Pics of China in the late 1800s ...

[dogtag]

Maybe it's the old B&W Photos but everyone with few exceptions looks scruffy.
Before washing machines maybe.
There's also a pic of - The upright tower of Peeking ?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...le-20-000.html


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[Vern Humphrey]

Notice the archer is using the English release (three fingers) rather than the Mongolian release (thumb and forefinger.)

[dogtag]

He's posing, not shooting. Maybe he used that release for the benefit of the British photographer

[Vern Humphrey]

Could be -- I just thought it strange that a Chinese archer, who never saw an English archer would use that release.

[dogtag]

Well, I didn't notice it, but you could put my archery knowledge in a thimble
and it would still be empty.

[one shot]

The second picture of the man in the wooden cage is in court the first one he is prepared for decapitation , it's the same guy in both pictures .

[lyman]

The second picture of the man in the wooden cage is in court the first one he is prepared for decapitation , it's the same guy in both pictures .

I had forgotten that you or you family read chinese,

[dogtag]

Is that what that scribbling was ?

[one shot]

To be literate you need to know between 3 to 4 thousand scripts and these are used throughout asia , I was amazed a chinese person can read japanese and vice versa but cannot talk language is totally different .