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Rare and modern books

Kiang Kang-Hu

Chinese Civilization, an introduction to Sinology

Chung Hwa Book Co. , Ltd, Shanghai ,1935,

110.00 €

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Author
Kiang Kang-Hu
Publishers
Chung Hwa Book Co. , Ltd, Shanghai ,1935
Keyword
CINA China Chine
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

8vo, original red cloth, 676 pages., Preface is dated June 30, 1933, but the book was not printed until 1935. A series of lectures in english on Chinese civilization delivered between 1913 and 1933 at McGill University in Montreal by a Chinese scholar who subsequently returned to China and had them printed in Shanghai, under Japanese threat. and bombings. He mentions the urgency of understanding Chinese history and culture because a Chinese Soviet is functioning in the Yangtse valley; communism and anti-communism becoming the pretext of further mayhem. The original scarce item, not a reprint. .