Midnight

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Grey cloth boards under illustrated dust jacket with wrap-around art; plate illustrations. One page corner bent, minor edgewear to jacket. A striking Mao-era book, set in 1930s Shanghai. First published in 1933, it was praised as "the first successful attempt at realism by a Chinese writer. (Inventory #: 201722)