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Two vols. 8vo, orig. printed wrappers, orig. stitching. Beijing: Guo li Beiping yan jiu yuan 國立北平研究院, 1936. First edition of this work on Beijing's temples. In 1930, the Historiographical Research Group of the National Research Academy of Beiping, as Beijing was then called, decided that "in preparation for producing a gazetteer for Beijing, the Buddhist temples, altars, Confucian temples, shrines, and halls will be surveyed by district and rubbings taken of stone inscriptions, for use in the [gazetteer's] treatises on temples and epigraphy. Personnel will be dispatched to survey, compile, photograph, draw a layout of each temple, trace stone inscriptions, as well as collect historical sources." Our book was one of the results. This work is focused on mentions of temples in earlier literature, complemented with the editors' notes on the history of the temples. They note changes in the names of temples, as well as in their functions. The literature used include the major works on…
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- Publisher Central Council for Education and Training in Soci
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One double-page map of the city. Eight vols. Small 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. stitching. [China]: Gantang zhuanshe 甘棠轉舍, 1907. First or early edition (WorldCat 24282301) of this book about the city of Beijing and its customs, written by a Manchu author. The Manchus invaded China in 1644, occupied Beijing, and made it the capital of their Qing empire. The part of the city that lay within the city wall was allocated to the Eight Banners of the Manchu army, and no Chinese civilians were allowed to live there. The civilian population moved to the south city, which over time came to include noteworthy landmarks, such as the antiques shops and bookstores at Liuli chang. A literature on Beijing developed in the early Qing period, and it grew in the 18th century, in part through imperial involvement. Manchus started to produce books on their adopted city in the late 19th century (Naquin, Peking: Temples and City Life, 696), and our book is part of this trend. Things Heard on Occasion in the…
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