WANAVERBECQ, A-L, Felice Beato en Chine Photographier la guerre en 1860, Parijs 2005. Softcover 22 x 26 cm.[oblong] 129 pag. met ca. 80 foto's.  

MOSER, M. & MOSER ,Y., Foreigners within The Gates, Chicago 2006. Hardcover 23 x 28 cm. 240 pag. met 150 zwart-wit foto's.

"Only a stone's throw away from the Imperial Palace, the Legation Quarter of Peking stood for more than half a century as 'a city apart' . Surrounded by thick walls, with entry to Chinese forbidden, the Quarter housed several hundred foreigners who lived in a miniature Europe in the heart of the Chinese capital. The Quarter boasted well-built embassies and fancy clubs which mimicked the latest European styles, maintained its own local government and postal service, and was serviced by a surprisingly large collection of banks and commercial establishments. A painful symbol of China's humiliation at the hands of western 'barbarians', the Legation Quarter was repossessed by the Chinese Government after 1949 and all foreigners were evicted. Little remains of the old Quarter today. Foreigners within the Gates reconstructs the story of the Peking Legation Quarter -- the 'little Europe' placed arrogantly in the heart of the Imperial capital -- tracing the Quarter's origins in the 18th century treaties of Tianjin and Peking, through the perilous Siege during the Boxer Rebellion of summer 1900, the rebuilding of the Quarter following th Boxer Settlement, the Japanese occupation of the 1930's, and finally the disappearance of the Quarter following the communist 'liberation'. The book's collection of rare photographs, numerous maps and lively prose provide a dramatic picture of one of the most fascinating encounters between China and the outside world -- inside the capital of the Middle Kingdom itself."

LIU HEUNG SHING(ed.) with contributions by: ESTHERIC, J. & HUANG,M.K.W. & ZHANG HAIPENG, From the Opium War to the Warlord Era, Beijing 2011. ISBN 978-7-5135-1327-2. Hard cover in carton box 25 x 33,5 cm. 414 pag. with around 900 photographs.Text English.

DOU KUN & HELEN LO, G.E.Morrison's journey in North West China in 1910, Beijing 2008. Slipcase with 2 softcover volumes, 21 x 28,5 cm. Vol.I: 186 pag. Vol.II: 146 pag. full black and white photographs.

BENNETT, T, History of Photography in China: Western Photographers 1861-1879, Londen 2010. Hard cover 23,5 x 24 cm. 420 pag. with ca.400 black and white photo's. Volume II of a three volume series.

CONTENT:

History of Photography in China: Western Photographers 1861-1879 is the most extensive general survey, in any language, of Western photographers who began working in China in the 1860s and 1870s. Over eighty different photographers are discussed - from well-known professionals to little-known amateurs - with a mass of biographical information, much previously unpublished. The book is divided into chapters on:

Documentary appendices list the published work of various photographers and print extensive extracts from contemporary reviews and other writings. The book concludes with a bibliography, general and regional chronologies, and a biographical index.

BENNETT,T., History of photography in China 1842-1860, Londen 2009. Hardcover 230 x 238 mm , 242 pages, over 150 illustrations; cloth-bound with pictorial dust-jacket.

CONTENT:

The first comprehensive history of the earliest years of photography in China , combining previously unpublished research with over 150 photographs, many of which are attributed and published here for the first time. Terry Bennett describes the way in which the discovery of photography in China was framed against the tumultuous backdrop of the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion and the opening of numerous treaty ports to foreign trade. From 1842, when the use of a camera was first recorded in China , foreign and Chinese photographers captured the people, places and events of this unsettled period. They were professional portraitists, soldiers and pioneering amateurs, among them: Jules Itier; Pierre Rossier; Lo Yuanyou (the earliest-recorded Chinese commercial photographer); Felix Beato; and Milton Miller. The text includes extensive documentary notes, valuable listings of early stereo-views of China and biographies of more than forty photographers working in China up to 1860. It also introduces important new detail on the life of Felix Beato."

Main chapters:

Introduction

The First Images

The First Studios

Itinerant Photographers

First Shanghai Studios

Passing Through

Commercial Images

Second Opium War: Introduction

Second Opium War: French Photographers

Second Opium War: British Photographers

Diplomats as Photographers

Images of War

Studio Activity in Hong Kong

Images de Pékin. L'illusion de la permanence, Parijs 2001. Boekje met enkele foto's met kleurenbril om stereodiepte krijgen. Tekst Frans. Booklet with some photographs plus special spectacles to view stereo-photographs.

BEAUSOLEIL, J., Images de Pékin. L'illusion de la permanence, Parijs 2001. Softcover, 20 x 25 cm., 126 pag. met ca 100 foto's uit 1912 waarvan sommige in kleur.Franse tekst, foto's met Chinese ondertitels. French text with Chinese subtitling, ca. 100 photographs taken around 1912. 

Ji Nian Xin Hai Ge Ming Qi Shi Zhou Nian[free translation: remembering the 70th birthday of the revolution of 1911], Hong Kong 1981. Hard cover 23 x 28 cm. 70 pag. with around 100 black-and-white photo's. Text only Chinese.

THOMSON,J., L'empire de Chine Premier voyages, premières voyages (1868-1874), Parijs 1990. Hardcover 22 x 29 cm. 142 pag. met ca 150 zwart-wit foto's. Franse tekst bij een selectie van foto's uit "Illustrations of China and it's people".

CONTENT:

French text, a selection of photo's from Thomson's "Illustrations of China and its people".

The newly invented medium of photography played an important role in creating and disseminating an image of the East. To armchair travellers at home, photographs provided an wonderful way of viewing far away places such as China. The most famous photographer was John Thompson, who produced his monumental "Illustrations of China and Its People" in 1873.

'China Thompson' was one of the names used for John Thompson, born in Edinburgh who was one of the first photographers to travel extensively in China, taking some superb images of the people and landscape. He also covered most of the other countries of the Far East, before returning to live in London."

Main topics:

bibliographie