Customs and Conditions of Chinese City Streets in 19th Century. Shijian Huang, William Sargent, NF HC 2002, 2nd Print
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Huang, Shijian., William Sargent. China. America Shanghai Classics Publishing House. 2002.
Chinese and English, 2nd printing, 4to NF, HC, 11.5" X 8.5", 284 pp.
ISBN: 9787532526062
Near Fine quarto, grey cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering to cover and spine, full-color illustrated endpapers. Previous owner bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise binding tight, sharp tips, and unmarked throughout. Near Fine pictorial red dust jacket featuring full-color illustration, gold, black, and blue lettering to covers and spine, minor shelfwear and soiling to spine and back panel. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Text in Chinese and English. 284 pp. replete with full-color illustrations including 100 gouaches by Puqua, and 360 ink drawings by Tingqua. From the Introduction: The "360 professions" is a general term for all types of professions in Chinese city streets. In the Song and Yuan times there had been a similar saying referring to 120 professions. Along with the development and growth of social and economic life in China, the number of professions gradually increased to 360. This album is a true portrait of those 360 professions in the first half of the nineteenth century and show the street life of the city of Canton (Guangzhou) at that time."