Fu Bingchang in a famous garden, Hangzhou, early 1930s

Fu Bingchang in a famous garden, Hangzhou, early 1930s

Collection

Fu Bingchang

Identifier

Fu-n137

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Fu-n137. This is the garden of a private residence near Hangzhou. The garden was planned and built during the Ming Dynasty, A.D. 1368-1644. Fu Bingchang, wearing a changpao, is posed with a prized petrified log by an oval moon gate. Other interestingly shaped rocks may be Tai rock, or Taihu, from Lake Tai, in the Yangtze Delta.

Location

Hangzhou

Estimated Date

Early 1930s

Material

Negative

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Collection of C. H. Foo and Y. W. Foo

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