Chinese Pictures

About this eBook

Author

Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904

Title

Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China

Original Publication

London: Cassell and Company, 1900.

Credits

The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia

Subject

Costume -- China -- Pictorial works

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 71968

Release Date

October 27, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.CHINESE PICTURES
2. 2.INTRODUCTION.
3. 3.ERRATA.
4. 4.CONTENTS. — THE PRIVATE ENTRANCE TO THE IMPERIAL PALACE, PEKING. — THE ENTRANCE TO THE BRITISH LEGATION. — ENTRANCE TO THE COLLEGE OF THE STUDENT INTERPRETERS. — THE STATE CARRIAGE OF THE BRITISH LEGATION. — THE GREAT IMPERIAL STONE ROAD FROM PEKING TO CHENGTU, THE CAPITAL OF SZE CHUAN. — A MULE CART. — A MANCHURIAN FAMILY TRAVELLING. — CARRIAGE BY BEARERS. — A TRAVELLER ARRIVING AT AN INN IN MANCHURIA. — CARRIAGE OF MERCHANDISE. — THE MODE OF CARRYING OIL AND WINE. — WHEELBARROW TRAFFIC ON THE CHENGTU PLAIN. — THE WHEELBARROW OF NORTH CHINA. — A SMALL HOUSEBOAT ON THE YANGTZE KIANG. — A FOOT BOAT FOUND IN CENTRAL CHINA. — HSIN TAN RAPID ON THE YANGTZE RIVER. — A BOAT ON THE MIN RIVER, USED FOR RUNNING THE RAPIDS. — PART OF A FRINGE OF JUNKS OR RIVER BOATS AT WAN HSIEN. — THE BRIDGE OF TEN THOUSAND AGES, FOOCHOW. — A BRIDGE AT WAN HSIEN OF THE SINGLE ARCH TYPE. — THE BRIDGE OF MIEN CHUH SZE CHUAN. — A SIMPLE COUNTRY BRIDGE. — A DRAGON BRIDGE. — THE ZIG-ZAG BRIDGE OF SHANGHAI. — THE GARDEN OF THE GUILD OF BENEVOLENCE, CHUNG KING. — A BURIAL CHARITY. — A BABY TOWER, FOOCHOW. — BOTTLE SELLER AND HOSPITAL PATIENT. — THE DYING COOLIE. — THE MODE OF SEPULCHRE THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN CHINA. — COFFINS KEPT ABOVE GROUND. — THE TEMPLE OF THE GOD OF LITERATURE AT MUKDEN. — THE TEMPLE OF THE FOX, MUKDEN. — WAYSIDE SHRINES. — THE FICUS RELIGIOSA. — THE ALTAR OF HEAVEN. — THE TABLET OF CONFUCIUS. — A PORCELAIN-FRONTED TEMPLE ON THE YANGTZE. — CHILD EATING RICE WITH CHOPSTICKS. — FORT ON THE PEKING WALL. — ANOTHER FORT ON THE WALL OF PEKING. — COLOSSAL ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS ON THE PEKING WALL. — CHIEN MUN GATE. — THE GATE OF VICTORY, MUKDEN. — THE WEST GATE OF KIALING FU. — THE WEST GATE OF HANGCHOW. — THE GATE OF A FORBIDDEN CITY. — SILK REELING. — A TYPICAL ENTRANCE TO A HOUSE. — THE GUEST HALL IN A CHINESE HOUSE, WAN HSIEN, SZE CHUAN. — A CHINESE VILLAGE — A FARMHOUSE IN THE HAKKA COUNTRY, SOUTHERN CHINA. — A MARKET PLACE OR MARKET STREET IN SZE CHUAN. — THE COBBLER. — CARRYING LIQUID MANURE TO THE FIELDS, — THE MARRIAGE CHAIR. — MODE OF CARRYING CASH AND BABIES. — A PAI-FANG, OR WIDOW’S ARCH. — TWO SOLDIERS OF SZE CHUAN. — OPIUM CULTURE ENCROACHING ON THE RICE LANDS, SZE CHUAN.

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