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Recent Posts
- 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
- ‘Normal’ Lives Led in Abnormal Conditions
- Charles Frederick Moore’s photographs of the ruins of the European-style palaces (西洋楼) at the Yuanmingyuan (圆明园)
- Pieces of China in Bristol – cataloguing Historical Photographs of China material
Categories
Category Archives: Collections
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
Posted in Collections
Tagged Beijing, Chongqing, diplomacy, refugees, Second World War, Shanghai, Sino-Japanese War, war, women, Wuhan, Xi'an
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A Banker and his Amanuensis
Andrew Hillier draws on the Richard Family Collection in Historical Photographs of China to evoke the moving relationship between Guy Hillier and his young amanuensis, Ella Richard. Andrew’s book, Mediating Empire: An English Family in China, 1817-1927, is published this … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Family photography, Guest blogs
Tagged Beijing, Hillier, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Richard family collection
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The John Gurney Fry Collection: tea, silver and chocolates
Jamie Carstairs, who manages the Historical Photographs of China Project, writes about a collection just added to the HPC site. Last year, an album of 124 photographs was generously donated by Richard Ambrose to the Historical Photographs of China project, care of … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, History of photography in China, New Collections, Photographers
Tagged Foochow, Fry, Fujian, Fuzhou, Lai Fong, tea, Thomson
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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
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Tagged Bund, China Inland Mission, flooding, Hankow, Jardine Matheson, Wuhan
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Charles Frederick Moore (1837-1916), a photographer in China
Jamie Carstairs, who manages the Historical Photographs of China Project, follows up serendipitous events, leading to a rabbit hole, in which a ‘new’ nineteenth century China photographer was found. ‘Mr. C. F. Moore, in the service of the Customs at Ningpo, … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, cross-searching, Digitisation, History of photography in China
Tagged Dudgeon, Heritage, Moore, Ningbo, Royal BC Museum, Watson, Yuanmingyuan, Zhapu
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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, New Collections
Tagged doctor, everyday life, Hong Kong, hospital, labour, medicine
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Weihaiwei and the 1st Chinese Regiment – 2. Peking and After
In the second of his two posts, Dr Andrew Hillier traces the history of the 1st Chinese Regiment, from its performance in the relief of Tianjin to its disbandment six years later. Despite its record at Tianjin, to the dismay … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Guest blogs, Regimental Collections
Tagged army, China Campaigns, memorial, military, regiment, soldier, war, Weihai, Weihaiwei
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Weihaiwei and the 1st Chinese Regiment – 1. Relieving Tianjin
As part of the Regimental Museums Project, Dr Andrew Hillier explores photographs reflecting the short but significant contribution of the 1st Chinese Regiment to Britain’s military presence in China. Raised in 1898 to protect the Royal Navy’s newly-acquired deep-water base … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Guest blogs, Regimental Collections
Tagged army, China Campaigns Project, military, soldier
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Guest blog: Melanie King on Harold Ivan Harding
Our latest guest appearance is from author and historian Melanie King. While researching her latest book, The Lady is a Spy: The Tangled Lives of Stan Harding and Marguerite Harrison she found H.I. Harding, the brother of one of her subjects … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Guest blogs
Tagged Consular Service, horse, Kashgar, Uighur
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