Research Catalog

Title

Sheying : shades of China, 1850-1900 / [edited by] Clark Worswick.

Publication

[Madrid] : Turner ; New York, NY : Distributed in the United States and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Worswick, Clark.
• Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.

Description

171 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Summary

The Quing Dynasty, which spanned three centuries, from 1644 to 1911, was the last ruling dynasty of China. Before the collapse of the empire ended 2,000 years of Imperialism and ushered in a time of political and economic strife, artists and artisans turned out rich paintings, porcelain plates, vases and photographs--the last having arrived in the country in the 1840s. This publication presents a key selection of photographs of the Southern Chinese coast taken by both Chinese and European photographers. It touches on the cultural exchange between the Chinese and those Western photographers who began to explore the country, like Milton M. Miller, William Saunders and John Thomson. Miller, during a short period in the 1860s, set up a photo studio in Hong Kong and introduced portraiture in the formal Western style of the time to the Chinese upper-middle classes.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Photography > China > History > 19th century > Pictorial works
• Manners and customs
• Photography
• Fotografi > Kina > 1800-talet
• Fotokonst > Kina > 1800-talet
• China > Social life and customs > 19th century > Pictorial works
• China > History > 19th century > Pictorial works
• China
• Kina > 1800-talet > bildverk
• Kina > reseskildringar > 1800-talet

Genre/Form

• History.
• Pictorial works.

Note

• Includes text excerpted from "Illustrations of China and its people, a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented," by John Thomson (4 volumes, Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, London, 1873).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 167).

Contents

Photography in Imperial China / Clark Worswick -- The travels of a Victorian photographer / María Santoyo -- Illustrations of China and its people. Hong-Kong ; Hong-Kong Harbour ; The clock tower ; Kwan-yin Temple ; Hong-Kong sedan chairs ; Music ; Theatre ; Opium-smoking ; Canton ; The Temple of Five Hundred Genii ; The floating population ; Canton junks ; Boat girls ; The tea trade ; Cantonese gentlemen ; The literary examinations ; Commercial streets ; Wedding traditions ; Justice and punishment ; Funerary traditions ; A pagoda in Southern China ; Golden lily feet ; Shanghai ; Shanghai wheelbarrows ; The viceroy Li-Hung-Chang ; Peking and its observatory ; The Temple of Heaven ; Buddhist monks ; The Great Wall of China.

ISBN

• 9788475068046
• 8475068049

OCLC

• ocn212816697
• 212816697
• SCSB-1471977

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library