Beiping miao yu tong jian 北平廟宇通檢 Comprehensive Inventory of Temples in Beiping

by Daoling 許道齡 Xu

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First edition

Two vols. 8vo, orig. printed wrappers, orig. stitching. Beijing: Guo li Beiping yan jiu yuan 國立北平研究院, 1936. First edition of this work on Beijing’s temples. In 1930, the Historiographical Research Group of the National Research Academy of Beiping, as Beijing was then called, decided that “in preparation for producing a gazetteer for Beijing, the Buddhist temples, altars, Confucian temples, shrines, and halls will be surveyed by

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