First five-year plan for development of the national economy of the People's Republic of China in 1953-1957

1956. 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.