Product Description
The present volume follows travel by the author from her home in Shanghai, along the Yangtze River, as well as to Beijing and Taishan.
The account is rich in detailed accounts of the history of each region as well as the aesthetics, philosophy, religion and symbolism encountered in life in China in the early 20th century.
Florance Ayscough, born in China of Western parents and fluent in Chinese, was an authority on Chinese art and literature and wrote several books on Chinese culture.
Spine faded with small tear at base.
Corners and edges worn.
Endpapers lightly tanned; FEPs each have a tape residue mark.
Binding tight and sound, interior pages clean and unmarked.
464 pp.
, b&w sketches and decorative devices throughout by Lucille Douglass, rear fold-out map.
Size: 24 x 16 cm.
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