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ith these François created the first photographic record of daily life in what was one of China's most backward regions. Captured for posterity are the contrasts of a near-feudal system: the governor in all his finery, wealthy women with bound feet, beggars in rags, criminals in mobile stocks, coolies, foot soldiers and pottery menders.

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