End of Empire

Between April 1910 and March 1911, photographers Morgan Philips Price and Douglas Carruthers travelled through Siberia, Mongolia, Western China, Russian Turkestan and Armenia.

Their expedition coincided with the collapse, after almost 300 years, of the Chinese Manchu Empire’s rule over Mongolia, giving the members of the expedition a unique and timely insight into a political landscape and society that was about to change forever.

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June 2007

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End of Empire

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