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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: Here is a book from the same time period when those photos were taken in Korea. [Corea; or, Cho-sen, the land of the morning calm (1895) by Arnold Henry Savage Lando English adventurer/painter/traveller/raconteur] Being now settled for the time being in Seoul, I must introduce you to the Corean, not as a nation, you must understand, but as an individual. It is a prevalent idea that the Coreans are Chinese, and therefore exactly like them in physique and appearance, and, if not like the Chinese, that they must be like their neighbours on the other side the Japanese. As a matter of fact, they are like neither. Naturally the continuous incursions of both Chinese and Japanese into this country have left distinct traces of their passage on the general appearance of the people ; and, of course, the distinction which I shall endeavour to make is not so marked as that between whites and blacks, for the Coreans, speaking generally, do bear a certain resemblance to the other peoples of Mongolian origin. Though belonging to this family, however, they form a perfectly distinct branch of it. Not only that, but when you notice a crowd of Coreans you will be amazed to see among them people almost as white and with features closely approaching the Aryan, these being, the higher classes in the kingdom. [b] The more common type is the yellow-skinned face, with slanting eyes, high cheek-bones, and thick, hanging lips. But, again, you will observe faces much resembling the Thibetans and Hindoos, and if you carry your observations still further you will find all over the kingdom, mostly among the coolie classes, men as black as Africans, or like the people of Asia Minor. [/b] http://archive.org/stream/coreaorchosenlan00landrich/coreaorchosenlan00landrich_djvu.txt [/QUOTE][IMG]http://beqesh.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/landorfeboct18971.jpg[/IMG] [b] [i] Pic: The Tibetan weather and Landor’s hardships leave their mark (early 1897 and late 1897)[/i][/b] ( before and after his trip to Tibet) "Almost certainly an agent of Empire in the Great Game, he was a success both on the trail and on the printed page, his best-selling books getting him lucrative lecture tours all over the world, and further travel opportunities, which suited this raconteur just fine." The Great Game was a term for the strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. In the 1990s, the use of the expression "The New Great Game" in reference to classical "Great Game" appeared;to describe the competition between various Western powers, Russia, and China for political influence and access to raw materials in Central Eurasia—"influence, power, hegemony and profits in Central Asia and the Transcaucasus" [/QB][/QUOTE]
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