The postcards and slides in this gallery offer a memorable journey into early 20th-century China. The world's first photographs, black-and-white images that took around eight hours to develop ...

Photography’s arrival in China in the 19th century occurred just at the right moment to capture a way of life that would largely disappear when the Qing Dynasty fell from power in the early 20th ...

On January 5, the New York Public Library released a cache of 180,000 digitized public domain images previously only available in its New York City locations. Among them were colorized photographs ...

When assistant professor Janet Chen decided to write her dissertation on the experience of poverty in early 20th-century China, fellow scholars warned her of the difficulties she would face. But Chen ...

Photographers from the late 19th and early 20th century flocked to Chinatown to capture images of the vibrant cultural enclave. Many of their photos wound up on postcards that were typically ...

For example, a photo of Peking Opera master Zhou Xinfang performing Mingmoyihen, (Lit: Eternal Regret of the Late Ming Dynasty), was taken when Zhou performed the play soon after the September 18 ...