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AMES 415K: Interethnic Intimacies: Sidney Gamble

Research guide for Dr. Aimee Kwon's Duke Kunshan course, spring 2016

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Sidney Gamble Photographs: 1917-1932, nearly 5000 images of China, Korea, Japan, Hawaii, San Francisco, and Russia.

Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), an avid amateur photographer, first went to China with his family in 1908.  He returned three more times between 1917 and 1932 and continued photographing the daily life of Chinese citizens.  A sociologist and renowned China scholar, he traveled throughout the country to collect data for social-economic surveys and to photograph urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside.

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