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Behind the great wall of China : photographs from 1870 to the present

by Cornell Capa, Weston Naef

This collection documents China's social and political transformation from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s through photography. It includes images of early Western travel, the Sino-Japanese conflict, and the emergence of the People's Republic.

Accession 31245 ISBN 0870991205 Publisher Metropolitan Museum of Art
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