Xiaojiaochang prints depict city life in the early 1900s, with locomotives, telephones, nightclubs, circus performers, Westerners enjoying the Lantern Festival and other aspects of life not traditionally reproduced in Chinese folk art. “What makes Xiaojiaochang woodblock prints so ...
Daily life in the late 1800s Cities grow and change The industrial city Before the industrial revolution most cities existed to serve as trade, political, military or religious functions. In the industrial age factories required raw materials coming in, goods going out and being sold in the mark...
Jing’an Culture Center transported visitors back to old Shanghai by reconstructing scenes of daily life in the city’s shikumen stone-gated neighborhoods a century ago, where signature pieces from the district’s heritage-listed brands, like Longfeng’s qipao dresses and Humsuit’s shirts and su...
Jing’an Culture Center transported visitors back to old Shanghai by reconstructing scenes of daily life in the city’s shikumen stone-gated neighborhoods a century ago, where signature pieces from the district’s heritage-listed brands, like Longfeng’s qipao dresses and Humsuit’s shirts and su...
Jing’an Culture Center transported visitors back to old Shanghai by reconstructing scenes of daily life in the city’s shikumen stone-gated neighborhoods a century ago, where signature pieces from the district’s heritage-listed brands, like Longfeng’s qipao dresses and Humsuit’s shirts and su...
Jing’an Culture Center transported visitors back to old Shanghai by reconstructing scenes of daily life in the city’s shikumen stone-gated neighborhoods a century ago, where signature pieces from the district’s heritage-listed brands, like Longfeng’s qipao dresses and Humsuit’s shirts and su...
Jing’an Culture Center transported visitors back to old Shanghai by reconstructing scenes of daily life in the city’s shikumen stone-gated neighborhoods a century ago, where signature pieces from the district’s heritage-listed brands, like Longfeng’s qipao dresses and Humsuit’s shirts and su...
The quality ofdaily life in ancient Chinavaried widely, dependent upon a person's social class. The upper classes had lives of luxury and ease, and the lower classes lived their lives out performing manual labor, largely for the benefit of the upper classes. Every facet of their lives, from...
Chapters include details of daily life such as education; leisure activities & sports; reservation life; spirituality, rituals & customs; health, medicine & cures; urban life; women's roles & family; bingos, casinos & gaming. Greenwood's Daily Life through History series looks at the everyday...
In Japan, the beginning of this process falls on the Meiji era and pre-war period. Daily life of women is a mirror of this process, as it is the female world in the first place that expanding its borders. It is women who had to master the scope of activities that were previously ...