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The Chinese Empire Illustrated
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Item Code : BKS15
Artist / Cartographer : NA
Size: 275x220
Price: S$ 39.00
In 1843, two years after the first Opium War, G.H. Wright, a Protestant missionary who
had lived and worked in China, and H.J. Allom, a draughtsman and architect, produced a
monumental work, illustrating in pictures and words, the life, scenery, architecture and
habits of 19th century China. Running to four volumes, this represented the most
extensive view of the Middle Kingdom published to that date for the English reading
public of the outside world. In this volume, sixty of the finest and most representative of
the original 143 plates have been selected, along with the accompanying text, abridged
and adapted as necessary for modern reading, providing glimpses of many of the social
customs and habits, the architecture and countryside of 19th century China. The
illustrations convey with astonishing accuracy and eye for detail, the splendours, charm
and incongruities of traditional China's fabulous civilization as it appeared to pioneer
Western eyes in the fist half of that century. Wright's narrative is full of penetrating
insights and information which even today commands attention and enhances the
elegance of Allom's drawings. 125pages 275x220mm Hardcover
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