Chao-Chow-Fu Bridge.
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"Chao-chow-fu is a walled city of considerable size and great commercial importance, as one may gather form its extensive warehouses, the busy traffic of its streets, the number of mature craft that throng the river on which it stands. The bridge over the River Han is perhaps one of the most remarkable in China, like old London Bridge, with its shops and places of business, the bridge at Chaochow affords space for one of the city markets. It will be seen that the houses are built of light materials, in a very primitive style, and are supported in such a way as to allow a maximum of market space on the causeway : while from a purely sanitary point of view, the houses projecting over the water offer many advantages. The mode of supporting these structures displays considerable ingenuity, the only brickwork employed rests upon the bridge, and by its weight gives stability to the double brackets that project to support the lighter portion of the houses...Although these bridge-dwellings possess few attractions apart from their breakneck style of architecture, it is pleasing to notice some evidence of refinement in the flowers that adorn the verandas, and that are to be found, indeed, in the humblest dwellings in China. If unexplained, it would be puzzling to find out the use of the two wooden frames which hang suspended from the bridge. They form a kind of moral or mythological drawbridge, which, when let down, is supposed to prevent the passages of boats and evil spirits beneath the bridge till darkness gives place to sunrise." (Thomson, 1873, v.II 19).
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Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / John Thomson, v.II, plate VIII, 19.
London : Sampson Low.
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Peking Observatory.
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"The instrument ... is of huge dimensions, cast in solid bronze, and is of the most beautiful workmanship. The stand of this piece of mechanism has a mythological significance, and its design is of remarkable artistic excellence. Four of the dragons, which play such an important part in Chinese geomancy, are there seen chained to the earth, and upholding the spheres. The perfect modelling and solidity of the metal proves that the art of casting was well understood in those days" (Thomson, 1874, v.IV, 11).
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Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / John Thomson (London : Sampson Low, 1873-1874), v.IV.
London : Sampson Low.
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Through China with a Camera [front cover].
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"Cixi huang hou yu bi zhi bao" are the words of the seal of the Empress Dowager Tsze Hsi. This seal was used to confirm authorship of documents written by her.<br>
'My design is to present a series of pictures of China and its people, such as shall convey an accurate impression of the country as well as of the arts, usages, and manners which prevail in different provinces of the Empire. With this intention I made the camera the constant companion of my wanderings, and to it I am indebted for the faithful reproduction of the scenes I visited, and of the people with whom I came into contact.' - Thomson, introduction to his Illustrations of China (London, 1873). Thomson continued his promotion of his work about China by publishing a more readily accessible and cheaper book: Through China with a Camera (1899).
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Through China with a camera / John Thomson ; with 114 illustrations (London ; New York : Harper & Brothers, 1899).
London ; New York : Harper & Brothers.
Book covers
Covers (Illustration)
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