Today, , a French-Hungarian photographer is rather known as an excellent whose atelier was also an important meeting point for artists in interwar Paris. In my paper I would like to focus on a less known part of her carreer, namely on her travel to China in 1954. In t e ouverte’ , prefaced by fast and the mingling of times. Western can n her Into what kind of society the book provides a glimpse? Ergy Landau, photobook, photohistory, views of China, travel and photography, travelogue, 1950s