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Tag Archives: Hankow
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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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 beggars, boats, Hankow, ships, Wuhan
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