CHINA.

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Guangdong, 1949-1959. First edition of this photobook issued in honour of the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic of China, with a 1964 gift inscription from Solomon Adler, one of the select group of Westerners permanently resident in China during the Mao era.An economist by training, Adler (1909-1994) worked in the US in the 1940s but fell under suspicion during the "red scare." After a period spent at Cambridge University, he moved to China in 1962, living in Beijing until his death three decades later and working on the official Chinese translation into English of Mao's Selected Works. His inscription, found on the front free endpaper, presents the copy to a nephew.

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