Welcome | Historical Photographs of China Welcome! 欢迎! The photographs presented here cover over a century of modern China's history, and a very wide range of places, communities and themes They represent the work of a 2006-2021 Historical Photographs of China project based in the Department of History at the University of Bristol, that located, digitalized, archived, and published online photographs from the substantial holdings
Lucky Dip | Historical Photographs of China Our holdings here are large The 'Lucky Dip' feature allows you to view a random sample of material from across our different collections and to find yourself with unexpected people in unexpected places You can refresh to find more
Featured Collections | Historical Photographs of China Our collections vary in size, and many complement each other forming a wider body of materials This page highlights some particular strengths There are the extensive and distinctive portfolios of work created by diplomat and politician Fu Bingchang (傅秉 常 1895-1965) and by George Warren Swire (1883-1949) Then there are two sets of materials that came from contacts with the descendants
About | Historical Photographs of China Based at the University of Bristol, the 'Historical Photographs of China' project began work in 2006 It grew out of a 'Dissemination award' to Robert Bickers, as leader of an Arts Humanities Research Council funded project on the ' History of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service ' This developed into an initiative that searched for material far beyond descendants of the staff of the