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Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)

Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 56

An illustration from Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China, 1900, leaf 56
pier is surmounted by adragon, the national emblem. … A DRAGON BRIDGE. THE ZIG-ZAG BRIDGEOF SHANGHAI. Its name indicates its peculiar charac-ter. It makes nine zig-zags across thewater to the most celebrated tea housein Shanghai, and, perhaps, the mostfashionable tea house in China. It isthe resort of mandarins and people ofthe upper classes. Women…

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