Jessica Medhurst

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jessica Medhurst is involved.

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Medhurst, Jessica 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