A woman winnowing wheat, near Shanghai

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Da01-33.  “As the chaff which the wind driveth away” (from: Psalms 1:4, King James Bible 'Authorised version').  From an album inscribed to H. Wilcockson from C. E. Darwent. The Revd. C.E. Darwent, Minister of the Union Church (visible in the middle of this photograph), was also a photographer and author of a photographer-friendly guidebook to Shanghai: https://archive.org/details/cu31924023217825 "Shanghai: a handbook for travellers and residents to the chief objects of interest in and around the foreign settlement and native city" (1904).  Herbert Wilcockson.