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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: Yantai
The joys of everyday life on the China Coast
The F. Hagger collection encompasses some 260 photographs of China in the early 1930s, as well as many of Japan, Singapore, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), North Borneo, Manila, India, Egypt, and others which are not on the Historical Photographs of China … Continue reading
Ian Gill on photographs and family history
While reading journalist Ian Gill’s articles in the South China Morning Post on his search into the history of his China coast family, we were struck by the place of photographs in that story and invited him to tell us … Continue reading
Posted in Family photography, Guest blogs
Tagged Chefoo, Chinese Maritime Customs Service, family history, Yantai
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No Great Wall
The latest book to use one of our photographs on its cover has just arrived in the post. Felix Boecking teaches modern Chinese economic and political history at the University of Edinburgh, and his volume, which grew out of the … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs in Books
Tagged Chefoo, Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Maritime Customs Service, harbour, Jinmen, Taiwan, Yantai
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Spotted: James Hudson Taylor
A correspondent recently wrote to us, correcting a date and identifying in a photograph two of the China missionary enterprise’s most notable figures. This photograph, above, showing staff and pupils of the Chefoo Girls School includes, we now know, James Hudson … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day
Tagged Chefoo, China Inland Mission, missionaries, school, Yantai
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Egg and spoon race, Chefoo, Easter 1902
If some things Chinese were puzzling to foreigners, some things European may have seemed most odd to the Chinese. How to explain the why and wherefore of an egg and spoon race? In the Commissioner of Customs’s garden at ‘Hillfields’, … Continue reading
Photographs of photographers: Maude Carrall
The ‘Blossoms’ looks like an orchard of either apple or cherry trees, which was probably in, or close to, Chefoo (Yantai). It must have been a favourite springtime picnic spot for the Carrall family, as their photograph albums hold several … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day, Photographers
Tagged camera, Carrall, Chefoo, hobby, orchard, photography, Yantai
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