Portraits of the past
By Wang Ru | China Daily | Updated: 2011-05-25 07:50
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Top: August Plemenick sat at the Temple of Heaven in 1900. Middle: The portrait of a landlord's wife. Below: A teahouse in Shanghai. Photos Provided to China Daily |
A set of 204 photos taken by an Austrian musician in China more than a century ago discovered in a basement in California offers a different picture of the nation in the early 1900s. Wang Ru reports.
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