Last Updated on 2022/04/22
Over the years we collected 40+ galleries of rare and amazing historical images of China.
Hundred of photos describing China, from the late Qing Dynasty till the Deng Xiaoping era.
Index
- 1900 – 1927 – Qing Dynasty
- 1900 – 1927
- 1927 – 1949 – Chinese Civil War
- 1949 – 1975 – Mao era
- 1965 – 1975 – Cultural Revolution
- 1975 – 1989 – Deng Xiaoping Era
Table of Contents
Historical photos of China
Photos shot by tourists during the Qing dynasty
NSFW Torture punishments inflicted on adulteresses in ancient China
Beautiful hand-painted pictures of old China
NSFW How to create a Eunuch: the procedure
NSFW 38 rare pictures of eunuchs during the Qing Dynasty
NSFW 25 Western Depictions of Crime and Punishment during the Qing Dynasty
NSFW Postcards of slow slicing during the Qing Dynasty
NSFW 21 old (and scary) pictures of lotus feet
[1860-1870] 20 rare images of Pirates of China Sea and their Hunters
[1871] Island Pagoda
20 rare pictures of Boxer prisoners during the late Qing Dynasty
The first photographs of nude art in China
Chinese Opium-Smokers in the late XIX Century in the US
[1924-1932] China depicted by David Gamble
36 Chinese advertising posters of the 30s
[1933] 32 rare images of French Missionaries in Yunnan
[1935] Last Taoist Immortality seekers depicted by foreign journalists in 1935
[1937] 33 Historical pictures of Chongqing, the capital of China
[1937] 40 rare pictures of the Battle for Shanghai
[1938] Chinese Women of America anti-Japanese demonstrations in New York in 1938
NSFW [1942] Dramatic images of the 1942 Henan famine
[1942] The Flying Tigers: from Chinese pilots training camp in Arizona to the war in China against Japan
[1942 – 1943] Rare images of Old Tibet
[1943-1944] 35 old great images of American and Chinese soldiers fighting side by side
[1895-1945] 67 images of Taiwan under Japanese rule
NSFW [1946] Images of Chinese famine during the Civil War
[1948] – Shanghai historical pictures
[1948] A day in a life of funeral parlor in China in 1948
[1948] NSFW 12 rare pictures: removing dead bodies teams in China (1948)
[1949] Shanghai on the eve of the communist liberation
[1950-1960] Hong Kong old photos during the fifties
1949-1975 – Mao era
Mao Zedong locomotives
The history of Prostitution in China: 33 amazing pictures
Cool Sino Soviet Propaganda Images
NSFW [1958] A tragic episode of cannibalism during the famine of the Great Leap Forward
[1959] The Flooded City of Shicheng: Before and After Pictures Comparison
[1964] Rare images of Chinese nuclear test during the Sixties
Cultural Revolution propaganda images of the Chinese navy drills
[1971] Cultural Revolution Propaganda Postcards
Fitness during the Cultural Revolution
NSFW [1969] Brutality of Vietnam War depicted by Bill Thomas Hardt
Rise and fall of the QiGong frenzy in China: when superstition and science collide
Chinese students from the eighties vs 2012