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Author Archives: Robert Bickers
New year … new platform: introducing www.hpcbristol.net
Today marks the launch of a new platform for ‘Historical Photographs of China’, complete with a new address, www.hpcbristol.net, an additional 1,400 images from 9 new collections, and another 4 starting to be brought online. After ten years of the current … Continue reading
Posted in About us, Design, New Collections
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Introducing the Ranjit Singh Sangha Collection
This small but evocative new collection was sent to us by Jaskaran Sangha, whose grandfather, Kartar Singh lived in Shanghai from 1920 to 1960, where he worked for the Chinese Maritime Custom Service. The set of 47 photographs includes portraits … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Family photography, New Collections
Tagged Chinese Maritime Customs Service, Shanghai Municipal Police, Sikhs
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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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Found object
Some of the photographs and negatives we are presented with are beyond salvage, but it can be worth persevering. The following episode has no China connection, but perhaps indicates what might be done with any seemingly hopeless case. It is also … Continue reading
Posted in Digitisation, Photograph of the day
Tagged negatives, old photographs
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Spotted: James Hudson Taylor
A correspondent recently wrote to us, correcting a date and identifying in a photograph two of the China missionary enterprise’s most notable figures. This photograph, above, showing staff and pupils of the Chefoo Girls School includes, we now know, James Hudson … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day
Tagged Chefoo, China Inland Mission, missionaries, school, Yantai
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Our China spies
We have been attempting to persuade a friend of the project, author Adam Brookes, former BBC Beijing correspondent, to pen a note to mark the paperback publication of his second novel, Spy Games. If you have not read it, you … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day, Photographers
Tagged Canton, espionage, Fu Bingchang, George Findlay Andrew, Guomindang, Hu Jibang, Mikhail Borodin, Morris 'Two-gun' Cohen, Moscow, spies, spy, Swatow
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Fu Bingchang's Diaries
One of our star photographers is Chinese diplomat Fu Bingchang (1895-1965), who pursued with fairly equal vigour all his life his activities as a diplomat, photographer, diarist, and lover. Excepting the diaries these facets of his life are fairly well … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Elsewhere on the net, Photograph of the day, Photographers
Tagged Fu Bingchang, Radio
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‘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 Heritage, Photograph of the day
Tagged dance, Shanghai, Tianjin
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Postgraduate workshop: 'Snapshots in Time: Photography and History in Modern China'
The British Inter-university China Centre, and the Historical Photographs of China project at the University of Bristol warmly invite applications from Masters and Doctoral students working in modern Chinese and East Asian history to participate in a three-day research training … Continue reading
Posted in About us, History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged Bristol, British Inter-university China Centre, students, workshop
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The Japanese afterlife of Frank B. Strawn
On this site you can find over 9,000 digitised images, but one key thing lost in this mode of presentation is their existence as physical objects. The social lives of our photographs took many forms: they are given as gifts, … Continue reading
Posted in Family photography
Tagged history of things, Japan, photographs
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