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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
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Guest blog: Andrew Hillier on Armistice Day and its Aftermath in Treaty Port China
As we approach the 105th anniversary of Armistice Day, Andrew Hillier considers the significance of the ceremony in treaty port China and for Chinese people today. Held at the Cenotaph in Victoria Park, Tianjin (Tientsin), the Armistice Day parade was … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged cenotaph, Consular Service, diplomat, First World War, May Fourth Movement, memorial, Shanghai
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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
Tagged Heritage, Hong Kong, Hong Kong history, memorial, Queen Victoria, Sino-Japanese War, statue
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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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Location Location Location
As we digitise more material, more connections are elicited. For example, a photograph (BL04-71) in the recently copied Love collection was captioned in the album ‘Great War Memorial Wei-Hai-Wei’. Seeing this photograph brought to mind a photograph in the Ruxton … Continue reading
Posted in cross-searching, Image Annotation
Tagged location, memorial, Update, war, Weihaiwei
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Piazza Regina Elina, Italian Concession, Tientsin
Between 1860 and 1945, the Chinese port city of Tientsin (Tianjin) was the site of up to nine foreign-controlled concessions, as well as, temporarily, a multi-national military government (1900-02), and a series of evolving municipal administrations. This photograph (Gr01-100) on … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day
Tagged architecture, concrete, design, Grove, memorial, parking, Tianjin, villa;fountain
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