{"product_id":"sightseeing-in-manchuria-a-travel-account-of-china-muneo-shoji-south-manchuria-railway-dairen-1922","title":"Sightseeing in Manchuria, a Travel Account of China: Muneo Shoji, South Manchuria Railway, Dairen, 1922","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSightseeing in Manchuria, a Travel Account of China — 1922\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA travel account of Manchuria and China by Muneo Shoji, issued in 1922 in connection with the head office of the South Manchuria Railway at Dairen. The volume records a journey across the continent in the early 1920s, carrying the reader through the principal cities of the Northeast and beyond — among them Dairen, Shanghai, Hankow, Tientsin, Peking, Harbin, Mukden, and Port Arthur.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRunning to one hundred and eighty-one pages and illustrated with sixteen photographic views, the work combines narrative travel with a pictorial record of the cities and routes of the period, and is furnished with an outline map of the principal inter-city distances. Travelogues of this kind, written as the railway opened the continent to movement, blend first-hand observation with the texture of a journey actually made.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a primary travel source it offers historians a contemporary reading of the cities and landscapes of Manchuria and China in the early 1920s, of clear interest to students of travel, of the South Manchuria Railway sphere, and of the Northeast — a genuine period account well suited to a serious collection of Manchuria and Northeast 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":52455490158873,"sku":"N0000004475","price":35900.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/4198821_large_c4365e52-573c-430a-af9e-38e076f52eb2.jpg?v=1780292738","url":"https:\/\/kujira-vintage.myshopify.com\/products\/sightseeing-in-manchuria-a-travel-account-of-china-muneo-shoji-south-manchuria-railway-dairen-1922","provider":"KT Japan Curio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}