• Zhanshi huabao zengkan disanhao (Extra edition no. 3 of the War affairs illustrated news)
    戰事畫報增刊第三號

Publisher:
  • [China : s.n. , between 1912 and 1917]
Extent:
  • 30 pieces ; box 91 x 63 x 9 cm.
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Description:
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
  • The collection was given to the Princeton Libraries by Donald Roberts, class of 1909, in 1937. The collection also includes one Japanese block print dating from 1917
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Curator's notes:

  • Chinese
    Shanghai, 1911, paper

    News of the 1911 Wuhan Uprising that would successfully topple the Chinese Qing imperial government was eagerly awaited in the Shanghai metropolis, and was conveyed there by telegraph. Multiple updates would be sent each day, and quick broadsheets would be made for sale and for posting on walls. This image, itself one issue of such a sheet, shows an image of how sheets like these were displayed on walls and read by the public.

    Gift of Donald Roberts, Class of 1909, 1937
    East Asian Library Special Collections, DS773.4. X58 1912

    For further reading

    Liang Jieling 梁潔玲 et al. (ed.) Road to China's 1911 Revolution. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of History, 2011.

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