Soviet Russia in China; A Summing-Up At Seventy

Chiang, Kai-shek

Edité par Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1958

A propos de cet article

Octavo, xv, [1], 432pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. Stated "first printing 1958" on copyright page, but was preceded by a condensed version in 1957 from the same publisher. Offsetting to endpapers, dust jacket previously taped down. Light toning to leafends, some foxing to endpapers. Complete with 9 fold-out maps of China and Taiwan, from 1923-1949. In the publisher's dust jacket, $6.00 on front flap, tape marks to both flaps, bright illustrations, a near fine example. Stamp on front free endpaper, with "Compliments of Gen. Peng Meng-Chi Ca, Chief of the General Staff, Ministry of National Defense, The Republic of China." This copy is signed by Chiang Kai-shek on the half title, with date below in English. This work was translated under the direction of Madame Chiang Kai-shek. It was preceded by a condensed version in 1957, also published by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. The work from 1958 was revised and enlarged to provide "the English reading public a more exact and idiomatic rendering of the book from the original Chinese." Chiang Kai-shek (1887 1975) rose to power as a member of the Kuomintang (KMT) and became the leader of the Nationalist government in China after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. Chiang led the Northern Expedition to unify China under the KMT, and subsequently, he served as the leader of the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937 1945) and the Chinese Civil War (1945 1949). After the KMT's defeat by the Communist Party of China, Chiang fled to Taiwan in 1949, where he continued to lead the Republic of China until his death in 1975.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Soviet Russia in China; A Summing-Up At Seventy
• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York
• Date de parution: 1958
• Reliure: Cloth
• Illustrateur: The first American edition of Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-Up At Seventy, signed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very good
• État de la jaquette: near fine
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • World History