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A Photographer in Old Peking

Author : Hedda Morrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Photographer in Old Peking written by Hedda Morrison and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peking is one of the great cities of the world and one of the most fascinating. It has changed so radically in the past thirty years that the city's fabulous past is in danger of being lost to memory. This memoir of Peking from 1933 to 1946, compiled by one of the finest photographers who has ever worked in Asia, is thus a significant document and will be of interest not only to longstanding China-watchers but also to the many tourists who have been privileged to visit Peking in the decade since the city has again been opened to the West. The photographs provide a unique insight into life in Peking in the years preceeding the Communist revolution of 1949. The photographer, Hedda Morrison, left Nazi Germany in 1933 to manage a German-owned photographic studio in Peking. Her sympathetic approach to her subject is manifested in the large number of photographs showing Chinese people from all walks of life at work and enjoying their leisure. Architectural studies provide valuable evidence of buildings and monuments that have since changed or disappeared, and photographs taken beyond Peking and in the Western Hills convey the beauty of the north China landscape.

Photographs of Old Peking

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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Photographs of Old Peking written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Old Peking

Author : Hedda Morrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Old Peking written by Hedda Morrison and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Photographs of Peking, China 1861-1908

Author : Nick Pearce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Photographs of Peking, China 1861-1908 written by Nick Pearce and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an addition to the small but growing body of literature on the practices of photography in China. Using a collection of a surviving nineteenth century photographs of Beijing held in the collection of the Oriental Museum, University of Durham, the author explores both the cityscape as it was recorded by two Scottish photographers and the interplay of personality and professional identities within the Foreign Legation quarter during a thirty-five year period. Three people are central to the book: the professional photographer John Thomson, the amateur photographer and missionary doctor, John Dudgeon and Stephen Bushell, physician to the British Legation, pioneer historian of Chinese art and original owner of the collection of the photographs. They provide the context and practice and provenance for the photographs and offer insight into the life of the small contingent of Westerners who resided within the walls of China's capital. here for the first time, the former revealed as an important contributor to the development of photography in China, the latter a major influence on the formation and interpretation of a number of important collections of a Chinese art in Britain and America. This book will be of interest to historians of photography, art, architecture and China during the late nineteenth century. [This] erudite study... is of interest not only to art historians, but also to historians of China and of comparative colonialisms.

The Last Days of Old Beijing

Author : Michael Meyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802779123
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Old Beijing written by Michael Meyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer's story.

The Pageant of Peking

Author : Donald Mennie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Pageant of Peking written by Donald Mennie and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of Old Peking

Author : Derek Sandhaus
Publisher : Tales
ISBN 13 : 9789881815422
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Old Peking written by Derek Sandhaus and published by Tales. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forbidden city for Westerners for hundreds of years, China's capital has always been viewed as one of the world's most mysterious cities. This book re-creates a sense of old Peking through a pastiche of historical snippets--stories, quotations, cartoons, postcards and drawings--and shares intriguing tidbits about the Imperial Court. Placing Peking in the context of the Boxer Rebellion, when two very different yet equally headstrong cultures clashed, this is a valuable source for those interested in Chinese history.

Old Peking Revisited

Author : Nigel Cameron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789627283690
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Old Peking Revisited written by Nigel Cameron and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photographs in this book originally appeared in Donald Mennie's "Pageant of Peking" which was first published in 1920. In Nigel Cameron's text he draws attention to other Europeans writing about Peking at the same time including Juliet Bredon, Mrs C.F. Gordon-Cumming and George Kates.

Old China in Historic Photographs

Author : Ernst Boerschmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Old China in Historic Photographs written by Ernst Boerschmann and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Search of Old Peking

Author : L. C. Arlington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781927077214
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Old Peking written by L. C. Arlington and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Old Peking isportrait of one of the world's great cities in the 1930's and a lament for the end of a unique era. First published in 1935, this book was regarded as the standard guide to Peking. It remains astonishingly evocative today, for residents and visitors alike.

Midnight in Peking

Author : Paul French
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101580380
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Midnight in Peking written by Paul French and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.

Historic Photographs of Hong Kong, Shanghai & Peking

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book Historic Photographs of Hong Kong, Shanghai & Peking written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Old photographs of Chinese cities : Hong Kong, Macau, Canton, Amoy, Shanghai and Peking, 1865-1912

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Old photographs of Chinese cities : Hong Kong, Macau, Canton, Amoy, Shanghai and Peking, 1865-1912 written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical photos of old Beijing

Author : Piyun Hu
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Historical photos of old Beijing written by Piyun Hu and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China

Author : Emily Mokros
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029574880X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China written by Emily Mokros and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), China experienced far greater access to political information than suggested by the blunt measures of control and censorship employed by modern Chinese regimes. A tenuous partnership between the court and the dynamic commercial publishing enterprises of late imperial China enabled the publication of gazettes in a wide range of print and manuscript formats. For both domestic and foreign readers these official gazettes offered vital information about the Qing state and its activities, transmitting state news across a vast empire and beyond. And the most essential window onto Qing politics was the Peking Gazette, a genre that circulated globally over the course of the dynasty. This illuminating study presents a comprehensive history of the Peking Gazette and frames it as the cornerstone of a Qing information policy that, paradoxically, prized both transparency and secrecy. Gazettes gave readers a glimpse into the state’s inner workings but also served as a carefully curated form of public relations. Historian Emily Mokros draws from international archives to reconstruct who read the gazette and how they used it to guide their interactions with the Chinese state. Her research into the Peking Gazette’s evolution over more than two centuries is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the relationship between media, information, and state power.

Peking Story

Author : David Kidd
Publisher : Eland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Peking Story written by David Kidd and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting and delicately observed description of the last days of Mandarin culture before the revolution, 'Peking Story' is a testimony to a way of life, a culture, an aesthetic and a civilisation which has since completely disappeared.

Old Beijing

Author : Felicitas Titus
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462908896
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Old Beijing written by Felicitas Titus and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of rare and vintage postcards offers a unique look at a vanished China and its storied capital. Comprising 355 black-and-white and hand-tinted Beijing photography postcards that span the period from the last years of Imperial China to the Japanese invasion of 1937, it is a treasure trove for buffs of Beijing history, collectors, Sinophiles, and anyone fascinated by people and cultures from times past. Readers will enjoy the wide selection of images showing different aspects of the life of old Peking--from the arrival of a camel train at a city gate to hand-colored views of the Forbidden City and an array of vendors, street performers, officials, gentry, commoners, and foreign tourists. Several chapters present the city's distinctive Beijing architecture--its walls and gates, towers, fountains, temples, pagodas, memorial arches, and public or imperial buildings, including the Summer and Winter Palaces and the Ming Tombs. Other chapters of Chinese photography look at the Manchu rulers, street life, the Legation Quarter and Western presence, and the Great Wall. Included are some rare scenes depicting the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion and 1911 revolution; Manchu fashion, colorful means of transportation, and the coming of the railroad. Of particular note are images of the Empress Dowager, the child emperor Puyi, and other personalities at the Manchu Court. The book also includes eight color postcards of paintings by the famous artist Carl Wuttke and rare cards showing etched drawings of the Old Summer Palace--now only a field of ruins. The author, who was born and lived in China before 1949, has written an informative introduction to each chapter as well as a general introduction to classical Beijing. A foreword by historian and Beijing expert Susan Naquin situates this collection at once as a precious record of old Peking and a revealing snapshot of Western views of China in the first golden age of tourism. Old Beijing: Postcards from the Imperial City offers a visual time capsule of both Beijing's history and traditional Chinese culture in a unique and revealing postcard format.