Old blockhouse (Taiping fort) at Mudu, near Suzhou

Old blockhouse (Taiping fort) at Mudu, near Suzhou

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Da01-09. This photograph by the Revd. Charles Ewart Darwent is from an album inscribed to Herbert Wilcockson, from C. E. Darwent. The Revd. C.E. Darwent, Minister of the Union Church, Shanghai, was also the author of a photographer-friendly guidebook entitled, ‘Shanghai: a handbook for travellers and residents to the chief objects of interest in and around the foreign settlement and native city’ (1904) - https://archive.org/details/cu31924023217825. The building depicted could be the remains of fort dating from the Taiping rebellion (1850-1864)? Mutu or Mo-tu (Mudu), near Soochow (Suzhou).

Caption in album or on mount

Old gate Mo-tu

Location

Suzhou

Estimated Date

1902

Photographer

Darwent, Charles Ewart

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

University of Bristol Library, Special Collections