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See also China. Photography appeared in China soon after the new technology was publicly announced in 1839 and was quickly taken up by local practitioners, starting in the southern ports of Hong Kong and Guangzhou and working north. The first extant images are daguerreotypes taken in 1844 by Jules Itier (1802–1877), who photographed French and Chinese officials gathered to sign a trade treaty after the First Opium War (1839–1842). The medium was introduced by foreign military and trade personnel, missionaries, and travelers, and rapidly adapted to Chinese commercial, political, and artistic purposes. The earliest known photographs of a military campaign in China are by Felice A. Beato (see fig.), a commercial photographer who accompanied British forces in the aftermath of the Second Opium War (1856–1860). The first commercial views were the stereographs taken by Pierre Joseph Rossier (c. 1829–1897) and published in ...