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122 LIANG, Xueqing, Xu Boxiong, and Lu Buzhou (eds.) Pictorial Review from Sino- Japanese Conflict in Shanghai (“Songhu yu Ri xuezhan da tu shi”). Shangai: Wen Hwa Fine Arts Press, Ltd, 1932 WAGING THE SINO-JAPANESE PROPAGANDA WAR Second edition of this Chinese propaganda photobook condemning Japan’s imperialist aggression and describing the 1932 defence of Shanghai. Three editions were produced in quick succession, and all are now scarce, with only four of any edition in total held institutionally. This is “a fascinating example of the battle waged over the control of the public narrative” during the 1930s Sino- Japanese conflicts (Parr & WassinkLundgren, p. 106). Folio. Original blue moiré-patterned straight-grain cloth, spine lettered in Chinese characters in gilt, front board with titles in silver in both Roman and Chinese characters, colour image of war-torn Shanghai mounted on a blind- stamped panel, publisher’s device to rear board in blind, blue endpapers illustrated with aerial warfare imagery. Frontispiece portrait of former Kuomintang Premier Sun Yat-sen. Illustrated throughout with maps (1 folding) and colour and black-and-white photographs, several full-page, calligraphic endorsements preceding the text, and many in- text advertisements. Slight bowing to rear board, silver title oxidized, extremities bumped with light wear to tips, inner
quotation page printed in red. Light soiling and cockling to vinyl, a few gatherings proud, small losses to foremargin of pp. 81–84, occasional marks and foxing internally. A more than acceptable copy. £750 [151624]
hinges slightly cracked with small split to upper front joint, stitching visible at a couple of gatherings, a little bubbling and foxing to endpapers, contents overall clean and bright with attractive visual material. A very good copy. ¶ Martin Parr & WassinkLundgren, The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present , second edition, 2016. £1,750 [149408] 123 LIN, Biao. Lin fu zhuxi junshi lunwen xuanji (“SelectedMilitaryWritingsofVice-Chairman Lin”). Beijing: Zhongguo renmin jiefangjun Beijing junqu siling bu junxun bu (“People’s Liberation Army Beijing Military Region”), 1970 First edition of this collection of Lin Biao’s military writings distributed only within the People’s Liberation Army and unrecorded in institutional collections. This collection of his key reports and essays on military theory was part of a cult of Lin that peaked after the 1969 Ninth Party Congress and increasingly presented a threat to Mao’s political supremacy. Two states of this work are known, with no clear priority. The other state features colour frontispieces and a leaf of Mao’s calligraphy printed in red. Octavo. Original red vinyl, title and five-pointed star to spine and front cover in gilt. Halftone portrait frontispieces showing Mao alone and Mao and Lin, epigraph and
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