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Recent Posts
- 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
- The sinking of the Chusan
- Guest blog: It’s the End of the World as They Knew It
- Gina Tam on Dialect and Nationalism in China, and a grave in Amoy
- Guest Blog: The Chile Pepper: Mao’s Little Red Spice
- Trading Places, a photographic journey through China’s former Treaty Ports
- A Chan (Ya Zhen) in Guangzhou
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About scratching, they were never wrong, the old masters
OK, that’s not what W.H. Auden actually wrote, but while I have been enjoying the selections of photographs made by Tom Larkin for our new Instagram feed — @hpcbristol, go on, follow us — Auden’s poem ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’ … Continue reading
Posted in About us, Hong Kong
Tagged advertising, children, cigarettes, Hong Kong, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, photographers, poster, street
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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
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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Happy birthday to us!
It’s our birthday! Fourteen years ago today, Historical Photographs of China welcomed its first and longest-standing employee, Project Manager Jamie Carstairs. A professional photographer, sometime cheerful bookshop assistant (so he told us), TEFL teacher and graduate of the postgraduate Photojournalism … Continue reading
Posted in About us, Digitisation, Update
Tagged birthday, contributors, HPC, supporters, survey
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Statue and symbol: Queen Victoria in Hong Kong
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. Wikipedia’s ‘List … Continue reading
Posted in Heritage, Hong Kong
Tagged Hong Kong history, memorial, Queen Victoria, Sino-Japanese War, statue
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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, Hong Kong, 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 Heritage, New Collections, Regimental Collections, Uncategorized
Tagged army, museums, Second Opium War, Taiping Rebellion
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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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The Story of China
In BBC2’s The Story of China, Michael Wood has explored the history of the China – “the stories, people and landscapes that have helped create China’s distinctive character and genius over four thousand years”. The excellent and beautifully photographed series … Continue reading
Posted in Elsewhere on the net, Photograph of the day
Tagged BBC2, Michael Wood, modernism, Story of China
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Royal fakes
Not for the first time, a correspondent asks us about the genuineness, or otherwise, of some photographs of the Manchu royal family. This accordion-style booklet certainly looks old, but you can find many news items online in Chinese about it … Continue reading
Posted in Elsewhere on the net, History of photography in China
Tagged fakes, Manchus, Puyi
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