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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 120

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THE SEDAN. HE sedan-chair is one of the most useful institutions in China, and has been employed therefrom a very ancient date. Private sedans are kept by the civil mandarins, and by people ofwealth and rank. In former days strict rules existed, which forbade certain of the lowerorders, and even…

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