30 jaw-dropping old photos: female art photography in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China is really bold!

(01) German prisoner of war camps

(02) Patients in rural clinics in the late Qing Dynasty.

(03) The picture shows the two prisoners who were caught peeping at women in the late Qing Dynasty, both of whom were wearing shackles

(04) Finishing tobacco leaves; What is less well known is that the government of the late Qing Dynasty actually encouraged the common people to grow opium (poppies) in order to obtain more tax revenue

(05) Women's skills training school in the late Qing Dynasty.

(06) In 1980, the Cadillac car on the streets of Beijing attracted onlookers

(07) In late August 1939, the Japanese army and the Soviet army fought at Nomenkan in Inner Mongolia, China. In early September, the Japanese army proposed an armistice. The famous Battle of Nomenkan ended with the result of a Soviet victory. This set of pictures records the Soviet troops counting and inspecting the spoils of war after the battle.

(08) In 1910, Kaifeng, Henan.

(09) Shanghai, 1937. A postman wearing a steel helmet and performing his duties during the Battle of Songhu. Peaceful!

(10) On February 28, 1913, the empress of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, Longyu, was funeral. Yuan Shikai, who was the president at the time, gave him a funeral in the form of a somewhat modern "state funeral".

(11) Madame Chiang in 1966.

(12) Hello little friend

(13) Opium poison wiped out the country and the species

(14) In 1909, the French soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance visited Yuquan Mountain and the Summer Palace.

(15) In the 1920s, Chunghwa Post's postal service. Figures 1 and 2, Kalagan (Zhangjiakou). Figure 3, Kalagan (Zhangjiakou) to Urga (Ulaanbaatar). Figure 4, Shijiazhuang. Figure 5, Beidaihe? Figure 7, Hebei. Figure 8, the place name cannot be spelled out.

(16) 1923, Yuquanshan Park, Beijing. The location of the last stone torii is under Myoko Tower, see Figure 4.

(17) North Branch

(18) In 1904, a Briton covering the Russo-Japanese War photographed a young man with a sunny face in Lushun.

(19) 1898/1899, Lushun. Historical photographs are much more vivid than textbooks. Looking at these photos, you can understand why the Japanese were so jealous of the Russians that they were so uncomfortable that their teeth itched. Why did the poor and weak Qing Dynasty choose the side of the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War?

(20) In 1895/1896, British missionaries took a group photograph of Catholics, their families, and church students in Xiamen and Quanzhou.

(21) Handan Railway Station, 1909. Peaceful!

(22) 1959, Wangfujing Department Store, Beijing.

(23) Old photo: Xinjiang, 1985

(24) The logic of the original picture caption is a bit confusing: the hero who withdrew from Nanjing on April 23, 1949, the 38th year of the Republic of China, and then returned from Kunming. "Evacuated" and "escaped", and finally went to Taiwan to "return"~~ The "hero" who escaped all the way? The Kuomintang media really sat upright and played around.

(25) Old photo: Beijing in July 1971

(26) In 1960, a team of sailors of the Soviet Army, who was awarded the "Sino-Soviet Friendship Medal", visited Beijing. Figures 1 to 6 are: Tiananmen Square, the Great Hall of the People, the Military Museum, and the Agricultural Exhibition Hall. The others are photos taken when he received the medal on Hainan Island.

(27) In 1900, the waterside people. Probably near Baoding

(28) Old photo: Hangzhou, 1945, taken by William Diber

(29) The whole map of the Qing Dynasty's two capitals and eighteen provinces

(30) The gate of Jingshan Park in 1946

(31) Fushun postcards published in Japan between the 1910s and 1920s.

(32) Return: Moon viewing on Baiwang Mountain. Tonight. Circle of friends.

(33) 1981, Guilin, Guangxi. Early eighties~~ On the field of hope.

(34) 1966/1967, Chinese street photographs taken by foreign forces

(35) Wuhan, 1913-1915.

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