Gongyue Fu, Hongjie Zhang (Editors)
Chiu ching ta kuan  (Old Beijing in panorama).
Beijing: Ren min Zhongguo chu ban she (People's China Press), 1992.  7800650928 314 pages.
Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9" x 11.5", is bound in maroon leatherette with stamped gilt lettering and characters to spine. Pictorial design is stamped on front cover. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, pictorial endpapers, clean and bright pages, and red ribbon bookmark. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos. Dust jacket shows light bubbling on surface and wear at top of spine panel. Text is bilingual in Chinese and English.
"Included in this volume are well over six hundred photos, which reflect, from various angles, all aspects of Beijing in the hundred years from the later period of the Qing Dynasty to early 1940s, as well as the storm and stress it had witnessed in those years.
Thanks to the hard work of the photographers and collectors, the reader is able to see from this album Beijing's places of scenic and historic interest, the local customs, the ruins of the Yuanmingyuan Park reduced to ashes by the Anglo-French forces in 1860, and the traces left by the War of Resistance Against Japan that started in Lugouqiao on July 7, 1937. When he compares all this with the realities, the reader can also sense the great changes that have taken place in Beijing since China started its policy of reform and opening to the outside world." (from preface dated September 1991).