With a Preface by L. Carrington Goodrich. Reprinted for the first time since its original publication twenty years ago, The Face of China is an evocative and candid collection of some of the first photographs made in that country. Along with descriptive captions, these images describe the daily life and surroundings of an era now passed. The people are as seen through Western eyes, and the places are as traversed by foreigners. These early photographers were explorers and adventurers. They lugged huge cameras with heavy glass plates over rugged, unfamiliar terrain. Interspersed throughout the book are passages from significant texts and travelers' diaries, observations and opinions that echo and illuminate the images. For many Chinese, these photographers were the first white faces ever seen, and they carried with them previously undreamed-of contraptions. For all this, there is an unguarded air to many of the portraits, and the street scenes have the candid look of today's street photographer

The Face of China as Seen by Photographers & Travelers, 1860-1912

History

Nigel Cameron

L. Carrington Goodrich

Asia

Aperture

Spectacular China (Illustrated Travel)

Travel

Konemann UK Ltd

To the Chinese scholar, the preparation for recording his thought was as important as the execution. On his desk lay the Four Treasures, the symbols of his calling: paper, brushes, inkslab and ink, so arranged as to inspire the best of his talent. His finely ground and watered ink was the medium for transmitting his message, his brush the conduit through which his spirit flowed on to carefully chosen paper. Calligraphy in China ranked on a par with painting and poetry, as hallmarks of a man of accomplishment and discriminating taste. This book takes the reader into the scholar

The Chinese Scholar's Desk

Formasia

Walls within walls, mysteries within mysteries, Peking presented an enigma so compelling that tracellers paused in wonder outside its towering ramparts, and writers from around the world were drawn like pilgrims to the scene of a miraculous occurrence. Here was the quintessence of Orient, the wellspring of its wisdom and culture. Old peking recaptures impression gleaned from visitors of an earlier age.

Old Peking Revisited

Formasia Books Ltd

Mandarin Hotel

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