These pictures are copied from "Picturesque China - Architecture and Landscape - A Journey through Twelve Provinces" by Ernst Boerschmann, published 1923, I think. I know PBase is meant for original work, but Boerschmann's work will be interesting to some people, and possibly hard to find in other places.

Click on one of the small images below to see some of the pictures taken by Boerschmann in that province. All of the book's pictures are here now. The numbers in the titles are the original page numbers, and the titles, captions and locations are those given by Boerschmann. I have preserved his way of spelling Chinese and his sometimes quaint English.

For another look at China 10 years before Boerschmann – good text, poor photographs, look at: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500681h.HTML

And for my own pictures taken in China in 2003, look at: http://www.pbase.com/lambsfeathers/china