‎[Lawrence Myers Mead ] - ‎ ‎Lawrence Myers Mead ‎
‎Greetings from the Meads, Mead English department Yenching University‎

‎Peking 1930 Mead Hardcover 1st Edition ‎

Reference : 030146

‎Hardcover, 15 x 10 cm, 27 page wide photos pp., English, 1st Edition, Illustrations, book condition: Very Good. bound in a harmonica-style binding, original hardback with minor damage to the front cover;rn"A rare, originally printed photobook from the early 20th century, compiled by Lawrence Myers Mead, then a lecturer in the English department at the renowned Yenching University. This work serves as an unofficial photographic annual report and offers a unique, intimate glimpse into campus life, rnThe copy was self-published in Beijing and was originally intended for the immediate circle of the Mead family and the university community. Given the destruction of many archives during the Japanese occupation and the Cultural Revolution, this is a document of great historical and sociological value for the study of Sino-American relations and the history of higher education in China‎