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Title:
Sketches of China and the Chinese:From drawings by Auguste Borget.
Creator:
Borget, Auguste,1808-1877.
Date:
1842
Date in Source:
1842.
Place:
London.
Country:
Great Britain
Imprint:
London : Ackermann and Henry G. Bohn,
Language:
English
Format:
[4], 11 pp. :32 pls.
Reference:
Lust, J. Western books on China, 211
Also issued on microfiche.
Also issued on microfiche.
Note:
Views in the Hong Kong, Macao and Canton areas. The feeling of superiority to the Chinese, so characteristic of accounts from the 1840s, is absent here. The artist observes with a fresh eye.
Brill, 2010. (Western books on China up to 1850 ; HT-648)
Brill, 2010. (Western books on China up to 1850 ; HT-648)
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