Author: Donald MenniePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Pageant of Peking
Author: Donald MenniePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Pageant of Peking
Author: Donald MennieThe Pageant of Peking, Comprising ... Vandyck Photogravures of Peking and Environs from Photographs by D. Mennie
Author: Donald MennieThe Pageant of Peking
Author: Donald MenniePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beijing (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Pageant of Peking
Author: Donald MenniePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beijing (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A Photographer in Old Peking
Author: Hedda MorrisonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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.
China’s Imperial Past
Author: Charles O. HuckerPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804723534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A panoramic survey of the course of Chinese civilization from prehistory to 1850, when the old China began to give way
Beijing
Author: Lillian M. LiPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0230605273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Chronicles the history of Beijing from its earliest days to the twenty-first century, discussing how economic growth as well as preparations for the 2008 Olympics have affected the city.
Country Life
Author: The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing
Author: Anne-Marie BroudehouxPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134360614
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book explores the transformation of the Chinese capital both socially and physically during the final decades of the twentieth century.