Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom Council for World Missions University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library docenquiry@soas.ac.uk http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description
"The disappearing queue. Picture taken the day before the act came into force ordering the abolition of the 'tail'". Shows barber cutting a man's long pig-tail. Also shows child cake seller in foreound. Hankow [later Hankou, now Wuhan], Central China. One of a set of eight loose prints of the Chinese Revolution 1911 to 1924 or various anti Japanese, anti-British or anti-communist disturbances or demonstrations between 1924 and 1927. Bernard Upward served the LMS in China from 1905 to 1927, after a previous period in China on behalf of the China Inland Mission from 1897 to 1904. His work was mainly involved in educational work at the Griffith John College.
Type
image
Format
Printing-out paper prints, 9.2 x 14.2 cm. photographs
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