1922 · Shanghai
by [Women]
Shanghai: World Book Co, 1922. Modernized version of an ancient Chinese classic being the second volume of "One Hundred Beauties" with 50 full-page portraits and pictorial titlepage and colophon, text in Chinese, original green printed front wrapper and tan back wrapper, hand-sewn. Wrappers a bit soild and worn at edges as are some pages but generally sound, housed in custom-made black cloth over boards clamshell box. Issued during the Republic period when Shanghai was know as the Paris of the East and the Chinese cinema flourished as a new art form - that effect seen in the images in this book. (Inventory #: 9947)