Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 2003. First edition. 130pp; b&w plates. Tall 4to. Gray cloth, gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Mild toning to edges of leaves, else fine in like jacket.
Monograph presenting, for the first, work by American photographer Jack Birns documenting social conditions in mainland China just prior to the revolution of 1949. Edited by Carolyn Wakeman and Ken Light, foreword by Orville Schell. Fascinating and frequently brutal photographs of an epochal but little-seen moment in history.
