Nanniwan = 南泥湾

Shaanxi People's Publishing House = Shanxi ren min chu ban she , 1975-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. Shanxi ren min chu ban she = Shaanxi People's Publishing House [Published Date: 1975]. Hardcover, [80] pp (unpaginated). Text in Chinese. Good+ in good+ dust jacket. Cream Paper over Boards with Maroon cloth on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers and light overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing and soiling to jacket as well with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. This is a photo album entitled "Nanniwan" filled with black and white photos and a few propaganda paintings and photos in color. This collection consists primarily of photos taken by Chinese photographer Wu Qinxian in Yan'an and Nanniwan between 1937 and 1943, It also includes a few photos of Nanniwan as of the mid 1970s. Wu Yinxian (1900 - 1994), considered one of the great Chinese photographers, was a visual storyteller who had a close acquaintance with Chairman Mao Zedong, Initially taking pictures of the working class in Shanghai and their difficult lives, Wu Yinxian went on to work as a cinematographer on a number of extremely popular, often leftist, films in the 1930s and 40s, among them the large-scale documentary entitled  "Nanniwan" filmed by Mr. Wu Yinxian in 1943.  Nanniwan was the location where the Eighth Route Army opened up wasteland and cultivated land during the Anti-Japanese War.