Ban Gu - Drawing. Public domain image.
Public domain photograph of Chinese art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sima Guang - Drawing. Public domain image.
Public domain image of Chinese people, China history, government, and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Su Shi - Drawing. Public domain image.
Public domain image of Chinese people, China history, government, and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chinese Fire Ships - Public domain dedication image
Chinese fire ships used by the navy as floating incendiaries, from the Wujing Zongyao military manuscript written in the year 1044 during the Song Dynasty. This picture also appears in Joseph Needham's book Sc... More
Chinese Flamethrower - Public domain dedication image
An 12th century Chinese flamethrower with a tank for petrol-like fluid (most likely Greek Fire that had been known to the Chinese since the early 10th century) and double-acting pump with two pistons so that it... More
Clock Tower from Su Song's Book
Chinese mechanical and horological engineering from the Song Dynasty; this diagram provides an overall general view of the inner workings and armillary sphere of Su Song's clocktower built in Kaifeng. The drawn... More
Huijiangzhi (Gazetteer of the Muslim Regions), 1772.
Huijiangzhi (Gazetteer of the Muslim Regions), a Chinese Qing Dynasty gazetteer illustration of a Muslim akhoond (Chinese: ahong) from 1772. In the year 1755, the Qianlong Emperor sent an army to put down a Kho... More
Lie Nu Zhuan Song dynasty - Drawing. Public domain image.
A woodcut inbetween of Lie Nu Zhuan, 11th century, China. Public domain scan of woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mengchong. Warship photograph collection
Title: 蒙衝 (蒙冲)mengchong doujian (蒙冲斗舰) mongolian leather-covered assault warship. Français : Titre : 蒙衝 (蒙冲)mengchong doujian (蒙冲斗舰) vaisseau de charge mongol, couvert par du cuir. 中文: 蒙衝/蒙冲
Songrivership 3 - Drawing. Public domain image.
Song Dynasty Rivership with Xuanfeng Traction Catapult from the Wujing Zongyao, the 1510 edition of the Ming Dynasty. The photographs are part of my book. You're welcome to use them on Wikipedia so long as you ... More
Su Song Star Map 1, Song dynasty - Public domain old map
This is a star map for the celestial globe of Su Song (1020-1101), a Chinese scientist and mechanical engineer of the Song Dynasty (960-1279). It was first published in the year 1092, in Su's book known as the ... More
Su Song Star Map 2 - Public domain geographic map
A star map of the south polar projection found for the celestial globe of Su Song (1020-1101), a Chinese scientist and mechanical engineer of the Song Dynasty (960-1279). This diagram of a star chart was first ... More
Yingzao Fashi 1 - Drawing. Public domain image.
A diagram of three corbel bracket assemblies in an illustration of a cross-section of a Chinese hall. This is an original picture from the Yingzao Fashi standard building manual published by the Chinese officia... More
Yingzao Fashi 2 - Drawing. Public domain image.
Tenon and mortice work; forms of jointing in tie beams or cross beams, from the Chinese building manual of the Yingzao Fashi, published by Li Jie in the year 1103, during the Song Dynasty. This picture appears... More
Yingzao Fashi 3 - Public domain drawing
Bracket arm clusters containing cantilevers, drawings from the Chinese building manual of the Yingzao Fashi, published in the year 1103 by Li Jie, an architect and official of the Song Dynasty. This picture ap... More
Yingzao Fashi 4 - Public domain drawing
Working drawings of three transverse corbel brackets, from the Chinese building manual of the Yingzao Fashi, published in the year 1103 by Li Jie, an architect and official of the Song Dynasty. This picture ap... More
Yingzao Fashi 5 - Public domain drawing
Working drawings of five different bracket arm bases and two cantilever arms, from the Chinese building manual of the Yingzao Fashi, published in the year 1103 by Li Jie, an architect and official of the Song D... More
白塔山镇远浮桥图 - Drawing. Public domain image.
中文: 此图为一幅浅绛山水横披，无画题，只有落款“属吏童振声谨绘”七个字，表现的是兰州黄河镇远浮桥与白塔山、金山寺的概貌。画幅长108厘米，高47厘米，品相上乘。此画作于1890至1908年之间，反映这一时期的白塔山、镇远浮桥、金城关及金山寺的面貌，画面上有所缺漏，如缺三星殿就是一例。
金城揽胜图 - Drawing. Public domain image.
中文: 《金城揽胜图》，现藏于甘肃省博物馆。
Blum, Robert Frederick, Chinese street scene, after 1890
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 Chinese street scene, after 1890 Watercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper 22.8 x 15.3 cm. (9 x 6 in.) Museum purchase x1943-308 Though Blum spent two... More
Diao Chan portrait - Public domain portrait painting
Portrait of Diaochan from a Qing Dynasty edition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Jade Record 1 - Drawing. Public domain image.
Illustration from the 19th century Jade Record, showing sinners being tortured in the sixth court of hell. Hammering metal spikes into the body; skinning alive; sawing body in half; kneeling on metal filings.
Jade Record 2 - Drawing. Public domain image.
Illustration from the 19th century Jade Record, showing underworld king Biang-cheng presiding over the sixth level of hell. One assistant in scholar's clothes presents the sinner's record; one demon assistant ... More
Pen ts'ao, woodblock book 1249-ce
The Pen ts'ao, 1249 C.E. Printed with woodblock, this illustrated book discusses Chinese herbal medicine.
Principles of Correct Diet, Yuan Dynasty, 1330
In the caption for this picture, Robert Temple writes: Deficiency diseases were recognized in China by at least the 3rd century AD. Here we see the frontispiece to the classic discussion of the subject, Princ... More
Self-tripped trespass land mine, Huolongjing
The 'self-tripped trespass land mine' from the Chinese military compendium of the Fire Drake Manual (Huolongjing), written by Jiao Yu and Liu Ji in the mid 14th century.
Suanpan jinpm - Drawing. Public domain image.
suanpan in Ming dynasty novel中文（简体）: 《金瓶梅》六十回插图中的算盘。
Chinese movable type 1313-ce - Drawing. Public domain image.
A Chinese revolving typecase from the agricultural book Nong Shu, written by the Chinese official and agronomist Wang Zhen, published in the year 1313 CE during the Yuan Dynasty.
Empress Dowager in barge
Empress Dowager Cixi and ladies of the court in the imperial barge on the lake of the Summer Palace.
History of salt - Public domain scan / drawing
井火煮盐法 Public domain scan of 17th-century artwork, drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Moggallana saves his mother - Drawing. Public domain image.
《目连救母》(Mulian jiumu), chinese book woot cut. Moggallana (Cn. Mulian), second chief disciple of the Buddha, asks from his master the way to save his mother (right-below) turned into a hungry ghost from hell. Ch... More
Sea island survey - Drawing. Public domain image.
Sea Island survey diagram 窥望海岛之图, first written of by the Chinese mathematician Liu Hui during the Three Kingdoms era (220–280 CE).
Song dynasty dougong - Drawing. Public domain image.
Dougong diagram from Song dynasty Yingzao Fashi 宋营造法铺作图
盘珠算法 - Public domain dedication image
Introduction to Abacus中文（简体）: 盘珠算法
Qing Dynasty Battle of Liaoyang1621
An ilustration of Nurhaci's biography depicting the battle of Liaoyang (1621)
Chinese Bird with Incendiary - Public domain medieval manuscript
An expendable bird carrying an incendiary receptacle round its neck, one of many bizarre delivery systems of warfare found in the Chinese Wujing Zongyao manuscript, compiled by the year 1044 during the Song Dyn... More
Jin Ping Mei chapt4 - Drawing. Public domain image.
Jin Ping Mei, illustration from chinese edition (1617), part 1, chapter 4, Ximen Qing and Golden Lotus Polski: Ilustracja wg wydania chńskiego Kwiatów śliwy w złotym wazonie z 1617 roku, rozdział 4. część I -... More
Jin ping mei chapt17 - Drawing. Public domain image.
Jin Ping Mei, illustration from chinese edition (1617), part 1, chapter 17 Polski: Ilustracja wg wydania chńskiego Kwiatów śliwy w złotym wazonie z 1617 roku, rozdział 17. część I - gra w domino
Process of Bamboo paper - Insolation, Qing Dynasty
中文：竹紙製造工序：太陽以曝
Höfliches-Hinundherreden - Public domain drawing
Public domain image, 15th-16th century renaissance drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Yuan Dynasty - waterwheels and smelting
This medieval printed illustration depicts waterwheels powering the bellows of a blast furnace in creating cast iron. This illustration is taken from the 14th century treatise Nong Shu, written by Wang Zhen in... More