Group photo of Xiamen customs personnel in Guangzhou. The photograph was taken around the 1860s.
In 1868, Pu Anchen, the former U.S. envoy to China, formed the qing government's first diplomatic mission to the United States, and in July signed the first equality treaty in Modern Chinese history, the Sino-US Renewal Treaty. Over the next year or so, the mission visited Britain, France, Prussia, Russia and other places. The person in the photo is Pu Anchen, flanked by the accompanying counsellor. This is an extremely valuable video document documenting the beginning of China's diplomatic history.
Nanjing, near the Bao'en Temple Pagoda, is the first modern arsenal in China. John Thomson/ Photograph, photograph taken around 1868-1872.
Samurai with swords. The photo was taken around the 1870s.
Shanghai, the interior of a cotton yarn factory. The photograph was taken around the 1870s.
Chang Anjun group photo. The photograph was taken around the 1870s. The Chang'an Army was one of the units led by the foreigner Colonel Cook and Major Watson during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to suppress the Taiping Rebellion in Shanghai and Ningbo to help the Qing army fight.
Panoramic view of Fuzhou Shipping Administration. The photograph was taken circa 1870. Founded in 1866 by Zuo Zongtang, fuzhou shipping bureau is the most important warship production base in modern China. Later, under the painstaking management of Shen Baozhen, the Minister of Shipping Administration, the Shipping Bureau became the largest shipyard in the Far East at that time.
In 1872, Hong Kong, the first batch of young children to stay in the United States. From 1872 to 1875, the Qing government sent 120 young children to study in the United States in four batches, which was the earliest official student in China. These young children originally planned to study for 15 years, but due to differences in political culture, they withdrew halfway after 9 years and ended in failure.
In the late Qing Dynasty, after school, students gave Mr. Private School a beating. The photograph was taken circa 1870.
A scene of an event held by the warlords. The photo was taken around the 1880s.
In 1881, after the opening of China's first quasi-track railway, the Tangxu Railway, built by the Kaiping Mining Bureau, Li Hongzhang, the governor of the Qing Dynasty, led his staff to inspect by car.
Weihaiwei, Shandong, a Beiyang sailor taking a group photo on a battleship. The photograph was taken around 1885.
In 1895, Niuzhuang, Shandong, the Qing Army Guard in the Sino-Japanese War.
Execution ground, 1900.
Army Crash Course. The photo was taken around the 1890s. In 1894, after the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War, the Qing court looked for a way to reform the army, and ordered Zhang Zhidong, Yuan Shikai, and others to create a new type of army, "learn foreign guns, learn Western law", known in history as the new army.
On August 31, 1910, Beimao Prefecture, Sichuan, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Songpan Fuyi Province, Sichuan province.
In 1906, Weihai Weihuamin celebrated the establishment of the Constitution. Beginning in 1906, the Qing court announced the implementation of a "preparatory constitution" out of pressure from all sides, but in fact, this was just a pretense.
The Sichuan-Han Railway during the Reign of The Qing Dynasty (Puyi).
Panorama of the Hanyeping Company (i.e. Hanyang Iron Works) founded by Zhang Zhidong. This is the earliest modernized steel conglomerate in China.
Yuan Shikai (sitter) military parade.
In January 1902, Prince Su Shanqi, Prince Gong Puwei, Prince Zaifeng, Emperor Belle Zaitao, Emperor Beizi Pulun and so on.
In 1907, the opening ceremony of Shanxi University Hall. Founded in 1902, The Shanxi University Department Gengzi Compensation Refund Fund was founded.
At the entrance of the post office at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
In 1909, Wuhan's first persuasion award was photographed. In 1906, the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce of the Qing Dynasty opened the Beijing Division Persuasion Exhibition Center, and the provincial capitals and trade ports followed suit, which was the earliest and simplest form of exposition in China. For a time, local commodity expositions under various names blossomed everywhere, but the local expositions with really large scale began in 1909 when the Wuhan Persuasion Award was held in Wuchang.
In October 1911, the Qing army passed through a pontoon bridge in Hankou. And then the next thing, the Qing court is gone, you know.