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An Aperture Book, Millerton, New York - ISBN:0893810290, 1978. landscape hardcover, 11" x 9½", with dust jacket. Jacket protected by transparent protective covering. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped dust jacket. Here is the most significant and comprehensive collection of early photographs of China, its land, people and culture. As the West expanded, and as domestic turmoil loosened the Manchu's hold on the Mandate of Heaven, a collision of perceptions was inevitable. In the 1860s, when the earliest photographs in this volume were made, the vestiges of a civilization which had taken for granted its superiority for generations could be seen and experienced. Over 100 b&w photos by largely unsung photographers.