Peking the beautiful. / Herbert Clarence White

From a book published in 1927, you can see more plates here

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The Eccentric World of Luo Ping

via youtube.com

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Illustrations of China

China : its marvel and mystery

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Chinese Paper Gods

A few examples of Chinese Paper Gods that come from the collection  assembled by Anne S. Goodrich  and donated to the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University. This institution is hosting an online exhibition that you can visit here.

Su Hanchen

Chinese painter (c. 1131–c. 1170) and here a more verbose biography.

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Qiu Ying

Chinese Painter  (1494? - 1552)

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Leng Mei

Chinese painter active in the first half of the 18th century.

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Illustrations of China and its people

These photos come from a book by Scottish traveller John Thomson (1837-1921) who was the first European to take and publish photos of China and its inhabitants. I chose only some photos but the four  volume set is available online here.

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people. A series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented, London, S. Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873-74. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

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