The Giant Thorney Bamboo. Nothing can exceed in beauty the graceful bamboo, as its feathery foliage waves and flutters in the breeze.
The Bamboo Cane, its origin and traditional use.
Category: China
Traditional clothing from China. Chinese National Costumes
The great imperial stone road from Peking to Chengtu.
Chinese pictures: notes on photographs made in China by Isabella Lucy Bird. The great imperial stone road planted with cedars sealed with the Imperial seal.
Chinese peasants with children from the northern provinces.
A peasant with his wife and family. The feet of children are prevented from growing large. The Mother is in the dress of the northern provinces.
China. The Empress. A concubine and a servant. Furniture.
Empress of China with a diadem and long pendants. A concubine and a servant. Interior. Furniture.
Chinese female coiffure from Canton, Shantou, Ningpo & Shanghai.
Mode of dressing the hair in vogue among the women of Shanghai, Canton, Shantou and Ningpo. Photo by John Thomson.
Prince Gong. Yixin, Prince Gongzhong of the First Rank
PRINCE KUNG. Illustrations of China and its people: a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented by John Thomson.
Taiwan. Male and female Pepohoan people.
The Taiwanese Plains Indigenous Peoples, formerly known as the Pingpu…
Inhabitants of Xiamen, China. 19th c.
Inhabitants of the south chinese city Xiamen at the end of the 19th century.
View of the Yuenfu Monastery near Foochow (now Fuzhou), China 1871.
Yuen-fu Monastery Cave, Fukien province, China. THIS Buddhist monastery is remarkable rather for its romantic situation than for any historical associations. Illustrations of China and its people by John Thomson.
Amoy Harbour. The Port of Xiamen in 19th century.
Amoy, today Xiamen, Fujian Province China, was one of the earliest ports to which foreigners resorted.