Fucuo 浮厝(floating burial) huts in Shanghai’ rice field, c. 1920—a temporary sanctuary for the dead. These structures sheltered coffins either waiting for their final journey back to an ancestral hometown, or waiting for a surviving spouse so they could face eternity together.

Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue · 2026-06-02

Fucuo 浮厝(floating burial) huts in Shanghai’ rice field, c. 1920—a temporary sanctuary for the dead.…

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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…
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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…
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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…
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