25 Photos That Will Take You Straight to China’s Streets 100 Years Ago

Let’s face it, time travel would be way cooler if you could just flip through photos, right? Well, here’s your ticket to China 100 years ago, no TARDIS required.

The streets of Peking, (Beijing), 1920s.

Street scene in Guangzhou, China, 1880.

The streets of Shanghai, 1930s.

A busy Treasure Street, Canton, China by Felice Beato, 1860.

Street of the jewelers in Mukden, China, 1912, colorized.

Chinese Jews in the courtyard of the Trinity Cathedral in Kaifeng, China; 1924.

A merchant being pushed in a wheelbarrow down a street in Shanghai. China, 1938.

Prisoners await their fate during the Great Boxer Uprising of 1900 in China.

A tea seller, 1906.

A street scene in Beijing, China, circa 1917.

Chinese street, 1900.

Everyday life in Qing Dynasty-Republic of China in the mid-late 1800s.

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