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- The Forbidden City at War: Images of the Wartime Evacuation of the Imperial Art Collections
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- ‘Normal’ Lives Led in Abnormal Conditions
- Charles Frederick Moore’s photographs of the ruins of the European-style palaces (西洋楼) at the Yuanmingyuan (圆明园)
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Visualising China elsewhere on the net 1: the International Missionary Photography Archive
Visualising China’s collections are rich in materials from missionary families, including Bishop William Banister (1855-1928), of the Church Missionary Society, sometime Archdeacon at Hong Kong, and first Bishop of Kwangsi-Hunan; Canadian doctor Charles Coyne Elliott, of the China Inland Mission, … Continue reading
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D is for Dalny, Dairen だいれん, Dalian, 大連
History made this former Liaodong Peninsular fishing village a transational city, as it was taken from Russian control (1898-1905), to become a Japanese leased territory (1905-45), then a USSR-controlled zone in the People’s Republic of China until the end of … Continue reading
Posted in Alphabet China, Photograph of the day
Tagged cart, pony, snow, telephone, trees
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C is for Changsha
A snapshot of a busy thoroughfare in Changsha, capital of Hunan province. The men are not sporting the ‘queue’, so this is a post-1911 shot, and the flat cap on the left dates it perhaps to the 1920s at least. … Continue reading
Posted in Alphabet China, Digitisation, Photograph of the day
Tagged hats, peddler, rickshaw, signs
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B is for … Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai 上海南京西路老照片
The Bubbling Well Road was the road to the ‘Bubbling Well’, to Jing’an Temple, an extension of the Nanjing Road, known to Chinese residents as the ‘Dama lu’ 大马路’. Early residents of what became the International Settlement used to walk … Continue reading
A is for … Antung (Dandong) 丹东市老照片
Warren Swire made a handful of visits to this port at the mouth of Yalu River between 1911-12 and 1934. The border with Korea, then under Japanese control was close by. This shot shows the installation at the harbourside of … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Crow, Manchuria, ships
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