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Wu, L.T., Editor-in-Chief China as She Is: a Comprehensive Album.
Shanghai: the Liang You Printing & Publishing Co., 1934.
Folio, the second impression, illustrated with twenty colored plates at the beginning, twenty-three divisional leaves illustrated with a color plate mounted on decorative paper spotted in gold; text photogravure illustrations in black and white throughou; text in Chinese and English, with sections on twenty-three regions including Hunan, Szechuan, Yunnan, Manchuria, Tibet, Mongolia, and others; bound in publisher's fancy textured cloth spine and boards, with folding maps with demographic charts on thin paper after the text; presented by Gene Kong Tang of General Electric to Judge Milton J. Helmick as a holiday present with flyleaf inscription, 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
Judge Helmick (1885-1943) was appointed to a ten-year term at the U.S. Court for China in Shanghai in 1934. When the Japanese occupied the Shanghai Consulate in December of 1941, Helmick was taken prisoner and held for about six months before being returned to the States. After the U.S. relinquished its rights to territories in China, his position was effectively eliminated, but he returned to China in 1944 to familiarize himself with China's new legal system. He remained there, working for Standard Vacuum Oil in Shanghai until 1951. In the mid-1950s, he served as a Judge in North Africa, and ultimately retired to San Francisco.
