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Man selling betel Illustration.

China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980 Available online

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Format:
Image
Author/Creator:
Alexander, William, 1767-1816, artist.
Contributor:
British Library, owner.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Clothing and dress.
Drawing, Chinese.
Food.
China.
Genre:
Illustrated works
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 image)
Place of Publication:
[London] : J. Murray, 1814.
Summary:
From Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings, with descriptions. Published by John Murray, London, 1814. 'The practise of smoking tobacco is not more common, at least in the southern provinces of China, than that of chewing the areca nut, mixed with chunam, or lime made of shells, and wrapped up in a leaf of the betel pepper.
Notes:
Reference: c1557-04
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Description based on publisher metadata (last viewed November 19, 2025).

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