-
Recent Posts
Categories
- About us
- Alphabet China
- Collections
- cross-searching
- Design
- Digitisation
- Elsewhere on the net
- Exhibition
- Exhibitions
- Family photography
- Favourites
- Guest blogs
- Heritage
- History of photography in China
- Hong Kong
- Image Annotation
- New Collections
- Photograph of the day
- Photographers
- Photographs in Books
- Regimental Collections
- Semantic Web
- Social Software and Web 2.0
- Talk
- Uncategorized
- Update
- user engagement
- Visualisation
Author Archives: Guest
French Men of War at Pagoda Anchorage, Foochow, 1884
In this, the first of a series of posts by undergraduate finalists in history at the University of Bristol, Nicholas Barker reflects on a tense moment caught in a seemingly quiet image. The stillness of this photograph masks a brutal … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs, Photograph of the day
Tagged Fuzhou, Navy, Oswald, Sino-French War, war, warship
Comments Off on French Men of War at Pagoda Anchorage, Foochow, 1884
Gregory Scott on Chinese Religious Spaces in the Historical Photographs of China collections
Dr Gregory Adam Scott is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and from September 2017 will take up the post of Lecturer in Chinese Cultural History at the University of Manchester. For the most part, … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Guest blogs
Tagged Beijing, Hangzhou, monastery, monk, pagoda, temple
Comments Off on Gregory Scott on Chinese Religious Spaces in the Historical Photographs of China collections
David Bellis on Warren Swire’s third visit to Hong Kong, 1919-1920
David Bellis runs Gwulo.com, an online community for anyone interested in Hong Kong’s history. It hosts over 20,000 pages of information, including over 10,000 photographs. This is his third exploration of Warren Swire’s photographs of his periodic visits to Hong … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Guest blogs
Tagged Hong Kong, Swire, Taikoo, University, Warren Swire
Comments Off on David Bellis on Warren Swire’s third visit to Hong Kong, 1919-1920
Liu Yuanyuan on Fu Bingchang and Beibei Northern Springs
In the second of our blogs from participants in the ‘Snapshots in Time’ summer school we hear from Liu Yuanyuan, a second-year PhD student in Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh (Email: s1366067@sms.ed.ac.uk). Her research interests lie in the fields of landscape history … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Guest blogs, History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged Fu Bingchang, Sichuan
Comments Off on Liu Yuanyuan on Fu Bingchang and Beibei Northern Springs
Josepha Richard on Documenting gardens of China through early photographs
Josepha Richard is a PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield, specialised in Modern China and the gardens of 19th century Guangzhou. She holds an MA in Chinese studies (Leeds University) and Art History (Sorbonne Paris IV) and was recently … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs, Heritage, History of photography in China
Tagged Canton, gardens, Guangzhou, landscapes
Comments Off on Josepha Richard on Documenting gardens of China through early photographs
Report on 'Snapshots in Time: Photography and History in Modern China'
Dr Sabrina Fairchild, who composed this blog, and who organised this workshop, completed her PhD at the University of Bristol in Spring 2016 with a thesis on ‘Fuzhou and Global Empires: Understanding the Treaty Ports of Modern China, 1850-1937.’ On … Continue reading
Posted in About us, History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged Bristol, British Inter-university China Centre, students, workshop
Comments Off on Report on 'Snapshots in Time: Photography and History in Modern China'
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
Jon Chappell on burning opium in Nanning
A guest blog from Jon Chappell, who recently secured his PhD at the University of Bristol, on ‘Foreign Intervention In China: Empires And International Law In The Taiping Civil War, 1853-64’. Jon is currently working on a British Inter-university China Centre … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs, Photograph of the day
Tagged Chinese Maritime Customs Service, Hedgeland, Nanning, opium, smoking
Comments Off on Jon Chappell on burning opium in Nanning
David Woodbridge on Gulangyu and Xiamen
Our latest guest blog comes from David Woodbridge, who received his PhD from the University of Manchester. He was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow at Xiamen University, where he worked with the Gulangyu International Research Centre. He is currently working at … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs
Tagged Amoy, Bund, Butterfield & Swire, Gulangyu, treaty ports, Xiamen
Comments Off on David Woodbridge on Gulangyu and Xiamen
David Bellis on Warren Swire's Hong Kong, 1906-1940
David Bellis runs Gwulo.com, an online community for anyone interested in Hong Kong’s history. It hosts over 20,000 pages of information, including over 10,000 photographs. David recently visited Bristol to discuss his work, and met the team. In this, the … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs, Photograph of the day, Photographers
Tagged Dockyard, Hong Kong, Swire
Comments Off on David Bellis on Warren Swire's Hong Kong, 1906-1940