Of battle and beauty : Felice Beato's photographs of China / David Harris.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-182) and index.

Foreword / Karen Sinsheimer -- Beyond Beato's Lens: Historical Background to the Events of 1860 / Lyman P. Van Slyke -- Imperial Ideology and Felice Beato's Photographs of the Second Opium War in China / David Harris -- Catalogue of the Album -- App. A. Supplemental Catalogue -- App. B. Facsimile of Hering's Subscription List

"The images in 'Of battle and beauty, Felice Beato's photographs of China', taken in 1860 during the Second Opium War when the photographer accompanied Anglo-French forces into China, are among the earliest known and the first taken during an actual military campaign."--Foreword.