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Tag Archives: Hedgeland
Jon Chappell on burning opium in Nanning
A guest blog from Jon Chappell, who recently secured his PhD at the University of Bristol, on ‘Foreign Intervention In China: Empires And International Law In The Taiping Civil War, 1853-64’. Jon is currently working on a British Inter-university China Centre … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese Maritime Customs Service, Hedgeland, Nanning, opium, smoking
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Art imitates art
One of the images (on the right) in Historical Photographs of China, features the same compositional idea as Angus McBean’s photograph (below) of the theatre designer and producer William Chappell (1907-1994) – juggling heads. This brought to mind Geoff Dyer’s The Ongoing … Continue reading
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Tagged Chappell, customs, Dyer, Hedgeland, IMCS, Maritime, McBean, music, Nanking, photography, Service
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