Description

Peking the Beautiful is a photograph album of scenic places in Beijing, published in 1927 by the Commercial Press in Shanghai. The photographs were taken by Herbert C. White, who also wrote the descriptive and historical notes and the preface. Hu Shi (1891‒1962), the Chinese scholar and philosopher, wrote the introduction. The cover, title page, preface, and explanations are all in English, but the titles of the photographs and the title on the back cover are in Chinese. The 70 photographs were originally black and white, or black and ...