All photographs are by Michael Freeman unless otherwise noted. The following are the sources for some of the objects shown in Michael Freemans photographs:
Shanghai Yuyuan Culture Promoting & Publicizing Co. Ltd.
Thanks also to: Ghislaine Bouillet-Cordonnier, Yomei Chang, Lina and Talal Kanafani, Constantine Koutzaroff, Mimi Lipton
74 (top left); 117 (bottom): U.S. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
74 (top right): Edwin Reischauer and John King Fairbank. East Asia: The Great Traditions . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.
74 (bottom left): Mrs. Archibald Little. Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them . London: Hutchinson & Co., 1899.
76: Harvard College Library, Widener Library olvwork 394100.
111 (bottom left), 133: Patricia Bjaaland Welch, from Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery . Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, 2008.
119 (top); 120 (bottom left): Samuel Victor Constant. Calls Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddler . Peking: Camel Bell, 1936.
127 (top left, bottom): Ronald G. Knapp.
134: Sun Jianai, ed. Qinding Shujing tushuo [ Imperially Prescribed Illustrated Classic of History ]. Beijing: Daxuetang, 1905. juan
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