Two executioners of the perpetrators of the ‘Kucheng massacre’, with their weapons
Collection
Identifier
Ba01-076
Copyright
© 2008 Peter Lockhart Smith
Notes
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ba01-076. 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 Ba01-077 and Os04-086.
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Location
Date
September 1895
Estimated Date
September 1895
Material
Paper
Media
Black and white photograph
