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(Taoism) Tao Chien: Great men want the four seas

Thirty years after it was toppled by China’s military, the “Goddess of Democracy” continues to represent resistance to autocracy.

Оригинал взят у tanyameihua в Странные и страшные моменты из записей о крестьянском восстании тайпинов в Китае. Войска тайпинов находились в Шанхае, который был осажден войсками имперской армии Цин и помогающими им в подавлении восстаения европейскими войсками. Длительные боевые действия…

Entitled: Portrait Of Manchu Girl In Traditional Costume, Beijing, China, [c1861-1864] Attribution Unk [RESTORED] I did simple spot removal and then had to do a lot of edge damage repair and reconstruction. The bottom right corner was evident of very bad retouching work on the original, as it looked like the corner was either water damaged or unevenly developed. The bottom left corner was missing and appeared to have suffered fire damage. After the repairs, contrast and tonal adjustments, Sepia toned and then a faux Duotone of Blue and Yellow. This image was found on the University Of Southern California Library's Internet Mission Photography Archives. The following is from their title page: "The Internet Mission Photography Archive offers historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, and the United States. The photographs, which range in time from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, offer a visual record of missionary activities and experiences in Africa, China, Madagascar, India, Papua-New Guinea, and the Caribbean. The photographs reveal the physical influence of missions, visible in mission compounds, churches, and school buildings, as well as the cultural impact of mission teaching, religious practices, and Western technology and fashions. Indigenous peoples' responses to missions and the emergence of indigenous churches are represented, as are views of landscapes, cities, and towns before and in the early stages of modern development." Source: digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa/controller/index.htm According to their information about this image: ""Young girl in full dress - a Manchu" [Manchu Girl in full dress]" Portrait of seated girl with fan. One of a set of prints by an unidentified Russian photographer, bearing caption in English and also captions in Russian on the reverse. They are also accompanied by a hand written list of captions, and where this differs from the caption written on the print, this has been included in square brackets above. William Lockhart was among the pioneers of medical missionary work for the LMS. He travelled to Canton [now Guangzhou] in 1838, opening hospitals at Macao [now Macau] and Shanghai before opening a mission in Peking [now Beijing] in 1861. Lockhart left Beijing in 1864, although remained connected with the Society, serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors in 1869. Lockhart obtained these prints during his time in Beijing, and they came into the LMS collection from Constance Patterson [née Brown] who had been given them by Lockhart's daughter, Mrs. Jervis." Record ID: impa-m1565

Introduction: The Butterfly Swords and Southern Martial Arts Defend the Nation I recently ran across two photographs that I think students of the southern Chinese martial arts may find very enligh…

A mix of images taken by Western and Chinese photographers, which span from the 1850s to the 1880s, from a private collection are now on display for the first time at a Beijing museum.

This man set up on a San Francisco Chinatown sidewalk to offer his services as calligrapher and scrivener. An example of his penmanship advertising his services is tacked up on the wall behind him.

Entitled: Natives At Breakfast, Movable Chow Shop, Canton, China [c1919] Keystone View Co. [RESTORED] I did the usual spotting, contrast, tonal corrections and added a sepia. However there are really serious limits that one can do when the original shot was set up with a single light source and no apparent or proper fill. The shadows in this case, seem to be deeper than the US national debt. I just love these funny propped shots that purport to show the "real" Chinese slice of life. The funniest part is that there were probably some who believed these pictures wholeheartedly. A mixture of truth, probabilities, outright falsehoods, and a often a lot of the photographers' wild imagination, they're not only of historical significance, but begin to take on artistic value purely because of their sheer Kitsch. That said, historically, street vendors did in fact sell hot food from either portable or rolling kitchens like this in the larger Chinese cities of the 1900's, so the image probably leans more to the truthful side than not. However I do question the dating of this image, which seems to be thematically similar to many that were produced by the BW Kilburn Co in 1901 (Kilburn unfortunately never issued sets of images). As Kilburn eventually closed its doors in 1909, its vast collection of 17,000 views and over 100,000 plate glass negatives was sold to Keystone View. Source: www.yellowstonestereoviews.com/publishers/kilburn.html My own speculation is that Keystone then picked the best of each collection that they acquired and reissued them with new titles and dates; hence the production date of this image was relabeled as 1919.

Wang Fuchun, 73, has spent more than two decades capturing the essence of life on the Chinese railways. His incredible photos transport viewers back in time to a China without bullet trains.