[CHINA] Jean BOUCHOT - Scenes from the life... - Lot 275 - Morel de Westgaver

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[CHINA] Jean BOUCHOT - Scenes from the life... - Lot 275 - Morel de Westgaver
[CHINA] Jean BOUCHOT - Scenes from the life of the Hutungs. Sketches of Pekingese manners. Preface by Albert Nachbauer. 3rd edition. Peking, (Albert Nachbauer), 1926. 218 x 153 mm, contemporary brown half-basin, four-ribbed spine, cover intact (spine faded, binding rubbed). [18 (including 3 ch. title pages)], 125, [4], [1 bl.] pp. The illustration, printed in red, includes: 17 chapter headings, 10 hors-texte, headbands and footnotes as well as 2 superb folding lithographs heightened in watercolour depicting Chinese ceremonies: the first one, a wedding; the second one, a burial Jean Bouchot (Paris, 1886 - Besançon, 1932) had an eventful and varied career during which he was in turn an aviator, a teacher, a journalist, an archivist and finally a museum curator in Besançon. The courses he took at the École des Chartes enabled him to acquire solid working and research methods. During the First World War, he served as an aviator and as an aeronautical technician. At the end of 1918, he was given a mission as an instructor in Japan where he lived for a year and a half. Seduced by the Far East, he left the army after a mission in General Janin's expeditionary corps in Siberia, and accepted a post as a French teacher in Peking where he remained for four years. There he returned to journalism and studied Chinese characters. It was there that he published this tasty and funny book on the Beijing hutung, which can be compared to the alleys of our villages. "The hutung is the receptacle of a whole population, insanely vain in other respects, preoccupied with 'appearances' above all, whose main concern, after gain, is to parade in front of their neighbours; it is also the receptacle of all the detritus... of the household... The hutung is a shortcut to Beijing, Beijing is a summary of China." Today only a few rare hutungs still enthuse tourists. Naudin Georgette. Jean Bouchot (1886-1932). In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Volume 33, 1933. pp. 557-560.
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