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Mandarin square "PUZI" for censor, embroidered with the mythical XIEZHAI, a monster with scaleless body, green manes, bushy tail, one horn and two long whiskers, believed to distinguish right from wrong. The XIEZHAI is surrounded with flowers, whirling cl
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Book on the ancestral temple of the Kong clan: illustration depicting a mountain landscape with a temple, trees, houses. As this book was bound in butterfly-binding, the illustration is continuous over two pages. Caption reads: NISHAN. Kong Yuancuo (Jin),
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City wall of Nanjing. View from the top of Zhonghua men, looking down at the three inner courtyards of this huge gate complex of four gates, built under emperor Hongwu in 1367. Originally called the Jubao men, renamed Zhonghua men after 1911.
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Facing pages of Olfert Dapper's account of the second and third Dutch embassies to China in 1663 and 1667: lists of the gifts the third embassy had brought for the emperor and high officials.
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Catchword: "juren JUREN "the recommended"". White lettering on a blue background.
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Earthenware "stove and steamer" assembled (conjectural).
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Catchword: the city. Sequence, 1st of 3: "chéng CHENG ; sh" SHI"
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View from below of the supporting beam construction in the temple of Chenghuang, the City God.
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Garden with JINGZHEN TING, "Pavilion of Great Brightness", inside Cheng WANGFU, "Mansion of Prince Cheng". Low buildling with protruding pavilion, dried-up pond.
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Theatre belonging to the Temple of the God of Wealth (CAISHEN MIAO), Tengyue, Yunnan.
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Facing pages of a study of inscriptions, with "rubbings" from the Stone Classics.
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A bird's eye view of the city of Guilin, Guangxi, seen from the southeast. To the left of the centre the YAMEN complex.
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Court painting, depicting the Qianlong emperor presented with horses from the Kazakh. "HASAKE GONG MA TU". Here the Qianlong emperor on a folding chair with footstool, backed by a screen, is sitting on a marble platform in front of an open pavilion. He is
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Illustration: male of the FEIYAKE (a tribe on the N-E coast and Sakhalin), wearing a fur coat and hat lined with fur, holding a long spear in his gloved hands and a dead mink on a string. HUANGQING ZHIGONG TU "Pictures of tribute-bearers from the Imperi
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Houses along the "Peach Blossom Canal", Suzhou.
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Pagoda with small Buddha statues inside Buddhist building near the Palace of Benevolent Peace (Cining gong) in the Forbidden City in Peking. The walls are decorated with Lamaist wall paintings.
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Spirit money, BENMING QIAN "Money of Fundamental Destiny", depicting a bearded man wearing the costume of a Taoist priest, seated behind his desk, and holding up a coin in his left hand. Red print on yellowish paper.
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Catchword: "the Four Basic Principles of CHAN". Sequence, 4th of 5: "1. Directly pointing to the human mind"; "2. Enlightenment by looking into one's own nature"; "3. A separate tradition outside the common doctrine". White lettering on a blue background.
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Ruins of a round terrace with on top a sculptured sundial at Yuanming yuan, the old summer palace.
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Section of the English translation of Joan Nieuhof's account of the Dutch embassy to the Qing court in 1655-57: "¿ In the centre of the quadrangle, over against the middle Gate of his Majesties Throne, stood twenty extraordinary Mark-stones, which were in
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Man working in factory, placing just made enamel wash-basins on a revolving rack. Stacks of basins behind him.
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The DAOTAI "Circuit Intendant" of Guyuan zhou with his two secretaries and his guard.
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Exterior view of cave inhabited by a hermit-monk. A narrow path leads up to the cave, which is closed by a wall with only a door and a small window. The hermit is seated in the door opening.
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View of earliest section of the Shenyang palace: Grand Administration Hall (Dazhengdian), dating from time of Nurhaci, (1559-1626). Octagonal building, set on an octagonal terrace, red pillars and woodwork, two dragons curling around the pillars flanking
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