Visualising China’s New Blog

For those who don’t know this treasure trove, Visualising China is a project to allow users to explore and enhance more than 8,000 digitised images of photographs of China taken between 1850 and 1950. It allows access to many previously unseen albums, envelopes and private collections and also major collections such as Historical Photographs of China, the Sir Robert Hart Collection and Joseph Needham’s Photographs of Wartime China. It’s a lot of fun, a way to spend hours lost in old China on a rainy day and the brainchild of Prof Robert Bickers at Uni of Bristol.

And now they’ve started a blog the idea of which is to find new ways to offering fresh perspectives, thoughts, and digging out new themes etc on the photographs on the site. Simply choose a photo, or couple of photos, and offer some insight. I rashly decided to try this and, probably due to not having much to do or something compared to everyone else (slightly worrying), ended up their debut blogger talking about the old Jessfield Park in Shanghai (Zhongshan Park as now is)…..click here