Pre-Revolution China: Fascinating Historical of Life in China from 1870-1946

#1 Zhou Xuan (third from left), the star singer known as the “Golden Voice”, 1930

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#2 Bridge, environs of Shanghai, 1900

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#3 Creek at low tide, Shanghai, 1900

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#4 Gate to the old city, Shanghai, 1890s

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#5 Great Wall, 1880s

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#6 Inside the Old City of Shanghai, 1900

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#7 Island and harbour, Foochow,1870s

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#8 Main street, Meng tse, 1900

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#9 Merchant and his family, Canton, Milton Miller, 1860

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#10 Pearl River, Canton, A Chan, 1880s

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#11 Street with shops, Peking, 1875

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#12 Wanham Canal, Canton, Afong, 1870s

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#13 Chinese Family, 1875

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#14 Group Of Chinese Women With Fans, Canton, China

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#15 Greatwall China Herbert G. Ponting, 1900

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#16 Boxer Prisoners Captured By 6th US Cavalry, Tientsin, China, 1901

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#17 Beggars, Beihai Park, 1919

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#18 Cholon Actress, Cholon, Saigon, French Cochinchina, 1900s

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#19 Qing Court Return, The Emperess Dowerger, 1902

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#20 China, Manchu Ladies Of The Palace Being Warned To Stop Smoking, 1910

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#21 Interior Canal, Canton, China, 1917

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#22 Pekin, Walls Of The Tartar City, 1896

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#23 Muslim Bandits, Xinjiang, China, 1915

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#24 Peking To Paris Autorace, 1907

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#25 Bride on Her Way to Wedding, Fuzhou Fujian China, 1913

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#26 Bomb Protection, 1940

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#27 Mouth of Coal Mine in Mountain Ridge West of Ta Chu, China, 1909

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#28 Bridges by which the night police of the roofs cross the streets, Canton, China, 1900

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#29 Chang The Chinese Giant, 1870

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#30 Chinese Punishment, Whipping A Lawbreaker, 1870

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#31 Peking Mission School Children at Play, The Dragon’s Head, China, 1902

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#32 Foot Bound Girls, Liao Chow, Shansi, China, 1930

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#33 During The Famine Young Child Dying tn the Gutter, China, 1964

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#34 Taiwan Aborigines, Bunun Tribe, Formosa, 1900

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#35 Empress Gobele Wan Rong, 1940

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#36 Toy Vendor, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1900

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#37 Example of a Coiffure on a Tartar or Manchu Female, Frontview, Peking, Pechili Province, China, 1896

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#38 The Meridian Gate, Entrance To The Forbidden City, Peking China, 1927

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#39 Black, Chinese Frances Carpenter

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#40 Ulysses S. Grant & Li Hung Chang, Tientsin, China, 1896

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#41 Jade Belt Bridge & Boat, Summer Palace, Peking, China, 1924

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#42 Men Laden With Tea, Sichuan Sheng, China, 1908

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#43 Imperial Gate of the Imperial City, Looking North, Peking, China, 1901

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#44 Family in Lanchow, China, 1944

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#45 Kampa Dzong, Tibet, 1904

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#46 Forest Temple Near Chefoo, Shantung, China, 1895

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#47 Singing Girls, Hong Kong, China, 1901

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#48 A Boat on a River With Rolling Hills in the Background in the Kiangsu Province or Yunnan Province, China, 1946

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#49 Chinese Aviatrix Receives Gift of new Plane From Colonel Roscoe Turner, Washington, D.C., 1939

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#50 Natives At Breakfast, Movable Chow Shop, Canton, China, 1919

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#51 Rich Merchants Dining With Singing Girls, Pekin, China, 1901

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#52 A Chinese Professor, China, 1919

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#53 Six Strongmen in Traditional Dress, China, 1909

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#54 Cake Of Millet & Jujubes, Peking, China, 1915

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#55 The Harvard Houseboat, Kiating Fu, China, 1908

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#56 Stele Pavilion, SacredWay, Ming Tombs, Peking, China, 1900

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#57 Mercenary Artillerymen Supplied With Guns & Ammunition by the British, 1880

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#58 Canton, China, 1880

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#59 Flower Boats, Canton China, 1871

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#60 View of an Old Village, Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong, 1946

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#61 Kidnapped Girls, Foochow, China, 1904

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#62 Yung Ting Men, Front View of the Two Towers & The Barbican, 1924

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#63 Jeunes Filles Chinoises, 1901

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#64 Tibetan Lhacham, Tibet, 1879

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#65 Bowl Shaped objects Scattered Outside A Building, Yunnan, China, 1922

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#66 Ching Yang Temple, Chentu, China, 1980

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#67 Leuchtturm Im Cantonfluss, 1891

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#68 Fisherman in Grand Canal by the East Gate, Peking, China, 1907

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#69 Queen’s Road On Chinese New Years Day, Hong Kong, China, 1902

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#70 China, Kuan Hsien Temple, 1908

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#71 Drache Am Schleusenrand im Túngchou-Kanal, Peking, Chihli Province, 1906

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#72 Examination Hall With 7500 Cells, Canton, China, 1873

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#73 The Industrial District The Salt Well, Tzeliutsing, Szechúan Province, 1906

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#74 On The Journey to the Monastery of teh Boys of Heaven near Ningpo, Ningpo-Tíen Túng Sze, Chekiang Province, 1906

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#75 Der Abt Des Klosters, Tíen túng sze, Chekiang Province, 1906

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#76 Young Mother Carrying a Child on her back in the market, Hong Kong Island, 1946

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#77 Produce & Wares From Shops Along the Sides of a Typical Backstreet, Western District, Hong Kong Island, 1946

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#78 Seated Man Amid Baskets of Fish & Hanging Dried Fish, Eastern Districts, Hong Kong Island, 1946

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#79 Produce & Wares From Shops Along The Sides of a Typical Backstreet, Western District, Hong Kong Island, 1946

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#80 House Interior Showing Woman With Bound Feet Tending a Stove in the Lost Tribe Country, 1936

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#81 House Interior Showing a Woman at a Brick Stove, a Bucket & a Ladle Made From a Gourd in the Lost Tribe Country, 1936

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#82 Fisher Families With Junks In Aberdeen Harbor, Hong Kong Island, 1946

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#83 Men With Leopard at the Dongan Mission, China, 1932

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#84 China’s Common Carrier, Her Substitute For Railways, A Camel Square In Peking, China, 1901

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#85 Shanghai’s business street, 1906

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#86 Inside the International Savings Society on Shanghai’s Avenue Edward (today’s Yan’an East Road), 1913

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#87 the Hongkou market, where everyday were many local fishermen, peasant farmers.

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#88 Workers for The Shanghai Electric Construction Co. Ltd. on Nanjing Road laying streetcar trolley rails, 1907

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#89 Xinhai Revolution and Shanghai Recovery, during the chaotic state of affairs in the nation, 1911

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#90 The office of the Star Film and Theater School that was founded in 1922.

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#91 Three sisters awaiting the start of a tennis match. Corbis.

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#92 Shanghai’s riverbank pedestrian street around the 1930s

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#93 A peddler selling cigarettes to foreign soldiers, 1927

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#94 Nanjing Road in the 1930s

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#95 Dockers unloading a train locomotive engine; this engine car was provided by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

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#96 Chinese laborers on the docks unloading watermelons to be sold, 1936

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#97 Shanghai Hotel in the 1930s.

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#98 Shanghai Bund in 1935, where public buses were “invaded and taken over” by all types of advertisements.

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#99 Shanghai during the War of Resistance.

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#100 A billboard on a Shanghai street. Other than physical goods, 1948

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#101 A rickshaw puller, with a lot of advertisements visible on the commercial street.

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#102 A newsstand on the side of a Shanghai street. Other than local newspapers and periodicals.

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#103 After the end of the War of Resistance, of a dancing girl and a soldier dancing.

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#104 The street from the central business district to the Bund public markets, 1497

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#105 The Shanghai market bazaar, vendors selling “555″ branded pots. Soon after on May 14, 1940s

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#106 merican bar owner Frank and his Chinese wife in their bar.

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