Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Chinese. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings, with descriptions (1814)
Alexander, William, 1767-1816 · London, Printed for John Murray by W. Bulmer · leaf 203
s is amongthe punishments of the Chinese. A man who had beeninsolent to one of the suite of Lord Macartneys embassy,was sentenced to receive fifty strokes from the pant-zee orbamboo, in addition to having his hand pinned to his earby an iron wire, which was said to have been inflictedimmediately… … PLATE XLTX. WOMAN SELLING CHOW-CHOW. There is little more to be observed of the present engrav-ing than this : that whatever wares,, goods, or merchandizeare exposed to sale in the open air, which in the openplains, as well in the broad streets of cities, is very muchthe case, the vender and the…
Clothing and dress
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