1921 Crow City Map or Plan of Suzhou, China

Soochow-crow-1921-2
$220.00
Plan of Soochow. Drawn for Crow's 'Handbook for China.' - Main View
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1921 Crow City Map or Plan of Suzhou, China

Soochow-crow-1921-2

Attractive city map or plan of Suzhou (Soochow), China, 'The Venice of the Far East.'
$220.00

Title


Plan of Soochow. Drawn for Crow's 'Handbook for China.'
  1921 (undated)     10.25 x 10.5 in (26.035 x 26.67 cm)     1 : 27000

Description


This is a 1921 Carl Crow city map or plan of Suzhou (Soochow), China. The map depicts the city and some of the surrounding area. Soochow, per Crow, lies '53 miles from Shanghai, on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway', which is depicted and labeled on the map. Due to its extensive system of canals, Soochow has been given the name 'The Venice of the Far East.' Several locations are labeled on the map, including The Big Pagoda, the Local Assembly Hall, Soochow University, the Large Confucian Temple, and the Railway Station. Only one of the myriad roads on the map is labeled, the Horse Road, and it falls outside the city walls.
Publication History and Census
This map was published by Carl Crow in his Handbook for China in 1921. While the individual map is not catalogued on OCLC, Crow's maps of China are part of the collection at Utrecht University Library in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Cartographer


Carl Crow (1884 - 1945) was a born in Missouri and is known for, among several achievements, opening the first Western advertising agency in Shanghai, China. Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911, where he lived for 25 years. He worked as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and advertising agent, while also spending time as a hostage negotiator, police sergeant, farmer, and a liaison for the U.S. government. He was also a celebrated author whose book, 400 Million Customers, won several awards when it came out in the 1930s and has been reprinted at least twice during the 21st century. During his time in China he met and interviewed most of the major figures of the day, including Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong's second-in-command Zhou En-lai. Fearing retribution because of his anti-Japanese sentiments, he left Shanghai in 1937, only a couple of days after the Japanese attacked during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He worked for American intelligence during the Second World War and became one of the first westerners to journey up the Burma Road. He died in Manhattan in 1945. More by this mapmaker...

Source


Crow, C. The Travelers' Handbook for China (including Hong Kong) 3rd Edition (Shanghai: Carl Crow) 1921.    

Condition


Very good. Exhibits light wear along original fold lines. Blank on verso.

References


OCLC 911964178.