• Fig. 8. William Alexander, “A Soldier of Chu-San,” The Costume of China. Illustrated in Forty-Eight Engravings. London: William Miller, 1805. Aquatint. Getty Research Institute via Internet Archive.

“A Soldier of Chu-San,” Costume of China

From Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century by Sandra Tomc

  • A Chinese soldier, dressed in quilted grey armor and armed with a matchlock gun, stands in front of a military fortress.
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  • Literary Studies:19th Century Literature
  • American Studies
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  • 1804
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