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- Some that got away
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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
- Guest blog: Ghassan Moazzin on Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China
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- The Forbidden City at War: Images of the Wartime Evacuation of the Imperial Art Collections
- A name, a photograph, and a history of global connections
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Tag Archives: Shanghai
Paul French on The Metropole Hotel, Shanghai
Friend of the blog, author Paul French, ruminates on the Metropole Hotel, which the ‘Historical Photographs of China’ knows well. You can catch more of Paul’s discussions of Shanghai and other histories on his China Rhyming blog. Over at ‘Historic … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs, Photograph of the day
Tagged British Steel Archive, construction, Heritage, Hotel, Shanghai
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What’s a photograph for?
This photograph appeared in a 1911 issue of the monthly magazine Social Shanghai, and shows the Bund-side Public Gardens crowded with Chinese visitors. The date is that of the coronation of King George V, and the original caption reads: A Memorable … Continue reading
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Tagged bandstand, coronation, gardens, Macanese, Macau, parks, racism, segregation, Shanghai
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Simon Drakeford on rugby in old Shanghai
Our Guest blogger this week is Simon Drakeford, whose book about rugby in Shanghai titled It’s a Rough Game But Good Sport has just been published. More details can be found at www.treatyportsport.com Given the importance and prevalence of the numerous sports played … Continue reading
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Tagged Drakeford, Police, policeman, Poole, rugby, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipal Police, sport
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Paul French on Jessfield Park, Shanghai: A Brief, and Probably Mostly Apocryphal, History
In the first of our new series of guest blogs Paul French, writer and prolific blogger, reflects on on the history of what was formerly one of Shanghai’s largest parks. Most recently the author of a new Penguin China Special, Betrayal … Continue reading
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Tagged park, Shanghai
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Who took the photographs? 2
A good source of contemporary photographs of Shanghai and its doings between 1906 and 1914, is the journal Social Shanghai; and other parts of China, edited by Mina Shorrock. In volume 3 there is an article about the Shanghai photographic … Continue reading
Posted in History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged Hangzhou Bore, Photography Studios, Postcards, Shanghai, Social Shanghai
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Still feverish
A recent trip to Shanghai reminds me how popular the rediscovery of historic photographs of China remains. Here in one shop on Fuzhou lu, Shanghai’s bookstore street, is a good stash of Lao Zhaopian magazine, which sparked off the ‘Lao … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Fuzhou lu, Lao zhaopian, Shanghai
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The time in between
A guest blog from Alejandro Acin: I sometimes feel that street photography has become just a game where photographers try to create simple easy to understood messages in standalone photographs often meant to be amusing. There are many exceptions of … Continue reading
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Tagged Montgomery, Paul Graham, photography, Shanghai, soldier, street, war
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On the British perimeter
Valentine’s Day approaches and look-seeing is in the air. Most probably taken in 1937, this photograph by Malcolm Rosholt, has a certain tension that may have mirrored the tension of a city at war, or on a war footing.
Making popcorn
The Historical Photographs of China project team were delighted to see in a recently digitised album a sequence of three photographs showing popcorn being made the Chinese way, c.1938: When this blogger was in Shanghai in 2011, I photographed … Continue reading
Posted in Elsewhere on the net, Photograph of the day
Tagged Carstairs, food, Morrison, popcorn, Shanghai, street
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Darwent Revisited: Shanghai now and then
Photography is the context, subtext and pretext for an exhibition that opens today. The exhibition includes new photographs by Jamie Carstairs inspired by the text of Shanghai: A Handbook for Travellers and Residents, a guidebook to the city by Revd. … Continue reading
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Tagged Darwent, exhibition, photography, Shanghai
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