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Recent Posts
- Guest blog: Yutong Wang on Policing urban ‘nuisance’: slum clearances in ‘semi-colonial’ Shanghai in the 1930s
- Some that got away
- Guest blog: Alex Thompson on British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China
- 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
Categories
Category Archives: New Collections
‘Normal’ Lives Led in Abnormal Conditions
Dr Andrew Hillier shows how a recently- discovered collection of photographs shines a spotlight on the importance of family in treaty port China in the early twentieth century. On 12 April 1899, Edith Sarah Sharples and Walter James Clennell were … Continue reading
Posted in Family photography, New Collections
Tagged British in China, children, Consular Service, marriage
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The joys of everyday life on the China Coast
The F. Hagger collection encompasses some 260 photographs of China in the early 1930s, as well as many of Japan, Singapore, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), North Borneo, Manila, India, Egypt, and others which are not on the Historical Photographs of China … Continue reading
The John Gurney Fry Collection: tea, silver and chocolates
Jamie Carstairs, who manages the Historical Photographs of China Project, writes about a collection just added to the HPC site. Last year, an album of 124 photographs was generously donated by Richard Ambrose to the Historical Photographs of China project, care of … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, History of photography in China, New Collections, Photographers
Tagged Foochow, Fry, Fujian, Fuzhou, Lai Fong, tea, Thomson
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Work and movement in the Hong Kong photographs of Dr Eleanor Whitworth Mitchell
Dr Helena F. S. Lopes is 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. Dr Eleanor … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Guest blogs, New Collections
Tagged doctor, everyday life, Hong Kong, hospital, labour, medicine
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Regimental Cartes de Visite
Following the copying of the Royal Hampshire Museum’s collection of China- related photographs by the Historical Photographs of China project, Dr Andrew Hillier shows how these can reveal the personal aspects of a regiment on campaign in empire. First … Continue reading
Posted in New Collections, Regimental Collections, Uncategorized
Tagged army, Heritage, museums, Second Opium War, Taiping Rebellion
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New content: Hedda Morrison, Joseph Needham, Edward Bangs Drew and Claude L. Pickens Jr.
We are pleased to be able to announce today that we have successfully migrated the content from the Visualising China platform into our Historical Photographs of China site. In practical terms this means an almost 50 per cent increase in … Continue reading
Posted in About us, cross-searching, New Collections, Photographers
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New collection: Wuhan in revolution in 1911
Today we have released online a new collection of 184 photographs, the vast majority documenting events during the 1911 Xinhai Revolution in Wuhan. The album of photographs was shared with us by the family of former British consular official Stanley Wyatt-Smith … Continue reading
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Tagged revolution, Wuhan
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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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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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