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- Guest blog: Kaori Abe on the Abe Naoko Collection –– a glimpse of a Japanese family’s life in Shanghai, c.1927-c.1934
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- The Forbidden City at War: Images of the Wartime Evacuation of the Imperial Art Collections
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Tag Archives: horse
Guest blog: It’s the End of the World as They Knew It
James Carter is the author of the forthcoming Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai (W.W. Norton), which uses the events of 12 November 1941 at the Shanghai Race Club to tell the story of China on the eve of World … Continue reading
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Tagged horse, Pearl Harbor, racing, Second World War, Shanghai, Shanghai Race Club, Sino-Japanese War
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Chang Ning on Cultural translation: Gambling Cultures
Dr. Ning Jennifer Chang is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. She has just published her first book, Cultural Translation: Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing and Jai Alai in Modern Shanghai (異國事物的轉譯：近代上海的跑馬、跑狗與回力球賽). Here she … Continue reading
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Tagged books, gambling, gangsters, greyhounds, horse, racing
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Guest blog: Melanie King on Harold Ivan Harding
Our latest guest appearance is from author and historian Melanie King. While researching her latest book, The Lady is a Spy: The Tangled Lives of Stan Harding and Marguerite Harrison she found H.I. Harding, the brother of one of her subjects … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Guest blogs
Tagged Consular Service, horse, Kashgar, Uighur
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Talk: A Day at the Races: Shanghai, 1941
Please join us for Professor James Carter’s discussion of photograph and its uses in studying modern Chinese history. Professor Carter will provide the keynote address of our postgraduate workshop, ‘Snapshots in Time: Photography and History in Modern China’, which is … Continue reading
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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Happy New Year 新年快樂
Say goodbye to the aged Year of the Snake – and hello to the new year. Best wishes for the Year of the Horse to all friends of ‘Visualising China’. 馬年大吉
A hunting we will go
Incidental mention of the Shanghai Paper Hunt suggests a new post. Here are two members of the Hunt in action. The Shanghai Paper Hunt Club dated is foundation to December 1863, but as its history, published in 1930, noted, there … Continue reading
Posted in Digitisation, Photograph of the day
Tagged books, hats, horse, hunt, leisure, protest, riding
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Racing in China, 1891
The Olympic torch is racing through Bristol as I write. We lack images of sports, aside from shots of European tennis parties, and many images of the racetracks of treaty port China. So here is a dramatic photograph from 1891 … Continue reading
Photographs of photographers: Warren Swire
Photographs of photographers with their cameras are not often found in their own albums of photographs. So it was good to find a snap of Warren Swire with an unidentified woman wearing jodhpurs, taken by Ann Phipps (ph04-045). Ann was … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day, Photographers
Tagged balcony, Beijing, camera, diplomacy, farm, groom, horse, Legation, leisure, Phipps, photography, riding, Swire
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