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Blockbuchbindung. Karton. (teils verblichen, etwas berieben). Über Vogel-, Blumen- und Tiermalerei. - Einige Textseiten etwas verklebt und mit kleinen Defekten aufgeschnitten, Bildseiten nicht betroffen. Ha-C3-60 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2000.

First edition, first printing, of this tribute to the artistic talents of one of modern China's most influential female politicians. In 1943, she became only the second woman to address a joint session of the US Congress. Together with her husband Chiang Kai-Shek, May-Ling Soong (1897-2003) dominated Chinese and then Taiwanese politics for almost fifty years. She was a member of the powerful Soong dynasty: her sister was married to Sun Yat-Sen (the first President of the Republic of China following the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911), while her brother was China's leading financier for most of the 1930s and 1940s. Educated and Westernized, she represented Chiang's administration on the international stage. Her 1943 speech in Washington, and her ability to outmanoeuvre both President Roosevelt and the senior Republican Wendell Willkie, secured a lifeline of billions of dollars in American aid for the Chinese war effort. Her impression on the American public was long-lasting: until 1967, she appeared regularly on American lists of the ten most admired women in the world. Following the evacuation of Chiang's administration to Taiwan, she was First Lady of the Republic of China until his death. Included are 8 landscapes, 2 orchids, 2 bamboos, and 12 flower paintings, the majority of which are published for the first time. Folio. With 24 colour illustrations. Captions in Chinese, postscript in English and Chinese. Original gold cloth wrappers, gold thread xianzhuang stitching, spine ends capped with gold silk, calligraphic title label flecked in gilt. Housed in publisher's gold cloth folding case with calligraphic title label flecked in gilt, plastic toggles. Touch of soiling to title label: a fine copy in very good case, light scuffing and finger soiling, a little skinning to title label, one toggle damaged and sometime glued onto loop. …