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Images of the Canton Factories 1760-1822: Reading History in Art by Paul A. Van Dyke and Maria Kar-Wing Mok.Illustrated hardback book.Hong Kong University Press, 2015.Pages: 125 + intro.Condition: Light shelf wear - like new.*Hundreds of Chinese export paintings of Canton trading houses and shopping streets are in museums and private collections throughout the world, and scholars of art and history have often questioned the reliability of these historical paintings. In this illustrated volume, Paul Van Dyke and Maria Mok examine these Chinese export paintings by matching the changes in the images with new historical data collected from various archives. Many factory paintings are reliable historical records in their own right and can be dated to a single year. Dating images with such precision was not possible in the past owing to insufficient information on the scenes. The new findings in this volume provide unprecedented opportunities to re-date many art works and prove that images