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Category : Beijing (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Guide for Tourists to Peking and Its Environs
Author: The China Review, Or, Notes and Queries on the Far East
Author: The China Review, Or, Notes and Queries on the Far East
Author: Nicholas Belfield DennysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Journeys East
Author: Alan ChongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
In 1883, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband embarked on a trip that would take them from Boston, across the Unites States and the Pacific, to Japan, China Cambodia and finally, the India of the Raj. Travelling in the wake of recent Western expansion into Asia, they were privileged guests in a world convulsed by colliding forces and identities. They visited ancient temples; met missionaries and colonial officials; toured rubble left but anti-Western riots; camped at Angkhor Wat but took first-class trains throughout India. Isabella kept a diary, bought photographs, and assembled a travel album. Back home, she became a pioneering collector of Asian art. 'Journeys East' reconstructs the Gardners' epic journey with illustrations from Isabella's albums and quotations from her diary and her husband's letters and notes. Isabella's evolving relationship to Asia is the subject of essays by Alan Chong, Noriko Murai, and Christine Guth, amoth other major authorities, that consider a broad range of topics, from the Japanese tea ceremony to her selection and display of Asian art at her extraordinary museum in Boston. A new kind of book, 'Journeys East' combines the history of travel and collecting with the study of East-West relations. Nearly all the 400 illustrations in this oversize book reproduce vintage photographs on her travels. In numerous instances, the photographs document sites long changed beyond recognition. The book will be of exceptional interest to readers of Joseph Conrad. ILLUSTRATIONS 400 illustrations
Bibliographic Guide to Maps and Atlases
Author: The Image of the City
Author: Kevin LynchPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262620017
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
East West
Author: Catalogue of the Printed Maps, Plans, and Charts
Author: British Museum. Map RoomPublisher:
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Category : Charts
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
From Peking to Mandalay
Author: Reginald Fleming JohnstonPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5879479447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description