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CHINESE-JAPANESE WAR - MALAYSIAN OCCUPATION LIU KANG. Chop Suey. A Selection [-third collection] from a Host of Shocking Events Experienced in Malaya during the Japanese Occupation, 3 vol. [complete], FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, [Singapore, Eastern Art Co., 1946] image 1
CHINESE-JAPANESE WAR - MALAYSIAN OCCUPATION LIU KANG. Chop Suey. A Selection [-third collection] from a Host of Shocking Events Experienced in Malaya during the Japanese Occupation, 3 vol. [complete], FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, [Singapore, Eastern Art Co., 1946] image 2
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CHINESE-JAPANESE WAR - MALAYSIAN OCCUPATION
LIU KANG. Chop Suey. A Selection [-third collection] from a Host of Shocking Events Experienced in Malaya during the Japanese Occupation, 3 vol. [complete], FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, [Singapore, Eastern Art Co., 1946]

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CHINESE-JAPANESE WAR - MALAYSIAN OCCUPATION

LIU KANG. Chop Suey. A Selection [-third collection] from a Host of Shocking Events Experienced in Malaya during the Japanese Occupation, 3 vol. [complete], FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, 36 lithographed plates, all but one with accompanying leaf of descriptive text, publisher's wrappers, the upper covers pictorial with lettering in red, some loss to spines, small tears at margins of volume 1, small oblong 4to (170 x 248mm.), [Singapore, Eastern Art Co., 1946]

Footnotes

Scarce complete set of Chinese artist Liu Kang's powerful record depicting in graphic detail the horrors (tortures, humiliations etc.) that the Japanese army inflicted on the Chinese and local population in Malaya, during the Japanese occupation of 1942-1945. It is dedicated to "all those who lost their lives at the hands of Japanese Fascism". A fourth volume was advertised but seemingly never published.

Saleroom notices

Should read "Chinese-born Singapore" artist in description. Volume 3, plate 26 does not have the descriptive text leaf

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