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- Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collections – part one
- Guest blog: Visualising china in China: life, labour and loss
- About scratching, they were never wrong, the old masters
- Guest blog: Sarah Yu on China’s war against the fly
- A round up of recent posts: internment, a church, a shipwreck, three missing Spanish diplomats, Wuhan
- ‘A Miniature World’: Photographs and Memories of Internment in China
- Guest post: Spaniards in the treaty ports: Archivo China-España and Juan Mencarini
- Guest blog: A ‘Magic Weapon’ on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier
- New Perspective: Trinity Church and Treaty Port-Era Shanghai
- The joys of everyday life on the China Coast
- The sinking of the Chusan
- Guest blog: It’s the End of the World as They Knew It
- Gina Tam on Dialect and Nationalism in China, and a grave in Amoy
- Guest Blog: The Chile Pepper: Mao’s Little Red Spice
- Trading Places, a photographic journey through China’s former Treaty Ports
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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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Donna Brunero on the Maze Collection of Chinese Junk Models
Junks can be spotted in many of the photographs in our collections of harbours, coasts, and rivers. They attracted curious interest from residents and visitors, for they seemed ‘picturesque’, but they were also caught in snapshots simply because they were an integral … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese Maritime Customs Service, harbours, history, junks, museums, ports, rivers, shipping
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Back to the past
Prior to 1949, and again more recently, foreign tourists avidly visited the marvellous sights in China. The tourist trail would include the Ming Tombs, just forty kilometres north of Peking (Beijing), here being explored in the 1920s, by donkey in … Continue reading