Tag Archives: travel

Visualizing Qing Diplomats in the West

Posted on October 23, 2020 by Guest

Jenny Huangfu Day is the author of Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China(Cambridge University Press, 2018) and the editor of Letters from the Qing Legation in London [Wanqing Zhuying shiguan zhaohui dang’an] (Shanghai guji … Continue reading →

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Winter in black and white

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs
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Back to the past

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

Prior to 1949, and again more recently, foreign tourists avidly visited the marvellous sights in China.  The tourist trail would include the Ming Tombs, just forty kilometres north of Peking (Beijing), here being explored in the 1920s, by donkey in … Continue reading →

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