Jessica Medhurst
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jessica Medhurst plays a role.
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2023 Chapter 2. Photographing Chinese childhood: Writing and picturing (1873–1903) Photography in Children's Literature, Druker, Elina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.), pp. 43–66 | Chapter
Photography was brought to China from Europe in the 1840s, whereby the narratives these pictures told about the country were largely framed in pseudo-colonial terms. Although Western photographers – including Isabella Bird, Jules Itier, James Ricalton and John Thomson – consistently… read more