A Middle Class Family. The Wife having Bound Feet.
Chinese wife with bound feet, 1891.
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Opium smocking in Shanghai 1899.
China 1897. The dying coolie by Isabella Bird Bishop.
Chinese National Day. Tien An Men parade.
Tien An Men Square Pecking. National Day, October 1.
Chinese National Day. Tien An Men parade 1954.
The Bridge of Nanjing. Ancient China sceneries.
The Bridge of Nanjing.
The Bridge of Nanjing.
It has been previously stated in the pages of these volumes, that Nanjing is not seated immediately on the banks of the Yang-tse-kiang, but at the distance of three miles from them, and connected with that noble river by a wide and deep canal; so considerable, indeed, is this artificial navigation, which continues parallel to the west and south walls of the city, at a trifling interval only, that the bridges thrown across it are works of much architectural pretensions. Near where the Porcelain Tower formerly stood, the largest and principal bridge of Nanjing spans the main trunk of the canal, forming a communication between an extensive suburb, and the west gate of the city. It consists of six well-turned arches of unequal width, and is altogether a scientific work, being kept down nearly to a level with the banks at either extremity. Continue reading
The Imperial Travelling Palace at the Hoo kew shan.
The Imperial Travelling Palace at the Hoo kew shan
The Imperial Travelling Palace at the Hoo kew shan, Henan Province.
Jupiter descended occasionally from Olympus, and became the guest of mortals, and the king of Tartarus emerged from his gloomy hall to visit the palace of Queen Ceres, yet the mighty autocrat of the “Celestial empire” never deigns to enter any save an imperial habitation. No private palace of his humiliated mandarins’ no public inn of his enslaved subjects, is ever honoured by the imperial presence; when the court makes a tour of pleasure or policy, the retinue is lodged at “travelling palaces” erected for their reception. These occur along the great high-roads that connect the principal cities of the empire, and some of them exceed in sumptuousness, all in picturesque accompani’ ments, the much-celebrated palace and gardens of Peking. Continue reading
The Imperial Palace at Ts’ao shan.
The Imperial palace at Ts’ao shan
The Imperial Palace at Ts’ao shan.
About three miles north-east from Chin-keang-foo, the provincial capital of Jiang Nan (Chinese: 江南;), from the broad bright waters of the Yangtse keang, rise the picturesque and precipitous rocky islets called “the three hills of King-kow.” Nature has been bountiful to them in all respects, and, from immemorial time, they have also largely partaken of the smiles of their imperial rulers.
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