Second edition. One of 7500 copies. Very rare.

Design was created by Alexander Rodchenko, using mostly combinations of lines as well as geometrically cut photographs showing local day-to-day life. The design resembles his experimental ‘liniizm’ (i.e. linearism), occurred in 1919-1920, and thus the book is the point where his constructivist and non-objective conceptions met.

This book by futurist poet Sergei Tretyakov (1892-1937) described unrests in Chinese society of the 1920s, as close as possible, and contrasted to official press. It combined an interview with student Tan Shih-hua, that was conducted by Tretyakov in Peking University, and author’s impressions of country. Actually, the interview embraced more than twenty-six years of a man’s life so it was considered the biographical interview.

Worldcat shows copies of 2nd ed. in LoC, Columbia and Stanford University, Getty Institute and Harvard College.