"Mapping intelligence": photography and topography in Strangman's albums.

Aglaia De Angeli

doi:10.1080/1547402X.2018.1522821

"Mapping intelligence": photography and topography in Strangman's albums.

Aglaia De Angeli

School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

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Abstract

This article investigates the events that occurred in the surroundings of Tianjin in the period between the Boxer Uprising and the Russo-Japanese War. The discovery of two albums of snapshots and a short accompanying letter by Richard Strangman,a Customs officer, to Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector General of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, and Edwin Conger, the American Minister Plenipotentiary to China, offers a chance to reflect on the use of amateur photography as a tool of intelligence and topography in the border region between Zhili and Manchuria in the early years of the twentieth century.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	163-180
Number of pages	18
Journal	The Chinese Historical Review
Volume	25
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402X.2018.1522821
Publication status	Published - 02 Nov 2018
Event	Wiles Colloquium 2017: New Lenses on China: Photography in Modern Chinese History and Historiography - Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom Duration: 23 Jun 2017 → 24 Jun 2017 https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/newlensesonchina/

Keywords

China
history
amateur photography
topography
Intelligence
Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs
Sir Robert Hart
Tianjin
Boxer Uprising
Russo-Japanese War

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Arts and Humanities(all)

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De Angeli, A. (2018). "Mapping intelligence": photography and topography in Strangman's albums. The Chinese Historical Review, 25(2), 163-180. https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402X.2018.1522821

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