This short film, an amateur home movie shot by an unknown American tourist, shows scenes from China during the early 20th century. In this film tourist destinations can be seen as well as scenes from everyday life in China. Additionally, it is evident from the footage that this film was shot in winter. This short film begins with Chinese men walking in long winter coats on the streets (0:12). Fences (0:26). Man at a train station while the locomotive goes bye (0:30). Men riding camels and leading a line of camels behind them (0:38). Herd of sheep near a bridge (1:29). Man and donkey cross a bridge (1:39). Car drives down a dirt road (1:45). Boy enters a Chinese house and helps an older man and speaks with him (1:55). Man pouring water into a pot (2:09). A Chinese man prepares a meal (2:15). Wooden structure (2:33). Luxurious Chinese house boat on a River (2:35). Water with buildings reflected in the water (2:51). Chinese restaurant with a server who prepares a table (3:02). Chinese patrons come and sit down and eat in the restaurant and the server attends to them (3:10). Patron stands up and servers are ready to attend to the table (4:15). Carved, tall Chinese monument (4:26). Man walks across an open wooden hallway (4:46). A Chinese man climbs stairs (5:01). Chinese Summer Palace and gardens in Beijing (5:09). Chinese doors that a man walks in front of (5:18). A Chinese man climbs stairs (5:31). Chinese Summer Palace and gardens in Beijing (5:46). Gardens of the Summer Palace in Beijing (5:52). Courtyard from the Chinese Summer Palace (6:01). Large body of water with a small island and a bridge connecting it to shore (6:09). Gardens and buildings (6:20). Chinese man on the roof of a Chinese building (6:26). Roofs of a Chinese building (6:37). Two men with each other, one of them heating up tea and smoking a pipe (6:44). Man pours tea (6:56). Three men talking, while one smokes a pipe (7:11). Small boxes and jars (8:00). Building full of items to be sold such as hanging metal lanterns and wooden baskets (8:11). Chinese men (8:19). Man exits a door and a bird is in a cage hanging from the ceiling (8:28). Women look and point at items being sold on the ground of a busy street (8:34). A Chinese man dusts off the items that are being sold on the ground of the busy street (8:50). Bactrian camels, led by a man walking on his feet, walk through a Chinese archway (8:57). Bactrian camels are led down a trail that is mostly barren except for some leafless trees (9:38). Chinese deities/figures carved elaborately into stone (10:04). Chinese man outside of a building (10:15). One foreigner and one Chinese man sit at an outside table in winter clothes and eat food (10:28). Shots from the Chinese Summer Palace in Beijing (11:25). Chinese men and kids on the street (11:44). Kid practicing martial arts in the street (11:48). Children play in the street (11:57). Train ready to begin moving with smoke coming out of its chimney (12:00). Train car moving on the tracks (12:08). Perspective of the train conductor while the train moves down the tracks (12:45). Villagers stand near the train tracks (12:48). The Great Wall of China (13:00). Man walking on the Great Wall of China (13:13).

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