Manners and Customs in Manchoukuo
Masatoshi Kobayashi, Noboru HidakaManchoukuo: The Manchuria Daily News, 1942.
First Edition.
30cm x 21cm. 122 pages, illustrations, some colour. Grey cloth, white lettering.
A detailed and thoroughly illustrated guide in English to life and culture in Manchuria. Published at the height of WWII, depicting a completely normal world inside the Japanese puppet state with chapters on races and tribes, costumes, residential houses, food and drink, salutation and etiquette, tastes and pastimes, annual festivals, religions, symbols of religious faith, and happy and unhappy affairs.
Recased. Minor discolouration to spine. A few minor soils and a couple of minor stains. Good Condition.
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AU$1,000