Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 110
SZE CHUAN. Every good house lias its guest hall,and every invited guest knows his placein it. A Chinaman is wretched in aforeign house because he does not knowhis place in it. Etiquette prescribeseverything in China, and no matter whoor what the visitor may be. he knowswhich chair to take. No… … THE GUEST HALL IN A CHINESE HOUSE, WAN HSIEN, SZE CHUAN. A CHINESE VILLAGE On the Min or Fu River, above thepoint where it runs into the UpperYangtze. The black-and-white archi-tecture of the villages reminds oneconstantly of Switzerland and the Tyrol.As to the village, it is by no meanslacking in…
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