Ye Ban Zhong Sheng The Sound Of Bells At Midnight Or Jie Guan Fan Ren Kou Chu Yang Lun An Argument

by Tan Jingmizi

$6,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Woodblock-printed. 17 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers with printed title-slip on upper cover, new stitching. Yokohama: Chūka kaikan, 1872. First edition of this rare work criticizing the Chinese-Cuba “coolie” trade, with numerous eyewitness accounts of the laborers’ suffering. It was published in Yokohama by a person from Shunyi Shijiang 順邑獅江 in Guangdong under the alias Tan Jingmizi. Our first edition, published by the

• Binding: Wrappers

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