{"product_id":"geography-and-customs-world-photograph-album-sixth-edition-with-chinese-translation-by-zhang-chuntao-1917","title":"Geography and Customs: World Photograph Album, Sixth Edition, with Chinese Translation by Zhang Chuntao, 1917","description":"\u003ch2\u003eGeography and Customs: World Photograph Album — Sixth Edition, 1917\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA photographic survey of the world's geography and customs, the sixth edition, edited by Antaro Shoda with a Chinese translation by Zhang Chuntao, published in May 1917. The volume gathers a wide array of photographs of lands and peoples across the globe, each presented with bilingual text so that the work could be read in both Japanese and Chinese — a deliberate instrument of international understanding and cross-cultural exchange in its day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe presence of a parallel Chinese translation is what distinguishes this album. Produced in the late Taisho years, it reflects a moment of active intellectual traffic across East Asia, when a single illustrated geography could be addressed at once to Japanese and Chinese readers. As such it carries value not only as a pictorial record of the world's regions and peoples but as a document of the period's ethnography, geography, and the shared print culture that linked the two reading publics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA specific and uncommon survival, of clear interest to historians of geography and ethnography, of early twentieth-century photography, and of Sino-Japanese cultural exchange — a genuine artefact for a serious collection of pre-war Chinese photography and East Asian historical materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOffered by KT Vintage, drawing on decades of trusted international sales to discerning collectors and institutions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KT Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52455469973785,"sku":"N0000013659","price":71900.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20220517200630021756_d4a4c2931ad5605c2e73450b1b754447.jpg?v=1780292700","url":"https:\/\/kujira-vintage.myshopify.com\/products\/geography-and-customs-world-photograph-album-sixth-edition-with-chinese-translation-by-zhang-chuntao-1917","provider":"KT Japan Curio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}