Heaven Peking" "Pei Hai Grounds Peking" "Bridge over stream between Jade Fountain & Summer Palace" "The 3rd Green Golf at Paomachang Peking" "Western Hills near Peking" "Camel Drive at the Great Wall Nankow Pass north of Peking" and "Temple in the Western Hills near Peking Golden Roof." One inscription notes that several views "were taken by the younger Miss Dunne last summer" preserving a small but meaningful record of the archive's contemporary provenance. This photo archive belong to one of the most consequential transitions in modern Chinese history. The Qing dynasty collapsed in 1912 after more than two and a half centuries of rule ending the imperial system that had governed China since 221 BCE. Although the Republic of China replaced the monarchy Beijing remained filled with imperial architecture ceremonial spaces and religious institutions whose daily rhythms changed only gradually. The Forbidden City was still occupied by the abdicated emperor Puyi until 1924 Buddhist monasteries continued to function throughout the Western Hills and camel caravans remained an essential means of transporting goods across northern China's mountain passes. Foreign travelers could still move through monuments that only a generation earlier had been closely associated with imperial authority while political power increasingly shifted among competing republican governments and regional military leaders during the emerging Warlord Era. Rather than emphasizing political upheaval directly the archive records the remarkable continuity of Beijing's monumental landscape and traditional patterns of travel religion and commerce immediately after the fall of the last Chinese dynasty. Light surface wear occasional corner creasing and scattered silvering consistent with age; manuscript identifications on many versos. Overall in very good condition. A concentrated visual record of Peking and North China at the moment imperial China gave way to the Republic preserving both the enduring ceremonial landscape of the Qing capital and the traditional life that continued beneath profound political change. unknown books

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China; Colonial NavyABAA

Colonial Naval Surveillance in China Following the Boxer Uprising 58 Photos 1933-43

1933réf. 236941933. Colonial Italian Navy photo archive depicting sailors of the gunboat Lepanto in China circa 1933 to 1943 documenting Italy's Tianjin concession Italy's formal colonial territory in China granted in 1901 following the Boxer Rebellion. It covered approximately half a square kilometer and was strategically located on the east bank of the Hai River. Tianjin concession was governed by an Italian military official and maintained its own police force and legal framework. the Italian Navy maintained a strategic presence in China with personnel and several vessels including the gunboats Lepanto and Carlotto to protect Italian concessions in Tianjin and Shanghai. Originally built as an Azio class minelayer Lepanto reached Shanghai in 1933 and was reclassified as a gunboat in 1934 for coastal and Yangtze service protecting Italian citizens missions and treaty port interests. A United States Navy photograph places the vessel on the Whangpoo River at Shanghai during the mass evacuations of 1937 where foreign warships occupied the same congested waterway as refugee steamers and commercial traffic. The archive records this overseas station from the viewpoint of its sailors moving between shipboard hierarchy armed readiness collective leisure Chinese urban life and monumental sites visited under naval escort. Photo archive of 58 silver gelatin photographs ranging from 2" x 2" to 2" x 3.5" China circa 1933 to 1943. The photographs show Lepanto moored in Chinese harbors; Italian sailors posed on deck beside shipboard fittings and beneath the motto "In hoc signo vinces"; officers addressing assembled crews; uniformed men gathered around deck guns; rifle practice on open ground; sailors carrying packs and weapons; and formal and informal portraits of ratings petty officers and decorated officers. Group photographs place sailors at the Temple of Heaven and before other Chinese ceremonial buildings gates monuments and courtyards while wider views record Shanghai and Tientsin waterfronts docks municipal architecture Chinese junks sampans bridges rail lines and harbor shipping. Several images show Chinese residents at close range including children boatmen laborers and crowds encountered during shore leave; others depict shipboard entertainments meals athletic groups relaxed deck scenes and men photographed in work clothes apart from formal naval ceremony. The recurrence of the vessel uniformed crews weapons exercises official gatherings and organized excursions establishes the working structure of an Italian station ship rather than a general tourist itinerary. Italy's naval deployment in China descended from the foreign military privileges established after the Boxer Uprising including the Italian concession at Tientsin and the maintenance of armed detachments consular facilities and river patrol vessels. Lepanto replaced the aging gunboat Sebastiano Caboto and spent a decade operating from Shanghai and along the Yangtze using its shallow draft to reach places inaccessible to larger warships during years of civil conflict Japanese expansion and the Sino Japanese War. Following Italy's armistice with the Allies the crew scuttled Lepanto at Shanghai on September 9 1943 to prevent seizure; Japan raised and recommissioned the vessel as Okitsu in 1944 and the Republic of China received it after Japan's surrender operating it as Hsien Ning. Light surface wear toning occasional creasing and minor edge wear; photos remain legible and mostly clean. Overall in very good condition. A detailed visual record of how an Italian gunboat crew carried naval authority Fascist state ceremony armed preparedness and foreign privilege into the ports and public spaces of Republican China. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis885,00 $US≈ 790,67 €

Peking; China; Street LifeABAA

Chinese Street Commerce River Labor and Everyday Life in Peking and Northern China: Late Qing to Republican Era circa 1900-1920s

1900réf. 238871900. Peking and northern China photographic archive documenting everyday commerce informal labor transportation and waterfront life during the final Qing and early Republican periods circa 1900 to the 1920s. Rather than concentrating on monuments or official events the photographs turn repeatedly toward merchants barbers vendors boatmen fishermen cart drivers and working streets. French manuscript captions identify Peking Tien Tsin and other northern Chinese locations suggesting a Francophone traveler recording the commercial and social landscape encountered along the route. Early twentieth century photographs of China survive in substantial institutional collections but small groups centered on ordinary economic activity and working neighborhoods like this one are less frequently encountered than architectural military and tourist views. Photo archive of 23 sepia toned silver gelatin photographs ranging from approximately 2 x 3 to 3 x 4 inches Peking Tien Tsin and northern China circa 1900 to the 1920s. The photographs show merchants displaying wares in open air markets; a street barber attending a seated customer; vendors working from tables baskets and temporary stalls; men gathered around cooking vessels beneath makeshift shelters; horse and donkey carts carrying goods; fishermen and boatmen among crowded wooden craft; and waterfront workers loading or unloading vessels. River and harbor views record dense concentrations of sampans and other small boats beside wooden landings while street scenes show carts animals warehouses a water tower and commercial traffic moving through the same urban environment. French inscriptions on the versos identify subjects and places including "Pékin marché" "Pékin restaurant en plein air" "Tien Tsin" "Tien Tsin rue Dillon" "voiture chinoise" and "port de bateaux français." Other captions appear to identify Chin Van Tao possibly an early romanization of Qinhuangdao though that reading remains uncertain. Several photographs carry French captions written directly in the negative or along the lower edge providing contemporary identifications of the scenes and further associating the group with a Francophone traveler or photographer. The photographs span the final years of the Qing dynasty the 1911 Revolution the establishment of the Republic in 1912 and the subsequent Republican period when Peking remained a major political and commercial center. After the Qing abdication in February 1912 Peking became the seat of Yuan Shikai's government and remained the principal seat of the Beiyang government until 1928. The material culture recorded here changed more slowly than the political institutions around it: carts animal transport open air markets small trades river traffic and neighborhood commerce continued to structure daily life. The French captions also broaden the archive beyond Peking connecting the capital to Tien Tsin and northern Chinese waterways and ports. Light to moderate surface wear occasional spotting edge wear minor creasing and varying degrees of fading and toning; manuscript verso inscriptions remain generally legible. Overall in very good condition. A concentrated visual record of merchants boatmen barbers vendors transport workers markets and waterways sustaining everyday economic life in northern China across the late Qing and early Republican eras. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis1 450,00 $US≈ 1 295,45 €

German Colonial China; Boxer RebellionABAA

German Colonial China and Military in Tsingtao and Northern China during the Boxer Era Photo Archive 1900-1910s

1900réf. 238861900. German colonial northern China photo archive circa 1900 to 1910 documenting foreign military presence Chinese commercial and social life and the unequal encounters produced by European imperial expansion in the years surrounding the Boxer Rebellion. German occupation of Kiautschou Bay began in 1897 followed by the 1898 lease that placed the territory around Tsingtao under German control for 99 years and established the port as an Imperial German naval and commercial base. The photographs move between colonial military spectacle and less formal encounters as cavalry formations and Chinese prisoners appear alongside merchants transport rural scenes and a European man repeatedly photographed wearing Chinese garments among Chinese men. German manuscript captions identifying Tsingtao and locations in Manchuria connect the group to a German speaking observer traveling through a northern China increasingly shaped by foreign military intervention. Photo archive of 12 silver gelatin photographs approximately 3 x 4 inches each northern China including Tsingtao and Manchuria circa 1900 to 1910. Several photographs depict a European man among Chinese men wearing a long Chinese robe and cap in posed portraits outside a masonry building; in one he stands between two Chinese men similarly dressed while another records a larger group in which Chinese and European subjects wear combinations of local and Western clothing. Other images show a mounted officer passing ranks of uniformed troops carrying standards; groups gathered around loaded wagons or carts; horsemen and spectators assembled across open ground; and broad views of people and animals distributed across a field. Two particularly stark photographs show Chinese men restrained individually against upright wooden stakes in an open landscape their bodies separated at regular intervals along what appears to be a shoreline or field. Some photos with Manuscript German captions on the versos reference to Tsingtao and Manchuria. Germany's presence at Tsingtao belonged to the larger division of Chinese territory into foreign concessions and spheres of influence at the end of the nineteenth century. The Imperial German Navy administered Kiautschou and developed Tsingtao as a planned colonial city and naval base including residential segregation between European and Chinese populations. That colonial project intersected directly with the violence of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. After the killing of German minister Clemens von Ketteler in Beijing Germany dispatched approximately 20000 troops to China; although the foreign legations had already been relieved when much of the German force arrived German and other international troops subsequently conducted punitive expeditions in which suspected Boxers were executed and villages were looted and burned operations that continued until the Boxer Protocol of September 1901. The photographs of bound prisoners therefore belong to a period in which execution and punitive violence formed a documented component of foreign intervention although the absence of a securely deciphered caption prevents assigning these particular scenes to a specific campaign. The images of a European participant adopting Chinese clothing present another dimension of the colonial encounter recording personal appropriation and performance of local dress within the same photographic record that encompasses military formations prisoners commerce transportation and everyday contact. Light surface wear occasional creasing toning and fading; manuscript verso captions remain substantially legible. Overall in good condition. A German vernacular photographic record of northern China during the era of the Boxer intervention and Kiautschou colonial rule preserving military power coercion commerce and informal cross cultural encounters within the same small format archive. unknown books

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(PERIODICAL - China)ABAA

CHINA RECONSTRUCTS 62 issues. 1955-1971 edited in Wai Wen Building distributed by GUOZI SHUDIAN printed in the People’s Republic of China. Small Quarto 23×30 cm

1955réf. AG-1012CHINA RECONSTRUCTS 62 issues. Beijing: China periodical 1955-1971 edited in Wai Wen Building distributed by GUOZI SHUDIAN printed in the People's Republic of China. Small folio 23×30 cm each issue approx. 52 pages; original pictorial colored wrappers. All issues are English language texts. China Reconstructs is a monthly magazine published in English French Spanish Arabic and Russian by the China Welfare Institute Soong Ching Ling Chairman to present a positive image of China to the outside world. These interesting magazines are filled with articles on a huge range of subjects: Eternal Glory to the Great Leader and Teacher Chairman Mao Tsetung; Four Young Woodcut Artists; Is Selling Vegetables Revolutionary Work; Socialist Drama; A Model for Revolutionary Peking Opera; The Red lantern; Workers Armed with Mao Tsetung's Thought Are Most Resourceful; During the Great Leap Forward period articles about great progress in Agriculture; Industrial Education was published in No. 4 1959. Some Chinese Folk Toys; Festival Lanterns; Color Pictorial: Chairman Mao's Hometown-Shaoshan; Painted Pottery of Neolithic China; a study in Chinese Literature-Lu Xun; Tsou Tao-fen Patriotic Intellectual; Selected Works of Mao Tsetung; On the Long March with Chairman Mao; Communist Heroine Liu Hu-lan; Health Work Develops in Tibet; Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of the Great Lenin; a Soldier-Sculptor; People of the World Unite and Defeat the U.S. Aggressors and All Their Running Dogs; Heroic Images of Our Great Era; 1500 Red Hearts United in Battle; The Bright Sunshine of Mao Tse-tung's Thought Lights up the Land; Vice Chairman Lin Piao's Speech At the Rally Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Founding of the PRC.; China's First Underground Nuclear Test; The Power of the Good Old Three; The revolution in Education in Progress; Art that Serves Proletarian Politics; When Chairman Mao Gives the Signal We Advance; Hundreds of Millions of Chairman Mao's Books Published in 1967; World's People Eagerly Seek Chairman Mao Badges; Chinese Scientists Survey World's Highest Peak; New Look in Traditional Arts and Crafts; Peoples of Europe and North America We Support You!; Painting Pictures of Chairman Mao is Our Greatest Happiness; Chairman Mao's Important Inscription for Japanese Worker Friends; All China is Red; Working and Living with Chinese Peasants; The Great January Revolution in Shanghai; In Memory of Norman Bethune; The First Hydrogen Bomb; One Million People in Peking at Solemn Mass Memorial Funeral for Chairman Mao Tsetung &c. ã€Šä¸å›½å»ºè®¾ã€‹æ‚å¿—ï¼Œå¤–æ–‡å¤§åŽ¦ç¼–è¾‘ï¼Œå›½åä¹¦åº—å‘è¡Œï¼Œæœ¬ç»„æœ‰1955年—1976å¹´çš„éƒ¨åˆ†æœŸåˆŠï¼Œã€Šä¸å›½å»ºè®¾ã€‹æ˜¯ä¸€æœ¬æœˆåˆŠï¼Œæœ‰è‹±æ–‡ï¼Œæ³•è¯ï¼Œè¥¿çç‰™è¯ï¼Œé˜¿æ‹‰ä¼¯è¯ã€ä¿„è¯ç‰è¯è¨€ï¼Œç”±å®‹åº†é¾„ç¦åˆ©åŸºé‡‘ä¼šå‡ºç‰ˆï¼Œæ—¨åœ¨å‘ä¸–ç•Œå±•ç¤ºä¸å›½å»ºè®¾çš„å¥½çš„æ–¹é¢ï¼ŒåŒ…å«äº†å¤šä¸ªä¸å›½ç›¸å…³ä¸»é¢˜çš„æ–‡ç« ã€‚ Contents of collection: 1955 No. 12; 1956 No. 1 5; 1959 No. 4 11; 1960 No. 12; 1961 No. 3; 1962 No. 7; 1963 No. 7; 1964 No. 3; 1965 No. 347 89 11 12; 1966 No. 1-6 10; 1967 No. 1-7 9-12; 1968 No. 1-5 7-12; 1969 No. 1 2 3 4 12; 1970 No. 1 4extra 6 8; 1971 No. 3 4 8 10 12; 1972 No. 3; 1976 No. 11/12 edited in Wai Wen Building, distributed by GUOZI SHUDIAN, printed in the People’s Republic of China. paperback books

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[CHINA - CULTURAL REVOLUTION - TEXTILES] Artist(s) unknownABAA

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

1967réf. 16838Urumqi 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. 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. Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi / Xinjiang Army Divisioni unknown books

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis2 500,00 $US≈ 2 233,54 €

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