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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 165, [7] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Text in Chinese. '"Picturing The Chinese" uses old photos to show China's historical events, such as the "Opium War", "Boxer Rebellion", "Treat Ports", etc., which is novel to most readers who only stayed at the text level in the past. The documents and landscape photos, portraits and photo postcards collected in this book all come from private collections, archives and libraries in Shanghai, London, Paris and Boston. Famous photographers such as John Thomson and Felice Beato took photos of a wide range of subjects, ranging from military themes to panoramic views of Beijing, as well as Chinese prostitutes and criminals. These moving photographs are accompanied by fascinating historical descriptions of the invention of photography that coincided with the Western invasion of China. Although those charming "Chinese styles" are mixed with the cultural prejudices of the viewer, a rich interaction of text and image is derived from them, which will not only refresh Chinese history experts and photography students, but also ordinary readers will benefit a lot.'.…