IMPERIAL CHINA PHOTOGRAPHS 1850-1912
by CLARK WORSWICK and JONATHAN SPENCE; FOREWARD HARRISON SALISBURY
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
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UNITED STATES: PENNWICK, 1978 BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH EXCELLENT PHOTOGRAPHY OF IMPERIAL CHINA, 1850-1912. PROTECTIVE COVER IS LIGHTLY WORN. PICTURE OF MANDARIN AND HIS WIFE. RED COVER WITH CHINESE WRITING ON FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. SECTIONS INCLUDE FOREWARD, IMPERIAL CHINA: A CHINESE VIEW, PHOTOGRAPHS, PHOTOGRAPHY IN IMPERIAL CHINA, INDEX OF COMMERCIAL AND AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS IN CHINA 1846-1912 AND SOURCES. VERY INTERESTING PHOTOS AND DETAIL. FOR THE LOVER OF HISTORY AND CHINA. WORSWICK WAS A PHOTO HISTORIAN WHO WAS A GUEST CURATOR IN CHINA AND JAPAN. Jonathan Dermot Spence CMG (11 August 1936 – 25 December 2021) was an English-born American historian, sinologist, and writer who specialized in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His most widely read book is The Search for Modern China, a survey of the last several hundred years of Chinese history based on his popular course at Yale. Harrison Evans Salisbury (November 14, 1908 – July 5, 1993), was an American journalist and the first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War II. Salisbury was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He graduated from Minneapolis North High School in 1925 and the University of Minnesota in 1930. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.
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- Bookseller
- Antique Books Den (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001992
- Title
- IMPERIAL CHINA PHOTOGRAPHS 1850-1912
- Author
- CLARK WORSWICK and JONATHAN SPENCE; FOREWARD HARRISON SALISBURY
- Illustrator
- ILLUSTRATED, PHOTOGRAPHS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- PENNWICK
- Place of Publication
- UNITED STATES
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- CHINA, IMPERIAL, PHOTOGRAPHS
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Miscellaneous; Travel and Exploration;
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