A Forgotten China: Rare Photos From the Final Years of the Empire

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Western travelers, explorers, and photographers began documenting a China that remained largely mysterious to the outside world. Their diaries, books, and photographs captured scenes of everyday life, ancient cities, dramatic landscapes, and traditions that had remained largely unchanged for centuries. One such account is the book The […]
Before Communism: Photographs of Old China

Several decades before the arrival of communism in China, a number of intrepid individuals ventured to explore and photograph Imperial China. This article presents a compilation of photographs of Imperial China taken around 1900, which at the same time serve as a testimony to the magnificence of a lost world: that of ancient China, only […]