Guide to "Peking".

£200 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

“Why ‘Guide to Peking’ when this is Peiping? Because: 1. The average tourist is not so much interested in the city of today, which is Peiping, as he is in the city of the past – Peking. 2. Peiping is so new a name that many of the tourists still feel more familiar with the name Peking, and are more apt to buy a ‘Guide to Peking’ than a ‘Guide to Peiping’. 3. What’s in a name, anyway?” (preface). This item is an expanded version of item 25.

• Year: 1935

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