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标题: Some of Earliest Photos Ever of 'Peking' [打印本页]

作者: choi 时间: 11-12-2015 18:41
标题: Some of Earliest Photos Ever of 'Peking'
(1) Ishaan Tharoor, These Are Some of the Earliest Photos Ever Taken of China’s Capital. Washington Post, Nov 11, 2015 (photo gallery of ten photos).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/n ... -of-chinas-capital/

Note:
(a) photo 2: Jade-Belt Bridge (Summer Palace) "玉带桥位于北京颐和园昆明湖长堤上，建于清乾隆年间"

(b) photo 3:
(i) Great Pure Gate Chen’Mien  正阳门
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/正阳门
(俗称前门，原名丽正门; "明成祖朱棣迁都北京，永乐十七年（1419年）将元大都南城垣向南移建800米，原来北京城墙正中的丽正门迁建到今正阳门的位置，仍旧称为丽正门。正统元年（1436年）改称正阳门")
(A) Books before pinyin often used this Romanization: Ch’ien-men.
(B) The top photo in this Wiki page does not show the three arches in this angle.
(ii) Meridian Gate  午门

(c) photo 6: Temple of Azure Clouds  碧云寺
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Azure_Clouds
(孙中山纪念堂)
(d) "The Marble Boat, or the Boat of Purity and Ease, shows damage from the Second Opium War."  石舫

(2) Qing Dynasty Peking: Thomas Child's Photography 京華清影－托馬斯•查爾德攝影展. Nov 10-15, 2015. London: China Exchange 中国站.
http://chinaexchange.uk/whats-on ... -childs-photography
("Free Admission. An exhibition of original Thomas Child photographs of Peking (Beijing) from the 1870s and 1880s")

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