百多年前,这些明信片经由西方旅行者、商人、外交官或传教士手中从中国各个通商口岸寄出。经过漫长的海上旅行,这些负载着中国图像与东方情景的明信片到达日夜思念的亲人手里。一张张薄薄的纸片,片段地向远方亲友一一呈现古老帝国的真实面貌。一百多年后的今天,注视这些片段的图像,品味那个时代的沉浮起落。 More than 100 years ago, these postcards were sent from all the ports of commerce in China through Western travelers, businessmen, diplomats or missionaries. After a long journey through the sea, these postcards carrying Chinese images and oriental scenes reached the hands of loved ones, day and night. A piece of thin paper, fragments of distant relatives and friends one by one showing the true look of the ancient empire. A hundred years later, watching the images of these fragments, taste the ups and downs of that era.