This chapter evaluates the role of photography in witnessing the modernising process in China during the late Qing period and conflicts which stemmed from it. The camera, introduced in China during the First Opium War (1839–1842), allowed Western eyes to record the establishment of trade routes and associated facilities. The photos examined here were taken immediately before and during the Russo-Japanese War. The photographs appear to have been focusing on technological developments in trade infrastructure, but they also captured the conspicuous Japanese and Russian military presence. Consequently, the photographs reveal the Western role in the “development” of China by its incorporation into global trading networks and violent conflicts fought over control of this infrastructure.
Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom - ORCID: 0000-0003-3948-3612
Titolo del capitolo
Captured Glimpses of Modernity and War in Late Qing China
Autori
Aglaia De Angeli
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0242-8.11
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
East and West Entangled (17th-21st Centuries)
Curatori
Rolando Minuti, Giovanni Tarantino
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
228
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
Copyright
© 2023 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0242-8
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0241-1
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0242-8
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0243-5
Collana
Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History
ISSN della collana
2975-0393
e-ISSN della collana
2975-0261