1941 Guide to PEKING CHINA WWII USMC Nanyuan Aerodrome BOOK RARE Chinese

Description

Guide to Peking
Published January 1941 by the Peking Chronicle Press
prepared December 1940.
"This 1941 edition of 'Guide to Peking' has been completely revised and brought up to date. New photographs abundantly illustrate teh text.  Since July 1937 so many changes have taken place in various phases of Peking affairs that the compilation of this edition has been somewhat difficult. Geographic features, of course, have not altered but the publishers have found it difficult to keep track of all the educational, cultural, industrial and social institutions in the city, of their present status and activities. Every care has been taken to give complete and authentic information and if there are any omissions they are due to the impossibility of collecting the required information. Naturally sights to be sen and places to be visited are all here and have have been fully described and in several instances, as for Lukuochiao and Tungchow, additional data has been furnished."
Contents include
intro
Outer City
Inner City (Tartar City)
Diplomatic Quarter
Imperial City
Forbidden City
Trips Outside of City
Other Places Worthwhile Seeing
The Chinese Theatre
Shops
Chinese Foods
Industries
Home of Chinese Art
Educational and Cultural  Institutions
Religious Organizations
Benevolent Institutions
Clubs and Associations
Hospitals
Newspapers
Hotels
Banks
Services of Public Utility
Peking Street Scenes
Annual Peking Festivals
Foldable map (bird's eye)
photos and ads
Extraordinarily rare - was this printed just before the Japanese occupation of Peking    Afterwards?
144 pages