Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented. (1873)
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle · leaf 136
ONE OF THE CITY GUARD, PEKING. \&^fC£&$ HE subject of this picture (No. 51) is an old Tartar bannerman, a humble member of the Manchucamp, who kept watch at the gate of the French hotel by night; and although in the pay of thegovernment, and allowed a salary sufficient for his own support,…
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