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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 88

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which the Western turns from,or which he doesnt know of. As a rulethe Chinese are good cooks, and thefood is wholesome, steaming being thefavourite method. Rice is the staff otlife to the masses, who eat it mixedwith fried cabbage or some otherflavouring ingredient. It is seldomeaten alone. So… … CHILD EATING RICEWITH CHOPSTICKS. FORT ON THE PEKING WALL. City walls are a great feature of thecountry. The illustration is of a forton one of the angles of the wall ofPeking, the interest of it lying in thefact that the guns showing in theembrasures are dummies, being simplypainted wood. Probably…

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