China in Picturesさんのイラストまとめ

Finding ‘sports’ in history:

#Tokyo2020

Chinese Beauties, studio in Shanghai, 1910s.

China's Cultural and Natural Heritage Day today,
China now has 55 sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
One of them, the Chengjiang Fossil Site in SW Yunnan Province, containing fossils of soft-bodied sea-life dating from 530 million years like this Misszhouia longicaudata.

From Breast Binding to Bikinis: Natural Breast Movement in China.
In 1927, led by the upper class circle and movie stars of the day, first Western-style bras and then Hollywood-style swimsuits swept China,
bringing Chinese women into a new era of modernity and freedom.

Christmas in China’s ad, 1930s. @MOFBACN

The punishments of China, by George Henry Mason, London, 1801.

Tea carriers in Ancient Tea Road, SW China's sichuan Province, by Swiss explorer Arnold Heim, during the Himalaya Expedition in 1936.

Anyone know the artist's name in the 1942 watercolor of Shanghai?

‘Cosplay’ of flute beauty in earlier Chinese photo studio, c.1890, Shanghai.
世间妩媚千万种，唯有回眸最风情。
Can anyone translate this into English?

Jewish Wartime home in Shanghai, 1930s.
In the 1930s and 40s, the Chinese city hosted a large, vibrant community of refugees fleeing persecution in Europe, and 20,000 or so European Jews found their way to the city.