Stocks for punishment beatings of perpetrators of the ‘Kucheng massacre’

Stocks for punishment beatings of perpetrators of the ‘Kucheng massacre’

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ba01-075. No caption in the album for this photograph. Related to the killing of eleven missionaries and Chinese Christians on 1 August 1895, at the mission houses in Huashan (华山), near Kucheng (Gutian), Fujian Province, by ‘Vegetarian’ rebels, who were part of a religious movement called zhaijiao (‘fasting school’), so called because they took vows of vegetarianism. See Os04-079 (stocks in background).

Location

Gutian

Estimated Date

August-September 1895

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Share this page