Die vornehme Dame Kuo-kuo und ihre Schwestern reiten aus, Li Gonglin (1049-1106)

Beauties on an Outing, Li Gonglin (1049-1106)

丽人行, 北宋李公麟 (1049-1106)

Weintöpfe in Shaoxing in der Provinz Zhejiang, darin fermentiert «Shaoxing-Reiswein»

Wine pots with Shaoxing wine in Shaoxing, Province Zhejiang

浙江绍兴装绍兴酒的酒坛

Huangshan, den Gelben Bergen, aufgenommen, Provinz Anhui

Huangshan, the Yellow Mountain in Province Anhui

安徽省境内的黄山

Dorf Zhuge in der Provinz Zhejiang

Zhuge Village in Province Zhejiang

浙江省境内的诸葛村

Jiayuguan, ein altes Festung im Westen der Provinz Gansu

Jiayuguan, an old fort in the west of Gansu Province

甘肃省境内的嘉峪关，

Chinesische Mauer etwa 150 km von Beijing entfernt

Great Wall，located about 150 kilometers from Beijing

距离北京大约150公里的长城

Publications

„The Late Qing Empire Through the Lens of a Swiss“

Krayer, Adolf (pictures); Li, Xing (text)
East China Normal University Press, 2015
ISBN: 9787567523760

Order at www.chinabooks.ch

The book publishes 91 pictures from the private albums of a businessman from Basel, Adolf Krayer, who lived in Shanghai from 1860-1868 and collected contemporary photographs. The origin of each image was researched, and the results displayed in two languages. Krayer’s travel memoires, published in the second part of the book, complement the information in the pictures and give the reader the feeling of participating in Krayer’s journey.

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Shanghai Customs Office on the Bund.

 

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First row, second from the left: Adolf Krayer.

The book was presented in a ceremony in Shanghai on March 24, 2015.