Kitaianka Sume-Cheng [Soumay Tcheng the Chinese Woman]
WEI, Yu-hsiu. Kitaianka Sume-Cheng [Soumay Tcheng the Chinese Woman]. 148 pp. Photocollage illustrations by Rodchenko. 8vo., 200 x 140 mm. bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers, preserved in a new green cloth box, with a maroon morocco label. Moscow: Gos. Izd-vo, 1929.
A memoir extolling the emancipation of the Chinese woman, illustrated with photomontages by Rodchenko, who also designed the wrappers. This is a first-person account of an early Chinese feminist and revolutionary who later (after this book was written) studied at the Faculty of Law of Paris and became the first female lawyer and judge in Chinese history. Her memoir describes her rejection of the traditional role of a Chinese woman. She extols the influence of Bolshevism and she describes her active participation with the anarchist and revolutionary organizer Li Shizeng in a plan to assassinate Yuan Shih-k'ai.
OCLC lists Getty, Yale and BL. A fine copy of a rare book.
Heiting and Karasik. The Soviet Photobook 1920-1940, p.84-85. Rowell and Wye, No. 822.
Item nr. 169835
Price:
$2,750.00