Time Exposures

Time Exposures explores how historical photographs created by and of Chinese Catholic communities illuminate the vicissitudes of China’s transition from empire to modern nation. Relying on an expansive worldwide network of Catholic photographic archives, this book examines largely unseen and unpublished images related to Catholicism in China. These images, made from the 1870s through the 1990s, were central to visual practices and afterlives that represent, recover, and re-envision diverse Chinese experiences. This volume provides insight into the lives of women and men behind and in front of the camera who were important documentarians of China’s local and national changes over time, shaping ways of seeing and belonging to the country’s many cultural evolutions.

Joseph W. Ho is a center associate at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and academic program manager of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Michigan.

Anthony E. Clark is professor of Chinese history and Edward B. Lindaman Endowed Chair at Whitworth University.