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- Guest blog: Alex Thompson on British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China
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- Guest blog: Kaori Abe on the Abe Naoko Collection –– a glimpse of a Japanese family’s life in Shanghai, c.1927-c.1934
- Guest blog: Ghassan Moazzin on Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China
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- Guest blog: Rachel Meller on Uncovering the story of Shanghai’s Second World War Jewish refugees
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- Location/Dislocation – Admiral Keppel, the Chinese Buddha at Sandringham and three key photographs
- The Forbidden City at War: Images of the Wartime Evacuation of the Imperial Art Collections
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Restoring John Thomson’s grave
Jamie Carstairs, Historical Photographs of China Project manager, has joined the committee seeking to restore photographer John Thomson’s grave. Here he explains why. An ad hoc group has come together to try to raise the funds needed to restore the … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Exhibition, Photographers
Tagged china, exhibition, fund, grave, Heritage, photographer, Siam, Thomson
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The Chinese Photobook Exhibition
The Historical Photographs of China team recently visited “The Chinese Photobook’’ exhibition at the Photographers Gallery, London. Digitization Assistant, Alejandro Acin reports: The exhibition is based on a collection of photography books, compiled by Bristol-based photographer Martin Parr and the Dutch … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibition, History of photography in China, Photographers, Visualisation
Tagged china, exhibition, history, Martin Parr, photobook, photographers, WassinkLundgren
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