Project overview

‘Historical Photographs of China’ seeks to locate, and digitize for preservation and dissemination, photographs of China held in private hands in the United Kingdom. China’s twentieth-century vicissitudes have seen great destruction of its built heritage and of archival and photographic historical records. The project offers material which augments what has survived in China itself. It also provides a substantial resource for the study of European and Chinese photography, for the history of collecting, and for studies of the material culture of life in China, and the after-China lives of those possessing such items.

Since 2006 the project has been working with private owners of material, as well as with some institutions, to digitise and disseminate the material through this website, and through the Visualising China platform, which offers users the opportunity to cross search this collection and two others, as well as to directly suggest corrections or provide additional information.


Last update on Friday 4 May 2012 (12:21) by  Robert Bickers

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