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Ligne de Lunghai. Album des monuments antiques le long du Lunghai. Mit 40 Photographien. o.O., o.D. (Um 1930-1960). Lwd.
Vgl. das Exemplar der National Art Library (nur Kopie nachweisbar) (hier mit Datierung in die 1960er Jahre.) Die Longhai-Eisenbahn ist eine wichtige arterielle Ost-West-Eisenbahn in China. Sie verläuft von Lianyungang, Jiangsu am Gelben Meer nach Lanzhou, Gansu durch die Provinzen Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi und Gansu auf einer Gesamtlänge von 1.759 km. Die Longhai-Linie ist eine der verkehrsreichsten chinesischen Eisenbahnen. Die Longhai-Eisenbahn wurde im Laufe eines halben Jahrhunderts von vier verschiedenen Regierungen Chinas gebaut: Qing-Dynastie, Beiyang-Regierung, nationalistisch-republikanische Regierung und die kommunistische Regierung der Volksrepublik.
With 40 matted Silver prints, 39 unnumbered leaves, corner mounted on thick black paper, recto only, printed tissue guards with Chinese & French text, publisher's sewn black cloth, upper cover bloc-ked in gilt and titled in Chinese & French, 2 tissue guards missing, others with loss or short tears to some mounts. - National Art Library (only copy traceable) date this to the 1960's ! The Longhai railway is a major arterial east-west railway in China. It runs from Lianyungang, Jiangsu on the Yellow Sea to Lanzhou, Gansu through the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi and Gansu covering a total length of 1.759 km. The Longhai Line is one of the busiest Chinese railways. The Longhai Railway was built over the course of half a century by four different governments of China: Qing Dynasty, Beiyang Government, Nationalist Republican government and the Communist government of the People's Republic. The first section of the railway, entirely within Henan, from Kaifeng to Luoyang was built from 1905 to 1909 by a venture between the Qing Dynasty and a Belgian joint-stock company backed by France and Russia. This line, known as the Bianliang - Luoyang Rail- way, began operation on January 1, 1910. The line was extended eastward to Xuzhou in 1916 and to Haizhou in 1923 with Dutch financing. In the west, the line was extended to Lingbao, Henan in 1927 with Belgian financing. Henan is located in the central part of China and is the birthplace of Chinese civilization with over 3,000 years of recorded history, and remained China's cultural, economical, and political center until approximately 1,000 years ago. Numerous heritages have been left behind including the ruins of Shang Dynas- ty capital city Yin and the Shaolin Temple. Four of the eight Great Ancient Capitals of China are located in Henan. the discovery of fossil humans
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