A Letter from Madame Chiang Kai-Shek to Boys and Girls Across the Ocean by Madame Chiang Kai-shek - 1940

Chungking, China: The China Information Publishing Company, 1940. First edition. Very good condition. Chinese propaganda pamphlet prepared in the author's name and printed in China, with an address to "Dear Little American Friends" alerting them to the suffering of China's "warphans" (a term which appears to have been coined by Madame Chiang Kai Shek at the time). [With] 4 pp pamphlet, a solicitation for financial help with her orphanage, complete with return reply envelope to the Golden Rule Foundation. Many b&w printed photographs, including crying and smiling Chinese warphans, children playing on homemade stilts and shuttlecocks, in the vegetable gardens, war scenes including the destruction left "After Japanese bombing airplanes leave", warphans on the march, pandas, junks on the Yangtze, children admitted to a "warphanage", children washing up, helping out in the clinic, doing relief work after air raids, making bamboo stools, educating villagers with posters, and children performing in… Read More

Chungking, China: The China Information Publishing Company, 1940. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 34 pages. 10.5" x 7.5" string-bound booklet prepared in the author's name to alert the world to the plight of China's "warphans" and request support for them. Memoranda for adult readers laid in. The American distributor affixed a 1917 image of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, taken at Wellesley College in 1917, inside front cover, along with an explanation of the great efforts required to get this work into readers' hands. Many reproductions of black and white photos of smiling Chinese warphans and Chinese scenes, including war damage. Color photo on front cover. Laid inside back cover is a four-page 'Cabled Postscript' from the author intended for adult readers as it contains harsher details of the condition of millions of children she is not yet able to help. This postscript includes a quote and photo of Rear… Read More