Category Archives: Collections

David Bellis on Warren Swire’s third visit to Hong Kong, 1919-1920

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Guest

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 →

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Andrew Hillier reflects on Three Brothers in China: Visualising Family in Empire

Posted on September 22, 2016 by Andrew Hillier

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 →

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Liu Yuanyuan on Fu Bingchang and Beibei Northern Springs

Posted on August 12, 2016 by Guest

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 →

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Fu Bingchang's Diaries

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Robert Bickers

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 →

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January's face

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Robert Bickers

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 →

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