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Peking/Peiping Crow Map of Beijing…

Posted: September 22nd, 2022 | No Comments »

The tourist plan of Peking originally published for Carl Crow’s Handbook for China (first edition 1913) appeared in later editions as Peiping after the Nationalist Government changed the name and moved to Nanking in 1927….Here are both versions…(and a little still from 1932’s Shanghai Express)



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