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Man hua ("Cartoons"). First edition, second printing, publisher's file copy, ink stamped on the rear wrapper in Chinese, "Shanghai Science and Technology Press, archive copy, not for removal". Copies of either printing are now scarce, especially in this condition: WorldCat records only a copy of the second printing at the National Library of China, with none in Western commerce.This booklet reproduces 73 cartoons drawn by artists across the country to educate young people about modern science and economic development. The cartoons are lively and often playful; for example, one shows a laughing cow being serenaded by a violinist to increase its milk production, while another introduces the agricultural benefits of cloud seeding with a grinning pilot and farmers dancing in the fields. A final example presents a Heath Robinson-esque device to combat laziness - in the new China, there can be no shirking!In the late 1950s, paper was often of poor quality and in short supply, meaning publications from the period rarely survive in great numbers today. For the October 1958 first printing, only 10,000 copies were produced, with a further 3,000 issued the following March.

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