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Darwent Revisited: Shanghai now and then

Posted: February 14th, 2013 | No Comments »

Sorry, but I found out about this a little too late to publicise, but you can follow it up and hopefully at some point it will come to Shanghai in some form. Jamie Carstairs from the Visualising China project at Bristol University created an installation of photos old and new, just exhibited in Bristol over Chinese New Year, around the Revd. CE Darwent’s 1904 Shanghai Handbook for Travellers and Residents.

More details here and here with photographic examples of Darwent and Carstairs’s work

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