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Stamp catalogues prior to Ma's were all available only in English and were printed overseas by foreign stamp dealers, often including incomplete or contradicting information among the various catalogues. The catalogue had made it possible for universal sharing and education of early Chinese stamps by all collectors in China or overseas.
The "Large Dragons", China's first postage stamps, 1878, of the Chinese: 郵政局; pinyin: yóuzhèngjú post office. The history of the postage stamps and postal history of China is complicated by the gradual decay of Imperial China and the years of civil war and Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 1940s.
The Chan's Colour-Illustrated Stamp Catalogue of China (1878-1949) is published in softcover and hardcover editions. Text is in both English and Chinese. As of 2011 the latest edition is the 2-volume, 898 page, 2010 edition.
Ma Ren Chuen, Ma's Illustrated Catalogue of the Stamps of China, edition revised and sipplemented by Lee H. Hill, Jr., Tampa, Hill-Donnelly, 1998; Scott 2003 Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue, Sidney (Ohio), Scott Publishing Co., 2002; Chan Shiu-Hon, Colour-illustrated Stamp Catalogue of China (1878-1949), Hong Kong, Philatelic Publications Ltd ...
There are several varieties of Red Revenue stamps, with the "Small One Dollar" being the rarest and most valuable. It has been called "China's rarest regularly issued stamp". In a 2013 Hong Kong auction, a single stamp was sold for HK$6.9 million. [3] Another was sold in a 2013 Beijing auction for 7.22 million yuan.
On each stamp was printed the Chinese characters, "First Anniversary of the Death of the Great Leader and Teacher Chairman Mao Zedong." [7] Zhou Peiyuan (2006) Physicist; Zhu De (1952, 1957, 1977, 1986) Communist military leader, Statesman. One year after he died, on 6 July 1977, China published four stamps bearing his image to pay tribute to ...
Media in category "Postage stamps of China" The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. T. File:The Whole Country is Red.jpg; File:Three Stamps 1963.jpg
Pages in category "Postal history of China" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... Postage stamps and postal history of China;