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A. Smedley, Chinese Destinies 1933
A. Smedley, Chinese Destinies 1933
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Description
Heading: (China)
Author: Smedley, Agnes
Title: Chinese Destinies: Sketches of Present-Day China
Place Published: New York
Publisher:The Vanguard Press
Date Published: 1933
Description: viii, 315 pp. Yellow cloth stamped in red. First Edition.Account of the turmoil in China between about 1928-1933 by Agnes Smedley, an American who would eventually become active in the Chinese and Indian independence movements yet drew criticism and heavy suspicion from all sides due to her strongly independent views.
Condition
Light soiling and fading to cloth, foxing to outer leaves but mostly clean; very good or better.
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A. Smedley, Chinese Destinies 1933

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