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Chinese Pictures

by Isabella Bird

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2Errata — The Private Entrance to the Imperial Palace, Peking
  3. 3The Entrance to the British Legation
  4. 4Entrance to the College of the Student Interpreters
  5. 5The State Carriage of the British Legation
  6. 6The Great Imperial Stone — Road From Peking to Chengtu, the Capital…
  7. 7A Mule Cart
  8. 8A Manchurian — Family Travelling
  9. 9Carriage by Bearers
  10. 10A Traveller Arriving at an Inn in Manchuria
  11. 11Carriage of Merchandise
  12. 12The Mode of Carrying — Oil and Wine
  13. 13Wheelbarrow Traffic on the Chengtu Plain
  14. 14The Wheelbarrow of North China
  15. 15A Small Houseboat on the Yangtze Kiang
  16. 16A Foot Boat Found in Central China
  17. 17Hsin Tan Rapid on the Yangtze River
  18. 18A Boat on the Min — River, Used for Running the Rapids
  19. 19Part of a Fringe of Junks or River Boats at Wan Hsien
  20. 20The Bridge of Ten Thousand Ages, Foochow
  21. 21A Bridge at Wan Hsien of the Single Arch Type
  22. 22The Bridge of Mien Chuh Sze Chuan
  23. 23A Simple — Country Bridge
  24. 24A Dragon Bridge — The Zig-Zag Bridge of Shanghai
  25. 25The Garden of the Guild of Benevolence, Chung King
  26. 26A Burial Charity
  27. 27A Baby Tower, Foochow
  28. 28Bottle Seller and Hospital Patient
  29. 29The Dying Coolie
  30. 30The Mode of Sepulchre Throughout — Southern China
  31. 31Coffins Kept — Above Ground
  32. 32The Temple of the God of Literature at Mukden
  33. 33The Temple of the Fox, Mukden
  34. 34Wayside Shrines
  35. 35The Ficus Religiosa
  36. 36The Altar of Heaven — The Tablet of Confucius
  37. 37A Porcelain-Fronted Temple on the Yangtze
  38. 38Child Eating Rice With Chopsticks
  39. 39Fort on the Peking Wall
  40. 40Another Fort on the Wall of Peking — Colossal Astronomical — Instru…
  41. 41Chien Mun Gate
  42. 42The Gate of Victory, Mukden
  43. 43The West Gate of Kialing Fu
  44. 44The West Gate of Hangchow
  45. 45The Gate of a Forbidden City
  46. 46Silk Reeling
  47. 47A Typical Entrance to a House
  48. 48The Guest Hall in a Chinese House, Wan Hsien, Sze Chuan
  49. 49A Chinese Village
  50. 50A Farmhouse in the Hakka Country, Southern China
  51. 51A Market Place or Market Street in Sze Chuan
  52. 52The Cobbler
  53. 53Carrying Liquid — Manure to the Fields
  54. 54The Marriage Chair
  55. 55Mode of Carrying — Cash and Babies
  56. 56A Pai-Fang, or Widow’s Arch
  57. 57Two Soldiers of Sze Chuan
  58. 58Opium Culture — Encroaching on the Rice Lands, Sze Chuan

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