Chinese art, Calligraphy, Calligraphers

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Soldier of the Qing Empire, holding a Match- lock musket during the Taiping rebellion.

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The Qing Empire army, readying to meet forces of the Taiping rebellion.

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Manchu archer, during the Taiping Rebellion.

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Qing troops during the Taiping Rebellion. Notice the European weapons; the Qing dynasty was given late support against the Taipings because were the Qing dynasty to collapse, the European traders would stand to loose money in the wake of chaos.

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An artist's conception of the second Opium War.

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A backward (top) and frontward (bottom) view of Beijing, c. 1900.

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19th century opium production.
Notice the western merchant observing the process.

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19th century silk production.

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The May 4th Movement, by which was felled the Qing dynasty along with the nearly 4,000 year old system of Imperial rule in China.

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Fort of Zeelandia, the Dutch battlement formed on the island of Formosa- present day Taiwan. The Dutch were expelled by the Japanese in the 1600s, just 40 years after it was finished.

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One of the first synagogues in China at Kaifeng.

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Chinese Jews in Kaifeng.

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