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Recent Posts
- Some that got away
- Guest blog: Alex Thompson on British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China
- Guest blog: Andrew Hillier on Armistice Day and its Aftermath in Treaty Port China
- 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
- Guest blog: Helena Lopes on A connected place: Macau in the Second World War
- Andrew Hillier on Bessie Pirkis: A Renaissance Woman in Peking Part 2
- Guest blog: Rachel Meller on Uncovering the story of Shanghai’s Second World War Jewish refugees
- Andrew Hillier on Bessie Pirkis: A Renaissance Woman in Peking
- Need and opportunity: the new HPC website
- Everything’s changed, but everything’s still the same: HPC update
- 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
- A name, a photograph, and a history of global connections
- ‘Normal’ Lives Led in Abnormal Conditions
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Tag Archives: Chinese
Typologies, memories and preservation
There are few photographers with a body of work as obsessively cohesive as that of the German collaborative artists Bern and Hilla Becher. The duo, Bernhard “Bernd” Becher (1931 – 2007) and Hilla Becher (born 1934), are best known for … Continue reading
Posted in History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged Banister, Becher, Chinese, coastwise, customs, Lighthouses, lights, Maritime, memory, photography, preservation, Service, typologies
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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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Revisiting Darwent's Shanghai
Our pop-up exhibition, ‘Darwent Revisited: Shanghai now and then’, is unveiled on Saturday 9th February, at the Bristol City Museum, and then on Sunday 10th February at the city’s new M-Shed museum. Funded by the AHRC and the British Academy, It … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibition, Photographers, Visualisation
Tagged Bristol, Carstairs, Chinese, Darwent, exhibition, New, photograph, photography, Revisited, Year
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Seasonal greetings!
Compliments of the season to all friends of ‘Visualising China‘.