Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 118
uity. A girl with her feetthe normal shape would stand no chance of getting married.The binding process begins very early—between four andfive generally, though sometimes it is postponed to a laterdate, when the process is much more painful. The fourtoes are doubled under the foot, and the large… … THE COBBLER. CARRYING LIQUID MANURE TO THE FIELDS, In the great fertile plain of Sze Chuan,where four crops a year are taken offthe ground, this is an enormous industry.The Chinese cannot afford any waste ;everything must go back to the ground.We seek to get over the deteriorationof the land by…
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