China. A Photographer in Old Peking by Hedda Morrison.

Oxford University Press, 1985.  First edition hardcover in cloth, fine with near fine protected dust jacket that has a few tiny nicks. 266 pages.  Maps on endpapers. Before her marriage to Alastair Morrison, the photographer Hedda Hammer (1908–1991) lived and served as a photographer in Peking (Beijing), China, from 1933 to 1946. Working mostly outdoors because she did not have access to good flash equipment, she recorded street life, artists, workers, crafts workers, small businessmen, opium dens, actors, Buddhist monks, architecture, landscapes in the outskirts of the city, and more.  A remarkable visual record accompanied by Morrison’s detailed memoirs of life in the Chinese metropolis. After leaving China, Morrison resided and photographed in Sarawak and Canberra.