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The mean and ugly Emperor Cho Cho Shang orders that everything is to made opposite, with all things kind and decent to be deemed evil and all things evil deemed good, causing the people of China much distress, until a few brave souls defy the emperor and set things straight again.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Yiddish
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Original Language: Yiddish
Grade 4 Up?A newly illustrated edition of Singer's tale of a mean, ugly, ignorant emperor who, in order to deify himself, forces all of his subjects to follow his example of doing the opposite of what is true and decent. The earlier edition (HarperCollins, 1971; o.p.) was illustrated with line drawings by William Pene Du Bois. Jusim's full-color pictures are more ornate, and words and paintings are placed against a burnt-edged, parchmentlike background. The artist has decorated the text with vignettes that bring it to life. Tiny details adorn clothing, add personality to facial features and expressions, and exude irony and humor. Three of the six full-page pictures, all surrounded by the same brown-toned, surrealistic border, can be viewed upside down for a different look at the scene that suggests the author's true intent. This fable mirrors the history of China as well as the Hitler years in Eastern Europe as it teaches a lesson in human foolishness and tyrannical oppression. Paired with Lois Lowry's The Giver (Houghton, 1993) when using it with older audiences, it could provide an interesting tool for discussion.?Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0374376816
- ISBN 13 9780374376819
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages1
- IllustratorJusim Julian
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THE TOPSY-TURVY EMPEROR OF CHINA; Isaac Bashevis Singer / Pictures by Julian Jusim / Translated from the Yiddish by Elizabeth Shub
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Julian Jusim (illustrator). First American Edition Thus Illustrated. Tall, slender 8vo, light red boards with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a Chinese emperor with left arm and finger pointing toward heaven; illustrated by Julian Jusim, [32] pages simuilating parchment. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902 - 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He was also awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970). Julian Jusim is a Russian-born illustrator now living and working in Germany. The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China was first published in America by Harper & Row in 1971. The Julian Jusim first illustrated edition was published in Germany in 1993 as Der Kaiser von China. "A dark tale of the eternal "struggle between good and evil, beauty and ugliness," from a master, given pristine treatment in the illustrations."--Kirkus Reviews EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! Wonderful illustrations!. Seller Inventory # 5217
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TOPSY-TURVY EMPEROR OF CHINA
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Farrar Straus & Giroux
(1971)
ISBN 10: 0374376816
ISBN 13: 9780374376819
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Book Description Jusim, Julian (illustrator). SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. THE TOPSY-TURVY EMPEROR OF CHINA. Pictures by William Pene du Bois. Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shub. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First edition. Small 4to. Fine in a very good dust-jacket (price-clipped, spine-sunned, shalloe creasing and small nicks along tope-edge of back panel). Seller Inventory # 58076
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