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CHINA] TING-TUEN-LING, LETTER FROM THE PROVINCE OF CHANG-SI - The little slipper (Thou-sio-sié). Translation by Charles Aubert. With 6 original etchings reproduced by Frédéric Chevalier. Paris, Librairie de l'Eau-Forte, (1875). Large in-8, green half-percaline with corners, marbled paper boards, title page, yellow silk cover preserved. [26] ff. anopistographs and 6 etchings on both sides. This Chinese writer, a political refugee in France following the Taiping revolt, was taken under the wing of Théophile Gautier to whom he pays tribute in his preface. Ting-Tuen-Ling was the teacher of Judith, the daughter of Théophile Gautier. After Gautier's death, he married Caroline Julie Liégeois who accused him of polygamy. It was during his stay in prison that he wrote this little novel.
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