Tag Archives: education

Guest blog: Sarah Yu on China’s war against the fly

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Guest

Our latest post is from Sarah Yu, a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is writing her dissertation on hygiene and daily life in Republican China. You can see some of the archival highlights of her … Continue reading →

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Graduation!

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Robert Bickers

The University of Bristol this week held its first graduation cemeremony in China. Two hundred students attended the ceremony in Beijing, and it is planned that this event will be held every two years. To mark the occasion here is … Continue reading →

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Juniors at Mr Large's school, c.1908

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

A class of solemn schoolchildren, c.1908, with, it is presumed, their missionary teacher, Mr Large, at the back of the room (El01-28).  Both the foreign teacher and the children have their hair in the Manchu style.  This hairstyle was imposed … Continue reading →

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You press the button, we do the rest

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

Here then is ‘the rest’: at this Kodak Professional School in Shanghai in 1923, students are learning to spool and process negatives, enlarge, develop, fix and dry prints, then guillotine and dry mount them – the skilful practical application of … Continue reading →

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