OMEI ILLUSTRATED GUIDE BOOK. A New Edition of the Omei Illustrated Guide Book by Huang Shoufu and Tang Zhongyue. With an English Translation by Dryden Linsley Phelps, Phd, FRGS.Pictures redrawn from the original plates by Yu Tzutan.

Language: English

Published by West China Union University Harvard-Yenching Institute, Chengdu, 1936

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Chengdu: West China Union University Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1936. Folio. Stiff wrappers. Chinese title mounted as a paper label on front cover. Chinese side stitching. A remarkably well-preserved copy. Very fine. Rare thus. The first description in Chinese of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains in Sichuan Province. It was published in the summer of 1891. This bilingual edition (with parallel text) was published in 1936, and includes approximately 60 mountain scene illustrations along with lengthy captions. 46 poems are also printed. With the approval of the Guanxu Emperor, Huang Shoufu oversaw the Chinese edition between 1887 and 1891. Tang Zhongyue, a poet and artist, visited Omei Mountain to make sketches for the illustrations. The translator, Dryden Phelps, was an American missionary. Mount Omei is a 3,099-metre-tall mountain in Sichuan Province, the highest of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China.

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Title
OMEI ILLUSTRATED GUIDE BOOK. A New Edition of the Omei Illustrated Guide Book by Huang Shoufu and Tang Zhongyue. With an English Translation by Dryden Linsley Phelps, Phd, FRGS.Pictures redrawn from the original plates by Yu Tzutan.
Author
Huang, Shoufu, & Tang Zhongyue; Phelps, Dryden Linsley (translator).
Publisher
West China Union University Harvard-Yenching Institute, Chengdu
Publication year
1936
Condition
Fine
Binding
Soft cover
Language
English
Dimensions
Folio - over 12 - 15" tall

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