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崩溃的帝国：明信片中的晚清
Zeng Told
During the late Qing Dynasty, China's feudal dynasty was irreversibly on the road to decline: Western powers invaded frequently, and the ruling group was dim and decadent... The former "Central Empire" was beset with internal and external difficulties and was in danger. This book focuses on this period of history that is humiliating and unforgettable for the Chinese people. The editor spent many years collecting more than 300 late Qing postcards, photos, drawings, stamps, letters, etc. From home and abroad, and compiled them into a volume in chronological order based on characters and events. The book not only shows the decline of the empire, represented by "representatives of the last dynasty" and "prisons and torture in the late Qing Dynasty", but also shows "the frenzy of carving up China", "the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War", "the development of Taiwan and the 'Taiwan Democratic Republic Incident'", the "Boxer Rebellion", "the Eight-Power Allied Forces' War of Invasion of China", the "Russian-Japanese War" and other major political and military events that severely damaged the empire. It vividly reproduces that period of precarious and embarrassing history. Among the pictures included in this book, postcards are undoubtedly the main body, accounting for more than 90%. The contents of these postcards are mostly documentary photography of major events and social phenomena at that time, and there are also a small number of paintings. Most of them were drawn by reporters accompanying the Eight-Power Allied Forces and foreign missionaries. They were issued by post offices in China at that time, and were purchased by Westerners and sent from China before being circulated overseas. The "Oriental landscapes" on these postcards may not be true and objective, and may be unpleasant or even deeply shameful. But "forgetting the past means betrayal" for today's readers. They open a window to vividly understand the history of the late Qing Dynasty, and their historical value and significance are self-evident. The pictures in this book are mainly based on these stamps and postcards. The editor divided them into different themes, such as "Representatives of the Last Dynasty", Prisons and Torture in the Late Qing Dynasty, "Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War", "Japanese-Russian War", etc., Supplemented by certain texts, the image vividly reproduces the precarious and lamentable history of the late Qing Dynasty.
During the late Qing Dynasty, China's feudal dynasty was irreversibly on the road to decline: Western powers invaded frequently, and the ruling group was dim and decadent... The former "Central Empire" was beset with internal and external difficulties and was in danger. This book focuses on this period of history that is humiliating and unforgettable for the Chinese people. The editor spent many years collecting more than 300 late Qing postcards, photos, drawings, stamps, letters, etc. From home and abroad, and compiled them into a volume in chronological order based on characters and events. The book not only shows the decline of the empire, represented by "representatives of the last dynasty" and "prisons and torture in the late Qing Dynasty", but also shows "the frenzy of carving up China", "the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War", "the development of Taiwan and the 'Taiwan Democratic Republic Incident'", the "Boxer Rebellion", "the Eight-Power Allied Forces' War of Invasion of China", the "Russian-Japanese War" and other major political and military events that severely damaged the empire. It vividly reproduces that period of precarious and embarrassing history. Among the pictures included in this book, postcards are undoubtedly the main body, accounting for more than 90%. The contents of these postcards are mostly documentary photography of major events and social phenomena at that time, and there are also a small number of paintings. Most of them were drawn by reporters accompanying the Eight-Power Allied Forces and foreign missionaries. They were issued by post offices in China at that time, and were purchased by Westerners and sent from China before being circulated overseas. The "Oriental landscapes" on these postcards may not be true and objective, and may be unpleasant or even deeply shameful. But "forgetting the past means betrayal" for today's readers. They open a window to vividly understand the history of the late Qing Dynasty, and their historical value and significance are self-evident. The pictures in this book are mainly based on these stamps and postcards. The editor divided them into different themes, such as "Representatives of the Last Dynasty", Prisons and Torture in the Late Qing Dynasty, "Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War", "Japanese-Russian War", etc., Supplemented by certain texts, the image vividly reproduces the precarious and lamentable history of the late Qing Dynasty.