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John Stewart Burgess

    The Guilds of Peking
    • 2020

      The Guilds of Peking

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Burgess' social survey of some 42 Peking (Beijing) guilds (hang) in the 1920s, with case studies of porters, carpenters, and "the blind." Complements Sidney A. Gamble's A Social Survey (1921).

      The Guilds of Peking