One hundred years of Chinese history condensed in 75 amazing pictures recently restored.
From late Qing dynasty to the foreign concessions in China: noblemen, courtesans and common people, miners, ethnic minorities, the civil war, famines, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, artists, beggars, shaolin monks, boxers, concubines, Hilda Yen (Chinese American Internationalist, diplomat and aviator) and Chang the multilingual giant.
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Images were restored by Ralph Repo.
Qing dynasty photos
Jeunes Filles Chinoises (Young Chinese Girls) [c1901] René Parison
Bride On Her Way To Wedding, Fuzhou Fujian China [c1911-1913] Ralph G. Gold
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Chinese Punishment, Whipping A Lawbreaker [c1900]
Portrait Of Manchu Girl In Traditional Costume, Beijing, China, [c1861-1864]
Taiwan Aborigines, Bunun Tribe, Formosa [c1900]
Men Laden With Tea, Sichuan Sheng, China [1908] Ernest H. Wilson
Cholon Actress, Cholon, Saigon, French Cochinchina [c1900’s]
Boxer Prisoners Captured By 6th US Cavalry, Tientsin, China [1901] Underwood & Co
Interior Canal, Canton, China [c1917-1919] Sidney D. Gamble
Empress Gobele Wan Rong [c1920-1940]
Imperial Gate Of The Imperial City, Looking North, Peking, China [1901] Hawley C. White Co.
Bridges By Which The Night Police Of The Roofs Cross The Streets, Canton, China [1900] Underwood & Co.
Queen’s Road On Chinese New Years Day, Hong Kong, China [1902] Carlton H. Graves
Fisherman In Grand Canal By The East Gate, Peking, China [1907] Herbert C. White Co.
Aerial View Of Terraced Fields & Roadway With A Military Vehicle In A Mountainous Region Of The Kiangsu Province Or Yunnan Province In China [1946] Arthur Rothstein
Peking Mission School Children At Play, The Dragon’s Head, China [1902] Carlton H. Graves Co
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.
Seated Man Amid Baskets Of Fish & Hanging Dried Fish, Eastern Districts, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison
China’s Common Carrier, Her Substitute For Railways, A Camel Square In Peking, China [1901] Underwood & Co
During The Famine Young Child Dying In The Gutter, China [1946] Geroge Silk
Produce & Wares From Shops Along The Sides Of A Typical Backstreet, Western District, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison
Singing Girls, Hong Kong, China [c1901] Benjamin W. Kilburn Co.
Young Mother Carrying A Child On Her Back In The Market, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison
View Of An Old Village, Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong [c1946] Hedda Morrison
Fisher Families With Junks In Aberdeen Harbor, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison
Yen’s Soldiers, Militarism In China, Here Are Specimens Of The Soldiery Who Protect The People By Dominating Them, Who Protect Property By Looting It, Liao Chow, Shansi, China [c1925] IE Oberholtzer
Mercenary Artillerymen Supplied With Guns & Ammunition By The British [c1880]
The Meridian Gate, Entrance To The Forbidden City, Peking China [1927] Herbert C. White
Kampa Dzong, Tibet [1904] John C. White
Six Strongmen In Traditional Dress, China [1909] William Purdom
Family In Lanchow, China [1944] Fr. Mark Tennien
Bowl Shaped Objects Scattered Outside A Building, Yunnan, China [1922] Joseph F. C. Rock
Toy Vendor, Chinatown, San Francisco [c1900s] Arnold Genthe
Mouth Of Coal Mine In Mountain Ridge West Of Ta Chu, China MAR [1909] Thomas C. Chamberlin
Leuchtturm Im Cantonfluss (Lighthouse In The Canton River) [c1891] C. R. Hager
Yung Ting Men, Front View Of The Two Towers & The Barbican [1924] Osvald Siren
Der Industriebezirk Der Salzbrunnen, Tzeliutsing, Szechúan Province [c1906] Ernst Boerschmann
Men With Leopard At The Dongan Mission, China [1932] Fr. Otto Rauschenbach
Kidnapped Girls, Foochow, China [1904]
Chinese Family [c1875]
Examination Hall With 7500 Cells, Canton, China [1873]
Der Abt Des Klosters (The Abbot Of The Monastery), Tíen túng sze, Chekiang Province [c1906] Ernst Boerschmann
Pekin, Walls Of The Tartar City [c1894-1896] William H. Jackson
Forest Temple Near Chefoo, Shantung, China [c1895] William H. Jackson
Drache Am Schleusenrand Im Túngchou-Kanal (Dragon On The Edge Of A Sluice In The Túngchou Canal), Peking, Chihli Province [c1906] Ernst Boerschmann
Auf Der Reise Zum Kloster Des Himmelsknaben Bei Ningpo (On The Journey To The Monastery Of The Celestial Boy Near Ningpo), Ningpo-Tíen Túng Sze, Chekiang Province [c1906] Ernst Boerschmann
China, Kuan Hsien Temple [1908] Ernest H. Wilson
The Harvard Houseboat, Kiating Fu, China [1908] Ernest H. Wilson
Canton, China [c1880] R.H. Brown
Group Of Chinese Women With Fans, Canton, China [c1880] Afong Lai
Flower Boats, Canton China [c1871] Emil Rusfeldt
Ching Yang Temple, Chentu, China [1908] Ernest H. Wilson
Muslim Bandits, Xinjiang, China [c1915] Marc Aurel Stein
Cake Of Millet & Jujubes, Peking, China [1915] Frank N. Meyer
Jade Belt Bridge & Boat, Summer Palace, Peking, China [c1924] Sidney D. Gamble
Black, Chinese & White Laborers In A Gold Mine In South Africa [c1890-1923] Frank & Frances Carpenter
Ulysses S. Grant & Li Hung Chang, Tientsin, China [1879]
A Boat On A River With Rolling Hills In The Background In The Kiangsu Province Or Yunnan Province In China [1946] Arthur Rothstein
China, Manchu Ladies Of The Palace Being Warned To Stop Smoking [c1910-1925] Frank & Frances Carpenter
Peking To Paris Autorace [1907]
American-Chinese Aviatrix Hilda Yen Receives Gift Of New Plane From Colonel Roscoe Turner, Washington, D.C. [1939] Harris & Ewing
Bomb Protection [c1940]
Example Of A Coiffure On A Tartar Or Manchu Female, Frontview, Peking, Pechili Province, China [1869] John Thomson
Pedestrians & Vendors On Pottinger Street, A Stepped Street, Central District, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison
Beggars, Beihai Park [c1917-1919] Sydney D. Gamble
Tibetan Lhacham, Tibet [c1879] Sarat Chandra Das
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
Chang The Chinese Giant [c1870]
Qing Court Return, The Emperess Dowerger [1902] George E. Morrison
Stele Pavilion, SacredWay, Ming Tombs, Peking, China [c1900]
Foot Bound Girls, Liao Chow, Shansi, China [c1930] IE Oberholtzer (Probable)
Great Wall of China, 1907
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Images restored by Ralph Repo
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CHINA-UNDERGROUND. Matteo Damiani is an Italian sinologist, photographer, author and motion designer. Matteo lived and worked for ten years in China. Founder of CinaOggi.it and China-underground.com.
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