One of the alleged perpetrators of the ‘Kucheng massacre’, with his captors

One of the alleged perpetrators of the ‘Kucheng massacre’, with his captors

Collection

Oswald, John

Identifier

Os04-078

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Os04-078. Photo from an album (UoB reference Os04) kept in the School of Oriental and African Studies Archives, London (SOAS reference MS 380 876/4). 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.

Caption in album or on mount

Min[?] ch’ing ch’i and his captors.

Location

Gutian

Estimated Date

August-September 1895

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London

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