History: Photo of old China in XIX Century

An interesting collection of very old pictures about life in China in late 1800s - Many things are similar to Vietnam too, just like this one:


Curious about Western technology:




More from the collection of the Life magazine on Google are here: "http://images.google.com/images?sa=4&imgc=&imgsz=&q=%22Typ+Asia+China.+1850%22+source%3Alife"