Tan Chueh Ssu Monastery, Western Hills, near Beijing

Tan Chueh Ssu Monastery, Western Hills, near Beijing

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Bk04-58. Source: 'The Pageant of Peking' by Donald Mennie (A.S.Watson and Co., Shanghai, 1920). The Tan Chueh Ssu (T'an Chou Ssu) Monastery (Monastery of Clear Pools and Wild Mulberry), Western Hills, Peking (Beijing). The ancient monastery is six miles north-west of Chieh T'ai Ssu. Both monasteries feature in the novel ‘Peking Picnic’ by Ann Bridge (1932).

Caption in album or on mount

LVIII. TAN CHUEH SSU - WESTERN HILLS

Location

Beijing

Estimated Date

1915-1920

Photographer

Mennie, Donald

Material

Book

Media

Black and white photograph