Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 128
A PAI-FANG, OR WIDOWS ARCH. TWO SOLDIERS OFSZE CHUAN. The military are usually dressed inpicturesque but unserviceable, not to saygrotesque costumes, the carnation red,beloved of the Chinese, and blue beingthe prevailing colours. They carry fans,and often paper umbrellas. They areill-trained and… … TWO SOLDIERS OFSZE CHUAN. OPIUM CULTURE ENCROACHING ON THE RICE LANDS, SZE CHUAN. The great system of irrigation at Sze Chuan was intendedfor the cultivation of rice only ; but the great and terriblegrowth in the demand for opium has caused the cultivationof the poppy so to increase that it is…
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