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This collection of rare and vintage postcards offers a unique look
at a vanished China and its storied capital. Comprising 355
black-and-white and hand-tinted Beijing photography postcards that
span the period from the last years of Imperial China to the
Japanese invasion of 1937, it is a treasure trove for buffs of
Beijing history, collectors, Sinophiles, and anyone fascinated by
people and cultures from times past. Readers will enjoy the wide
selection of images showing different aspects of the life of old
Peking from the arrival of a camel train at a city gate to
hand-coloured views of the Forbidden City and an array of vendors,
street performers, officials, gentry, commoners, and foreign
tourists. Several chapters present the city's distinctive Beijing
architecture its walls and gates, towers, fountains, temples,
pagodas, memorial arches, and public or imperial buildings,
including the Summer and Winter Palaces and the Ming Tombs. Other
chapters of Chinese photography look at the Manchu rulers, street
life, the Legation Quarter and Western presence, and the Great
Wall. Included are some rare scenes depicting the aftermath of the
Boxer Rebellion and 1911 revolution Manchu fashion, colourful means
of transportation, and the coming of the railroad. Of particular
note are images of the Empress Dowager, the child emperor Puyi, and
other personalities at the Manchu Court. The book also includes
eight colour postcards of paintings by the famous artist Carl
Wuttke and rare cards showing etched drawings of the Old Summer
Palace now only a field of ruins. The author, who was born and
lived in China before 1949, has written an informative introduction
to each chapter as well as a general introduction to classical
Beijing. A foreword by historian and Beijing expert Susan Naquin
situates this collection at once as a precious record of old Peking
and a revealing snapshot of Western views of China in the first
golden age of tourism. Old Beijing: Postcards from the Imperial
City offers a visual time capsule of both Beijing's history and
traditional Chinese culture in a unique and revealing postcard
format.
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