Frank Dorn

Frank Dorn was a young military attaché who had been stationed in Beijing (then “Peiping”) in 1934. An avid student and artist, Dorn drew this map in the first two years of his posting. It was published in 1936 along with a 22-page booklet of the same title, as a guide to the city of Beijing and its immediate surroundings, by Peiyang press, a publisher based in Tianjin (then “Tientsin”) and Beijing.