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  • An Asian family and shishi guardian lions outside a Chinese restaurant near Elephant & Castle, on 9th November 2018, in London England. Stone lions, also called Shishi in Chinese, are often found in pairs in front of the gates of Chinese traditional buildings. Chinese guardian lions, known also as stone lions in Chinese art, are a common representation of the lion in pre-modern China. They are believed to have powerful mythic protective powers that has traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, Imperial tombs, government offices, temples, and the homes of government officials and the wealthy from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). Pairs of guardian lions are still common decorative and symbolic elements at the entrances to restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and other structures.
    chinese_family-01-09-11-2018.jpg
  • A pair of lion guards outside a Chinese restaurant in South London. The brass lions, also called Shishi in Chinese, are often found in pairs in front of the gates of Chinese traditional buildings. Chinese guardian lions, known also as stone lions in Chinese art, are a common representation of the lion in pre-modern China. They are believed to have powerful mythic protective powers that has traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, Imperial tombs, government offices, temples, and the homes of government officials and the wealthy from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). Pairs of guardian lions are still common decorative and symbolic elements at the entrances to restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and other structures.
    chinese_doors01-29-09-2010.jpg
  • Displayed in the window of a traditional Chinese medicine shop in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, are the labels and plastic bags containing some of the 500 Chinese herbs that are in use today in Eastern herbal remedies, of which 250 or so are very commonly used in the treatment of ailments and diseases. Rather than being prescribed individually, single herbs are combined into formulas designed to adapt to specific needs of individual patients. Herbal formulas contain from 3 to 25 herbs or animal parts, some sourced from endangered species. As with diet therapy, each herb has one or more of the five flavours/functions and one of five "temperatures" ("Qi") (hot, warm, neutral, cool, cold). After the herbalist determines the energetic temperature and functional state of the patient's body, they prescribe a mixture of herbs tailored to balance disharmony.
    chinese_medecine04-21-1995.jpg
  • Window display figure of a traditional Chinese herbalist's shop in London's West End. The shadows of known cures such as anxiety, depression and hay fever are reflected on the body of this male miniature. One of Chinese herbology's four natures is the degree of yin and yang, namely cold (extreme yin), cool, warm and hot (extreme yang). The patient's internal balance of yin and yang is taken into account when the herbs are selected. Medicinal herbs of "hot", yang nature are used when the person is thought to be suffering from internal cold that requires to be purged, or when the patient is believed to have a general cold constituency. Sometimes an ingredient is added to offset the extreme effect of one herb.
    chinese_medicine03-16-10-2012.jpg
  • The menu below Chinese characters in the window of Wonder House, a local Chinese takeaway, its on 11th September 2018, in Ludlow, Shropshire, England UK.
    ludlow_chinese-01-11-09-2018.jpg
  • A Chinese wedding couple stand outside St. Paul's Cathedral alongside some Asian corporate achievers, on 25th March 2019, in London, England.
    chinese_wedding-02-25-03-2019.jpg
  • A Chinese wedding couple have their visit to England photographed and filmed, part of the Asian European wedding trip industry, on 6th September 2017, in London, England.
    chinese_wedding-09-06-09-2017.jpg
  • A Chinese wedding couple have their visit to England photographed and filmed, part of the Asian European wedding trip industry, on 6th September 2017, in London, England.
    chinese_wedding-07-06-09-2017.jpg
  • A Chinese wedding couple have their visit to England photographed and filmed, part of the Asian European wedding trip industry, on 6th September 2017, in London, England.
    chinese_wedding-01-06-09-2017.jpg
  • A Chinese wedding couple have their visit to England photographed and filmed, part of the Asian European wedding trip industry, on 6th September 2017, in London, England.
    chinese_wedding-02-06-09-2017.jpg
  • The Chinese and British national flags hanging together in a City of London sidestreet.
    chinese_british_flags-01-15-08-2016.jpg
  • The Chinese and British national flags hanging together in a City of London sidestreet.
    chinese_british_flags-04-15-08-2016.jpg
  • The Chinese and British national flags hanging together in a City of London sidestreet.
    chinese_british_flags-06-15-08-2016.jpg
  • The Chinese national flag hangs outside the Bank of China in the City of London.
    chinese_british_flags-10-15-08-2016.jpg
  • The Chinese national flag hangs outside the Bank of China in the City of London.
    chinese_british_flags-11-15-08-2016.jpg
  • Chinese wedding couple have their formal portrait taken in a tunnel opposite the Palace of Westminster, London.
    chinese_wedding03-12-05-2015.jpg
  • Macanese Chinese workers trim garden grass outside the old Portuguese-era Leal Senado Library, Macau, China.
    macanese_chinese-08-07-1994.jpg
  • A Chinese army portable mobile missile launcher demonstrated by a mannequin at the UK's bi-annual Farnborough air show, England. Wearing goggles and helmet and a generic uniform, the model points the launcher into the air to simulate it being fired at a moving target, an example of 80s warfare technology.
    chinese_missile-20-07-1989.jpg
  • Doctor on TV screen at a traditional Chinese herbalist's shop window in London's West End.
    chinese_herbalist03-18-01-2011.jpg
  • Tired assistant with Doctor on TV screen at a traditional Chinese herbalist's shop window in London's West End.
    chinese_herbalist02-18-01-2011.jpg
  • A Chinese wedding couple stand outside St. Paul's Cathedral alongside some Asian corporate achievers, on 25th March 2019, in London, England.
    chinese_wedding-01-25-03-2019.jpg
  • A Chinese wedding couple have their visit to England photographed and filmed, part of the Asian European wedding trip industry, on 6th September 2017, in London, England.
    chinese_wedding-06-06-09-2017.jpg
  • The Chinese and British national flags hanging together in a City of London sidestreet.
    chinese_british_flags-03-15-08-2016.jpg
  • The Chinese and British national flags hanging together in a City of London sidestreet.
    chinese_british_flags-09-15-08-2016.jpg
  • Chinese wedding couple have their formal portrait taken in a tunnel opposite the Palace of Westminster, London.
    chinese_wedding04-12-05-2015.jpg
  • Chinese wedding couple have their formal portrait taken in a tunnel opposite the Palace of Westminster, London.
    chinese_wedding01-12-05-2015.jpg
  • Near a menu of dishes, a customer eats a lunchtime Chinese meal in the window of a Soho eaterie.
    chinese_meal01-16-10-2012.jpg
  • Tired assistant with Doctor on TV screen at a traditional Chinese herbalist's shop window in London's West End.
    chinese_herbalist01-18-01-2011.jpg
  • A chinese tourist photographs architecture in Radcliff Square, Oxford University.
    chinese_tourists01-08-06-2010.jpg
  • A passer-by stands near to a Chinese restaurant in Gerrard Street in London's Chinatown, England.
    chinese_community01-23-06-2000.jpg
  • With few visitors to see, a young boy pees into the water surrounding a model town at the Splendid China model village, the 30 hectares large tourist attraction in the city of Shenzhen, China. The kid aims into the water with his mother's help. In the background we see some of the 50,000 ceramic figures and scenes from a period in Chinese history and further away, modern skyscrapers in the metropolis contrasting with ancient, traditional village life. Splendid China is an attraction at the Overseas Chinese Town, Shenzhen that has scaled down replicas of China's historical buildings, wonderful scenes and folk customs. The scale models are of a 1:15 with 100 miniaturized landmarks such as The Terracotta Warriors; Great Wall; Forbidden City; Old Summer Palace etc. all laid out according to their geographic locations.
    shenzhen_peeing04-21-1995.jpg
  • On a typical rainy day in south-east Asia, a nursery schoolchild is lifted over railings into local transport, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER), home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
    macau_people02-10-08-1994.jpg
  • We see one of a pair of lion guards outside the Bank of China's building in Macau (Macao), in China's Special Economic region (SER). Stone lions, also called Shishi in Chinese, are often found in pairs in front of the gates of Chinese traditional buildings. Chinese guardian lions, known also as stone lions in Chinese art, are a common representation of the lion in pre-modern China. They are believed to have powerful mythic protective powers that has traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, Imperial tombs, government offices, temples, and the homes of government officials and the wealthy from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). Pairs of guardian lions are still common decorative and symbolic elements at the entrances to restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and other structures.
    bank_china-10-08-1994.jpg
  • An aerial view of Central Macau, looking down on the ex-Portuguese colony including its Chinese Christian cemetery of San Miguel. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER). Taken from a tall apartment block that overloooks the Rua do Almirant e Costa Cabral, we can view the tightly-packed cities of one of the most densely-populated connurbations in the world, this area is a packed warren of houses, businesses and tower blocks, home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese. The Macau Special Administrative Region, more commonly known as Macau or Macao is one of the two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover. Macao's gambling revenue in 2006 weighed in at a massive £3.6bn - about £100m more than Las Vegas.
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  • Members of Chinese exile community keep vigil and await more news outside their embassy a day after the Tiananmen Sq massacre. Catching up on the latest from home, the young Chinese activists read newspapers reporting of the massacre by the Chinese regime on protesting students in Beijing. The political crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 1989 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
    tiananmen_london01-05-06-1989.jpg
  • Taken from a tall apartment block, we see an aerial view overlooking the ex-Portuguese colony of Macau's Chinese Christian cemetery of San Miguel. The Cemiterio de São Miguel Arcanjo (Saint Miguel Catholic Cemetery) is located right in the middle of Macao island, on Estrada do Cemiterio and host the graves of the old Dutch and Portuguese colonials that helped shape Macau, now one of the world's most densely-populated city. We see a single Chinese lady walking along one of many criss-crossing diagonal pathways carrying a red bucket of water to tend these graves. She appears tiny compared to the multitude of plots, some which have crosses and others which have simple headstones. They are mostly neat and tidy but some have become overgrown with grass sprouting up. Macau's gambling revenue in 2006 weighed in at a massive £3.6bn - about £100m more than Las Vegas. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese. The Macau Special Administrative Region is one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover. .
    RB-0186.jpg
  • Pasted to the wall in Gerrard Street, Soho, in London's Chinatown, the Metropolitan Police are appealing for witnesses to help with their investigation of a murder of Vien Xuan Cao, a Chinese immigrant who was murdered in this street after being attacked with a meat cleaver. The implication is that this was a Triad turf war, a territorial dispute between gang members of this secret society. We see the young man's face photocopied to the paperwork, laid over more traditional images of ethnic Chinese and a boxing contest promotional poster. "Can you Help?" reads the Police's appeal and alongside, the same text has been translated into Chinese for locals to read.
    RB_118-08-10-1992.jpg
  • Blindfolded guardian lions are positioned at the entrance of the Peninsular Hotel that is opening soon at Hyde Park Corner, on 28th February 2023, in London, England. Chinese guardian lions, or imperial guardian lions, are a traditional Chinese architectural ornament, but the origins lie deep in much older Indian Buddhist traditions. Statues of guardian lions have traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, Imperial tombs, government offices, temples, and the homes of government officials and the wealthy, and were believed to have powerful mythic protective benefits.
    peninsular_lions-01-28-02-2023.jpg
  • A child clings to the back of her mother's pouch while shopping at a street market in this highly-populated south-east Asian city, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER), home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
    macau_people04-10-08-1994.jpg
  • A passing shopper blurs while passing a market stall selling duck and chicken on a dark and typical rainy day in south-east Asia, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER), home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
    macau_people03-10-08-1994.jpg
  • An exercise class for schoolchildren on a basketball court at a sports ground in the highly-populated Asian city, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER), home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
    macau_people01-10-08-1994.jpg
  • An aerial view of central Macau, looking down on high-rise apartments and poorer housing in this ex-Portuguese colony. ..Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER). Taken from a tall apartment block that overloooks the Rua do Almirant e Costa Cabral, we can view the tightly-packed cities of one of the most densely-populated connurbations in the world, this area is a packed warren of houses, businesses and tower blocks, home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese. The Macau Special Administrative Region, more commonly known as Macau or Macao is one of the two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover. Macao's gambling revenue in 2006 weighed in at a massive £3.6bn - about £100m more than Las Vegas.
    aerial_city01-08-07-1994.jpg
  • A market trader takes a mid-day sleep in the middle of the road, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER), home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
    macau_people05-10-08-1994.jpg
  • In the twilight, the artificial illumination of Macau's Hotel Lisboa 24-hour a day casino is the only colour (color) of this cityscape. The dominating silhouette of a giant open-mouthed Chinese lion looms from outside the Bank of China building in central Macau. Besides historical Chinese and Portuguese world-heritage relics, Macau's biggest attraction is its gaming business. Its gambling revenue in 2006 weighed in at a massive £3.6bn - about £100m more than Las Vegas. Though many forms of gambling are legal here, the most popular game in the casinos is baccarat, which generates over two thirds of the gaming industry's gross receipts. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese and the Macau Special Administrative Region, more commonly known as Macau - or Macao - is one of the two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover. Macau's name is derived from A-Ma-Gau or Place of A-Ma and this temple dedicated to the seafarers' goddess dates from the early 16th century.
    RB-0153.jpg
  • The zoomed lights of Macau's Hotel Lisboa Casino. Macau's biggest attraction is its gaming business, especially after this colony reverted from Portuguese to Chinese rule and mainline Chinese flocked here. Its gambling revenue in 2006 weighed in at a massive £3.6bn - about £100m more than Las Vegas. Though many forms of gambling are legal here, the most popular game in the casinos is baccarat, which generates over two thirds of the gaming industry's gross receipts. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese and the Macau Special Administrative Region, more commonly known as Macau (Macao) is one of the two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong.
    RB_141-08-07-1994.jpg
  • Peering through the steamy window of a Chinese restaurant in London's Chinatown district, we see the shapes and forms of kitchen staff and customers in this lively scene. In the window are rows of Peking Duck with their skins cooked a crispy dark brown. Meanwhile, surrounded by cooking utensils and implements, the tools of their trade, two chefs busy themselves in the kitchen area, one's face shows him to be ethnic Chinese who is rubbing his hands in a cloth before continuing his chores. Two European girls are waiting expectantly for their dishes to arrive. Obscured by the steam and heat, a waiter in green bustles about this small eaterie.
    electricity122-17-01-2008 .jpg
  • Preparations in London's Chinatown for the mid-Autumn (also Lantern or Moon) Festival where paper lanterns are to hang. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is at its fullest and roundest.
    chinatown_festival20-05-September-20...jpg
  • Members of Chinese exile community keep vigil and await more news outside their embassy a day after the Tiananmen Sq massacre. A mock coffin draped in the Chinese flag sit on the London pavement, a presence to officials in the embassy opposite. The political crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 1989 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
    tiananmen_london03-05-06-1989.jpg
  • Preparations in London's Chinatown for the mid-Autumn (also Lantern or Moon) Festival where paper lanterns are to hang. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is at its fullest and roundest.
    chinatown_festival8-05-September-201...jpg
  • Preparations in London's Chinatown for the mid-Autumn (also Lantern or Moon) Festival where paper lanterns are to hang. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is at its fullest and roundest.
    chinatown_festival6-05-September-201...jpg
  • Preparations in London's Chinatown for the mid-Autumn (also Lantern or Moon) Festival where paper lanterns are to hang. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is at its fullest and roundest.
    chinatown_festival3-05-September-201...jpg
  • Preparations in London's Chinatown for the mid-Autumn (also Lantern or Moon) Festival where paper lanterns are to hang. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is at its fullest and roundest.
    chinatown_festival17-05-September-20...jpg
  • Preparations in London's Chinatown for the mid-Autumn (also Lantern or Moon) Festival where paper lanterns are to hang. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is at its fullest and roundest.
    chinatown_festival16-05-September-20...jpg
  • Preparations in London's Chinatown for the mid-Autumn (also Lantern or Moon) Festival where paper lanterns are to hang. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is at its fullest and roundest.
    chinatown_festival12-05-September-20...jpg
  • Preparations in London's Chinatown for the mid-Autumn (also Lantern or Moon) Festival where paper lanterns are to hang. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is at its fullest and roundest.
    chinatown_festival10-05-September-20...jpg
  • Members of Chinese exile community keep vigil and await more news outside their embassy a day after the Tiananmen Sq massacre. A mock coffin draped in the Chinese flag sit on the London pavement, a presence to officials in the embassy opposite. The political crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 1989 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
    tiananmen_london04-05-06-1989.jpg
  • Preparations in London's Chinatown for the mid-Autumn (also Lantern or Moon) Festival where paper lanterns are to hang. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is at its fullest and roundest.
    chinatown_festival7-05-September-201...jpg
  • Preparations in London's Chinatown for the mid-Autumn (also Lantern or Moon) Festival where paper lanterns are to hang. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is at its fullest and roundest.
    chinatown_festival5-05-September-201...jpg
  • Preparations in London's Chinatown for the mid-Autumn (also Lantern or Moon) Festival where paper lanterns are to hang. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is at its fullest and roundest.
    chinatown_festival19-05-September-20...jpg
  • Preparations in London's Chinatown for the mid-Autumn (also Lantern or Moon) Festival where paper lanterns are to hang. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is at its fullest and roundest.
    chinatown_festival18-05-September-20...jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-06-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-20-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-21-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-18-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-15-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-16-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-14-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-13-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-12-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-11-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-09-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-10-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-07-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-04-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-03-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-01-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Two young women from London's Chinese community in Chinatown walk along Shaftesbury Avenue in London's West End wearing surgical face masks during the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic, on 12th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus-01-12-03-2020.jpg
  • A lady waits for her order in the Chinese Cottage takeaway, on 12th September 2018, in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales.
    dolgellau_takeaway-01-12-09-2018.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-22-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-19-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-17-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-08-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-05-01-06-2022.jpg
  • Days before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations commence over the Bank Holiday acros the UK, a banner showing her face hangs among Chinese lanterns on Garrard Street in the heart of the capital's Chinatown, on 1st June 2022 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the UK throne for 70 years, the longest-serving monarch in English history and Union Jack flags can be seen everywhere around the country in the week before the Jubilee weekend.
    jubilee_chinatown-02-01-06-2022.jpg
  • A passer-by stands outside a Chinese Restaurant offering Dim Sum in Chinatown, home to London's ethnic Chinese community.
    electricity120-17-01-2008 .jpg
  • A passer-by stands next to a menu from a Chinese restaurant in Gerrard Street in London's Chinatown, England. The words Dim Sum Daily are displayed in neon lights above the person's head, its translated message is written on the top in Chinese characters. In the clear window we can see rows of Peking duck. It is early evening and the street is full of colour from the artificial lighting that creates an inviting mood for those browsing the menus on offer in this lively part of London's West End. The pedestrian is partly silhouetted and she stands in profile looking straight ahead as if ignoring what is on offer.
    electricity35.jpg
  • The red Chinese national flag hangs outside the Bank of China on Lothbury Street EC2 in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 21st August 2018, in London, England. At a time when economic and property investment agreements between Britain and China were confirmed, the Chinese communist state's presence in the UK capital is becoming more obvious.
    bank_of_china-06-21-08-2018.jpg
  • The red Chinese national flag hangs outside the Bank of China on Lothbury Street EC2 in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 21st August 2018, in London, England. At a time when economic and property investment agreements between Britain and China were confirmed, the Chinese communist state's presence in the UK capital is becoming more obvious.
    bank_of_china-05-21-08-2018.jpg
  • The red Chinese national flag hangs outside the Bank of China on Lothbury Street EC2 in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 21st August 2018, in London, England. At a time when economic and property investment agreements between Britain and China were confirmed, the Chinese communist state's presence in the UK capital is becoming more obvious.
    bank_of_china-02-21-08-2018.jpg
  • The red Chinese national flag hangs outside the Bank of China on Lothbury Street EC2 in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 21st August 2018, in London, England. At a time when economic and property investment agreements between Britain and China were confirmed, the Chinese communist state's presence in the UK capital is becoming more obvious.
    bank_of_china-01-21-08-2018.jpg
  • During the official visit by the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Chinese nationals show support to a Beijing-London political and economic relationship, by holding flags in the street outside the Ministry of Defence  on Whitehall, Westminster, London.
    china_protest06-17-06-2014.jpg
  • During the official visit by the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Chinese nationals show support to a Beijing-London political and economic relationship, by holding flags in the street outside the Ministry of Defence  on Whitehall, Westminster, London.
    china_protest04-17-06-2014.jpg
  • During the official visit by the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Chinese nationals show support to a Beijing-London political and economic relationship, by holding flags in the street outside the Ministry of Defence  on Whitehall, Westminster, London.
    china_protest03-17-06-2014.jpg
  • Scaled history from the 'Splendid China' model village and modern architecture in the Shenzhen metropolis, China. With a foreground of China's history represented by a classical dynasty constructed in wood and the looming presence of the modern concrete city - the materials separated by thousands of years. We see some of the 50,000 ceramic figures and scenes from a period in Chinese history and further away, a modern corporate building in the metropolis contrasting with ancient, traditional architecture. Splendid China is an attraction at the Overseas Chinese Town, Shenzhen that has scaled down replicas of China's historical buildings, wonderful scenes and folk customs. The scale models are of a 1:15 with 100 miniaturized landmarks such as The Terracotta Warriors; Great Wall; Forbidden City; Old Summer Palace etc. all laid out according to their geographic locations.
    china_shenzen-21-04-1995.jpg
  • Preparations in London's Chinatown for the mid-Autumn (also Lantern or Moon) Festival where paper lanterns are to hang. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty.
    chinatown_festival9-05-September-201...jpg
  • Three citizens from the Chinese Special Economic region Hong Kong stand along a vertical banners filled with Chinese characters on a sunny day in Tsim Sha Tsui on the Kowloon side in 1995. This is dated two years before the ransfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. But at the time of this picture, these people are still under British rule and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China has still to happen. They are therefore still British subjects, with British passports, living under British law.
    hk_people04-21-1995.jpg
  • Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath greets the Chinese Panda Ming Ming at London Zoo, on loan from the Chinese government as part of a breeding programme, on 22nd October 1991, in London, England. Edward Heath met with Premier Li Peng and agreed to loan a female panda to London Zoo for an international breeding project. But London Zoo’s male panda Chia Chia unfortunately died in the week before her arrival and the other male, Bao Bao, and Ming Ming didn’t get on and on the first day that both pandas were in the same enclosure, it all went wrong when the play-fight that normally precedes the mating process with pandas turned nasty and Ming Ming was badly injured. She lost part of an ear, had two infections and needed surgery and antibiotics. The risks were too great to put them together again and they performed artificial insemination on Ming Ming in 1992 and 1993 but it didn’t work. Ming Ming, the world’s oldest panda died on the morning of May 7, 2011 at the age of approximately 34.
    panda_heath-22-10-1991.jpg
  • The red Chinese national flag hangs outside the Bank of China on Lothbury Street EC2 in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 21st August 2018, in London, England. At a time when economic and property investment agreements between Britain and China were confirmed, the Chinese communist state's presence in the UK capital is becoming more obvious.
    bank_of_china-04-21-08-2018.jpg
  • The red Chinese national flag hangs outside the Bank of China on Lothbury Street EC2 in the City of London - the capital's financial district, on 21st August 2018, in London, England. At a time when economic and property investment agreements between Britain and China were confirmed, the Chinese communist state's presence in the UK capital is becoming more obvious.
    bank_of_china-03-21-08-2018.jpg
  • During the official visit by the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Chinese nationals show support to a Beijing-London political and economic relationship, by holding flags in the street outside the Ministry of Defence  on Whitehall, Westminster, London.
    china_protest01-17-06-2014.jpg
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