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Regimental Cartes de Visite

Posted on July 7, 2017 by Andrew Hillier

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 | Comments Off

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 →

Posted in Collections, Elsewhere on the net, Photograph of the day, Photographers | Tagged Fu Bingchang, Radio | Comments Off

The Story of China

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Jamie Carstairs

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 | Comments Off

Royal fakes

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Robert Bickers

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 | Comments Off

Filmed!

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Robert Bickers

One of our funders, and strong supporters, is the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council, which is marking its tenth anniversary with a series of films about its activities since 2005. The Historical Photographs of China project is the subject … Continue reading →

Posted in About us, Elsewhere on the net, Update | Tagged AHRC, film, Project team | Comments Off

Best seasonal wishes from the HPC team

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Jamie Carstairs

It’s been another very busy year at the Historical Photographs of China (HPC) project. Here’s news of some of our achievements. The Chinese Year of the Horse kicked off with a new exhibition at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery in … Continue reading →

Posted in Digitisation, Exhibition, Update, Visualisation | Tagged 2015, ambassador, Birmingham, BRLSI, DVD, exhibition, film, Guangzhou, Hart, IMCS, Shanghai, Wuhan | Comments Off

Books!

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Robert Bickers

The photographs posted to our site — 9,151 now, and rising — have often found their way into publications, and in this post we’ll introduce a handful of them. Joshua Fogel, Canada Research Chair and Professor of History at York … Continue reading →

Posted in Photograph of the day, Update | Tagged books, illustrations | Comments Off

M is for Ming!

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Robert Bickers

‘Ming: 50 years that changed China’, the British Museum’s autumn exhibition opens today. Photographs in Historical Photographs of China of surviving artefacts from the 1368-1644 Ming dynasty include tourist silliness like this early 1900s shot of a visitor posing with one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Alphabet China, Exhibition, Exhibitions, Photograph of the day | Tagged exhibition, statue, tomb | Comments Off

Chess in Canton

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Jamie Carstairs

The Wellcome Institute announced recently that all historical images that are out of copyright and held by Wellcome Images are being made freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution licence. Search for, download and study images by, for example, John … Continue reading →

Posted in Elsewhere on the net, Exhibition, Photograph of the day, Photographers | Tagged Buddhist, Canton, chess, monk, Thomson, Wellcome | Comments Off

Making popcorn

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Jamie Carstairs

The Historical Photographs of China project team were delighted to see in a recently digitised album a sequence of three photographs showing popcorn being made the Chinese way, c.1938: When this blogger was in Shanghai in 2011, I photographed … Continue reading →

Posted in Elsewhere on the net, Photograph of the day | Tagged Carstairs, food, Morrison, popcorn, Shanghai, street | Comments Off