The China magazine, : a weekly miscellany, illustrated with photographs, conducted by C. Langdon Davies..
Langdon-Davies, Charles.
Thomson, J.(John),1837-1921,photographer.
Hongkong : Printed and published at the China Magazine Office ; London : W. Allan,
1868-1870.
"A monthly miscellany, illustrated with photographs."
"Conducted by C. Langdon Davies."
Description based on: Christmas vol. 1868.
The China Magazine was presumably the first publication of any kind in the Far East to incorporate pasted-in photographs. The magazine featured the photographs of John Thompson (1837-1921). Thomson was one of the first photographers to travel to the Far East, documenting the people, landscapes and artefacts of Eastern cultures and later laid the groundwork for photojournalism. Thomson travelled to Singapore in July 1867, before moving to Saigon for three months and then settling in Hong Kong in 1868. He established a studio in the Commercial Bank Building, in which most of the present photographs were processed.
Title page and each plate backed with thin red paper.
Vol. 1-4 also called whole no.   -27.
China Hong Kong.