{"id":213,"date":"2017-06-29T16:16:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T15:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/sirroberthart\/?p=213"},"modified":"2017-06-29T16:16:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T15:16:53","slug":"new-lenses-on-china-colloquium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/sirroberthart\/2017\/06\/29\/new-lenses-on-china-colloquium\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lenses on China Colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Lenses on China Colloquium:
\nA gathering of leading scholars in the field of the history of photography in China<\/p>\n

Dr Marine Cabos<\/b><\/p>\n

Cross-posted from Photography of China<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

\"Photograph<\/a>
Photograph taken in Wuchang of a large group of British and Chinese men which includes the Viceroy and Governor, 30 July 1902. The photograph is annotated, ‘Viceroy and Governor second row [from the back in the middle of the row sitting next to each other] sitting with Consular Body on right and left’. Reference: MS 15.6.3.023
QUB Special Collections and Archives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Between 23 and 24 June 2017, Queen\u2019s University in Belfast (Northern Ireland) planned an academic conference gathering international scholars from various disciplines ranging from history, art history, history of photography, to sinology. Entitled New Lenses on China: Photography in Modern Chinese History and Historiography, this conference’s successive papers reflected on the impact of photographic sources on our understanding of Chinese history, while assessing the state of the field and considering its future trajectories.<\/p>\n

On this occasion, Queen\u2019s University Special Collection also displayed a selection of photographs of late imperial China from the Sir Robert Hart (1835-1911) Collection outside the auditorium where the conference took place. This collection includes several thousand photographs, mostly of China around 1900, along with portraits of Hart and his friends, acquaintances and colleagues.<\/p>\n


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\"QUB<\/a>
QUB Special Collections and Archives
Photograph at Shan Hai Kwan of The Great Wall of China from the Chinese side, sloping
This photograph is part of an album that contains fifty images of Northern China. The photographs capture many elements of Chinese life and they are all annotated.
Reference: MS 15.6.11E.029<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

The schedule unfolded as follows:<\/p>\n

Robert Bickers, Bristol University: \u201cPlenty and Want\u201d
\nThis talk explored the tensions and methodological (and other) problems he has faced as a historian of the socio-cultural world or migration utilizing private family collections of historic photographs of China.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Pearce, University of Glasgow: \u201cNew Viewpoints, New Knowledge: John Dudgeon, John Thomson and Photographic Practice in Nineteenth-Century China\u201d
\nThis talk explored the friendship, collaboration and commonalities of approach in the photographic output of these two Scottish photographers, helping to create a more rounded picture of the contributions of both men.<\/p>\n

Christian Henriot, Aix-Marseille Universit\u00e9: Seeing through death in modern Shanghai: A visual encounter”
\nThis paper questioned the representation of death in modern Shanghai in the form of a visual narrative. Starting from the dead body, this narrative initiated a journey into the singular and most often fates of the body in post-mortem among Chinese and foreign residents in Shanghai.<\/p>\n

\"Henriot's<\/a>
Henriot’s visual narrative available on www.virtualshanghai.net<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Emma Reisz, Queen\u2019s University Belfast: \u201cPhotographic information and the Chinese frontier: Albert Pichon in Yunnan, 1908\u201d
\nThis paper focused on a collection of photography by Albert Pichon, an official in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, who documented the trade route between Bhamo and Tengyue (Tengchong) in 1908.<\/p>\n

Briony Widdis, Ulster University: \u201cAn Administrator, his Photographs, and Hong Kong Elites in the 1950s\u201d
\nThis paper explored how one can interpret such images, including through reference to museological writings on how colonial photographs may be interrogated. It also examined the extent to which they can relied upon as documents of Hong Kong\u2019s colonial past.<\/p>\n

Oliver Moore, University of Groningen: \u201cChinese photography\u2019s irrepressible social space: the photography studio\u201d
\nThis paper treated photography as a social phenomenon. In particular, it looked at some of the evidence that demonstrated the rise of a photography culture whose ubiquitous commercial headquarters were the photography studios dotting city districts and appearing usually singly along village street.<\/p>\n

Lu Hanchao, Georgia Tech: \u201cInside Chinese Family Albums: Memories and Reflections of the Everyday People\u201d
\nBased on the Old Photos materials, this paper looked at how ordinary people coped with the extraordinary changes brought by revolutions and wars in their lives and their interactions with great political affairs in the nation.
\n

\"Old<\/a>
Old Photos book series<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Josepha Richard, University of Sheffield: \u201cReconstituting historical gardens of Guangzhou through early photographs\u201d
\nThe construction of gardens around Guangzhou (Canton) reached a peak from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century. In this paper, she combined various written and textual sources including photography to reconstitute two of the most significant gardens of the 19th century Guangzhou.<\/p>\n

Cecile Armand, Institut d\u2019Asie Orientale, \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure de Lyon (ENS-Lyon): \u201cRevealing\/reviving ghost advertisements: Using street photographs to visualize outdoor advertising in modern Shanghai\u201d
\nThis paper showed the value of using street photographs to engage with neglected forms of advertising within the city. It explored various digital tools that opened new possibilities for using photos as historical sources or materials for writing visual narratives.<\/p>\n

Gao Chu, Social Archive of Chinese Photography, Chinese Art Academy, Hangzhou: \u201cWartime Photography in China\u201d
\nThis paper explored how a group of photographers in wartime China became journalist photographers upon the establishment of New China. Their careers (1930s to 1970s) shared intangible energy in the making of revolution and among the viewers onsite.<\/p>\n

Yi Gu, University of Toronto:”Uncles Would Fight For You”: Socialist China, Korean War, and Photographic affect\u201d
\nThis paper examined how photographic affected was explored, defined and promoted in the Social world by focusing on \u201cWe Love Peace\u201d (1952), a seemingly mundane photograph featuring a boy and a girl cuddling with peace doves that became an iconic image of China\u2019s intervention in the Korean War.
\n\"YiGu\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Aglaia De Angeli, Queen\u2019s University Belfast: \u201cTianjin Photos between memento and intelligence: what is the real purpose?\u201d
\nIn the Sir Robert Hart\u2019s collection at Queen\u2019s University Belfast there are two albums of pictures of Tianjin taken at the turn of the 20th century. The presentation aimed to tell the story that the photos were narrating and consider what was the real purpose of the photos at the time it was taken.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Edwards, De Montfort University: \u201cPhotographs and the Business of ‘Doing History’: some thoughts on method and historiography\u201d
\nThis paper asked how we do history in the age of photography, while reflecting upon the uneasy disciplinary relationship with photographs and historical sources. <\/p>\n

Eric Morier-Genoud, Queen\u2019s University Belfast: \u201dMissionary Photography and Archives: History, Potential and Limits\u201d
\nThis paper started by discussing the history of missionary photography and by providing an idea of the state of missionary archives today.<\/p>\n

Roberta Wue, University of California: \u201cChina through the Magic Lantern: An 1886 Slide Lecture in Shanghai\u201d
\nThis paper explored an interesting example of global travels through photography from a Shanghai perspective in the form of an 1886 magic lantern lecture given by the pastor and educator Yan Yongjing (1838-1898) at Shanghai\u2019s Polytechnic Institution.<\/p>\n

Marine Cabos, SOAS: \u201dCreating Heritage: photographs of ancient sites in late imperial China\u201d
\nThis paper examined the impact of photographs produced during campaigns of exploration in China on our understanding of Chinese cultural heritage.
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\"[Chine.<\/a>
[Chine. Province du Gansu], vue de Touen-Houang [Dunhuang, vue de la vall\u00e9e, prise de la grotte 16] [China. Province of Gansu, view of Dunhuang, view of the valley taken from the grotto 16]. 1908. Digital photograph after a gelatin silver negative on celluloid roll film, 18 x 24 cm (AP8204; Old number 3) \u00a9 MNAAG.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

More information: New Lenses on China website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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