Digital Image: 1927 Muller Map of the Hai River, Tianjin (Tiantsin), China
HaiHoRiver-muller-1927_d
Title
Hai Ho Conservancy Commission. Plan of Hai-Ho from Tientsin City to the Sea. January 1927.
1927 (dated) 23 x 90 in (58.42 x 228.6 cm) 1 : 30000
1927 (dated) 23 x 90 in (58.42 x 228.6 cm) 1 : 30000
Description
FOR THE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAP, WITH HISTORICAL ANALYSIS, CLICK HERE.
Digital Map Information
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Cartographer
Commercial Press (1897 – Present) (商务印书馆) is a publisher active in China from the late 19th century to present. It is considered to be China's first modern publisher, and was the largest publishing house in modern China, at the forefront of educational, scholarly, and literary development from 1900 to the 1950s. The Shanghai based press was founded in 1897 by Xia Ruifang who received venture capital from a Japanese firm. The firm immediately started amassing a collection of rare books which it republished using modern presses. It also introduced numerous periodicals ranging form the Eastern Miscellany (東方雜誌) to Youth Magazine (少年雜誌). It proved quite successful and, in 1914, Xia Ruifang attempted to buy out his Japanese investors. This resulted in his assassination shortly afterward. Nonetheless the press became a wholly Chinese organization under the reformer Zhang Yuanji (Yüan-chi Chang; 張元濟; 1867 - 1959), who succeeded Xia Ruifang in running the press. During World War II, during the January 28th Incident, the press and its collection of rare books was destroyed by Japanese bombers. Even so, by this time the press had expanded to multiple offices, including branches in Singapore, and was able to continue operating. During the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), the Commercial Press was relocated to Beijing, and ceased all mapping operations. The press remains in operation today and has become a large international concern focused on the publication of Academic works. They now publish under the imprint Commercial Press International Limited. More by this mapmaker...
References
OCLC 261183715. Library of Congress, Map Department, G7822.H31 1921 .M8. Wang, Ai, City of the River: The Hai River and the Construction of Tianjin, 1897 – 1948, (Washington State University), August 2014.