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Interest in European perspective techniques spread to Suzhou in eastern China, a centre for the production of woodblock prints to celebrate New Year. Images such as this, of Suzhou’s Wan-Nian Qiao Bridge, were widely seen and brought western pictorial conventions to a large and varied audience. These perspective prints were made to be viewed through an optical device such as a peepbox incorporating a mirror. For this reason, the prints like this are printed in reverse and the inscriptions appear in back front. When a viewer looks at it through a mignifying lens of the peepbox, he or she will see the image in the right direction. 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