Tag Archives: Wuhan

Visualising China in a global war

Dr Helena F. S. Lopes is currently a Senior Research Associate in the History of Hong Kong and a Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at the University of Bristol. She holds a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford. … Continue reading

Posted in Collections | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Visualising China in a global war

Chris Courtney on Wuhan in the Time of Cholera

Our new blog is from Chris Courtney, Assistant Professor of Chinese History at the University of Durham. His research focusses on the city of Wuhan and its rural hinterland. He is the author of The Nature of Disaster in China: The … Continue reading

Posted in Guest blogs | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Chris Courtney on Wuhan in the Time of Cholera

Wuhan’s Yellow Crane Tower: Resistance and Resilience

Our latest blog comes from Dr Yang Chan, Shanghai Jiaotong University. A graduate of Hunan University, Dr Yang was awarded her PhD at the University of Bristol in 2014, and then worked at Wuhan University, before moving in 2017 to … Continue reading

Posted in Guest blogs | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Wuhan’s Yellow Crane Tower: Resistance and Resilience

Wuhan photographed

Over the past month Wuhan has been much-discussed, but its history is still largely misunderstood. I wrote about its long and intimate relationship with world markets in this blog post. It was of course, like most of the Chinese treaty … Continue reading

Posted in Collections | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Wuhan photographed

Reversing Robert Capa’s gaze: Wuhan, 1938

Ooo, look: our eagle-eyed Project Manager Jamie Carstairs spotted this wonderful photograph taken in 1938 by Robert Capa in Hankou (Wuhan) and recently published in MAGNUM China (Colin Pantall and Zheng Ziyu, eds, Thames & Hudson, 2018): This is one of … Continue reading

Posted in History of photography in China, Photographers | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Reversing Robert Capa’s gaze: Wuhan, 1938

Defend Wuhan!

We spotted this on Ebay, and bought it along with a small group of prints evidently taken in Wuhan during the Sino-Japanese war. They came from an album of prints that was being sold, page by page. A little research … Continue reading

Posted in Collections, Family photography | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on Defend Wuhan!

New collection: Wuhan in revolution in 1911

Today we have released online a new collection of 184 photographs, the vast majority documenting events during the 1911 Xinhai Revolution in Wuhan. The album of photographs was shared with us by the family of former British consular official Stanley Wyatt-Smith … Continue reading

Posted in New Collections | Tagged , | Comments Off on New collection: Wuhan in revolution in 1911

Best seasonal wishes from the HPC team

It’s been another very busy year at the Historical Photographs of China (HPC) project. Here’s news of some of our achievements. The Chinese Year of the Horse kicked off with a new exhibition at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery in … Continue reading

Posted in Digitisation, Exhibition, Visualisation | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Best seasonal wishes from the HPC team

Smiles and coracles, 1938

This snapshot of (I think) some boatside begging, was taken or acquired by Edgar Taylor, who served in the British Royal Navy, and was possibly taken at Hankow (Hankou, Wuhan) on the Yangzi. We do not know much about the … Continue reading

Posted in Digitisation, Elsewhere on the net, Photograph of the day | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Smiles and coracles, 1938