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What is this children's book?

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1mysterymax
Modifié : Juil 24, 2014, 8:03 am

Any anyone tell me what this delightful book is?

2lilisin
Juil 24, 2014, 9:50 am

紅小兵
ホンシャオピン

Seems to be a book about the Cultural Revolution in China by Hou Kokuryou (彭, 国良, ホウ, コクリョウ) published in 1975.

3Yamanekotei
Juil 24, 2014, 2:02 pm

Oh I just realised that this book was printed Traditional Chinese. Or was it in Japanese?

http://iss.ndl.go.jp/books/R100000002-I000010541340-00

4mysterymax
Juil 24, 2014, 2:33 pm

I don't know if it is Japanese or Chinese. It seems to be a children's book. When you open it on the top of the left page are a few words and then the two pages have pictures of children doing various things.

5lilisin
Juil 24, 2014, 4:37 pm

The title 紅小兵 is Chinese and then right above it you have the reading of the characters in Japanese: ホンシャオピン (HonChaoPin). Perhaps you have a Japanese edition with furigana over the Chinese words for pronunciation?

6mysterymax
Juil 24, 2014, 6:21 pm

Would it help if I scanned some of the other pages?

7edwinbcn
Modifié : Sep 4, 2014, 9:48 pm

> It would help if you scan the title page, that is to say the page that has the name of the publisher + place of publication on it. In Chinese books this os sometimes behind the socalled title page (as in Western books), but sometimes it is at the back of a book.

According to Chinese wikipedia, 紅小兵 "Hong Xiao Bing" ("Red Little Soldier" was a booklet used in primary and secondary schools to induce students into becoming "little" Red Guards.

But the cover of your book looks a bit too "tame' for that.

8mysterymax
Modifié : Sep 10, 2014, 3:21 pm

>7 edwinbcn: Here it is

9Settings
Sep 10, 2014, 3:53 pm

Not very informative in knowing what the book is "about," but here's some links.

WorldCat Link-
http://www.worldcat.org/title/honshaopin/oclc/674967262

Links to places selling the Chinese version-
http://www.997788.com/s102_17866608/
http://book.kongfz.com/3498/182404699/

The Japanese version-
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA38567168

10mysterymax
Sep 10, 2014, 4:57 pm

>7 edwinbcn: Yes, it is quite tame. About as tame as our early Dick and Jane books.

11edwinbcn
Sep 14, 2014, 10:04 am

Yes, clearly published in Beijing, China, in 1875 by the Foreign Language Press.

Japanese edition of a book published in many langauge versions.

According to kongfz.com (listed above) it has some collector's value, priced around 40 Chinese yuan.

12mysterymax
Sep 14, 2014, 3:09 pm

What is 40 Chinese yuan in ballpark figures? Mostly I just want to know title??? Something about it.