Longhua Temple Pagoda (龍華寺), Shanghai (上海)

Incense stalls and worshippers, City God Temple (上海城隍庙), Shanghai

George Johnson, among others, beside an incense burner at an unidentified temple

Shrine figure wearing a mian liu hat, and two smaller female figures with fans

Shrine figure playing a Chinese lute

Two shrine figures with beards

A shrine figure grasping a snake

A shrine with Buddha holding a lotus flower

A shrine figure

Placing paper offerings in a temple brazier

Older women with bound feet stepping into a temple courtyard

Customers at a temple stall selling earthenware tea cups, prayer beads, incense and other offerings

Women passing sticks of incense to a Buddhist priest at a temple brazier

Shrine figures

Stall at a temple selling bells, prayer beads, and other offerings

Shrine with crowned Buddha and two bearded attendants

Longhua Temple, Shanghai

Longhua Temple and incense burner, Shanghai

Dragon pillars at Dacheng Hall, Temple of Confucius, Qufu (曲阜)

Harry, Guy and Walter Hillier at Balizhuang temple near Beijing