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- Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collection – part three
- Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collections – part two
- Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collections – part one
- Guest blog: Visualising china in China: life, labour and loss
- About scratching, they were never wrong, the old masters
- Guest blog: Sarah Yu on China’s war against the fly
- A round up of recent posts: internment, a church, a shipwreck, three missing Spanish diplomats, Wuhan
- ‘A Miniature World’: Photographs and Memories of Internment in China
- Guest post: Spaniards in the treaty ports: Archivo China-España and Juan Mencarini
- Guest blog: A ‘Magic Weapon’ on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier
- New Perspective: Trinity Church and Treaty Port-Era Shanghai
- The joys of everyday life on the China Coast
- The sinking of the Chusan
- Guest blog: It’s the End of the World as They Knew It
- Gina Tam on Dialect and Nationalism in China, and a grave in Amoy
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Author Archives: Helena F. S. Lopes
Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collection – part three
Dr. Helena F. S. Lopes is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Department of History, University of Bristol. This posting is the final part of a three-part series on the ruins of Macau. You can read part one … Continue reading
Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collections – part two
Dr. Helena F. S. Lopes is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Department of History, University of Bristol. This posting is part two of three-part series on the ruins of Macau. Part one can be read here. In … Continue reading
Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collections – part one
Dr. Helena F. S. Lopes is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Department of History, University of Bristol. This posting is part one of three-part series on the ruins of Macau. The South China territory of Macau (澳門) … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Heritage, Photographers
Tagged church, Macao, Macau, ruin, 澳門
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The joys of everyday life on the China Coast
The F. Hagger collection encompasses some 260 photographs of China in the early 1930s, as well as many of Japan, Singapore, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), North Borneo, Manila, India, Egypt, and others which are not on the Historical Photographs of China … Continue reading
A Chan (Ya Zhen) in Guangzhou
This nice view of a commercial street in Guangzhou (Canton), that has been on the Historical Photographs of China website for a while, has been identified as the work of A Chan (雅真 Ya Zhen), an early Chinese photographer who … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged A Chan, Canton, Guangzhou, photographer, Ya Zhen
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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
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Tagged Beijing, Chongqing, diplomacy, refugees, Second World War, Shanghai, Sino-Japanese War, war, women, Wuhan, Xi'an
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Statue and symbol: Queen Victoria in Hong Kong
Dr Helena F. S. Lopes is 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. Wikipedia’s ‘List … Continue reading
Posted in Heritage, Hong Kong
Tagged Hong Kong history, memorial, Queen Victoria, Sino-Japanese War, statue
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Work and movement in the Hong Kong photographs of Dr Eleanor Whitworth Mitchell
Dr Helena F. S. Lopes is 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. Dr Eleanor … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Guest blogs, Hong Kong, New Collections
Tagged doctor, everyday life, Hong Kong, hospital, labour, medicine
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