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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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Tag Archives: Shanghai
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
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Tagged cenotaph, Consular Service, diplomat, First World War, May Fourth Movement, memorial, Shanghai
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Guest blog: Kaori Abe on the Abe Naoko Collection –– a glimpse of a Japanese family’s life in Shanghai, c.1927-c.1934
Kaori Abe, who has written the post below, is a historian specialising in the history of Hong Kong and port cities in East Asia. The author of Chinese Middlemen in Hong Kong’s Colonial Economy, 1830-1890 (Routledge, 2017), she has worked in … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Family photography, Guest blogs
Tagged family albums, family history, International Settlement, Japanese, Shanghai, Sino-Japanese War
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Guest blog: Rachel Meller on Uncovering the story of Shanghai’s Second World War Jewish refugees
In this post, author Rachel Meller introduces her newly published book, and discusses some of the documents and photographs that prompted it. These formed a small collection but, like many that HPC has seen, a complex story was waiting to … Continue reading
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Tagged Jewish, refugees, Second World War, Shanghai
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A name, a photograph, and a history of global connections
Dr Helena F. S. Lopes is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Department of History, University of Bristol The Portuguese were one of the largest communities in Shanghai from the 1840s until the early 1950s. Although many had … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Guest blogs
Tagged cinema, Portuguese, Shanghai
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Shanghai City Wall and Gates
Katya Knyazeva, from Novosibirsk, Russia, is a historian and a journalist whose work focuses on urban form, heritage preservation and the Russian diaspora in Shanghai. She is the author of the two-volume history and photographic atlas Shanghai Old Town – … Continue reading
Guest post: Spaniards in the treaty ports: Archivo China-España and Juan Mencarini
Our latest post comes from Xavier Ortells-Nicolau, an adjunct professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona. His recent work has focused on images of China in late nineteenth and early twentieth century … Continue reading
Posted in cross-searching, Guest blogs, History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged Chinese Maritime Customs Service, Fuzhou, mandarin, Mencarini, Shanghai, Spanish
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New Perspective: Trinity Church and Treaty Port-Era Shanghai
Cole Roskam is an Associate Professor of Architectural History in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. The author of Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937 (University of Washington Press, 2019), his research explores architecture’s role … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs
Tagged architecture, Cathedral, church, Heritage, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Kidner, Scott, Shanghai
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Guest blog: It’s the End of the World as They Knew It
James Carter is the author of the forthcoming Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai (W.W. Norton), which uses the events of 12 November 1941 at the Shanghai Race Club to tell the story of China on the eve of World … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs
Tagged horse, Pearl Harbor, racing, Second World War, Shanghai, Shanghai Race Club, Sino-Japanese War
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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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‘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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