30 Aug 2007

Historical Photographs of China
Historical Photographs of China project, School of Humanities, University of Bristol, UK & Institut d'Asie Orientale (IAO), Lyon, France
Self-description: "This project aims to locate, archive, and disseminate photographs from the substantial holdings of images of modern China held mostly in private hands overseas. [...] An exhibition of this material is taking place in London, Bath, and Durham in 2007-2008.
For more details see ['Picturing China, 1870-1950: Photographs from British collections' An exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, London 16 October - 15 December 2007 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/customs/picturingchina.html - ed.]
The photographs archived here come from the collections of a Chinese diplomat, foreign businessmen, staff of the administrations in the Chinese treaty ports, missionaries, and officials of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. They shed light on political events such as the 1925 May Thirtieth incident, on working and social life, on treaty port architecture, commercial history, the history of dress and fashion, and of course the history of photography in China. They were taken by talented amateur photographers, by foreign snap-shotters, professional studio photographers, and others. These images were taken, acquired or bought by those living or visiting China.
These digital copies of the images are made available here for educational, reference and research purposes. As well as a variety of modestly sized collections, this project has worked with a number of larger bodies of material including photographs related to the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, diplomat Foo Ping-sheung (Fu Bingchang), holdings relating to the Shanghai Municipal Police, the G. Warren Swire collection, and the J.C. Oswald collection (SOAS)."
Site contents: * Fu Bingchang - Images; * Chinese Maritime Customs - Images; * Shanghai Municipal Police - Images; * G. Warren Swire - Images; * All Images.
URL http://chp.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Robert Bickers (robert.bickers--at--bristol.ac.uk), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30