Tsen Tsonming (translated): 'Reve D'Une Nuit D'Hiver (Cent Q...

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Tsen Tsonming (translated): 'Reve D'Une Nuit D'Hiver (Cent Quatrains Des Thang)', Lyon & Paris, 1927, limited edition, number 820 of 1,000 copies, signed & inscribed by Tsen Tsonming at front "a B.E. Monsieur le Ministre W.7. Oudendijk. Hommage respectereux le traducteur Tsen Tsonming" and with red Chinese characters inkstamp, 113,[2]pp, b/w engraved ills. throughout, contemporary half calf gilt. Tsen Tsonming (1896-1939) was born in Fuzhou and studied in Montargis, south of Paris, with his revolutionary older sister, Tsen Sing, and was associated with other notable Chinese figures such as Wang Jingwei and Cai Yuanpei. He married a fellow student Fan Tchunpi in France, where they both remained for 18 years, moving in a cricle of fellow poets and artists, before returning to China in 1930. In the aftermath of the 1937 Japanese invasion of China, Tsen Tsonming was due to leave China accompanying Wang Jingwei on the 21 March 1939, but on the evening before they departed, Kuomintang agents, believing they had assassinated Wang Jingwei, mistakenly injure Tsen Tsonming, and he succumbed to his injuries at the age of 43