ALBUM III - SHANGHAI, XINHAI REVOLUTION

EARLY 20TH CENTURY

comprising 111 personal photographs of Shanghai, including several images of military ships, various English language shop signs for local businesses, for example Shung-Yuen the blacksmith. There are also 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. In November 1911, Shanghai citizens organised a rebellion and captured the city soon after, establishing the Shanghai military on 8. 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. There are photographs of the German Theatre in the Lyceum, which was founded in 1930 as an amateur dramatics society. There is 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. Finally, there are three photographs of the wedding of Wilhelm Knappe (1855-1910), the German Consul-General in Shanghai from 1899-1906 (111)

largest 21.2 x 15.5cm