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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
Introducing the Malcolm Rosholt Collection
Today we are able to unveil a significant new addition to our collections that is now available for viewing: the photographs of Malcolm Rosholt. Born in Wisconsin in 1907, Malcolm Rosholt arrived in China in 1931 with the intention of … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Photographers
Tagged camp, children, China Press, Huangpu, journalism, Pudong, river, Shanghai, war
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Andrew Hillier reflects on Three Brothers in China: Visualising Family in Empire
Having just completed his PhD at Bristol, ‘Three Brothers in China: A Study of Family in Empire’, Andrew Hillier is now working on developing it into a book. On 12 May 1846, Eliza Medhurst set off by boat from her family … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Family photography, Guest blogs, Photograph of the day
Tagged Beijing, cemeteries, Chinese Maritime Customs Service, Consular Service, family history, Hillier, Hongkong Shanghai Bank, Shanghai
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Talk: A Day at the Races: Shanghai, 1941
Please join us for Professor James Carter’s discussion of photograph and its uses in studying modern Chinese history. Professor Carter will provide the keynote address of our postgraduate workshop, ‘Snapshots in Time: Photography and History in Modern China’, which is … Continue reading
‘So this is fame’! Margot Fonteyn in China
Today sees the unveiling by the blog’s colleague Ronald Hutton of an English Heritage Blue Plaque at the flat in London’s Covent Garden where Margot Fonteyn lived when Prima Ballerina of Sadler’s Wells Ballet. The blog knows her better as Peggy Hookham, … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day
Tagged dance, Heritage, Shanghai, Tianjin
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Another Prince on the Bund, 1926
This is Prince George, great-grand uncle of the Duke of Cambridge, who is currently visiting Shanghai. The date is 3 June 1926: Empire Day. The Prince is just about to inspect a parade in the extensive grounds of the old British Consulate-General at … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibition, Photograph of the day
Tagged Empire day, royal visit, Shanghai
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A Prince on the Bund
The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, has arrived in Shanghai to open the ‘GREAT Festival of Creativity‘ being held at the Long Museum from 2-4 March. It was a century and a quarter ago, on 8 April 1890, that an English Prince … Continue reading
January's face
Happy new year! The project’s pleased that the Arts & Humanities Research Council has used one of its photographs, taken by Shanghai-born Jack Ephgrave, as the first image in its desktop calendar for 2015. This photograph of a woman’s face … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Exhibition, New Collections, Photographers
Tagged AHRC, BAT, Ephgrave, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipal Police
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Best seasonal wishes from the HPC team
It’s been another very busy year at the Historical Photographs of China (HPC) project. Here’s news of some of our achievements. The Chinese Year of the Horse kicked off with a new exhibition at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery in … Continue reading
Posted in Digitisation, Exhibition, Visualisation
Tagged 2015, ambassador, Birmingham, BRLSI, DVD, exhibition, film, Guangzhou, Hart, IMCS, Shanghai, Update, Wuhan
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Paul French on The Metropole Hotel, Shanghai
Friend of the blog, author Paul French, ruminates on the Metropole Hotel, which the ‘Historical Photographs of China’ knows well. You can catch more of Paul’s discussions of Shanghai and other histories on his China Rhyming blog. Over at ‘Historic … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs, Photograph of the day
Tagged British Steel Archive, construction, Heritage, Hotel, Shanghai
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What’s a photograph for?
This photograph appeared in a 1911 issue of the monthly magazine Social Shanghai, and shows the Bund-side Public Gardens crowded with Chinese visitors. The date is that of the coronation of King George V, and the original caption reads: A Memorable … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day
Tagged bandstand, coronation, gardens, Macanese, Macau, parks, racism, segregation, Shanghai
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