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Recent Posts
- Guest blog: Yutong Wang on Policing urban ‘nuisance’: slum clearances in ‘semi-colonial’ Shanghai in the 1930s
- Some that got away
- Guest blog: Alex Thompson on British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China
- Guest blog: Andrew Hillier on Armistice Day and its Aftermath in Treaty Port China
- Guest blog: Kaori Abe on the Abe Naoko Collection –– a glimpse of a Japanese family’s life in Shanghai, c.1927-c.1934
- Guest blog: Ghassan Moazzin on Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China
- Guest blog: Helena Lopes on A connected place: Macau in the Second World War
- Andrew Hillier on Bessie Pirkis: A Renaissance Woman in Peking Part 2
- Guest blog: Rachel Meller on Uncovering the story of Shanghai’s Second World War Jewish refugees
- Andrew Hillier on Bessie Pirkis: A Renaissance Woman in Peking
- Need and opportunity: the new HPC website
- Everything’s changed, but everything’s still the same: HPC update
- Location/Dislocation – Admiral Keppel, the Chinese Buddha at Sandringham and three key photographs
- The Forbidden City at War: Images of the Wartime Evacuation of the Imperial Art Collections
- A name, a photograph, and a history of global connections
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Author Archives: Robert Bickers
Guest blog: Yutong Wang on Policing urban ‘nuisance’: slum clearances in ‘semi-colonial’ Shanghai in the 1930s
This guest post comes from Yutong Wang, a fourth-year PhD Candidate in History at the University of York. Her research focuses on the urban governance of the International Settlement through policing practices of the Shanghai Municipal Police (SMP), illustrating the … Continue reading
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Some that got away
This took me by surprise. I pass the ‘Mind’ shop twice a day as I walk to and from work, but I rarely go in and browse. It’s a charity shop, one of several on this stretch of Cotham Hill, … Continue reading
Posted in Family photography
Tagged Bristol, family albums, photograph albums, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipal Police, shop
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Guest blog: Alex Thompson on British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China
Our latest blog comes from Dr Alex Thompson who studied Chinese at the University of Leeds and in Beijing. He has worked for the British government in China and also as a legal professional in the UK. He obtained his … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs, New books
Tagged British in China, Consular Service, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipal Police, Sikhs
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Everything’s changed, but everything’s still the same: HPC update
You might, from today, spot that Historical Photographs of China looks a little different in places. That’s because it is. Over the last two years our friends in the University of Bristol’s Research IT team have been rebuilding our platform … Continue reading
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HPC: A Change of Pace
It is 15 years since the launch of Historical Photographs of China. In that decade and a half we have copied about 170 mostly privately-held collections of photographs, which has generated just over 62,000 unique images in our databank, and … Continue reading
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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
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
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Tagged 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
Tagged birthday, contributors, HPC, supporters, survey, Update
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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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