Tag Archives: winter

Christmas card

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Jamie Carstairs

Compliments of the season to all friends of ‘Visualising China’ – and all best wishes for the road ahead.

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Winter in black and white

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs
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Moving a block of ice over frozen water

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

Ice was cut during the winter in North China from ponds and rivers, and then stored in ice houses for cooling uses over the summer months. This photo (Ru02-34), with its curiously stagey composition (note that man peeping from behind … Continue reading →

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Bronze armillary, Peking Observatory, 1875

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

To mark the vernal equinox on Tuesday 20th March, this is a photograph by Thomas Child (1841-1898) of part of the Ancient (Imperial) Observatory in Peking (Beijing).  The equinox (a word from Latin, meaning ‘equal night’) heralds the start of … Continue reading →

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