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Category Archives: cross-searching
Entrance to the Huihuiying Mosque, Peking
To mark the Islamic New Year, here is part of a rare photograph of the entrance to the Huihuiying Mosque [回回营清真寺遗存], in Donganfu Hutong, near Beihai Park, Beijing, taken about 1870. The image shown above, is a cropped version to … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Beijing, Bowra, Islam, Muslim, religion, road
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The Great Wall of China at Badaling
One of the world’s most famous structures, the Great Wall of China has been much photographed. Surprisingly though for such a massive and extensive landmark, many visitors, including John Thomson in 1871, photographed the same section – around Badaling. Here … Continue reading
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Tagged Archives, Badaling, defence, landmark, mountains, National, photography, Swire, wall
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A game of two halves
Football can also bring photograph collections together. In 2008, an enigmatic album of photos collected by Harold Edwards Peck, a policeman in the Shanghai Municipal Police, was lent to the Historical Photographs of China project and digitised. Two years later, … Continue reading
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Tagged ball, coincidence, colleague, football, leisure, Municipal, Peck, Police, score, serendipity, Shanghai, SMP, soccer, Sullivan
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Festival floats in procession, Szemao, Yunnan Province, c.1896-1902
Frederic William Carey served in the Chinese Maritime Customs, from 1891 to 1928. When stationed at Szemao in the province of Yunnan around the turn of the century, he studied the area and the multivarious tribes peoples, becoming an authority. … Continue reading
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Tagged Carey, celebration, ceremony, clothing, costume, crowd, ethnic, ethnology, fan, festival, hat, ornament, parasol, procession, Simao, umbrella
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Egg and spoon race, Chefoo, Easter 1902
If some things Chinese were puzzling to foreigners, some things European may have seemed most odd to the Chinese. How to explain the why and wherefore of an egg and spoon race? In the Commissioner of Customs’s garden at ‘Hillfields’, … Continue reading
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Tagged amah, Carrall, children, Easter, egg, garden, Hillside, spoon, Yantai
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Plans to Cross Search Related Content
We held another very productive Steering Committee meeting last month with Malcolm Raggett joining us from SOAS. Malcolm gave really useful input drawn from SOAS experiences in offering content collections online and issues such as problems with the scalability of … Continue reading