Category Archives: Photograph of the day

Flooding in China

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Jamie Carstairs

This winter will be remembered in the UK for extensive flooding.  Floods in China are on a vastly different scale, the Yellow River having the solemn sobriquet ‘China’s Sorrow’.  There are many photographs of various floods in HPC collections.  It … Continue reading →

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The time in between

Posted on February 19, 2014 by hpctemp

A guest blog from Alejandro Acin: I sometimes feel that street photography has become just a game where photographers try to create simple easy to understood messages in standalone photographs often meant to be amusing. There are many exceptions of … Continue reading →

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On the British perimeter

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Jamie Carstairs

Valentine’s Day approaches and look-seeing is in the air.  Most probably taken in 1937, this photograph by Malcolm Rosholt, has a certain tension that may have mirrored the tension of a city at war, or on a war footing.

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Year of the Horse at BMAG

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Jamie Carstairs

龍馬精神 The Chinese new year galloped in at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery over the weekend.  Canton Camera was exhibited, among many other celebrations.  The atmosphere was great (there were over 9,000 visitors) and the Mayor announced his intention … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year 新年快樂

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Jamie Carstairs

Say goodbye to the aged Year of the Snake – and hello to the new year. Best wishes for the Year of the Horse to all friends of ‘Visualising China’. 馬年大吉

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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 →

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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 →

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Burning bright in the forests of the night

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Jamie Carstairs

This tiger sculpture was in the Aw Boon Haw Gardens amusement park (Tiger Balm Gardens) in Happy Valley, Hong Kong. The Tiger Balm Gardens were a sort of Chinese Disneyland theme park, but somehow even more gaudy, ostentatious, sometimes bizarre, … Continue reading →

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Christmas card

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Jamie Carstairs

Compliments of the season to all friends of ‘Visualising China’ – and all best wishes for the road ahead.

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Peking Picnics

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Robert Bickers

A figure who looms large in Sino-British diplomatic relations in the late 1920s — literally because he was well over six foot tall, and hefty with it — was Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, later 1st Baron Killearn. Uncle Miles is … Continue reading →

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