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Recent Posts
- Guest blog: Andrew Hillier on Armistice Day and its Aftermath in Treaty Port China
- 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
- Guest blog: Helena Lopes on A connected place: Macau in the Second World War
- Andrew Hillier on Bessie Pirkis: A Renaissance Woman in Peking Part 2
- Guest blog: Rachel Meller on Uncovering the story of Shanghai’s Second World War Jewish refugees
- Andrew Hillier on Bessie Pirkis: A Renaissance Woman in Peking
- Need and opportunity: the new HPC website
- Everything’s changed, but everything’s still the same: HPC update
- Location/Dislocation – Admiral Keppel, the Chinese Buddha at Sandringham and three key photographs
- 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
- ‘Normal’ Lives Led in Abnormal Conditions
- Charles Frederick Moore’s photographs of the ruins of the European-style palaces (西洋楼) at the Yuanmingyuan (圆明园)
- Pieces of China in Bristol – cataloguing Historical Photographs of China material
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Author Archives: Jamie Carstairs
David Bellis on Warren Swire’s second visit to Hong Kong, 1911-12
In this, the second of a series of blogs, David Bellis explores the photographs taken by G. Warren Swire on his trip to Hong Kong in 1911-12. Because John Swire & Sons was headquartered in London, each year one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs, Photograph of the day, Photographers
Tagged cable car, Circe, Hong Kong, Mount Parker, sanatorium, ship, ship building, Swire, Taikoo, University, Warren Swire
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The Story of China
In BBC2’s The Story of China, Michael Wood has explored the history of the China – “the stories, people and landscapes that have helped create China’s distinctive character and genius over four thousand years”. The excellent and beautifully photographed series … Continue reading
Posted in Elsewhere on the net, Photograph of the day
Tagged BBC2, Michael Wood, modernism, Story of China
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Year of the Monkey
The Bristol Museum and Art Gallery celebrated the Chinese New Year in style over the weekend. Such was the interest that queues formed in the driving rain, as the building filled to capacity. Among the attractions, was the exhibition The … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibition, Photograph of the day
Tagged Needham exhibition Bristol Monkey science
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Best seasonal wishes from the HPC team
It’s been another very busy year at the Historical Photographs of China (HPC) project. Here’s news of some of our achievements. The Chinese Year of the Horse kicked off with a new exhibition at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery in … Continue reading
Posted in Digitisation, Exhibition, Visualisation
Tagged 2015, ambassador, Birmingham, BRLSI, DVD, exhibition, film, Guangzhou, Hart, IMCS, Shanghai, Update, Wuhan
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Dragon boats … in Bristol
If you are in our local neighbourhood, you can catch dragon boat racing in the Floating Harbour, Bristol on Sunday 14th September. The first race in this annual festival starts at 10.30am and the last race is on at about … Continue reading
Flooding in China
This winter will be remembered in the UK for extensive flooding. Floods in China are on a vastly different scale, the Yellow River having the solemn sobriquet ‘China’s Sorrow’. There are many photographs of various floods in HPC collections. It … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day
Tagged flood, flooding, football, Tientsin
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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.
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
Chess in Canton
The Wellcome Institute announced recently that all historical images that are out of copyright and held by Wellcome Images are being made freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution licence. Search for, download and study images by, for example, John … Continue reading
Posted in Elsewhere on the net, Exhibition, Photograph of the day, Photographers
Tagged Buddhist, Canton, chess, monk, Thomson, Wellcome
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