Monday, August 22, 2011

Once upon a time in China

This 1908 picture of tea couriers in Sichuan reminds me of what I had been told of my grandmother who used to be a tea picker in Fujian province, despite her feet being bound, unlike those in this picture.


A coal mine in China in 1909, the year my father was born in Malaya.

and what a river cruise was like in the same year...



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