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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 3h

Nov 2 (with me leading the tour) -
Email WildChina Travel directly at [email protected] and specify "MiP tour on November 2nd"

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 4h

Here we go again - the Nasty Party being nasty and hopeless as ever

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 6h

I’ll be at Britcham Macao October 23rd….

Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 9h

Guling, formerly romanized as Kuling and colloquially “Cooling”, a summer resort located on top of Mount Lu in Jiujiang, Jiangxi. It was formerly a resort reserved for European missionaries a s famiusly a retreat for Chiang Kai-shel and Madame Chiang (Soong Mei-ling). Photographed in 1949…..

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 17h

The Ming Dynasty Twin Pagoda Temple officially known as Yongzuo Temple of Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. The east one leaned slightly and in the 1990s was straightened - engineeeing prowess trumped charm. This photograph c.1923….

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 1d

A memorial tablet to the Emperor Yongle (reigned 1402-1424) "who moved the urns of empire", photographed c.1923 by "Adam Warwick", the male pseudonym the Peking photographer Juliet Bredon used to get work in America....

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 1d

A memorial tablet to the Emperor Yongle (reigned 1402-1424) "who moved the urns of empire", photographed c.1923 by "Adam Warwick", the male pseudonym the Peking photographer Juliet Bredon used to get work in America....

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 1d

The London Library copy of Gellhorn’s 1978 Travels with Myself & Another, donated by the author. From 1980 Gellhorn moved to live in Kilgwrrwg near Devauden in Gwent, South Wales.

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll be at Britcham Macao on Oct 23 billed as a “Cultural Supper Club”, so hope they like my choice of subject!

The Alternative (& Scandalous) History of Macao & the British: Indecisive Invaders, Tavern Keepers, & Piratical Ruffians

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 2d

Auctioneer says original

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 2d

Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps shoulder title...

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 3d

An Arkansas wide man hunt for his dealer - Yves Saint Laurent

Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 3d

I accidentally packed my bottle of Eau Sauvage for a weekend in Arkansas and got busted for a being a bit wild by a cop with Google translate

Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 3d

Expel their ambassadors

Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 3d

Little boat “floats” for the first full moon festival (aka the Lantern Festival - Yuanxiaojie), Weihai, c1909, photograph probably by Reginald Johnston

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 3d

Are we really to believe that, in Arkansas, a (Indian) man buys a woman a bottle of (presumably) Yves Saint Laurent’s bestselling perfume Opium and the cops think it’s really, eeerr, opium?

Apparently so in the somewhat less than worldly Benton, Little Rock!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Arkansas man, arrested over perfume bottle police mistook for ‘opium’, seeks to restore visa

Police thought bottle contained drugs and arrested Kapil Raghu, who was then taken into custody by Ice

www.theguardian.com

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 3d

A theatre stage in the grounds of a temple, Shandong province, c.1910

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 3d

What a horrid mean man he is

Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 3d

The face of an America nazi

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 4d

Desperate customers seeking to withdraw funds from a bank in Shanghai on the eve of the communist takeover of the city, 1949

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 4d

A man shows off his four legged rooster, Shanghai, 1949 (apparently about one in ten million have four legs)

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 4d

Junk on the West River (Xi Jiang) Guangxi, c.1935, by TC Lau…

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 5d

Who concocted the "China Dossier" detailing Wallis's bad behaviour & sexual loucheness in 1924 Shanghai? I'd bet on Harry Steptoe, then head of UK's SIS in Shanghai in the 1920s & 30s. More Mr Bean than Mr Bond in many descriptions, but loyal to a fault....
Her Lotus Year is available everywhere

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 5d

The 13-storey Liuhe Pagoda (Six Harmonies Pagoda) at dusk, c.1925, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, by Charles H Kragh. located at the foot of Yuelun Hill, facing the Qiantang River, originally constructed in 970, but rebuilt a few times since. Interestingly a pagoda that also served as a lighthouse.

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 5d

The Thunder Peak Pagoda, also known as Leifeng Pagoda, on Sunset (Xizhao) Hill south of West Lake in Hangzhou, China. Originally built in 975 AD. Photo c.1927 by Maynard Owen Williams

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