CANTON.

£250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Tourist Guide. First edition of this glossy guidebook, published to coincide with the biennial Canton Trade Fair, communist China's key outward-facing economic expo. The fair, and Canton's status as a gateway to the global community, endured even amid the xenophobic atmosphere of the Cultural Revolution.

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