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‎An Official Guide to Eastern Asia Vol. IV - China - Trans Continental Connections between Europe and Asia‎

‎Tokyo, The Imperial Japanese Government Railways, 1915. 1 volume 12mo, xviii-CXXIV-414 pp., bound in brown cloth with illustrative endpapers, spine and cover gilt lettered, decorated with 1 frontispiece in colour, many photographs in black and white and numerous folded maps in colour (including Shanghai, Canton and Hong Kong) with the China folding map in the rear pocket, in good condition.‎

‎The rarest of the 5 guide books on Eastern Asia published by Japanese Imperial Government RailwaysContents: Chapter I: Preparatory Information - Chapter II: Communications Facilities- Chapter III: Post, Telegraph and Telephone - Chapter IV: Land and People - Chapter V: Political System - Chapter VI: Historical Sketch - Chapter VII: Social Classes and Customs - Chapter VIII: Religion and Education - Chapter IX: Literature, Ideograph and Language - Chapter X. Trade and Industry - Chapter XI: History of Arts in China. China Proper: Fengtien to Peking - Peking and Environs - Peking to Ta-tung-fu - Peking to Hankow - Tientsin to Pukow - Chi-nan - Chi-nan to Ching-tao - Ching-Tao - Chefoo and Weihaiwei - The River Yangtse - Hankow - Nanking - Shanghai to Nanking - Shanghai to Hang-chow - Ning-po - Foo-chow and Environs - Amoy - Swatow - Hongkong - Canton.‎