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A Journey to Manchuria: Dalian to Harbin, with Yingkou, Fushun, Andong, Jilin and the Shanhai Pass — Illustrated Travel Guide, 1940
A Journey to Manchuria — Dalian to Harbin, 1940
A handsome line-by-line travel guide to Manchuria, published in 1940 and organised along the rail corridors of the region. The volume leads the traveller down the Ryojun (Lushun) line, the Kinjo branch, the Yingkou and Fushun branches, the Anho and Hozan lines, onward from Shinkyo (Changchun) to Jilin, and along the Keihin line — a sequential portrait of the Northeast as it was presented to the visitor on the eve of the 1940s.
The guide opens with a suite of frontispiece photographs and closes with a folding general map of Manchukuo, while interleaved throughout are runs of commercial and industrial advertisements arranged by rail line — a rich incidental record of the cities, services, and businesses strung along the network. As a primary document of how the region was travelled, mapped, and marketed at its high-water moment, it offers historians of Northeast Asian geography, transport, and commercial culture a vivid and specific source.
A genuine period guide of real documentary interest, well suited to a collection of Manchuria and Northeast Asian historical materials.
Offered by KT Vintage, drawing on decades of trusted international sales to discerning collectors and institutions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.
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A Journey to Manchuria — Dalian to Harbin, 1940
A handsome line-by-line travel guide to Manchuria, published in 1940 and organised along the rail corridors of the region. The volume leads the traveller down the Ryojun (Lushun) line, the Kinjo branch, the Yingkou and Fushun branches, the Anho and Hozan lines, onward from Shinkyo (Changchun) to Jilin, and along the Keihin line — a sequential portrait of the Northeast as it was presented to the visitor on the eve of the 1940s.
The guide opens with a suite of frontispiece photographs and closes with a folding general map of Manchukuo, while interleaved throughout are runs of commercial and industrial advertisements arranged by rail line — a rich incidental record of the cities, services, and businesses strung along the network. As a primary document of how the region was travelled, mapped, and marketed at its high-water moment, it offers historians of Northeast Asian geography, transport, and commercial culture a vivid and specific source.
A genuine period guide of real documentary interest, well suited to a collection of Manchuria and Northeast Asian historical materials.
Offered by KT Vintage, drawing on decades of trusted international sales to discerning collectors and institutions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.
Collation
| Category | Books |
|---|---|
| Condition | acceptable |
| SKU | N0000000140 |
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