A Manchu bride. Photograph by John Thomson, Peking, 1871/1872.

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A Manchu bride. Photograph by John Thomson, Peking, 1871/1872. A Manchu bride. Photograph by John Thomson, Peking, 1871/1872. Catalogue no. 19685. Thomson expressed admiration for the fine costumes of Manchu brides, but compared their future lives to slavery.

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