Empress of China with a diadem and long pendants. A concubine and a servant. Interior. Furniture.
Tag: Historical Chinese costumes
The Abbot and Monks of Kushan Monastery about 1870.
The similarity between the Buddhist faith and the Roman Catholic churches may be traced even more minutely than this. “Buddhists everywhere have their monasteries and nunneries, their baptism, celibacy and tonsure, their rosaries, chaplets, relics, and charms, their fast-days and processions, their confessions, mass, requiems, and litanies, and, especially in Tibet, even their cardinals, and their pope.”
Opium smocking in Shanghai 1899.
Opium smocking in Shanghai 1899.
China 1897. The dying coolie by Isabella Bird Bishop.
THE DYING COOLIE 1897.