A Series of Mid-1930s Chinese Fairy Tales Chapbooks by Phyllis Juby and AS Konya

Phyllis Konya (nee Juby) was an arts journalist, reviewer and theatre historian who married Sandor (AS) Konya in Cape Town in 1928. The pair moved to China and Phyllis began working for The China Mail as a journalist, and publishing some books (illustrated by her husband) based on the couple’s travels in China, including Chinese Fairy Tales (Newspaper Enterprise, 1934) and some of the chapbooks bound by string below published in the mid-1930s by The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., Hong Kong.