HONG KONG.

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We Shall Win! First edition, first printing, scarce in this condition, of this charged and sometimes graphic bilingual photobook published by the pro-Beijing newspaper Ta Kung Pao in the wake of the Hong Kong riots and the burning of the British mission in Beijing in August 1967. Despite all the bluster, privately Mao and other communist leaders were extremely keen to see the territory, an important trading partner, remain in British hands.Following the explosive beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China, left-wing propagandists in Hong Kong infiltrated labour disputes and protests over conditions to fan the flames of anti-British sentiment. The present work presents dozens of photographs to show how patriotic residents have "armed themselves with the great thought of Mao Tse-tung" in a struggle against "anti-national oppression" (foreword). A final section boasts of the global support for these actions, including from London's very own Finsbury Communist Association.The present work was issued in two variants of the wrappers, with no discernible priority. The front cover of the other design is lettered "The Upheaval in Hong Kong" in white against the same red-drab colour scheme.

• Printing: first

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