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Drawing of a cross-section of Kowloon Walled City before its…

Drawing of a cross-section of Kowloon Walled City before its destruction in 1993.

Top: A bronze zodiacal sphere upon an ornate dragon stand.
Bottom: An Azimuthal Horizon, Sextant and Zodiacal Sphere.

At the Ancient Observatory, Peking. Photographs ca. 1860, now available online as part of Wellcome Images.

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Pictured above is his Imitating Fan Kuan’s Travelers Among Mountains and Streams, composed of 750,000 headless nails.

Painting of a Miao woman in traditional attire; by Zhao Chun. More found here.

“Military Mandarin of the Second Rank”, nineteenth century illustration from “Chin

Flooded rice fields in Yuanyuang, Southern China. Photo by George Doupas.

There are some strange things happening in the Gobi Desert. Here are some Google maps links.

A staff member at the University of Michigan’s Centre for Chinese Studies was sorting through boxes in a storage room, and found fifteen hand-made papercut propaganda posters dating from China’s Cultural Revolution.

The Mausoleum of Liu Qi, Xi’an.

Asia Obscura states that Liu Qi was Emperor of China from 156 to 141 BC; his tomb took 28 years to build.

“Everbody must hate the enemy, defenses must be constructed step-by-step, fortifications must be str