China, Photographs - Shanghai and the Xinhai Revolution
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
£5,000
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
Photograph album, comprising 111 personal photographs of Shanghai, early 20th century, including several images of military ships, various English language shop signs for local businesses (for example Shung-Yuen the blacksmith), 12 photographs from the burial procession of the mother of Pau Ching Po, a business man in Shanghai, and several photographs of the 1911 Xinhai Revolution in Shanghai, which resulted in the overthrowing of the last Imperial monarchy in China and the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912; also including photographs of the German Theatre in the Lyceum, which was founded in 1930 as an amateur dramatics society, a photograph of the Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884-1948) at the Club Concordia in 1904 as he laid the founding stone to the new German club in Shanghai, and three photographs of the wedding of Wilhelm Knappe (1855-1910), the German Consul-General in Shanghai from 1899-1906, largest photograph 21.2cm x 15.5cm
Dimensions
largest 21.2 x 15.5cm
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of the Merchant and Anthroposophist Johannes Gottfried William Schröder (1870-1942).
Note: In November 1911, Shanghai citizens organised a rebellion and captured the city soon after, establishing the Shanghai military on 8th November of the same year. The photographs offered here depict the rebels uprising in the streets, as well as scenes of destroyed homes and weapons used when taking the city.