Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪

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Visuals of Greater China. Curated by Tong Bingxue仝冰雪, Collector & Historian, Author: History of Photo Studios in China, A Life in Portraits. DM open.

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#1
Step back into the 1940s: Dutch diplomat and Orientalist Robert van Gulik—better known to his Chinese friends as “Gao Luopei”—poses with his wife, Shui Shifang, both radiant in tr…
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-08-03
#2
Xizhimenwai Street, Beijing, around 1930. The text on the archway (pailou) reads "Natural Museum" (天然博物院). To the left was the Agricultural Experimental Farm—the predecessor of to…
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-08-02
#3
A 2,300-year-old liquid wine, preserved in full! 🏺✨ Uncovered from a Warring States Qin tomb in Guyuan, Ningxia, China, this ancient bronze pot contained a massive 3,740 ml of liq…
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-08-01
#4
44 years, same shore, same love. ❤️
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-31
#5
Kids in Shanghai's American Dream Park, 1997, by Martin Parr . As China's very first true theme park, it was built in 1996, closed down in 2001, and is now mostly demolished.
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-30
#6
Sights and sounds of Beijing, 1985, DiAnMenWai Street地安门外大街, filmed by Ulrike Ottinger. I first came to Beijing in 1987 for college, moving here from Hebei. It looked pretty much…
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-30
#7
Tang Dynasty aesthetics in every detail at Xi'an East Railway Station.
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-29
#8
Ma Jianping, a barbecue shop owner in Tongchuan, Shaanxi province, has recently gone viral on Chinese social media because he bears a striking resemblance to Elon Musk, and people…
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-28
#9
50 years ago today, July 28, 1976, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Tangshan, Hebei Province. Nearly 250,000 lives, whose names are now etched into this memorial wall, were lost.…
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-28
#10
1900 vs 2026: Head of Leshan Giant Buddha,in SW China’s Sichuan Province. Built between 713-803, carved out of a cliff, 233 feet tall. The largest and tallest stone Buddha statue…
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-27
#11
Days when Beijing has smog, 1997, view from the Drum Tower.
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-26
#12
Celebrated my birthday at this humble village restaurant in my hometown, Wuji County无极县, Hebei Province. Buckwheat noodles with beef sauce牛肉饸饹, sesame pancakes baked inside a big…
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-25
#13
China’s Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry Sites was officially inscribed on the World Heritage List today by UNESCO, at the 48th session of the World Heritage Committee in…
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-25
#14
By Chinese photographer Nancy Sheung常惠珍。 Born in 1915 in Suzhou and settled down in Hong Kong in the 1930s. She first picked up photography at the age of 44, creating some beautif…
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-24
#15
John Lone met Pujie—the younger brother of the last emperor Puyi—on the Beijing set of The Last Emperor, 1986. Pujie later recalled in an interview that this actor portraying his…
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-23
#16
The grocery worker who set this up definitely went to art school. Tsingtao, China.
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-22
#17
Kids with badge, Beijing, 1971. 📸 Frank Fischbeck .
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-21
#18
A statue in Hangzhou Library dedicated to an extraordinary soul: Wei Sihao韦思浩, the "scavenger" scholar. By day, he collected recyclables on the streets of Hangzhou. By night, he b…
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-20
#19
Shanghai street fashion, 1986, Nanjing Road.
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-19
#20
Rush hour in Shanghai, 1995. 🎥 Japanese Kansai Television
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-18
#21
Cross-dressing portrait – a man dressed as a woman, part of a playful studio photography fad, 1910s, Shanghai.
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-17
#22
A Buddhist lama in ceremonial dress, the Yonghe Temple,or Lama Temple 雍和宫, Beijing, 1920s, photo by White Brothers, and tinted by A C Liang.
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-16
#23
Jia Qianqian贾浅浅, daughter of renowned Chinese writer Jia Pingwa贾平凹, had her master's degree revoked and was stripped of her associate professor title and teaching qualifications b…
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-15
#24
Back to Shanghai, 1980. 🚦 A traffic police officer manually operating the traffic lights from a control booth.
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-14
#25
Chinese actress Liu Xiaoqing and Japanese actress Komaki Kurihara at the Summer Palace in Beijing, 1980. This rare image captures a moment during the golden era of Sino-Japanese f…
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-13
#26
Fantasy of China: The last Ming Emperor Chongzhen & his Consort，old print in 1683, by French artist Alain Manesson Mallet.
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-13
#27
Beijing's Forbidden City, after a summer downpour.
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-12
#28
This is how the ruins of Daming Palace in Xi'an were restored. Daming Palace 大明宫was the grandest imperial palace complex of the Tang Dynasty (618–907 AD) and the political center…
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-11
#29
A beautiful moment of unspoken connection. 🥹
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-10
#30
State-run Photo Booth, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1978. 📸 Koichi Saito.
Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-07-09