Peking - A Social Survey.

Conducted under the auspices of the Princeton University Center in China and the Peking Y.M.C.A. First edition. Photographic frontispiece, 47 photographic illustrations on 15 plates, and 38 maps and diagrams printed in the text. 8vo. Original green cloth, overall a very good copy. 538pp. New York, G. H. Doran Co.,

Sidney D. Gamble (1890 – 1968) was an outstanding sociologist and Sinologist. Having graduated from Princeton University he visited China a number of times in order to do fieldwork and surveys which resulted in a number of ground-braking studies. The present is his first book represents the fruit of a three-year study in which he applied the latest Western methods for social studies to the capital of China. Gamble surveys the government, health, education, commercial life, law and order, as well as poverty and charity of Peking in unprecedented detail. He did so at a time of unprecedented social change which profoundly influenced his own outlook on the world. Much of the work was undertaken under the auspices of the Peking YMCA but Gamble used his own fortune (he was the grandson of the founder of Procter & Gamble) to fund his activities and his charitable work. 

Stock Code: 224928