The Summer Palace [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking over the rooftops of the palace, towards the lake below: 'It will be observed that while in the West a temple or a palace is usually a single structure, in the East it is a collection of separate buildings. Thus the picture gives only a small part o...
Approach to the Pei Hai [Winter Palace, Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across a graceful stone bridge towards the stupa rising on the hillside beyond: 'A bridge called the Yü ho Ch'iao divides the North Sea or Pei Hai from the Middle Sea or Chung Hai of the Winter Palace. From the east end of that bridge a smaller one ...
Pi Yün Ssu [Jade Cloud Temple, Western Hills, near Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from the terrace of the Jade Cloud or Azure Clouds Temple (Biyun si), with a priest in the foreground contemplating the hills beyond.
Pai yün tien [New Summer Palace, Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of 'one of the many beautiful beautiful buildings in the New Summer Palace, Wan Shou Shan. The wealth of ornamentation under the roofs is well shown, but the rich colouring has, in a photograph, to be left to the imagination.'
Approach to the Temple of Heaven [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography 'What is commonly called the Temple of Heaven (see No. LII) is the distant building with triple roof. The view is taken from the lowest terrace of the Altar of Heaven. Unhappily the picture shows the carelessness which this noble building suffers from — the brok...
The utility shop [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from the street showing customer gathered in front of an old-style shop selling basketware: 'No doubt the time will come when Peking shops will have plate-glass windows; but at present the ancient style prevails. The wares in this case are happily exposed i...