Title: Old Beijing
Description: "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 postcards. Old Beijing: Postcards from the Imperial City offers a unique look at a vanished China and its storied capital. Comprising 350 black-and-white and hand-tinted cards that span the period 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 people and cultures from times past"--
Subjects: ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Postcards, Art collections, Private collections, HISTORY / Asia / China, Postcards, Pictorial works, Art, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES, China, HISTORY, Postal service, united states, Postal service, china, Art, collectors and collecting, Beijing (china), description and travel
Places: United States, Beijing, China, Beijing (China)
People: Felicitas Titus