Fang Yunfang, vice director of the exhibition department of Shanghai History Museum, shows a picture to visitors at the Selected Works of the Dian Shi Studio Pictorial exhibition in Shenzhen Museum yesterday (Jan 24).

The original pictures on display, selected from the collection of Shanghai History Museum, depict the social life of Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macao in the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

In 1884, the Shen Bao (Shanghai News) initiated the Dian Shi Studio Pictorial, which represented a great effort to set up the first regular and stable pictorial in China. Lithographed on a kind of fine, flimsy Chinese paper, the quarterly contained eight bound pages with nine pictures in each issue. Between its first and last issue in 1898, more than 4,000 pictures were published.

Running through March 15, the exhibition will be open free of charge to the public during the weeklong Spring Festival holiday in February.

Editor: Wing