Among the celestials
type: CreativeWork
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Travel
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: China--Description and travel
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: China--Pictorial works
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Photographie
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126550
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320127807
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128373
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320132609
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330134301
abstract: The flourishing of photography as a medium in the mid-19th century coincided with a rise in curiosity about China on the part of the Western world. As the number of foreigners living and traveling in China increased, early photographs of China were taken by and for an international audience. Among the Celestials assembles 250 fascinating images of China in the second half of the 19th century and first half of the 20th, captured by the Western camera lens. The photographs portray the gritty side of the country as well as stunning views of palaces, temples, harbors, and gardens. This juxtaposition of the sordid and the serene provides a multidimensional picture of China's physical and social landscape before Mao Zedong's ascent to power changed the country forever. The photographs, many published here for the first time, are both beautiful and moving, and together offer a new understanding of a social and cultural history associated with a time of significant historical change.
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310157530
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310171190
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/3109719
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: China through the lens / Régine Thiriez -- Imperial twilight -- Republican dawn.
temporal coverage: 1865-1950
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301245764

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value: 245764