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The family section of HBC is a very useful section. It helps to put the information we have developed on boys fashion into perspective. Family images show the fashions worn by girls and adults at the same time as those worn by boys. And the family images also provide helpful illustrations of sociological trends. Our Chinese archive is very limited so we have only begun to work on this important topic. China is a very large country, but still very backward in the 19th century. So we do not begin to find very many Chinee images until the 20h century. All of the early photograohy was European imports. China in the 19th century was a technological backwater. All modern technology was imported. We see some European influences, often Chinese who had conveted to Chistianity.
A HBC reader sent us this image, but without any information. It is a studio portrait. We believe the individuals here are a Chinese family in the early-1900s. We notice middle-class families adopting Western influences with the man and boys, but not the women. This was a common pattern in Asia. Oftern Westernized Chinese were Christians. The father here has what looks like a cross on his lapel. The boys wear Norfolk suits.
Here we see a Chinese family obviously after the the Revolution. We would guess that gthe photograph wastaken on a family outing, probably about 1960. Notice the standard Maoist clothing. We are not sure here the photograph was taken, perhaps Shanghai. The buiolding in the background provides a useful clue. The family has two young children. This was before limits on children were introduced in the 1970s. We suspect the photograph was taken by a street photographer. Even such a small-scale endevor would hve been a state controlled endevor, explainiong why Chiuna remained such a poor country for so long after thr Communist victory in the Civil War (1948). China had a two-child limit for a decade (1970s) before introducing the one-child policy nation wide (1980).
Related Chronolgy Pages in the Boys' Historical Web Site
[The 1880s]
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[The 1910s]
[The 1920s]
[The 1930s]
[The 1940s]
[The 1930s]
[The 1940s]
[The 1950s]
[The 1960s]
[The 1970s]
[The 1980s]
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[Knicker suits]
[Short pants suits]
[Socks]
[Eton suits]
[Jacket and trousers]
[Blazer]
[School sandals]
[School smocks]
[Sailor suits]
[Pinafores]
[Long stockings]
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