It was a decade of social progress, activism, political upheaval, and a new kind of pop culture.

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For Marxists the Chinese Revolution was the second greatest event in human history, second only to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Millions of human beings, who had hitherto been the beasts of burden of imperialism, threw off the humiliating yoke of imperialism and capitalism, and entered the stage of world history.

Cave dwellings have been found in many regions of the world. These caves served as dwellings and as places of worship and were usually combined with surface structures. After the cave cities ceased to be inhabited, the surface structures fell into ruin and only the caves remained. Not all cave dwell

Old photos of China: One hundred years of Chinese history condensed in 75 amazing pictures recently restored. From late Qing dynasty ...

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Incredible images show just how China has changed over the past 100 years. The photos show life in the country during the Qing dynasty (1644 to 1912) before the communist rule.

Here is a rare photo collection that shows daily life of China in the 19th century. Bridge, environs of Shanghai, c 1900 Creek at low tide, Shanghai, c 1900 Gate to the old city, Shanghai, ca. 1890s Great Wall, ca. 1880s Inside the Old City of Shanghai, circa 1900 Island and harbour, Foochow, ca. 1870s Main street, Meng tse, c 1900 Merchant and his family, Canton, Milton Miller, ca. 1860-62 Pearl River, Canton, A Chan, ca. 1880s Street with shops, Peking, ca. 1875-80 Wanham Canal, Canton, Afong, ca. 1870s

Gorgeous photos from one of the first photographers to visit the country.

vintage everyday: Vintage Photographs of Pre-Revolution China, 1870-1946.Here is an amazing collection of vintage photographs taken in pre-revolution China, taken in Pre Deng XiaoPing period (1870-…

While the 50th anniversary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution passed quietly, without any official commemorations, its legacy is still felt daily in modern politics.

Incredible images show just how China has changed over the past 100 years. The photos show life in the country during the Qing dynasty (1644 to 1912) before the communist rule.

Have you ever seen gymnast goats, a rainbow-­coloured river, or a weasel riding a woodpecker? Prepare to be amazed by your weird and wonderful planet as we dip into DK’s Strange But True

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103 years after foot binding was banned in China, a few women still live with the severe deformity it caused. The photographer Jo Farrell tracked down 50 of them

“@iingwen 漢族不是一個民族。言詞不同DNA也不同。不是同胞 不是方言。中共支配55族，抹掉語言和文化。各民族需要命運自決。 打倒暴政天滅中共。建国民主諸夏諸国。 劉曉波書，民主中國和大一統不能兩立。中國人就是永恆的共產黨奴隸。民主中國唯有解體。”

Only a matter of time before they start snapping and crushing the bones of the little one. How can these women go along with this sometimes-deadly stupidity propagated and defended by half the men of old China ? A partial answer is here : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome Here.... have a look under the wrappings : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3461349265/in/set-7215... ************************************************ Welcome to CHINESE FOOT BINDING 101. The COMPLETE 101 COURSE, as well as the gruesome details of how the feet were actually broken and crushed into shape, are found in the caption of this photo : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3462167744/in/set-7215... Crippled for life by a cultural defect in certain Chinese men's view of women, this "outrage against nature" continued for a thousand years. No excuse. Just more cultural stupidity that afflicts all mankind, manifesting itself in different ways in almost all countries of the world....this being one of the more severe insanities right up there with GENITAL MUTILATION --- both that and foot binding decreed by men for their own mentally and culturally corrupt view of women, leading to their permanent, crippling disfigurement, and/or loss of natural feeling and bodily function. ".......The custom is commonly cited by sociologists and anthropologists as examples of how an extreme deformity by contemporary standards can be viewed [by men] as a source of "beauty and pleasure", and how immense human suffering can be inflicted upon girls [by men] in the pursuit of female beauty......" Beauty ? Yeah. Right. Some men need to have heir heads examined. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding

A band of pioneering Western photographers sought to capture China’s landscapes, cities and people, captivating audiences back home and sparking a homegrown photography movement in the process.

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Old photos of China: One hundred years of Chinese history condensed in 75 amazing pictures recently restored. From late Qing dynasty ...

The Terracotta Warriors in Xi ` an, Central China, were originally painted in bright colours, representing their real uniforms. Once they have been uncovered from the excavations and re-assembled ( all are badly damaged and have to be re -built like a 3D jigsaw ) the original colours rapidly fade. Various methods are now being applied to prevent the colour fading, and further excavations are halted until a solution is found. It is thought that many 1000`s of warriors still remain to be found.

Before Europeans first arrived in Asia, China was one of the most advanced and powerful nations in the world. It was the most populous, was politically unified, and most importantly, it had mastered the art of agriculture. However, when Europeans first landed on Chinese shores, they found a nation that had revered to traditional culture and warfare. Industrialization was almost nonexistent. At the beginning of the 20th century, China was divided into sphere of influence with each powerful Western nation trying to exert as much control over it as possible. The Chinese resented foreigners control and expressed this at the beginning of the 20th century with the Boxer Rebellion. At the same time, the traditional government of China began to fail in the early years. The Chinese people, being resentful of foreigners and dissatisfied with inability of the present government to throw them out, initiated the Revolution of 1911, replacing the Chinese 2000 year old imperial system with the Republic of China headed by Sun Yat-sen. Here is an amazing collection of vintage photographs taken in pre-revolution China, in Pre Deng XiaoPing period (1870-1946). Chinese Family [c1875] Attribution Unk Group Of Chinese Women With Fans, Canton, China [c1880] Afong Lai Greatwall China [1907] Herbert G. Ponting Boxer Prisoners Captured By 6th US Cavalry, Tientsin, China [1901] Underwood & Co Beggars, Beihai Park [c1917-1919] Sydney D. Gamble Cholon Actress, Cholon, Saigon, French Cochinchina [c1900's] Attribution Unk Qing Court Return, The Emperess Dowerger [1902] George E. Morrison China, Manchu Ladies Of The Palace Being Warned To Stop Smoking [c1910-1925] Frank & Frances Carpenter Interior Canal, Canton, China [c1917-1919] Sidney D. Gamble Pekin, Walls Of The Tartar City [c1894-1896] William H. Jackson Muslim Bandits, Xinjiang, China [c1915] Marc Aurel Stein Peking To Paris Autorace [1907] Attribution Unk Bride On Her Way To Wedding, Fuzhou Fujian China [c1911-1913] Ralph G. Gold Bomb Protection [c1940] Attribution Unk Mouth Of Coal Mine In Mountain Ridge West Of Ta Chu, China MAR [1909] Thomas C. Chamberlin Bridges By Which The Night Police Of The Roofs Cross The Streets, Canton, China [1900] Underwood & Co. Chang The Chinese Giant [c1870] Attribution Unk Chinese Punishment, Whipping A Lawbreaker [c1900] Attribution Unk Peking Mission School Children At Play, The Dragon's Head, China [1902] Carlton H. Graves Co Foot Bound Girls, Liao Chow, Shansi, China [c1930] IE Oberholtzer (Probable) During The Famine Young Child Dying In The Gutter, China [1946] Geroge Silk Taiwan Aborigines, Bunun Tribe, Formosa [c1900] Attribution Unk Empress Gobele Wan Rong [c1920-1940] Attribution Unk Toy Vendor, Chinatown, San Francisco [c1900s] Arnold Genthe Example Of A Coiffure On A Tartar Or Manchu Female, Frontview, Peking, Pechili Province, China [1869] John Thomson The Meridian Gate, Entrance To The Forbidden City, Peking China [1927] Herbert C. White Black, Chinese Frances Carpenter Ulysses S. Grant & Li Hung Chang, Tientsin, China [1879] Attribution Unk Jade Belt Bridge & Boat, Summer Palace, Peking, China [c1924] Sidney D. Gamble Men Laden With Tea, Sichuan Sheng, China [1908] Ernest H. Wilson Imperial Gate Of The Imperial City, Looking North, Peking, China [1901] Hawley C. White Co. Family In Lanchow, China [1944] Fr. Mark Tennien Kampa Dzong, Tibet [1904] John C. White Forest Temple Near Chefoo, Shantung, China [c1895] William H. Jackson Singing Girls, Hong Kong, China [c1901] Benjamin W. Kilburn Co. A Boat On A River With Rolling Hills In The Background In The Kiangsu Province Or Yunnan Province In China [1946] Arthur Rothstein Chinese Aviatrix Receives Gift Of New Plane From Colonel Roscoe Turner, Washington, D.C. [1939] Harris & Ewing Natives At Breakfast, Movable Chow Shop, Canton, China [c1919] Keystone View Co. Rich Merchants Dining With Singing Girls, Pekin, China [c1901] Benjamin W. Kilburn A Chinese Professor, China [c1919] Keystone View Co. Six Strongmen In Traditional Dress, China [1909] William Purdom Cake Of Millet & Jujubes, Peking, China [1915] Frank N. Meyer The Harvard Houseboat, Kiating Fu, China [1908] Ernest H. Wilson Stele Pavilion, SacredWay, Ming Tombs, Peking, China [c1900] Attribution Unk Mercenary Artillerymen Supplied With Guns & Ammunition By The British [c1880] Attribution Unk Canton, China [c1880] R.H. Brown Flower Boats, Canton China [c1871] Emil Rusfeldt View Of An Old Village, Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong [c1946] Hedda Morrison Kidnapped Girls, Foochow, China [1904] Attribution Unk Yung Ting Men, Front View Of The Two Towers & The Barbican [1924] Osvald Siren Jeunes Filles Chinoises [c1901] René Parison Tibetan Lhacham, Tibet [c1879] Sarat Chandra Das Bowl Shaped Objects Scattered Outside A Building, Yunnan, China [1922] Joseph F. C. Rock Ching Yang Temple, Chentu, China [1908] Ernest H. Wilson Leuchtturm Im Cantonfluss [c1891] C. R. Hager Fisherman In Grand Canal By The East Gate, Peking, China [1907] Herbert C. White Co. Queen's Road On Chinese New Years Day, Hong Kong, China [1902] Carlton H. Graves China, Kuan Hsien Temple [1908] Ernest H. Wilson Drache Am Schleusenrand Im Túngchou-Kanal, Peking, Chihli Province [c1906] Ernst Boerschmann Examination Hall With 7500 Cells, Canton, China [1873] Attribution Unk Der Industriebezirk Der Salzbrunnen, Tzeliutsing, Szechúan Province [c1906] Ernst Boerschmann Auf Der Reise Zum Kloster Des Himmelsknaben Bei Ningpo, Ningpo-Tíen Túng Sze, Chekiang Province [c1906] Ernst Boerschmann Der Abt Des Klosters, Tíen túng sze, Chekiang Province [c1906] Ernst Boerschmann Young Mother Carrying A Child On Her Back In The Market, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison Produce & Wares From Shops Along The Sides Of A Typical Backstreet, Western District, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison Seated Man Amid Baskets Of Fish & Hanging Dried Fish, Eastern Districts, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison Produce & Wares From Shops Along The Sides Of A Typical Backstreet, Western District, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison House Interior Showing Woman With Bound Feet Tending A Stove In The Lost Tribe Country [1936] Hedda Morrison House Interior Showing A Woman At A Brick Stove, A Bucket & A Ladle Made From A Gourd In The Lost Tribe Country [1936] Hedda Morrison Fisher Families With Junks In Aberdeen Harbor, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison Men With Leopard At The Dongan Mission, China [1932] Fr. Otto Rauschenbach China's Common Carrier, Her Substitute For Railways, A Camel Square In Peking, China [1901] Underwood & Co

In the mouth of the Yangtze River off the eastern coast of China, a small island holds a secret haven lost to the forces of time and nature–an abandoned

What makes a great leader? How do we know when a government is powerful? Can these words “great” and “powerful” mean different things? This lesson was reported from: Linton…

In deze backpack route reis je zelf 3 weken met de trein door centraal China. We geven je tips voor je rondreisroute door China en delen handige reistips!

In 1949, the communists took over Mainland China, forcing the leader of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-Shek…

Walter Bosshard (1892–1975) war ein Star und besass ein Millionenpublikum. Als erstem westlichem Journalisten gelang ihm ein Treffen mit Mao. Sein Werk wird nun neu bewertet.

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers working in the ancient Yanghai graveyard in China's Tarim Basin has uncovered what appears to be the earliest example of trouser wearing. The research team has published a paper in the journal Quaternary International describing the pants and why they were likely developed to assist with riding horses.

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The collection, taken by Scottish photography pioneer John Thomson, is expected to fetch £20,000 at an auction in New York next month.

The past can teach us a lot about the present, and might even give us an idea about what to expect from the future.

Song Dynasty women inspecting a bolt of silk. 12th century CE. Painted on silk. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA)

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From a collection of vintage postcards.