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'Fascinating....Apart from having accomplished the important task of assembling and analyzing these photographs, Thiriez has a fine eye for the telling detail....This book will be of great interest to virtually all those interested in nineteenth-century China, and in the colonial angle from which these photographs tell so many different stories, as well as those concerned with the history of photography itself.' - Joanna Waly-Cohen, New York University of Arts 'All historians of China now have a major debt to pay to Dr. Thiriez for her masterful study of the world of photography in nineteenth-century China. The book itself is especially fun for anyone who has ever done historical research. In fact, 'the historian as detective' is a major feature of the book, a subject all research historians understand and that few actually reveal in the writings ... Clearly this is a work which has many dimensions and one which a very large number of historians are likely to profit from. I recommend the book highly.' - Steven A. Leibo, Asia Book Review 'Regine Thiriez's level of scholarship is unmatched in this field ... An innovative and worthwhile book that will make significant advances in the study of late imperial China and the encounter between China and the rest of the world.' - John Finlay, Curator of Asian Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York

All historians of China now have a major debt to pay to Dr. Thiriez for her masterful study of the world of photography in nineteenth century China....The book itself is especially fun for anyone who has ever done historical research....In fact, 'the historian as detective' is a major feature of the book, a subject all research historians understand and that few actually reveal in the writings....Clearly this is a work which has many dimensions and one which a very large number of historians are likely to profit from. I recommend the book highly. <br>-Steven A. Leibo, Asia Book Review, January 2000 <br> Fascinating....Apart from having accomplished the important task of assembling and analyzing these photographs, Thiriez has a fine eye for the telling detail....This book will be of great interest to virtually all those interested in nineteenth-century China, and in the colonial angle from which these photographs tell so many different stories, as well as those concerned with the history of photography itself. <br>-Joanna Waley-Cohen, New York University of Arts Asiatiques <br> Regine Thiriez's level of scholarship is unmatched in this field ... an innovative and worthwhile book that will make significant advances in the study of late imperial China and the encounter between China and the rest of the world. <br>-John Finlay of Curator of Asian Art, Brooklyn Museum <br>

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