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Kessle, Gun. Fine. Book First printing. Oblong quarto. 39 pages of color photographs, 83 pages of black & white photographs. Red and black cloth, with gilt lettering on spine and gilt Chinese symbols on cover. Rear top corner crunched, many of the upper rear corner pages inside the book are creased and bent. Chipped and worn pictorial dust jacket. A good copy.
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Very Good. First paperback ed. Very good. Slightly worn on the edges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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F in VG jacket. F/VG. 4to. original red cloth gilt in dustwrapper (head of spine slightly frayed); pp. 160, with numerous illustrations. Heavy item (1.2kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A near fine copy.
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Kessle, Gun (Photographer) Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. 160 p. illus. (part col. ) map, ports. 26 cm. From publisher's material: 'What is China really like today? The 172 photographs with accompanying text which Jan Myrdal and his wife, artist-photographer Gun Kessle, have selected for this volume represent one of the most direct, sensitive answers to that question now available to concerned or curious Westerners. Chinese Journal is the result of an unrestricted nine-month tour which these two perceptive Europeans were allowed to make throughout communist China. ' From Wikipedia: "Jan Myrdal (born 19 July 1927 in Bromma, Stockholm) is a Swedish author, leftist-political writer and columnist. He is an honorary doctor of literature at Upsala College in New Jersey, USA, and a Ph.D. at Nankai University in Tianjin in China. He has lived at various times in the United States, Afghanistan, Iran and India. He is the son of the Social Democrats and Nobel Laureates Alva Myrdal and Gunnar Myrdal; he broke completely with both at an early age for personal reasons while keeping them in esteem for their public achievements. He was married to Gun Kessle, a photographer, graphic artist and writer, until her death in 2007. She illustrated many of his works. In 1982 Myrdal went back to the Chinese village he reported on in 1962 and recorded his observations in Return to a Chinese Village (1984), in which he expressed his disappointment at the changes that had occurred, and his continued support of Mao's programs, including the Cultural Revolution....Myrdal is a prolific writer, both of books and newspaper columns; he was first employed as a journalist at a local newspaper, after having dropped out of gymnasium to concentrate on his writing. He got his breakthrough in 1963 with the book Report from a Chinese Village, an anthropologic study of a Chinese village in Mao's China. Subsequently he has written many similar "reports" and travel notes from Asian countries, including India, Afghanistan and the then-Soviet Central Asian republics, in collaboration with his life partner, Gun Kessle. His 1968 book Confessions of a Disloyal European was chosen by the New York Times as one of that year's 'ten books of particular significance and excellence'. Myrdal's best-known works include his many autobiographical books, I novels, mainly about his childhood and his complex, conflicted relationship with his parents, Alva Myrdal and Gunnar Myrdal. The first of these books caused scandal when they were first published in Sweden, due to the bad light they cast on Alva and Gunnar, who were among the most esteemed public intellectuals and politicians of their time. Myrdal is an eclectic author, who has developed a wide range of special interests in topics deemed obscure by many, and who seeks to place art, literature and popular culture in an ever-political context of historical and social forces. He has written books on such diverse subjects as Meccano, wartime propaganda posters and French 18th-century caricature art; he even edited a wine column for a short while. The line dividing art, literature and politics is thin and fluid, if at all existent, in Myrdal's works, and he will regularly dive into far-reaching historical and cultural exposés in his political agitation. Jan Myrdal in an open-air meeting against a Swedish involvement in the war in Afghanistan, October 27, 2007Politically, Myrdal belongs to the far-left and is an adherent of or at least associated with Maoism and other forms of third worldist anti-Soviet communism; he has been a fervent advocate of anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist causes. His influence on the cultural and political life of Sweden was most prominent during the 1970s, when he was one of the main intellectuals of the radical left of the time, which culminated in the Vietnam war protest movement, of which he was a central figure. However, unlike many of his former supporters, he has maintained his views up to this day, regardless of their diminishing...
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Pbk 4to 160pp illustr photos map light shelfwear to covers previous owner's name neatly on front endpaper otherwise a very good clean tight unmarked copy.
