180 page June 1991 Special Edition on Li Xianglan.
Chinese/Japanese books and magazines read opposite from western books:
the front page of the magazine p. 1, (with the spine on the right-hand side):
turn the above front page from left to right and this is what you see: p. 3 and 2
(I replaced original p. 2 ad with above iconic photo of 16yr old Yoshiko)
p. 5 p. 4
p. 7 p. 6
Pingdingshan Village: The great open-pit mine in Fushun:
her Yong'an Elementary School: the Yamaguchi family residence in Fushun:
"Fengtian was my castle of dreams". Below, Mukden Imperial Palace photos:
old Japanese Theater: the elegant Dining Room in old Yamato Hotel:
1934: a typical 'hard-seat' section of the Manchuria train from Mukden to Beijing:
Mukden scenes:
the Songhua River: below: Harbin Mukden:
with "Eternity" actress Chen Yunchang: photos of Li Xianglan from Yoshiko's album:
news-clippings about the 1943 film "Glory to Eternity" from her scrap-book:
- note the kissing scene below from "Shining Day of My Life", it became a hot topic because it was one of the first such scenes in Japan movies. Yoshiko was cutting-edge.
this series shows the Kamakura tea-house of Isamu Noguchi and Yoshiko:
this series of pictures is of the Shiki Theater production:
caption on small fetching picture above: she appeared in the Continental Trilogy
and the back cover p. 180:
Note to readers: I have taken the liberty of replacing those pages which originally only featured ads (such as p.2 and p. 179 above), with a couple of my favorite pictures. I left the back cover as is.
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