Kiang Collection

China Jiangxi
Previously known as Kiang-si

China Clay - The Monk. Florence Mary Anderson / Molly MacArthur (1893-1972) had two distinct styles of illustration. From the middle of the 1920s

Yang Tse Kiang River, China

Rice Plant - sifting the husks and grinding the rice
Chinese sifting from the husks and grinding the rice, some of the end product being bought back to England for rice-flour and added to wheat to make bread. Date: 1833

Rice Plant - watering the rice plant
During the early stages of growth, the Chinese had to constantly keep the seed under water, using chain-pumps and a bucket placed at the end of a lever. Date: 1833

Rice Plant - planting young rice
Chinese planted the rice seeds on cultivated flat land near the Kiang and the Yellow river, the seed was soaked in water in which a quantity of plants appear above ground in a couple of days

Rice Plant - preparing land with harrow
Chinese cultivated the land intently, annually the ground would flood by heavy rains, when the waters had receded the earth was covered with a thick coating of slime and mud

GOOD FORTUNE SYMBOLS
China The deity Kiang-tse-ya holds good fortune talismans - the Ying and Yang, and a group of symbols from the I-ching

China / Seaou-Koo-Shan
A remarkable island (the name means Little Orphan Hill) in the Yangtse-Kiang river : it is surmounted by a temple although its situation must discourage worshippers

China - Little Orphan Island, Yang tse Kiang
Lantern slide of Little Orphan Island, Yang tse Kiang. (Southern China and its People). Part of Box 159 Pekin, slide no. 35 Date: circa 1890s

The bore on the River Tsien-Tang-Kiang, China Date: circa 1890

Repairing a junk - Vietnam / China border - Xi River
Repairing a junk near the Vietnam / China border on the banks of the Xi River, the western tributary of the Pearl River in China

China Chan River
Landing-place in the upper reaches of the river

Transcendental Frog
TRANSCENDENTAL FROG Frogs are honoured at Kiang-si and at Tche-kiang : they have healing and divinatory powers, and temples are dedicated to them

Good Fortune Symbols
China The deity Kiang-tse-ya holds good fortune talismans - the Ying and Yang, and a group of symbols from the I-ching

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