Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 116
pose. On market days the street iscrowded by thousands of people, thetea and other shops are overflowing,and the noise and shouts of the bar-gainers are deafening. The shops aregenerallv owned by farmers in theneighbourhood, who let them for theuse of merchants on market day. Onother than market… … H A MARKET PLACEOR MARKET STREETIN SZE CHUAN. THE COBBLER. A very important personage in China. He deals, however,with mens shoes only. The women wear tiny satin orbrocaded things which they mostly make and mend them-selves. They are from two to three inches long, and withhard-working women in the…
Costume
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