China in Picturesさんのイラストまとめ

Newly discovered portrait of  Tan Yew Fun谭耀勋（left）, a member of first Chinese Educational Mission to the US in 1872, he was one of two to escape CEM in 1880, refused to return Imperial China, and graduated at Yale College in 1883, but died of  pneumonia the same year.

Speaking of Pictures:
66-year-old Wu Tang-shen, is skating in Peiping, 1946, elegant and energetic moves integrated with Chinese martial arts.
Jack Wikes, Life Magazine.

And the air view of Peking in 1946:

Today is the Birthday of Meng Xiaodong (孟小冬 1908 – 1977), Chinese actress of Peking opera specialized in old sheng (male) roles.
Married to Mei Lianfang, another Peking Opera artist in 1927, and Du Yuesheng, a Chinese gang boss of Shanghai, in 1950.

Mao in Yanan, NW of China, 1943, by Chinese photographer Wu Yinxian.

Teacher and pupils in a private home school in Chungking, SW of China, ca. 1890,by Jun Hechang Studio, the earlier Chinese studio in the city.

Stage performance, the Propaganda Team of Mao Zedong Thought,1977, in Linyi County, China’s east Shangdong Province.

ＡChinese studio photographer in Fushun city, northeast Liaoning Province, 1959, by Zhu Xianmin.

Some details:

Ａtour of Beijing Zoo and Summer Palace, 1955, clips from a French documentary by Chris Marker.