OLD BEIJING: POSTCARDS FROM THE IMPERIAL CITY
Book ID/图书代码： 02911017C00255
English Summary/英文概要： This collection of Chinese photography contains over 350 vintage postcards from pre-communist China along with extensive historical background and commentary.
Camel trains arriving at a city gate; the distinctive architecture of the Forbidden City, its pagodas, imperial buildings and temples; Manchu fashion, the Empress Dowager and the child emperor Puyi; street performers and foreign tourists—all come to life again in this extraordinary collection of rare and vintage Chinese postcards.
Old Beijing: Postcards from the Imperial City offers a unique look at a vanished China and its storied capital once known as Peking. Containing unique black-and-white and hand-tinted cards that span Chinese history from the last years of Imperial China to the Japanese invasion of 1937, it is a treasure trove for historians, collectors, Sinophiles and anyone fascinated by Chinese culture and people from times past.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这本稀有的古董明信片合集为我们提供了一探历史悠远的中国古都的独特视角。
由355张黑白和手工着色的北京摄影明信片组成，时间跨度从封建王朝统治的最后几年到1937年日本入侵，本书是北京历史迷，和任何一位沉迷于中国历史文化者的珍贵收藏本。
读者可以在书中浏览到老北京丰富多彩的方方面面，从城门口的骆驼车队，到手绘的紫禁城，和市井小贩、街头艺人、官员、绅士、平民和外国游客。书中有几个章节介绍了这座城市独特的北京建筑——城墙和大门、塔楼、喷泉、寺庙、宝塔、牌坊，以及公共或皇家建筑，包括北京颐和园，十三陵，和当时满族统治者下的市井生活百态，北京的东交民巷的历史变迁和著名的长城。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况："Felicitas Titus’s wonderful book not only brings us the sights of a city now greatly changed, it will help future generations understand the pleasure and excitement caused by the sending and receiving of a few words scribbled on a bright small picture from a faraway place." —Susan Naquin, author of Peking: Temples and City Life
About the Author/作者介绍： 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.
Forward 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.
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