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[CHOU HAN (FL. 1891) – GRIFFITH JOHN (1831-1912), TRANSLATOR.]
The Cause of the Riots in the Yangtse Valley. A "Complete Picture Gallery". Hankow: 1891. Oblong 4° (282 x 345mm). Title-pages in Chinese and English, Chinese title printed in red, green and black, 32 woodblock plates printed in colours, introduction and descriptive text in English printed in three columns. (100mm marginal tear and some small stains to English title, some dogearing and light soiling, light vertical crease throughout.) Original stitched wrappers (covers with small holes and tears, affecting a couple of letters, light soiling). Provenance: occasional pencil annotation.
VERY RARE. This work by Chou Han, described by John as ‘a gentleman of high official rank (Taotai) in Hunan’ (col.3), was part of an orchestrated propaganda campaign aimed at preventing Western Christian missionaries from working and travelling in China. ‘Chou Han … was at the head of the Hunan reptile press, and some of the vilest and most violent of its publications are to be ascribed to him’ (John, A voice from China, 1907, p.220). Chou Han himself is probably represented in plates IX, XIII, XXVI and XXIX; the images are virulently anti-foreigner, and specifically anti-Christian. John translated and circulated the present work for his own propaganda purposes, in order to draw attention to the British authorities of the problems faced by missionaries in China. ONLY 3 COPIES CAN BE TRACED AT AUCTION IN THE PAST 40 YEARS (ABPC & RBH).
The Cause of the Riots in the Yangtse Valley. A "Complete Picture Gallery". Hankow: 1891. Oblong 4° (282 x 345mm). Title-pages in Chinese and English, Chinese title printed in red, green and black, 32 woodblock plates printed in colours, introduction and descriptive text in English printed in three columns. (100mm marginal tear and some small stains to English title, some dogearing and light soiling, light vertical crease throughout.) Original stitched wrappers (covers with small holes and tears, affecting a couple of letters, light soiling). Provenance: occasional pencil annotation.
VERY RARE. This work by Chou Han, described by John as ‘a gentleman of high official rank (Taotai) in Hunan’ (col.3), was part of an orchestrated propaganda campaign aimed at preventing Western Christian missionaries from working and travelling in China. ‘Chou Han … was at the head of the Hunan reptile press, and some of the vilest and most violent of its publications are to be ascribed to him’ (John, A voice from China, 1907, p.220). Chou Han himself is probably represented in plates IX, XIII, XXVI and XXIX; the images are virulently anti-foreigner, and specifically anti-Christian. John translated and circulated the present work for his own propaganda purposes, in order to draw attention to the British authorities of the problems faced by missionaries in China. ONLY 3 COPIES CAN BE TRACED AT AUCTION IN THE PAST 40 YEARS (ABPC & RBH).
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