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  • Thomson's travels through China
  • Photographic equipment
  • The Wellcome Library
  • China then and now film
  • Chinese text
  • A Manchu bride
  • A knife grinder
  • Dong Xun
  • Street gamblers
  • A native woman carrying buckets
  • A Cantonese schoolboy
  • An Amoy couple
  • An old Muslim cook with his assistant
  • A Manchu lady after having her face painted

China then and now film

  

This short film features John Thomson's original photographs alongside modern versions. Here we can compare the places on his expedition then and now to see how much they have changed.

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