Hand-colourised photos from early 1900s China, such as this one of the Huxinting tea house in Shanghai, offer a glimpse of life in the last years of imperial rule. They are on show in Hong Kong until December. Photo: Dezso Bozoky
Beautiful hand-colourised photos of early 1900s China offer a glimpse of life in last years of imperial rule
- Naval doctor Dezso Bozoky recorded his travels in 1908 and 1909 in Fujian province, as well as Beijing and Shanghai
- The hand-coloured photos show the Hungarian’s interest in street scenes, landscapes and architecture
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Photography
Hand-colourised photos from early 1900s China, such as this one of the Huxinting tea house in Shanghai, offer a glimpse of life in the last years of imperial rule. They are on show in Hong Kong until December. Photo: Dezso Bozoky
Wang Mian, technical adviser to the “Restore 1860” programme to reassemble broken pottery pieces from Beijing’s Old Summer Palace, checks work on a restored artefact. Photo: Tom Wang
Treasures of Beijing’s Old Summer Palace restored in painstaking fashion, the work like piecing together a giant Chinese jigsaw puzzle
- Artefacts shattered into hundreds of pieces by pillaging French and British soldiers 150 years ago are being reassembled by a team of heritage restorers
- The work is part of the largest-scale effort yet to restore prized finds dug up by archaeologists on the site of the former imperial palace
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Chinese culture
Wang Mian, technical adviser to the “Restore 1860” programme to reassemble broken pottery pieces from Beijing’s Old Summer Palace, checks work on a restored artefact. Photo: Tom Wang