Thomas H. Hahn, lecturer at Cornell University, has published a series of historical China photographs on Zenfolio, a photo-hosting site. One example is early Chinese nudes, either drawings or pictures of posing models from the early 1910s to the late 1940s:

These were taken from media documenting early art lessons such as the Beiyang Pictorial News and Chin-Chin Screen.

More recently, Hahn has put up a collection of old photographs centering on Formosa (Taiwan) in the late nineteenth century, which are plates scanned from the collection called the Souvenirs de Formose et des Îles Pescadores (Ogawa, Tokyo 1896). Hahn illustrates the collection with these words:

The sites and scenes depicted here follow roughly the main western transportation artery of Taiwan (Formosa) at the end of the 19th century, i.e., from Taipei in the north towards Kaohsiung in the south via Jiayi and Tainan.

Kaohsiung (高雄) is a part of Taiwan in the south-west region. The influence of western countries such as Spain, Britain and France on the Pescadore Islands (Penghu 澎湖) are interesting in the photos. There are other photos, for example, this one below of a farmer:

Hahn has an account on Zenfolio.