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1910réf. 235891910. SMS Scharnhorst East Asia Squadron photo archive depicting Imperial German naval ritual sailor leisure and encounters with Chinese civilians in and around Tsingtao circa 1910 during the cruiser's service as flagship of Germany's principal naval force in East Asia. Scharnhorst joined the East Asia Squadron in 1909 and assumed the flagship role that year operating from the German naval base at Tsingtao while cruising through Chinese Southeast Asian and Pacific waters. The photographs move between the enclosed social world of the warship and the territory ashore recording equator crossing performance bowling club sociability Chinese prisoners mounted gatherings local landscapes and portraits of Chinese men under the conditions of German colonial occupation. Photo archive of 12 silver gelatin photographs with 5 mounted to board each 4 x 5.5 inches China and aboard S.M.S. Scharnhorst circa 1910. The images show a crowded line crossing ceremony captioned "Linientaufe S.M.S. Scharnhorst 1910" with sailors massed across the deck while costumed figures dressed as Neptune devils clowns and mock officials perform the initiation rite for first time equator crossers. A second view of the same ceremony captioned "Linientaufe. S.M.S. Sch." shows sailors officers performers and shipboard equipment compressed into a theatrical naval crowd. Another photograph captioned "Sträflinge" shows two Chinese men in wooden cangues standing beside a uniformed guard apparently staged as a punishment tableau. Two group portraits captioned "Aufnahme unseres Kegelklubs" and "an 3 jähr. Fahrt 1910" show Scharnhorst sailors holding beer glasses around bowling pins and balls with Chinese men standing at the rear of the group. The remaining photographs extend the record ashore. Several show Chinese men posed in long robes and jackets before a whitewashed building including paired and group portraits; other views depict a military or ceremonial parade crowds gathered around mounted figures men assembled near carts or covered wagons a waterside landscape and a man lying beside a roadside or embankment. Handwritten German captions on the versos include "Erschossene Rebellen" and "Erschossener Rebell" identifying photographed subjects as shot rebels while another verso refers to Kiautschou Bay. A postcard format verso is addressed to "Tsingtau China" providing an additional contemporary geographic association. The captions do not identify the uprising or circumstances behind the photographs of the dead and the images therefore document German labeling and observation of the subjects without establishing a specific punitive action or event. Germany acquired the Kiautschou Bay lease in 1898 and developed Tsingtao as its only permanent overseas naval base a fortified harbor commercial settlement and administrative center for German ambitions in East Asia. Scharnhorst and her sister ship Gneisenau embodied that policy before the First World War patrolling colonial routes visiting ports protecting German nationals and displaying imperial power from China to the South Pacific. These photographs do not show battle or formal command; they show the habits that sustained a long overseas deployment including shipboard initiation alcohol centered club life masculine performance and the unequal colonial setting in which German sailors encountered Chinese laborers guards and local residents. Light toning surface wear and fading; mounts with handwritten German captions. Overall good condition. A compact visual record of Imperial German naval culture aboard the East Asia Squadron flagship before war ended Germany's Pacific empire. unknown books
réf. 23591People's Republic of China travel photo archive circa 1958 to 1962 documenting the visual transformation of China during the first decade after the Communist victory when the new government reshaped cities through Soviet inspired architecture monumental public spaces heavy industry and carefully promoted historical landmarks. The photographs record both the official face of the new People's Republic and the continued importance of China's imperial past moving from Tiananmen Square and newly constructed exhibition halls to the Great Wall Buddhist temples and traditional pagodas. Produced during the years of Mao Zedong's First Five Year Plan and the Great Leap Forward era the archive captures a country simultaneously presenting revolutionary modernity industrial expansion and national heritage to domestic travelers and foreign visitors. Photo archive of 50 original black and white silver gelatin snapshot photographs each measuring approximately 2.25" x 2.25" People's Republic of China circa 1958 to 1962. The photographs show visitors posing at the Great Wall the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square the Hall of Prayer precinct at the Temple of Heaven the Beijing Exhibition Hall Beijing Railway Station monumental government buildings pagodas imperial gateways parks memorials and civic squares crowded with tourists and official gatherings. Several photographs depict large public assemblies inside Tiananmen Square and athletic demonstrations in a stadium while others record textile mills steel works factory interiors machine halls industrial furnaces rail yards diesel locomotives buses and workers inside modern production facilities. Additional views include lakeside parks university or government compounds memorial cemeteries bridges and modern streets illustrating the architectural language adopted throughout the early People's Republic. Numerous versos carry contemporary handwritten Chinese captions identifying locations. Among those legible are "Beijing Exhibition Hall" 北京展览馆 "Beijing Railway Station" 北京ç«è½¦ç«™ "Beijing People's Cultural Palace" 北京市劳动人民文化宫 "Wuhan Iron and Steel Works" æ¦æ±‰é’¢é“厂 "Wuhan Meat Processing Plant" 武汉肉类加工厂 "Great Hall Beijing Exhibition Hall" 北京展览馆大厅 and "Outside Xiamen Jimei School Village" 厦门集美å¦æ‘外 providing valuable contemporary identifications for many of the views. The archive belongs to the formative years of the People's Republic when the Communist government invested heavily in monumental construction industrialization transportation infrastructure and carefully managed public spectacle. Beijing became both the political capital and a symbolic showcase of socialist modernization while industrial centers such as Wuhan emerged as flagships of Mao's drive to develop heavy industry through Soviet technical assistance. The photographs reveal how official monuments honoring revolutionary history existed alongside preserved imperial landmarks reflecting the government's effort to position Communist China as both the heir to a long national civilization and the architect of a new socialist future. Public rallies exhibition halls factories transportation networks and restored historic sites appear not as isolated tourist subjects but as components of a carefully constructed national image during one of the most transformative decades in modern Chinese history. Light surface wear occasional corner creasing and scattered silvering and toning from age; handwritten captions on many versos. Overall in very good condition. A concentrated visual record of travel through the People's Republic of China during the Mao era documenting the intersection of revolutionary state building industrial modernization and China's enduring historic landscape. unknown books
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
1930réf. 236931930. Western travel photo archive depicting Shanghai Chefoo Beijing and northern Chinese landscapes 1930 to 1938 recording the routes attractions and social encounters available to foreign travelers during the final decade before the Second Sino Japanese War transformed movement through coastal and northern China. The photographs move between the commercial modernity of Shanghai's waterfront the resort and treaty port environment of Chefoo imperial architecture near Beijing and river travel through mountainous terrain. Street portraits of rickshaw pullers itinerant vendors and an impoverished man also register the unequal relationship between foreign tourism and the Chinese labor on which it depended. Photo archive of 22 silver gelatin photographs China 1930 to 1938. ranging from 2 x 3 to 3.5 x 5 inches Shanghai views show the skyline and harbor from the water shipping along the waterfront traffic near the Bund rickshaw stands and the Western couple seated in rickshaws beside their pullers. Other photographs depict men carrying large suspended baskets two rickshaw pullers resting beside their vehicles and a full length portrait bearing the printed caption "Chinese special beggar." Northern views include the Summer Palace its lake bridges balustrades painted corridor and hillside architecture; boat travel through steep barren gorges; and broad river landscapes in which small craft are set against sharply eroded mountains. Handwritten versos identify "Summer Palace" "Chefoo No. China" and "On the Bund" with two photographs dated August 1938. A studio portrait is inscribed "Idabela Father Main Shanghai 1930" providing names for two members of the traveling party. Several prints carry additional captions en verso including references to Chefoo and a multi day boat journey. The archive belongs to the treaty port geography that structured much Western travel in Republican China. Shanghai's Bund served as the monumental commercial frontage of the International Settlement while Chefoo now Yantai had developed through foreign trade consular activity missionary residence and seasonal tourism. The Summer Palace offered travelers a carefully preserved landscape of Qing imperial architecture and garden design outside Beijing here photographed through its corridors bridges lake and elevated buildings. The photographs preserve both the travelers' itinerary and the visual categories through which foreigners encountered China: modern port imperial monument dramatic landscape hired transport street labor and poverty presented as a tourist subject. Light surface wear occasional creasing and edge wear mild toning and some fading; several versos inscribed in pencil or ink. Overall in good condition. A firsthand record of Western mobility through Republican China and of the Chinese workers urban spaces historic sites and transport networks encountered along the route. unknown books
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
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
1972réf. 221921972. China Notes Newsletter Archive of 3 issues: Vol. XI Nos. 1 2 and 4. New York: East Asia Office - Division of Overseas Ministries NCC/USA The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA 1972-1973. Archive of three issues of China Notes a critical educational publication distributed by the East Asia Office of the Division of Overseas Ministries in New York. Aimed at American educators religious scholars and mission-affiliated readers China Notes served as a bridge between U.S. audiences and the People's Republic of China during a period of thawing diplomatic relations and renewed American interest in Chinese society following Nixon's 1972 visit. Each measure 8.5" x 11" printed on unbound yellow paper 10-11 pages per issue. Each issue features articles lesson plans and firsthand interviews intended to reshape Western understanding of contemporary China. Issues included are: 1 China Notes Vol. XI No. 1 Winter 1972-73 Cover article: "Buddhism in China" offers a nuanced theological and sociopolitical study of Chinese Buddhism post-1949 explaining the intersection of Buddhist practice with Maoist ideology. Additional pieces include "Religion and the Churches" a look at the challenges faced by Christian communities under the People's Republic and a retrospective index of previous issues. 2 China Notes Vol. XI No. 2 Spring 1973 Cover article: "Down on the Commune" by Arthur W. Galston based on field observations in rural China investigates daily life and agricultural practices within people's communes with a focus on food production worker solidarity and health systems. The issue includes pedagogical content such as "Learning and Teaching About China" and interviews with U.S. high school students who had recently studied modern Chinese history. 3 China Notes Vol. XI No. 4 Autumn 1973 Cover article: "The Chinese Revolution and American Missions" by Mark Rankin critically revisits the American Protestant missionary presence in pre-Communist China arguing for a reassessment of the moral and cultural failures of mission strategy amid nationalist movements. Other features include reflections on U.S.-China relations an article on Chinese-American history titled "China and U.S. Chinese-American Identity" and recent data on Chinese urban reforms. Light edgewear and slight discoloration to paper; overall very good condition. An uncommon and historically valuable grouping from one of the few progressive Christian publications that critically addressed both the domestic and global politics of China during the Cold War with special attention to education religion and Chinese American identity. unknown books
1930réf. 222401930. China family photograph album. 1930s-1960s. This album documents family life across major political transitions in twentieth-century China including the Republican period the years of Japanese occupation and the early decades of the People's Republic. The photographs record everyday experience across multiple regions showing movement between northern southern and northeastern cities as well as Hong Kong and provide visual evidence of how individuals and families navigated changing political and social conditions. The material is particularly strong in its geographic breadth with identified locations including Beijing Guangzhou Wuhan Dalian Jilin Shenyang Anshan Fushun and Hong Kong linking domestic life to major urban and industrial centers. Album containing 107 original black-and-white silver gelatin photographs mounted in a string-bound volume with individual prints ranging approximately from 1.25 x 1.5 to 4 x 6 inches. The photographs include studio portraits with painted backdrops from the 1930s family groupings of multiple generations and school portraits of children posed in uniform before institutional buildings. Clothing varies between Western-style suits and traditional garments such as qipao indicating shifts in dress across time and place. Urban scenes show streets promenades docks and architectural landmarks with some images bearing printed or written location identifications in Chinese. Several photographs depict travel aboard a passenger vessel suggesting movement between mainland cities and Hong Kong. Industrial environments and city signage appear in images associated with Shenyang and Fushun reflecting the presence of major industrial centers in northeastern China. The album spans decades marked by war occupation and state formation when cities such as Shenyang and Anshan developed as industrial hubs under Japanese control and later under the People's Republic while Hong Kong functioned as a site of movement and exchange. The combination of studio portraiture school imagery and travel scenes provides a continuous record of family life through these changes linking private experience to broader historical conditions. Light edge wear and toning to photographs with occasional spotting and minor marks to mounts; overall very good. A substantial visual record of Chinese family life across shifting political and geographic landscapes in the mid-twentieth century. unknown books
1956réf. 1700121956. CHINA. First five-year plan for Development of the National Economy of the People's Republic of China in 1953-1957. Unpaginated approximately 70 pp. profusely illustrated. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1956. An astonishing example of modernist book design from communist China. The avant-garde layout combined with the use of photography and isotypes is strongly reminiscent of such works as Lissitzky's An Album Illustrating the State Organization and National Economy of the U.S.S.R. published in 1929. Dust jacket restored. Otherwise a fine copy of a most unusual book. hardcover books
1949réf. 205951949. Unidentified press photographers Mao Zedong photograph archive 1949-1972 documents Chinese Communist Party leadership and international diplomatic engagement during the consolidation and global positioning of the People's Republic of China supporting research into Cold War political culture state media practices and representations of authority. The group includes images spanning from the founding period of the People's Republic through the Cultural Revolution and into the early 1970s diplomatic realignments providing visual evidence of how Mao's image circulated through press networks. The material captures both staged political encounters and informal moments including early association with Soviet leadership and later interactions with foreign dignitaries establishing a longitudinal record of leadership imagery across shifting geopolitical contexts. Eight press photographs primarily silver gelatin prints ranging in size from approximately 3 x 3.75 inches to 8 x 11 inches originating from a press archive and bearing evidence of editorial handling. Seven photographs appear to be period press prints with two later reprints. The earliest image shows Mao Zedong seated beside Joseph Stalin during Stalin's seventieth birthday celebration in 1949 with areas of the image shaded by hand for publication emphasis. A 1966 photograph depicts Mao seated indoors reading a newspaper and smoking presenting a controlled but informal representation of leadership. Another image from the same year shows Mao standing at a railing beside Lin Biao suggesting a public appearance or review setting. Later photographs include Mao in the presence of two Black women during a diplomatic encounter likely connected to outreach toward African nations as well as two 1972 images showing meetings with Asian prime ministers at Zhongnanhai the central leadership compound in Beijing. The photographs consistently show formal staging grouped delegations and controlled environments typical of state-mediated press imagery. Produced and circulated during a period that includes the Sino-Soviet alliance the Cultural Revolution and early 1970s diplomatic outreach the archive provides insight into how Mao's image functioned within both domestic propaganda and international political communication. The inclusion of figures such as Stalin and Lin Biao situates the material within key moments of alliance and internal fracture while the presence of African and Asian representatives reflects China's engagement with postcolonial states. Minor handling wear consistent with press use including editorial markings and light surface wear; prints remain clear with strong tonal range. Overall in very good condition. unknown books
1960réf. 191851960. Chinese Communist propaganda poster of Mao Zedong with the slogan "Dare to Teach". Measures 30" x 21". Printed in China with text in Mandarin. An image of Mao in his characteristic military suit and cap with a red star. Mao has a lit cigar smiling approvingly upon a large crowd of workers soldiers and students who are marching ahead with large revolutionary banners. Posters such as this one were printed during the Cultural Revolution to give an artistic representation of the kind of society that the Maoist regime was trying to build. During the Cultural Revolution many teachers were considered elitists and accused of opposing equality and solidarity. Students physically attacked teachers some were beaten and many were humiliated. After these events Mao wanted the students to become active participants in helping to tear down the old ways and help institute new revolutionary ones and therefore encouraged them to become teachers. In very good condition overall. unknown books
2007réf. 559076San Francisco: Harper San Francisco 2007. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Illustrated wrappers. Slight waviness else near fine. Harper San Francisco unknown books
1942réf. 184441942. World War II Pacific Theater Archive of 11 silver gelatin photos of U.S military in the China Burma India Theater during World War II including photos of local landscapes and civilians. Photos measure 5 x 7 inches. The China Burma India Theater was the designation given by U.S military during World War II to all Southeast Asian or Indian theaters. Japanese policy in China had long been a source of international tension and in 1941 the United States began its official support of China when President Roosevelt decreed a defense of China to be a defense of America. Multiple images show U.S soldiers posing in uniform on base in Burma. Multiple images show local women washing clothes in a river with a small village visible behind them. Between 1943 and 1944 allied forces operating in Burma destroyed or damaged more than 700 Japanese aircraft. Slight bumping to corners of several photos does not affect images. Overall very good condition. unknown books
réf. 18294Copperplate engraving of the Great Wall of China. Engraved by Jakob Van Der Schley based on a map rendered by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. 18th century. Measures 7.25 x 9.25 inches. Illustrations shows 2 separate segments of the great wall crossing Yongping Lulong county and Longguan Hebei respectively. Text in banner above top image reads "Plan de Long-men-hien" and above bottom image reads "Parlie de la Grande Muraille de la Chine." Rounded segment of the wall pictured with smaller square fortresses built behind it. Jakob van der Schley was a Dutch artist who engraved the frontispieces for Prevost's Histoire Generales Des Voyages published in the Hague in 1747. Bellin the chief hydrographer for France contributed several maps to the text based off of reports sent back by explorers whose accounts of Asia captured the European imagination. A strange blend of truth and mythology mistranslation and exaggeration these accounts and accompanying illustrations provide insight into the Age of Discovery's reach as well as its limitations. Slight toning to border does not affect image. Creased where folded. Light foxing does not affect image. Overall very good condition. unknown books
1976réf. 545186New York: ERA Publishing Company 1976. Softcover. Very Good. First edition paperback original. Octavo. 64pp. Perfectbound glossy wrappers. Very good with moderate edgewear and soiling to the rear cover. Two original plays written by Clark in 1975: In Sorrow's Room first performed at the Africa Total Theater; and Neffie first performed at Frank Salvera's Writers Workshop. Clark wrote more than 30 plays with several produced internationally was a writer on Bill Cosby's sketch comedy show and currently teaches screenwriting. An uncommon book. ERA Publishing Company unknown books
1949réf. 168851949. China Mao Tse-tung .Press Photo Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung in various occasions in China. 1949 Press Photo Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung in various occasions in China. This is an original press photo. Caption on lower margin reads: The French national radio speculated Tuesday that Mao Tse-tung may have died or is gravely ill. He is pictured above on various occasions in the past from left: greeting an Indian delegation in Peking in 1954; in Moscow in 1950; a radio speech in Peking in 1949 and again in 1949 during a tour of Peking.Photo measures 10 x 8.25inches. Photo is dated --1949. These original press photo taken by photojournalist within tight timeframe for the benefit of particular editorial board and with the aim of usage by the press to illustrate an article often affected public opinion in the nation. Very good condition. unknown books
1750réf. 168881750. China Bellin Original Engraving China Jo Si Wo near Beijing - 1750. Original engraving from: Bellin/Prevost: Histoire gernerale des Voyages.approx. 1750. Sheet Size: 20 x 16 cm. Engraving with title on top area and image of Chinaarea and houses near Beijing in the 1750's. This plate has been published in the First French edition of Abbè Presvost's "Histoire Générale des Voyages" published by Didot at Paris 1746-1758. Source: The Histoire Géneral des Voyages was a monumental eighteenth century general history divided according to geographic region. The original volumes were written by Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles Overall very good condition. unknown books
1750réf. 168871750. China Bellin: Original Engraving Print China Emperor´s Palace Circa 1750. Original engraving from: Bellin and Prevost: Histoire Generale des Voyages. Published circa 1750. Sheet size: approx. 32 x 25 cm.The Engraving shows the center of the Forbidden City as the palatial heart of China. Constructed in 1420 during the early Ming Dynasty it is China's best-preserved imperial palace and the largest ancient palatial structure in the world. We see the huge royal courtyard in the center and the emperors palatial buildings surrounding it. This plate has been published in the First French edition of Abbè Presvost's "Histoire Générale des Voyages" published by Didot at Paris 1746-1758.Source: The Histoire Géneral des Voyages was a monumental eighteenth century general history divided according to geographic region. The original volumes were written by Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles. unknown books
1873réf. 168911873. Original Map Asia: China Korea Thailand India Taiwan Malaisia Kuwait Arabia 1873 With The Title "Asia" in the left corner. Origin of the Map is from the "Stieler's Hand-Atlas." continent-based upon von Stulpnagel published in Gotha by Justus Perthes. Germany. Beautifully Hand Colored. Date of issue: 1873. Size: The sheet measures aprox 18 in x 15 in or 45 x 37 cm. Overall very good condition. unknown books
1936réf. 168891936. Dorn Frank. A Map and History of Peiping reprint of the 1936 pictorial map of Beijing created during Dorn's years in China. The map combines a plan of the city with labeled vignettes of monuments occupations animals street life religious sites and historical episodes recording how an American military officer and artist interpreted Peiping during the Republican era. Dorn lived and served extensively in China before later becoming a brigadier general and commanding the China Training and Combat Command during World War II. Dorn Frank. A Map and History of Peiping. Reprint after the 1936 edition lithographed and published by the Peiyang Press Tientsin Peiping. 17 x 19.5 inches. Printed in color with a white border surrounding the reproduced image. Dorn fills the city plan with numerous labeled illustrations of buildings people animals occupations and everyday activities while the surrounding historical imagery extends the subject beyond contemporary Peiping to episodes from Chinese history. The original 1936 map depicted prominent sites alongside such localized subjects as temples cemeteries markets occupations and other features of urban life. Dorn produced the original while serving in China years before his senior American military assignments during the Second World War making the map a product of his sustained familiarity with the country rather than of his later wartime command. The present example is a later reproduction and should be distinguished from the substantially larger 1936 Peiyang Press printing. Like new in very good condition. A visually detailed reproduction of Dorn's 1936 cartographic portrait of Peiping and its urban cultural and historical landscape. unknown books
1885réf. 141101885. Keystone View Company. The Great Wall of China undated records one of China's most recognizable historic landscapes through the stereographic medium and supports study of photography international tourism imagery geographic education and American visual encounters with China. Stereographs paired two nearly identical images to create the illusion of three dimensional depth when viewed through a stereoscope and they became an important means through which American audiences encountered distant places during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Library of Congress notes that stereographs were widely collected for views of tourist sites and locations viewers might never visit themselves while also serving as classroom educational tools. Keystone View Company. The Great Wall of China. Meadville Pennsylvania: Keystone View Company undated. Stereoview presenting paired photographic views of the Great Wall of China for stereoscopic viewing; dimensions are not supplied in the present description. Keystone was among the major American publishers of stereographs operating from 1892 into the twentieth century and marketing views both for popular entertainment and education. The Library of Congress holds a Keystone View Company stereograph of the Great Wall dated between 1934 and 1946 demonstrating that the company continued to circulate imagery of the monument well into the twentieth century; without identifying information from the present card however that date range cannot safely be assigned to this example. The stereoview belongs to a photographic culture in which distant architecture landscapes and peoples were organized into commercially distributed visual tours allowing viewers to experience foreign sites through the immersive effect of the stereoscope. Keystone became especially important within this market as competing stereograph publishers declined and by the mid to late 1920s it was the principal remaining producer of conventional card mounted stereographs. As a view of the Great Wall the card provides material evidence for the circulation of images of China within American geographic and educational culture rather than documentation of a specific historical event at the site. In very good condition. A well preserved example of Keystone's international stereographic imagery connecting the history of photography with the visual interpretation of China for American audiences. unknown books
1970réf. 153821970. Two American radical pamphlets on women in post-revolutionary China issued during the 1970s by the International Socialists and the October League Marxist-Leninist document sharply different Marxist assessments of Chinese Communist claims for women's emancipation. The International Socialists pamphlet argues that gains in women's employment and public participation remained subordinate to industrial production state-building and the political priorities of the Chinese Communist Party. The October League pamphlet presents women's liberation from a Marxist-Leninist perspective sympathetic to revolutionary China illustrating women participating in labor and International Women's Day demonstrations. The pair records competing positions within the American revolutionary left over China women's labor socialism and the meaning of emancipation during the decade following the Cultural Revolution. Two illustrated and textual pamphlets published in Highland Park and Chicago during the 1970s comprising 65 pages. The Liberation of Women in China issued by the International Socialists contains 49 pages with tables and footnotes and develops a sustained critique of women's status under Chinese Communism. The October League publication comprises 16 pages and is illustrated with black-and-white photographs showing women at work and participants in Women's Day marches. Both organizations used developments in China to address American readers engaged with Marxism revolutionary politics and women's liberation but reached markedly different conclusions about the relationship between socialist revolution and gender equality. 1 International Socialists. The Liberation of Women in China. Highland Park: International Socialists n.d. circa 1970s. 49 pages. Original printed wrappers 5.5 × 8.5 inches; tables and footnotes. The pamphlet disputes Chinese Communist claims of achieved women's emancipation arguing that women's advancement remained conditioned by the state's requirements for industrialization and production. Its statistical tables and cited sources place questions of employment domestic labor and political equality within a broader socialist critique of the Chinese state. 2 October League Marxist-Leninist. Women's Liberation: A Communist View. Chicago: October League 1976. 16 pages 5.5 × 8.5 inches illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Images show women performing workplace tasks and participants in Women's Day marches linking the organization's discussion of women's liberation to labor anti-imperialism and revolutionary politics. Published in the year of Mao Zedong's death the pamphlet records the October League's engagement with China while American Marxist organizations were debating the political legacy of the Cultural Revolution and the direction of Chinese Communism. Mild wear to wrappers; overall good condition. The two publications preserve opposing arguments circulated by American Marxist organizations over whether revolutionary China had achieved women's emancipation or subordinated it to economic and state priorities. unknown books
1966réf. 166651966. Photo Archive Mao Zedong. Chinese communist revolutionary Leader. 3 original Gelatin silver print black and white press photos of various sizes from 5 x 6.5 in. to 8 x 10 in. Images date from 1966-1977. Including a photograph of US President Richard Nixon on his historic 1972 state visit to China. Mao and Nixon are shown seated in the middle of an office; Henry Kissinger is the only other American in the image seated next to the President. Nixon's trip ended 25 years of no communication or diplomatic ties between the two countries and was the key step in normalizing relations between the U.S. and China. Original press caption printed above 1966 image: "Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung L appearing in a military uniform for the first time in years stands beside Red China's Defense Minister Lin Piao Biao during rally in Peking 8/18. Lin's appearance beside Meo heightened speculation hat he has become the number two man in the Chinese Communist hierarchy and Mao's heir-presumptive." Third photo reports on 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and includes press caption in Spanish adhered to verso likely from Cuba or South America. These original press photo taken by photojournalist within tight timeframe for the benefit of particular editorial board and with the aim of usage by the press to illustrate an article often affected public opinion in the nation. Very good condition. unknown books
1976réf. 153831976. Two American Marxist pamphlets on women in post-revolutionary China published during the 1970s by the International Socialists and the October League Marxist-Leninist document competing interpretations of women's emancipation under Chinese Communism. The Liberation of Women in China argues that women's participation in employment and public life remained subordinate to state priorities of industrialization and production while the October League publication presents women's liberation through a Marxist-Leninist framework and illustrates women participating in labor and Women's Day demonstrations. Issued by organizations occupying different positions within the American revolutionary left the pamphlets record contemporary debates over Chinese socialism women's labor revolutionary politics and the extent to which political revolution had altered women's social and economic position. Two pamphlets published in Highland Park and Chicago during the 1970s totaling 65 pages. The International Socialists publication comprises 49 pages in original printed wrappers with tables and footnotes supporting its critique of Chinese Communist policies toward women. The October League pamphlet comprises 16 pages and is illustrated with black-and-white photographs showing Women's Day marches and women performing workplace tasks. Both measure 5.5 × 8.5 inches. 1 International Socialists. The Liberation of Women in China. Highland Park: International Socialists n.d. circa 1970s. 49 pages. Original printed wrappers 5.5 × 8.5 inches; tables and footnotes. The pamphlet argues that women's liberation in China had become subordinate to the requirements of the state and industrialization challenging claims that socialist revolution had produced full equality. Its discussion places women's employment domestic responsibilities and political status within a critique of the economic priorities of the Chinese Communist state. 2 October League Marxist-Leninist. Pamphlet on women's liberation in China. Chicago: October League 1976. 16 pages. 5.5 × 8.5 inches; illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Images show Women's Day marches and women engaged in workplace tasks pairing the organization's discussion of women's liberation with visual evidence of women's participation in labor and revolutionary public culture. Published in 1976 the pamphlet records the October League's engagement with China during the final year of Mao Zedong's life and a period of intense debate within the American left over Chinese Communism and revolutionary strategy. Mild wear to wrappers; overall Very Good Condition. The two pamphlets preserve contrasting American Marxist arguments about women's status in revolutionary China with one emphasizing the limitations of state-directed emancipation and the other presenting women's labor and political participation within a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary framework. unknown books
1927réf. 167831927. Republic of China 1927 Nationalist Government Lottery Loan Five Dollars. 1927 China 5 Dollar Lottery Loan. The History of the Republic of China begins after the Qing dynasty in 1912 This was a crucial year. In early 1927 the Kuomintang-CCP rivalry led to a split in the revolutionary ranks. The CCP and the left wing of the Kuomintang decided to move the seat of the Nationalist government from Guangzhou to Wuhan. There now were three capitals in China: the internationally recognized warlord regime in Beijing; the Communist in Wuhan; and the right-wing civilian-military regime at Nanjing The Comintern cause appeared bankrupt. A new policy was instituted calling on the CCP to foment armed insurrections in both urban and rural areas in preparation for an expected rising tide of revolution. That year an insurrection was led by Mao Zedong who would later become chairman of the CCP and head of state of the People's Republic of China. unknown books
