Photographic View Book of China, Manchuria, and Korea.
Photographic View Book of China, Manchuria, and Korea.
"China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the nations of the world": Photographic View Book of China, Manchuria, and Korea during the period of Japanese occupation
Japan:, c. 1930.
$2,500.00
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Item Number: 60076
First edition, oblong quarto, original boards. Gilt-lettered cloth, string-bound. Text in Japanese with captions in both Chinese and English. Illustrated with photographs throughout, large folding panorama of the Great Wall of China; folding map of Korea, Manchuria and portions of northeastern China. A unique record of history.
This lovely viewbook provides a fascinating and revealing glimpse into the landscape, history and culture of an array of Japanese-occupied areas in northern China, Manchuria, and Korea including Mukden, Dairen, and Port Arthur. Photographs include: "Chinese Beautiful Girls in Tsingtau," a lemonade seller in Mukden, Chinese Birdie Seller, punishments and beheadings of criminals, and the Butchery House of Tsingtao.
