Philip Kerby’s Beyond the Bund, 1927

Posted: December 12th, 2025 | No Comments »

Philip Kerby‘s Beyond the Bund (you can download the whole book as a pdf here), published in 1927 by Payson & Clarke. Kirby was the husband of Kate Kerby, mentioned yesterday, and her book An Old Chinese Garden’s dedicatee. I know little about the Kerby’s except that they must have lived in Shanghai (Kate’s publisher was based in Shanghai) and were most probably Americans (Philip’s publisher was American). The New York Times quite liked it…. but The New Yorker thought it “dullish”.

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