Chung-Tung Litho Works (sold)
Chung-Tung Litho Works (中东石印局民国, 1912 - c. 1930) was a lithographic printer based in the concession city of Tientsin or Tianjin, China, during the early 20th century. The rise of the Chung-Tung Litho works roughly coincides with the establishment of the Beiyang Government in 1912 and the fall of said government in 1929. Their corpus is small, including a map of Tientsin (1912), reissued multiple times, and a 1914 map of Beijing, but the quality of their work was extremely high. Most of their maps are chromolithographs, making them one of the earliest Chinese chromolithographic presses in Asia.
Chromolithograph map of Beijing by Chiense Publisher.
Map of Peking. / 北京地圖
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This is a rare, important, and beautifully produced multi-color chromolithograph map of Beijing issued by the Chung-Tung Litho Works press in 1914. Issued under the Beiyang Government (1912 - 1928) or First Republic of China, this map is significant in illustrating a transition of power from the old imperial system to a theoretically modern republic. The multi-color chromolithographic process employed here allows for color coding to define individual buildings: government properties (red), schools (green), temples (yellow), embassies and diplomatic sites (purple). Note that the presidential palace itself is now within the Imperial City - a symbol of the Republic's redefinition of Chinese governmental power. Below the map proper is an index identifying government offices in the capitals of the various provinces. The map itself is a western style cartographic projection, likely based upon German and British surveys compiled after the 1900 suppression of the Boxer Rebellion. (more details)
From Empire to Republic.
Map of Peking. / 北京地圖
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- Digital Map Information
- Suitable for large format printing
- File Size: 102.86 MB
- File Type: ZIP / TIFF
- ICC color profile embedded
- Delivered instantly via download link
This is a rare, important, and beautifully produced multi-color chromolithograph map of Beijing issued by the Chung-Tung Litho Works press in 1914. Issued under the Beiyang Government (1912 - 1928) or First Republic of China, this map is significant in illustrating a transition of power from the old imperial system to a theoretically modern republic. (more details)