One of the executioners of the perpetrators of the ‘Kucheng massacre’, with his weapon

One of the executioners of the perpetrators of the ‘Kucheng massacre’, with his weapon

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ba01-077. 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 Os04-086.

Location

Fuzhou

Estimated Date

1895-09-00

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

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