CHINESE ANTI-IMPERIALISM, 1919-1945.

A collection of rare, mostly left-wing British ephemera examining Chinese struggles against Japan.

CHINA CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. Who fights China? London: Printed at the Farleigh Press for the China Campaign Committee, [c. 1938]. 8vo (212 x 140 mm.), 16pp. Original stapled wrappers (covers lightly faded at extremities). This pamphlet implores the British public to join the boycott against Japanese goods in order to precipitate the end of the war with China.

LI-TSE, Chin and George F. GREEN. China - the prey? The social, economic and political background of the Chinese people. London: International Publishing Company, 1938. 8vo (232 x 155 mm.), 47pp. Original printed wrappers.

LEAGUE AGAINST IMPERIALISM. China. London: League Against Imperialism, 1936. 8vo (212 x 140 mm.), 24pp. Original stapled wrappers (lightly soiled).

COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN. China fights for freedom. London: Communist Party of Great Britain, 1937. 8vo (187 x 127 mm.), 16pp. Original stapled wrappers (lightly browned at lower edge).
Provenance

: Marx Memorial Library (ink stamp on upper cover) – ink shelf mark on upper cover.

THE CHINA CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. Chinese students and their country’s struggle. London: The China Campaign Committee, [c. 1938]. 8vo (183 x 123mm), 32pp. Original stapled wrappers (a few small stains, staples rusting).

HALDANE, Charlotte (1894-1969). Report on the situation in China and the Far East. London: China Campaign Committee, [c. 1939]. 8vo (211 x 137 mm.), 15pp. Original stapled self-wrappers (a few faint marks, marginal vertical scratch to upper cover). SCARCE. WorldCat lists no institutional holdings. Charlotte Haldane, feminist, suffragette, and editor of the anti-fascist magazine Woman Today, visited China on behalf of the Women’s World Committee for Peace and Democracy and the China Campaign Committee. Her report includes details of the Chinese political situation based on interviews with leading Chinese officials including the Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

ARNOT, Robert Page (1890-1986). Japan. London: Labour Montly, [c. 1942]. 8vo (215 x 140 mm.), 23pp. Original stapled wrappers (lightly soiled). Arnot, a British Communist journalist and politician, examines Japanese international relations in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbour. The upper cover depicts a Japanese man atop Mount Fuji, holding a Tommy gun in front of a rising sun emanating the shape of the Swastika.

UNITED AID TO CHINA FUND. 2pp typed and signed letter from Stanely Dixon, Chairman of the fund, thanking the addressee for helping the Chinese cause and stating his hope that, ‘as a result of any meeting you address, a permanent group may be left behind ready to work for China and to promote good feeling between our two nations’. A list of Vice-Presidents of the fund includes individuals such as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Mrs C. R. Atlee and Mrs Anthony Eden, Sir Edwin Lutyens, and Sir John Hope Simpson.

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