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Recent Posts
- The Five Faces of Dr Walter Medhurst, D.D.
- Shanghai City Wall and Gates
- Visualizing Qing Diplomats in the West
- Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collection – part three
- Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collections – part two
- Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collections – part one
- Guest blog: Visualising china in China: life, labour and loss
- About scratching, they were never wrong, the old masters
- Guest blog: Sarah Yu on China’s war against the fly
- A round up of recent posts: internment, a church, a shipwreck, three missing Spanish diplomats, Wuhan
- ‘A Miniature World’: Photographs and Memories of Internment in China
- Guest post: Spaniards in the treaty ports: Archivo China-España and Juan Mencarini
- Guest blog: A ‘Magic Weapon’ on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier
- New Perspective: Trinity Church and Treaty Port-Era Shanghai
- The joys of everyday life on the China Coast
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Category Archives: Photographers
The Five Faces of Dr Walter Medhurst, D.D.
Andrew Hillier considers how five portraits of the London Missionary Society (LMS) missionary, Walter H. Medhurst (1796-1857), one of which can be found on HPC, made over the course of his career, were used to maintain connections and promote the … Continue reading
Posted in Family photography, Guest blogs, Photographers, Uncategorized
Tagged Medhurst, missionary, portrait, Sillar
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Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collections – part one
Dr. Helena F. S. Lopes is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Department of History, University of Bristol. This posting is part one of three-part series on the ruins of Macau. The South China territory of Macau (澳門) … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Heritage, Photographers
Tagged church, Macao, Macau, ruin, 澳門
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Guest post: Spaniards in the treaty ports: Archivo China-España and Juan Mencarini
Our latest post comes from Xavier Ortells-Nicolau, an adjunct professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona. His recent work has focused on images of China in late nineteenth and early twentieth century … Continue reading
Posted in cross-searching, Guest blogs, History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged Chinese Maritime Customs Service, Fuzhou, mandarin, Mencarini, Shanghai, Spanish
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Trading Places, a photographic journey through China’s former Treaty Ports
Nicholas Kitto describes the project which culminated in the recent publication of his book ‘Trading Places, A Photographic Journey Through China’s Former Treaty Ports’ (Blacksmith Books) It was quite late on 16 December 1996, and I was walking along Racecourse … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs, Heritage, Photographers, Photographs in Books, Uncategorized
Tagged Kitto, photography, Treaty Port
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A Chan (Ya Zhen) in Guangzhou
This nice view of a commercial street in Guangzhou (Canton), that has been on the Historical Photographs of China website for a while, has been identified as the work of A Chan (雅真 Ya Zhen), an early Chinese photographer who … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged A Chan, Canton, Guangzhou, photographer, Ya Zhen
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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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Commemorating John Thomson: Edinburgh to install a Bronze Plaque
Jamie Carstairs, who manages the Historical Photographs of China Project, nominated John Thomson for a plaque in Edinburgh. The independent plaques panel at Heritage Environment Scotland (HES) announced yesterday that a plaque to commemorate the Scottish photographer John Thomson (1837-1921), is … Continue reading
Posted in Heritage, History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged Edinburgh, plaque, Thomson
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Restored – the grave of pioneering travel photographer John Thomson
Jamie Carstairs, who manages the Historical Photographs of China Project, reports on the tribute to the photographer John Thomson FRGS, whose grave has now been restored. John Thomson (1837-1921) is acclaimed in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s The Photobook: A History … Continue reading
Posted in Heritage, History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged grave, London, photographer, restoration, Thomson
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Reversing Robert Capa’s gaze: Wuhan, 1938
Ooo, look: our eagle-eyed Project Manager Jamie Carstairs spotted this wonderful photograph taken in 1938 by Robert Capa in Hankou (Wuhan) and recently published in MAGNUM China (Colin Pantall and Zheng Ziyu, eds, Thames & Hudson, 2018): This is one of … Continue reading
Posted in History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged Hankow, Robert Capa, Sino-Japanese War, students, Wuhan
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‘A Darkly Mysterious Instrument’: Through China with John Thomson
Dr Andrew Hillier discusses the China photographs of John Thomson (1837-1921) in the light of a recent exhibition of his work at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS. One of two hundred images published in John Thomson’s Illustrations of China and its … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibition, Guest blogs, History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged exhibition, SOAS, Thomson
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