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The History of China Lost in the West: the Late Qing Dynasty 1842-1873 Recorded in the "Illustrated London News" Shen HongHistorical386k WordsCompleted The British "Illustrated London News", founded in 1842, was the world's first weekly magazine with pictures as its main content. He used delicate and vivid dense-line woodcuts and lithographs to reproduce major events around the world as fast as the technical conditions of that era could achieve. The Pictorial paid close attention to the Chinese Empire from the beginning and sent a large number of painters and reporters. From 1857 to 1901 alone, it sent back thousands of sketches and hundreds of 46Reads9.2Score—Shelves