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Wuhan photographed
Over the past month Wuhan has been much-discussed, but its history is still largely misunderstood. I wrote about its long and intimate relationship with world markets in this blog post. It was of course, like most of the Chinese treaty … Continue reading
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Tagged Bund, China Inland Mission, flooding, Hankow, Jardine Matheson, Wuhan
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Flooding in China
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
Posted in Photograph of the day
Tagged flood, flooding, football, Tientsin
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