Stock ID #91740 The New Year's Sacrifice. LU HSUN, ADAPTED FROM THE SHORT STORY BY.

The New Year's Sacrifice.

Peking. Foreign Languages Publishing. 1978. Stock ID #91740

Full page black and white plates from illustrations by Yung Hsiang, Hung Jen and Yao Chiao, unpaginated, colour pictorial paperback covers, oblong octavo, good copy.

This picture book is based on the well known story by Lu Hsun "The New Year's Sacrifice" which tells "the tragic life experience of Hsiang Lin's Wife, an ordinary, honest peasant woman in feudal China.....and reveals fully the reactionary essense of old China's four thick "ropes" of political, clan and religious authority, and that of the husband, all cruelly oppressing the Chinese labouring people through the country's millenia of feudal society." Taken from the Synopsis.

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