'The Road to Shanghai' by Henry Champly
Print
1936 (printed)
1936 (printed)
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Printed book jacket for 'The Road to Shanghai' by Henry Champly, depicting the idealised figure of a naked white woman in the palm of an enormous black hand with long fingernails. The tagline reads 'White Slave Trade in the East'.
Object details
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| Title | 'The Road to Shanghai' by Henry Champly (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Printed book jacket |
| Brief description | Book jacket for 'The Road to Shanghai' by Henry Champly. Great Britain, 1936. |
| Physical description | Printed book jacket for 'The Road to Shanghai' by Henry Champly, depicting the idealised figure of a naked white woman in the palm of an enormous black hand with long fingernails. The tagline reads 'White Slave Trade in the East'. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Henry Champly was a French writer, known for his propagandistic and overtly racist books, focussing on white supremacy and concerns about white slavery and sex work in the first half of the 20th century. This book has also been published under the extended title 'The Road To Shanghai: White Slave Traffic'. |
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| Accession number | E.1970-1987 |
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| Record created | July 2, 2013 |
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