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Tag Archives: Canton
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
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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Josepha Richard on Documenting gardens of China through early photographs
Josepha Richard is a PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield, specialised in Modern China and the gardens of 19th century Guangzhou. She holds an MA in Chinese studies (Leeds University) and Art History (Sorbonne Paris IV) and was recently … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs, History of photography in China
Tagged Canton, gardens, Guangzhou, Heritage, landscapes
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Our China spies
We have been attempting to persuade a friend of the project, author Adam Brookes, former BBC Beijing correspondent, to pen a note to mark the paperback publication of his second novel, Spy Games. If you have not read it, you … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day, Photographers
Tagged Canton, espionage, Fu Bingchang, George Findlay Andrew, Guomindang, Hu Jibang, Mikhail Borodin, Morris 'Two-gun' Cohen, Moscow, spies, spy, Swatow
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Year of the Horse at BMAG
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
Posted in Exhibition, Photograph of the day
Tagged BMAG, Bristol, camera, Canton, Chinese, horse, New, Year
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Chess in Canton
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
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Examination cells and brain cells
Inexorably the exam season is upon us, a testing time for students, and also for admin staff and markers. Spare a thought for candidates in the examination system in Imperial China – applicants would think, write, eat and sleep, sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day
Tagged administration, bureaucracy, Canton, cell, Confucianism, exam, examination, government, Guangzhou, hall, state
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