Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 58
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… … THE ZIG-ZAG BRIDGEOF SHANGHAI. THE GARDEN OF THEGUILD OF BENEVOLENCE,CHUNG KING. China is the country of guilds. All workmen and tradershave their guilds. To this rule there are but two excep-tions—the water-carriers and the trackers (men who dragthe boats up the rapids) ; these alone have no trade…
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