Edward Bangs Drew

 Chinese travelling to market, 1886

  

 Mr. Hancock & his staff ascending the Red River, Tonquin, 1892

  

 Rusticating in country, near Ningpo, 1878-80

  

 Tartar general (front row, center) and other Chinese officials posing outside with Western diplomats and military officers, including Japanese naval officer, ca. 1905

  

 Village scene in China showing small pailou

["pailou" seems to refer to the gate]

  

 Wedding party and guests posing outside on veranda and steps of building in Fuzhou, 1913

  

William Cartwright, Chinese Maritime Customs Service commissioner; 

his wife, sitting on a horse; and an unidentified Chinese groom, 1892

Hedda Morrison

 Landscape with tree

  

 Making noodles, Nanking

  

 Man handing a child a plate of food on a cargo junk, 

Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

 Man preparing cooked food, Eastern Districts, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

 Man spinning? Nanking

  

 Man with camels
[camels really do give the best "derp" faces, don't they?]

  

 Man with child sitting in a junk amid baskets 

in Aberdeen harbor, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

 Market stalls

  

 Mother and child on watercraft, Nanking

  

 Mother and child, Nanking

  

 Old man in doorway, Nanking

  

Painter, Beijing

Hedda Morrison

 Family scene, Nanking

  

 Family sitting in a circle on the quay eating, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

Farmer working field with a water buffalo, Nanking

  

 Farmers building up vegetables beds, Hong Kong, 1946-47

  

 Farmers by a waterway, Nanking

  

 Farmers engaged in market gardening in Pok Fu Lam valley, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

 Fisher families with junks in Aberdeen harbor, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

 Fishermen in a boat fishing in Deep Bay, Hong Kong, 1946-47

  

 Fishing, vicinity of Nanking

  

 Girl carrying baskets with vegetables and baby

  

 Japanese surrender, Beijing, 1945

  

Landing baskets of assorted small fish from fishing boats 

in Aberdeen harbor, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Here are some of Monsieur Cartier-Bresson's photos from China (pre- and post-Revolution).

 A rush to retrieve gold from the bank before the Communist victory, Shanghai, 1949

  

 Beijing, 1948

  

 Beijing, China, 1948

  

 Celebrating the Communist conquest of Shanghai. 

The banner in the background reads “President Mao Tse-tung”

  

 China, 1958

  

 Communist students demonstrate against the black market, Shanghai, 1949

  

 Sing-song girl, 1949

["Sing-song girl" was an English term for Chinese courtesans]

 

The sign above this sidewalk library reads 

“Develop production, make the economy prosper.” Shanghai, 1949

Hedda Morrison

Hedda Morrison was a German-born photographer who worked extensively in China in the 1930s and 40s. These photos are from the Harvard University collection.

 Activity on a waterway, Nanking

  

 Barefoot girl with a child strapped to her back amid large planks 

of wood and hanging laundry, Hong Kong, 1946-47

  

 Basket maker, Nanking

  

 Bell and Drum Towers (children playing in fields)

  

 Blacksmith and assistant hammering a piece of heated metal in a shop

  

 Calligrapher, Nanking

  

 Casting a wok at an outdoor foundry to the west of Beijing

  

 Child in hovel, Nanking

  

 Children playing in a shanty town, Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

 Crowded alleyway with street vendors, 

Western District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

 Dock workers waiting for cargo from cargo junks, 

Central District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

Duck farming