Old Beijing

Postcards from the Imperial City

Susan Naquin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2012 | 2nd ed.
Tuttle Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-8048-4185-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection of rare and vintage postcards offers a unique look at a vanished China and its storied capital, then known as Peking. Comprising 350 black and white and hand tinted cards that span from the last years of Imperial China to the Japanese invasion of 1937, it is a treasure for historians, collectors, Sinophiles, and anyone fascinated by people and cultures from times past.

Autor

Felicitas Titus grew up in the foreign concession in Hankow, China, under Chiang Kai-shek, at a time when traditional Chinese culture still flourished. She visited old Beijing, then known as Peking, as a child and later studied there for two and a half years, during World War Two. She experienced the Japanese attack on Shanghai in 1937, left Hankow during the allied bombardments, and worked in postwar China until the Communist victory in 1949. She eventually completed her education in the United States and taught college there. Her nostalgia for China prompted her to begin collecting these vintage postcards. She still considers China her homeland. Foreword writer, Susan Naquin is professor of History and East Asian Studies at Princeton University, is the author of Millenarian Rebellion in China, Shantung Rebellion, and Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400u1900. She is also coauthor with Evelyn Rawski of Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century and coeditor of Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China.

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 266 x 228 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-8048-4185-3 / 0804841853
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8048-4185-6 / 9780804841856
• Zustand: Neuware