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- 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
- Guest Blog: The Chile Pepper: Mao’s Little Red Spice
- Trading Places, a photographic journey through China’s former Treaty Ports
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Author Archives: Robert Bickers
About scratching, they were never wrong, the old masters
OK, that’s not what W.H. Auden actually wrote, but while I have been enjoying the selections of photographs made by Tom Larkin for our new Instagram feed — @hpcbristol, go on, follow us — Auden’s poem ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’ … Continue reading
Posted in About us, Hong Kong
Tagged advertising, children, cigarettes, Hong Kong, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, photographers, poster, street
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A round up of recent posts: internment, a church, a shipwreck, three missing Spanish diplomats, Wuhan
This blog has hosted a fair few guest posts recently, and we have been writing our own as well. Just in case you missed them I thought I might recap a little, and flag up the fact that in the … Continue reading
Posted in About us, Family photography, Guest blogs, Heritage
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Happy birthday to us!
It’s our birthday! Fourteen years ago today, Historical Photographs of China welcomed its first and longest-standing employee, Project Manager Jamie Carstairs. A professional photographer, sometime cheerful bookshop assistant (so he told us), TEFL teacher and graduate of the postgraduate Photojournalism … Continue reading
Posted in About us, Digitisation, Update
Tagged birthday, contributors, HPC, supporters, survey
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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 Bund, China Inland Mission, flooding, Hankow, Jardine Matheson, Wuhan
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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 Hankow, Robert Capa, Sino-Japanese War, students, Wuhan
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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 poster, Royal Navy, Sino-Japanese War, Wuhan
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‘Finding Wee Paddy’ … and finding Riflemen Mellon, Howard and Delaney
‘Finding Wee Paddy’ is a new documentary that has its first showing on 21 October at the Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast. It tells the story of the relocation of the grave of Rifleman Patrick McGowan, Royal Ulster Rifles, who was … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Image Annotation
Tagged British Army, cemeteries, Rosholt, Shanghai, Sino-Japanese War
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No Great Wall
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
Posted in Photographs in Books
Tagged Chefoo, Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Maritime Customs Service, harbour, Jinmen, Taiwan, Yantai
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New content: Hedda Morrison, Joseph Needham, Edward Bangs Drew and Claude L. Pickens Jr.
We are pleased to be able to announce today that we have successfully migrated the content from the Visualising China platform into our Historical Photographs of China site. In practical terms this means an almost 50 per cent increase in … Continue reading
Posted in About us, cross-searching, New Collections, Photographers
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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
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Tagged revolution, Wuhan
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