SONG, Qingling (intro.).

£600 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

China. First edition, issued to showcase some of the scientific, industrial, and cultural achievements of 1950s China. Song Qingling, Sun Yat-Sen's widow and a vice-chair of the People's Government, extols the power of "500 million people moving ahead eagerly and triumphantly" and calls for "a world free from tensions, progressing in peace."Besides politics and the growth of light and heavy industry, the portfolio emphasizes the country's strides forward in agriculture, earth science, and botany. Plates show a geological survey team in the field in central south China, female surveyors, a scientist experimenting with soya beans, and the artificial pollination of sunflowers.

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