Tag Archives: Chefoo

Ian Gill on photographs and family history

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Guest

While reading journalist Ian Gill’s articles in the South China Morning Post on his search into the history of his China coast family, we were struck by the place of photographs in that story and invited him to tell us … Continue reading →

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No Great Wall

Posted on July 7, 2017 by Robert Bickers

The latest book to use one of our photographs on its cover has just arrived in the post. Felix Boecking teaches modern Chinese economic and political history at the University of Edinburgh, and his volume, which grew out of the … Continue reading →

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Spotted: James Hudson Taylor

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Robert Bickers

A correspondent recently wrote to us, correcting a date and identifying in a photograph  two of the China missionary enterprise’s most notable figures. This photograph, above, showing staff and pupils of the Chefoo Girls School includes, we now know, James Hudson … Continue reading →

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Photographs of photographers: Maude Carrall

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

The ‘Blossoms’ looks like an orchard of either apple or cherry trees, which was probably in, or close to, Chefoo (Yantai).  It must have been a favourite springtime picnic spot for the Carrall family, as their photograph albums hold several … Continue reading →

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