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[EARLY 20TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT MAPS OF CHINA AND KOREA].Biblio.com

支那全圖. Shina zenzu. 朝鮮の図Chōsen no Zu Maps of China and Korea

1902réf. 220266Japan. No date. Circa1902. Two very attractive colour folded manuscript maps one showing China and the other Korea. Map of China: Watercolour map 48 x 63.5cm. Closed tear now professionally repaired. Map of Korea: Finely detailed watercolour map a few tiny holes very neatly repaired on the verso with archival washi. 33 x 24.5cm Two delicate hand-painted maps one of China and one of Korea produced by a Japanese student cartographer named Koike Tokushige 小池徳重. The undated map of China appears to have been produced in the first five years of the twentieth century: a time when Japan had recently colonized Taiwan and when Japanese economic and political interest in the region was rapidly expanding. The inscription on the map suggests that it was a third year college project. But the high level of detail suggests that the artist had considerable experience of map making. The map of China shows the main provinces rivers major transport routes the Great Wall and the location of key cities although the names of the cities are not included. It also shows outlines of the Korean Peninsula Taiwan and the Japanese island of Kyushu but not the rest of Japan. The map of Korea is more detailed. It provides an accurate outline of the Korean Peninsula with careful hatching indicating changes in elevation. Rivers and major road routes are shown on the map and the locations of major towns are marked though only Busan and Incheon are named. Dotted lines show coastal sea routes and routes between Kyushu and Busan and between Incheon and China. The map shows the Gyeongin railway line between Seoul and Incheon which was completed in 1899 and route of the Gyeongbu railway line between Busan and Seoul whose construction started from both ends in 1901. But the map depicts only small sections of this line close to Seoul and Busan as being completed with the rest more lightly outlined to show the projected route implying that the map was drawn around 1901-1902 and certainly before the Gyongbu line was opened in 1904. Inserted text gives the land area and population of Korea. Rather strangely though the figure given for the Korean population is vastly underestimated. Ikeda gives this as 5.7 million when in fact at that time is was around 18 million. . unknown

Asia Bookroom · Australie950,00 $AU≈ 597,33 €

COLLECTIF - Henry-Pierre FOUREST - J. CHOMPRET - Pierre MOREL d'ARLEUX - Hans HAUGMareMagnum

Cahiers de la Céramique et des Arts du Feu - Puis Cahiers de la Céramique, du Verre et des Arts du Feu (Céramique - Verrerie - Emaillerie) (N° 1, décembre 1955 au N° 58, 1976 avec ses suppléments) - COLLECTIF

Sèvres et Paris, Revue trimestrielle fondée par les Amis du Musée National de la Céramique de Sèvres - N° 1, décembre 1955 au N° 58, 1976 avec ses suppléments (sauf N° 57) - In-4 - Broché dans 15 Emboîtages grèges - format grand In-4, 25 x 32 cm - Couverture rempliée, papier fort crème, avec vignette contre-collée en couleurs - Fascicule maintenu par une cordelette torsadée bleu nuit - Illustrations NB dans le texte et planches en quadrichromie contre-collées HT - Magnifique publication pour laquelle il est difficile de faire un comptage précis des planches faute de tables (les sommaires qu'on trouve dans plusieurs numéros ne sont pas toujours exacts quant au nombre de planches, et se contredisent) - Bel exemplaire - envoi rapide et soigné Revue trimestrielle fondée par les Amis du Musée National de la Céramique de Sèvres pour aider à la connaissance des Arts du feu. Sèvres et Paris, Revue trimestrielle fondée par les Amis du Musée National de la Céramique de Sèvres - In-4 - Broché dans 15 Emboîtages - format grand In-4, 25 x 32 cm - N° 1, décembre 1955 au N° 58, 1976 avec ses suppléments (sauf N° 57) - Couverture rempliée, papier fort crème, avec vignette contre-collée en couleurs - Fascicule maintenu par une cordelette torsadée bleu nuit - Illustrations NB dans le texte et planches en quadrichromie contre-collées HT - Magnifique publication pour laquelle il est difficile de faire un comptage précis des planches faute de tables (les sommaires qu'on trouve dans plusieurs numéros ne sont pas toujours exacts quant au nombre de planches, et se contredisent) - Bel exemplaire - envoi rapide et soigné

Librairies PORCHEROT - SP.Rance · France590,00 €

[CHINA -- SINO-JAPANESE WAR].Biblio.com

Shanghai under fire. July -- September 1937. A pictorial record of Shanghai’s undeclared war as photographed by Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury Staff photographers.

1937réf. 60087Shanghai China: Post-Mercury Co. 17-21 Avenue Edward VII Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury 1937. 4to. 9 x 12 in. xv 1 88 pp. With 100s of text photo illustrations on gray-blue tinted paper. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art photo of red & black tinted smoking skyline of Shanghai w/ bomb bursts illustrated on front cover “Shanghai Area War Maps” on endpapers -- surprisingly light interior toning to the XV pp. of text on light-gray tinted paper bumping & wear at covers some dustsoiling chipping head & foot of spine still G copy stapled as issued. First edition 1st printing of this scarce illustrated pro-China work documenting the opening campaigns by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force and Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Hostilities had increased throughout the 1930s following the first Sino-Japanese War in which Japan had conquered and absorbed Manchuria into the Japanese Empire. Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalist forces joined with the warlords of Hunan and Szechwan provinces to fight the Japanese after a number of provocations in the summer of 1937. Chiang Kai-shek believed that by initially attacking and bombing Japanese naval installations and troops in and around Shanghai he would force the foreign powers to ally with China to fight against Japan to protect their enormous investments in southern China. The Nationalist Chinese armies held out for three months against ferocious bombardment and shelling by the Japanese from planes based in Taiwan and ships on the Huangpu River inflicting huge numbers of casualties on the Chinese and eventually forcing the Chinese to retreat from Shanghai to Nanking with Japanese reinforcements constantly decimating them. These images show victims at the South Station bombings caring for Chinese wounded Chinese women training as soldiers and nurses in the aftermath of the North Station Area shelling and bombing bitter retreat by Chinese soldiers the advances and marching of Japanese forces in Shanghai and beyond. This would later be revised and reissued in March 1938; See: Dorothy Perkins Japan Goes to War: A Chronology of Japanese Military Expansion 1997 pp. 127-135; Crittall in Shanghai -- Some Photos Unearthed December 22 2008. Post-Mercury, Co., 17-21 Avenue Edward VII, Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, paperback

Zephyr Used & Rare Books · États-Unis650,00 $US≈ 581,81 €

[CHINA JIANZHI PAPER-CUTTING - WOMEN].Biblio.com

Legends of ancient China. The cut-outs Jianzhi of Temple Hill are an adaptation of figures of animals plants insects dragons etc. cut by the women of Shantung. . . .

1930réf. 64082Chefoo Yantai China: Self-Help Dept. Women’s Bible School Presbyterian Mission ca. 1930. Oblong 4to. 9.25 x 7 in. 18 leaves unnumbered. w/ title leaf promotional explanatory leaf laid-in printed text on tissue papers w/ borders each facing the eight delicately cut-out silhouette Jianzhi paper designs on the facing leaves of thick paper stock. Pictorial silk flexible covers punch-sewn at gutter margin as issued w/ black silk braid NF copy. First edition thus of this beautiful album of mounted paper Jianzhi silhouette cut-outs prepared and cut from stencil drawings from a pattern. The introductory laid-in leaf details the steps of preparing the pattern sewing down the stencil to ten thicknesses and thereupon using tiny scissors and knives of various shapes to create the subsequent designs. Typically these are good for making ten at a time and then pasted on cards. These were fundraisers for the China Inland Mission Women’s Bible College in Chefoo Yantai and copies would have different stories and designs. This particular copy includes Wen Yen Beh and the Lost Ball; Djang Liang and Whang Hsi Gung; Han Hsien and Hsiao Nine; Outwitting of Wang Shen; The friend who failed; How the frogs got their croak; and finally Story of Si Mah Gwang. These original occupational works enhanced vocational training for Chinese women in developing a skill aided funding for the Women’s Bible College but also contributed to funding the Temple Hill Hospital at the CIM also known as the Yuhuangding Hospital. It later served during World War II during the 1942-43 Japanese Occupation as an internment camp. Worldcat locates 4 similar copies w/ varying supposed dates and frequently different stories or legends Texas A&M Peabody Essex Royal Danish Library & UBC. Self-Help Dept., Women’s Bible School, Presbyterian Mission, unknown

Zephyr Used & Rare Books · États-Unis650,00 $US≈ 581,81 €

[CHINA] SMEDLEY, AgnesBiblio.com

Battle Hymn of China w/ ALS

1943réf. 63876New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1943. First Edition. First printing. Laid-in is a 2-pp ALS dated Dec. 26 1944 on Agnes Smedley's letterhead to Lt. Eugene S. Brewer Jr. see note below. Octavo 21cm. Original red cloth boards titles in gilt on spine; dustjacket; maroon top-stain; viii528xvi pp; illus. Folding map inserted before half-title. A Very Good copy with expected evidence of reading and use; there is a small closed tear in the margin of the folding map which is otherwise clean and complete. In the original dustwrapper unclipped priced $3.50 generally rubbed and soiled with old clear tape reinforcements at flap-folds; just VG. Ownership and bookplate of Eugene S. Brewer Jr.; a 4¢ "Sun Yat Sen" U.S. postage stamp affixed to front free endpaper. Additionally laid-in is a folded circular printing the "Statement of Policy" of the Committee for a Democratic Policy Toward China later the Committe for a Democratic Far East Policy. Jacket design by Jean Carlu. The revolutionary journalist's major work a memoir of her twelve years as a correspondent on the front lines of both the Chinese revolution and the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1929 to 1942. Smedley 1892-1950 was a prolific left journalist and probable spy known for her active support of Chinese and Indian revolutionary causes and for her many writings on Maoist China. The laid-in letter of about 250 words is dated Dec. 26 and addressed to a young Army lieutenant from Michigan Eugene S. Brewer. Smedley discusses the recent U.S. Presidential elections stating that she voted for Roosevelt despite disagreeing with "many things Roosevelt has done and still does.but I was afraid of Dewey and his rotten reactionaries. Now I grow more and more afraid of Churchill and it would be a godsend if he'd fall dead or if someone would kindly bump him off." She comments on British policy in India: "As long as Nehru remains in prison I have no hearing for any agent of the British" - and concludes with a description of her work for China relief "raffling off things for 2 weeks to aid cultural workers in Chung King.I'm tired tramping the streets selling chances for 10¢! So much work for so little." Eugene S. Brewer 1914-2001 was a 1935 graduate of the University of Michigan. He won a 1938 Avery Hopwood Prize for a proletarian novel apparently never published "Some Brass and No Groceries." After a brief and apparently unremarkable scriptwriting career in Hollywood Brewer returned to his home town of Owosso Michigan where he was for many years a county planner and surveyor. Brewer's connection to Smedley is uncertain but likely dated from his student days at Michigan. Alfred A. Knopf unknown