![Item #2610 [Radicalism] [Communism] [China] Why America Is Interested in the Chinese Communists....](/pictures/thumb/2610.jpeg?v=1668474348)
New York: New Century Publishers, 1945. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 125 mm), 16 pages, in stapled pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Text of a talk given by Communist leader Earl Browder in March 1945. He calls the Kuomintang corrupt, saying it has paralyzed the Chinese..... More
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1981. First Edition. Octavo (8 3/8 x 6 1/2 inches; 215 x 165 mm), 54, [2] pages in stapled, illustrated wrappers (soft cover). A ferocious Soviet attack against Maoism, the Gang of Four, and Deng Xiaoping. "During his visit to the United..... More
New York: Guaranty Trust Company of New York, 1919. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches; 240 x 162 mm), 24 pages, in side-stapled, brown wrappers (soft cover). A rare 1919 guide to doing business in China by Guaranty Trust Company of New York, a predecessor company..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 2000. Advance Reading Copy. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm), 226 pages, in illustrated wrappers housed in an illustrated slipcase. SIGNED by Ha Jin on the front free end paper. A collection of 12 stories by the celebrated Chinese-American..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1950. First Edition. Gus Hall, national secretary of the Communist Party USA, denounces American foreign policy in Asia. Speaking at Madison Square Garden on June 28, 1950, Hall declared that the United States "has launched an undeclared shooting war against all the peoples of Asia..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches; 247 x 195 mm), 252, [4] pages in blue cloth, silver titles to spine, in a photo-illustrated dust jacket. INSCRIBED on the half title to William and Rose Styron..... More
![Item #2609 [Radicalism] [Communism] [China] How to be a Good Communist. Liu Shao-chi](/pictures/thumb/2609.jpeg?v=1668474347)
New York: New Century Publishers, 1952. Small Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 195 x 135 mm), 64 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Pamphlet by Chinese Communist Party theoretician and senior leader Liu Shao-chi (1898-1969). Liu, whose name today is rendered as Liu Shaoqi, was formerly..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1945. Scarce pamphlet by Mao calling for defeat of Japan in World War II. He believes the Kuomintang government has been too passive in fighting Japan and says the Kuomintang is kept in power by reactionary cliques of bankers and big landowners. Mao's Communists came..... More
Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, 1966. A collection of more than two dozen poems by Mao Tse-tung, translated and annotated by Wong Man. Unsurprisingly, most poems are of a political nature. This book should not be confused with one issued a year later by the same publisher, Ten More Poems..... More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1966. The sixth in a series of pamphlets issued at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution by China's Foreign Languages Press, an important series in which China attempted to explain the Cultural Revolution to foreign audiences. This pamphlet features translations of five newspaper editorials about the..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 215 x 143 mm), xx, 530 pages, red quarter cloth over black boards, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped dust jacket (hard cover). A massive..... More