In the 1860s, in Guangzhou, officials visited (photographed in the photo studio). M. Miller/Photo.
The Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty in China, and Qing officials were also the last officials of China's feudal dynasty.
In all the dynasties and dynasties of China, only officials in the late Qing Dynasty have video records. After the 1850s, with foreign photographers entering China, there were video records of Qing dynasty officials.
This is the opportunity for us today to see the work and life of these parents and officials of the original Qing Dynasty in that era.
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Guangdong, Qing Dynasty official couple. The author is unknown, but the photograph was taken between about 1860 and 1862.
In 1868, Pu Anchen, the former U.S. envoy to China, formed the first diplomatic mission of the Qing government to send a mission to the United States, and in July signed the first equality treaty in China's modern history, the Sino-US Renewal Treaty.
The person in the photo is Pu Anchen, flanked by the accompanying counsellor official. This is an extremely valuable video document documenting the beginning of China's diplomatic history.
In 1874, Hankou, Hubei Province, dressed in a winter court dress with embroidered complements on the chest, hung on the Hankou Daotai with beads.
Ye Mingchen, the governor of Liangguang, was a native of Hanyang, Hubei.
This photograph is probably the earliest portrait of an official among Qing officials.
On December 28, 1857, the Anglo-French army invaded Guangzhou, and Guangzhou fell the next day, Ye Mingchen was loyal to his duties and did not go down, and was eventually captured.
In 1858, he was taken by the British army to Calgota, India, and in prison, Ye Mingchen did not eat the millet of the British army and died of hunger strike.
In 1875, Lanzhou, which was the more bullish official of the Qing Dynasty at that time, Zuo Zongtang, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu.
In 1879, in Tianjin, U.S. President Ulysses M. S. Grant and Li Hongzhang.
Portrait of Li Hongzhang, taken between about 1870-1880. Li Hongzhang can be said to be the most famous Han official and the largest official rank in the Qing Dynasty at that time.
Beijing, the house of officials. John Thomson/ Photograph, photograph taken around 1871-1872.
In the 1880s, the official in the courtroom. The photo is of setting up props in the photo studio and hiring models to perform posing. William Sanders (English) / Photo.
This is also a qing dynasty cattle man - Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), a native of Nanpi, Hebei. He was one of the leaders of the Western school in the late Qing Dynasty and one of the founders of modern Chinese industry.
The picture shows Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, writing and nourishing.
In Beijing, Dong Ke, an official of the Qing Dynasty, was then the Hubu Shangshu. The photograph was taken between 1871 and 1872.
In 1883, Zeng Jize. A famous Chinese diplomat in the late Qing Dynasty, a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan, the character Jie Gang, the son of Zeng Guofan.
In 1886, the most powerful imperial official of the Qing Dynasty, Prince Yizhen.
YiZhen was the seventh son of the Daoguang Emperor, the brother-in-law of Empress Dowager Cixi, the father of the Guangxu Emperor, and the grandfather of Puyi. Yi Zhen was the de facto controller of the Military Aircraft Department in the early years of Guangxu, and was the prime minister of the Navy Yamen.
Beijing, the eunuch in charge of the imperial palace. Photo by Liang Shitai, photographed between about 1886-1900.
The chief eunuch may be the biggest official in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it is not easy for a eunuch to survive to this position.
Southern China, Chinese officials and retinues. Li Hollyn (English) / Photo, photograph taken between about 1888-1906.
In the 1890s, officials of the late Qing Dynasty. George Ernest Morrison/Photography.
Ge Kunhua, the character Yan Yan, is from Xiuning, Anhui Province, and is a native of Ningbo, Zhejiang. The photo was taken around the 1880s.
In 1879, on the recommendation of his American student Du Dewei, he signed a teaching contract with Harvard University to go to the United States.
This is the first time in modern China that teachers have been sent to the Western world to teach Chinese culture. The incident immediately became the news that major newspapers in the United States rushed to publish.
Duanfang, the Governor of Huguang. Duan Fang, Manchurian Zhengbai Banner man, epigrapher, official to the viceroy of direct subordination, Beiyang minister.
On May 18, 1911, DuanFang was appointed as the superintendent of the Sichuan-Han-Guangdong Railway, and forcibly nationalized the local private railways in Sichuan, provoking the Sichuan-Xiang'e-Ebao Road Movement.
On November 27 of the same year, the new army in Zizhou, Sichuan, mutinied, and Duan Fang and his brother Duan Jin were killed by the rebel new army.
In Beijing, 1891, Manchu Qing officials took a group photo with foreigners. Seeing clearly, there are foreigners sitting in the middle, which seems to be inconsistent with the Taoist and official unification of the Heavenly Dynasty.
In 1899, Yuan Shikai took a group photo with German officials while serving as an inspector in Shandong. The official eventually mixed himself into an emperor, but only worked for 80 days and finished playing.
In 1900, after the Eight-Power Alliance occupied Beijing, Li Hongzhang was appointed by the Qing government as a minister of Chincha to negotiate with various countries.
This is the scene where Li Hongzhang just arrived at the British embassy. He was greeted by General Alfred Geisley, commander of the British Expeditionary Force (second from right).
Fang Suya took a group photo with the Governor of Yunnan.
Auguste François (Chinese Fang Suya), from 1899 to 1904, served as Consul General of France in Kunming and General Representative of the French Yunnan-Vietnam Railway Company in Yunnan.
Huang Zunxian (center) with his entourage and Japanese envoys. The photograph was taken between 1900 and 1905.
In 1877, Huang Zunxian stayed in Japan for five years as an ambassador counselor and wrote the "Chronicle of Japan" and "Miscellaneous Poems of Japan", becoming the first person in China to understand and introduce the Japanese Restoration and Reform Law.
Liang Cheng (1864-1917), literally, was a native of Huangpu Village, Haizhu District, Guangzhou.
In 1875, Liang Cheng, who was not yet 12 years old, was admitted to the fourth batch of students studying in the United States. In 1881, Liang Cheng was recalled to China before graduating, and he worked in the prime minister Yamen, and began his diplomatic career from then on.
From 1903 to 1908, he went on a mission to the United States, Peru, Cuba and other countries, and he did not bear the heavy trust, and after repeated negotiations, he won back the excess of China's Gengzi reparations for education; he won back the rights and interests of the Guangdong-Han Railway road construction.
In 1901, the Minister of Civil Affairs, Prince Su Shanqi.
Zenki, biological father of Yoshiko Kawashima. One of the builders of China's modern police system. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Zan established a constitutional movement and exempted Wang Jingwei from the death penalty for assassinating Wang Jingwei, the regent of the Jianguo State.
After the Xinhai Revolution, the two Manchu and Mongolian independence movements were launched, both of which ended in failure. He died in Lushun in 1922 at the age of 56.
In 1908, Wu Tingfang was in the United States.
Wu Tingfang (1842-1922), Ziwen Jue, a native of Xinhui, Guangdong. In 1874, he studied at Lincoln College in London, England, becoming the first Chinese to obtain a doctorate in English law.
In 1896, he was appointed by the Qing government as a minister to the United States, Spain, and Peru. In 1902, he returned to China and Shen Jiaben jointly drafted a draft civil criminal law, which put forward a series of proposals, including the abolition of torture, the prohibition of torture, and the implementation of the jury and lawyer system.
Wu Tingfang in the Washington Legation. The photograph was taken 1900 years ago.
Ai Xin Jue Luo ZaiFeng (1883-1951), brother of the Guangxu Emperor, father of Xuantong Emperor Ai Xin Jue Luo Puyi.
In 1901, prince Zaifeng visited Germany and passed through Nanjing Road in Shanghai. This scene is awesome enough, if he is not a royal official, can he have this courtesy?
Qing officials interrogated prisoners. The photograph was taken between 1900 and 1901.
Qing army officer holding a dragon flag. The photograph was taken between 1906 and 1912. They were the new army of the Qing Army, but they turned around and dragged a big braid behind the melon.
In 1904, Pu Lun (royalty), minister of agriculture, industry and commerce, attended the World Expo in St. Louis (a large city in eastern Missouri, USA).
At this point, the biggest official of the Qing Dynasty, Lao Fuye, should appear.
Cixi was The Concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor, the mother of the Tongzhi Emperor, and the de facto ruler of the Qing Dynasty, who controlled the Qing Dynasty for half a century. She was the most cattle official of the Qing Dynasty.