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| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction to photography in China |
| The daguerreotype in China |
| 2 | Jules Itier: China |
| 3 | Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Chinese |
| The Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860) |
| 4 | Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860): Introduction |
| 5 | Felice Beato: Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860) and the Pehtang fort |
| 6 | Felice Beato: Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860) and the taking of the Taku Fort |
| 7 | Felice Beato: Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860) and the march to Bejing |
| 8 | Felice Beato: Prince Kung / Prince Gong Qinwang of China |
| First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) |
| 9 | Ogawa Kazumasa: Album of the Japan-China War - Expedition to Wei-Hai-Wei (1895) |
| The Far East |
| 10 | The Far East (1870-1878) |
| Notable cities and places in China |
| 11 | China: Kwangchow, Canton [Guangzhou] |
| 12 | China: Macao |
| 13 | China: Peking, Pekin [Beijing] |
| 14 | China, Shanghai |
| 15 | China: Great Wall |
| Rural landscapes |
| 16 | Lai Afong: Banker's Glen, Yuen-foo River |
| 17 | Tea plantation in the vicinity of Fuzhou, Fujian, China |
| Pierre Joseph Rossier in China |
| 18 | Pierre Joseph Rossier: China (1859) |
| LG Bros. & Co. |
| 19 | LG Bros. & Co.: [Stereoviews of China] (1860) |
| Thomas Child in China |
| 20 | Thomas Child: China (ca. 1875-1880) |
| John Thomson in China |
| 21 | John Thomson: Views on the North River (1870) |
| 22 | John Thomson: Foochow and the River Min (1870-1871) |
| 23 | John Thomson: Illustrations of China and Its People (1873-1874) |
| 24 | John Thomson: China, cartes de visite (ca 1870) |
| 25 | John Thomson: The Land and People of China |
| 26 | John Thomson: Physic Street, Canton, China |
| 27 | John Thomson: China, a travelling chiropodist |
| William Pryor Floyd |
| 28 | W.P. Floyd: Hong Kong |
| 29 | W.P. Floyd: Macao |
| 30 | W.P. Floyd: Canton |
| Pow Kee |
| 31 | Pow Kee: China: Hankow (now Hankou) |
| Adolf-Nikolay Erazmovich Boiarski |
| 32 | Adolf-Nikolay Erazmovich Boiarski: Russian Scientific-Commercial Expedition to China (1874-1875) |
| The peoples of China |
| 33 | Chinese |
| 34 | Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Portraits from China |
| 35 | Milton Miller: Portraits from China |
| 36 | William Saunders: Studio studies of the occupations of the Chinese |
| 37 | Lai Afong: Portraits |
| Royalty |
| 38 | Xunling: Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908 |
| Documentary |
| 39 | China: Typhoon (September 1874) |
| 40 | Captain Edward Francis Chapman: Photographs of Yarkand and Kashgar (1873-1874) |
| 41 | China: Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901) |
| 42 | Hoshino Tatsuo (ed): Shina Jihen Shashin Zenshu (1937-1940) |
| 43 | Beijing Silvermine, Detention - 17 18 19 (1991-1993) |
| Amateur photographers |
| 44 | Amateur Photographers in China: Sketches by the Rev. R. O'Dowd Ross-Lewin, Chaplain R.N. (7 March 1891) |
| 45 | Introduction to fine art photography and Pictorialism in China |
| 46 | Donald M. Mennie: Pictorialist China |
| Expeditions |
| 47 | Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little Known China (1918) |
| China viewed from the outside |
| 48 | China: As seen by external photographers |
| 49 | Herbert Ponting: China |
| 50 | Henri Cartier-Bresson: Notes de voyage en Chine (1954) |
| 51 | Henri Cartier-Bresson: China |
| Republic of China (1912-1949) |
| 52 | Republic of China (1912-1949) |
| The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) |
| 53 | China and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) |
| 54 | Propaganda in Communist China |
| Contemporary Chinese photography |
| 55 | Zhang Huan: Performance art |
| 56 | Liu Zheng: The Chinese |
| 57 | Chen Jiagang: The Great Third Front |
| 58 | Edward Burtynsky: China |
| 59 | Thomas Sauvin and photographic waste in China - The Beijing Silvermine project |
