Historical Photographs of China

Burnt out ruins of mission houses at Huashan (华山), near Kucheng (Gutian)

Burnt out ruins of mission houses at Huashan (华山), near Kucheng (Gutian)

Collection

Oswald, John

Identifier

Os04-088

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Os04-088. Photo from an album (UoB reference Os04) kept in the School of Oriental and African Studies Archives, London (SOAS reference MS 380 876/4). No caption in the album for this photo, but reversed out of the negative, is the caption: ‘HWA SHAN Ruins of foreign houses after massacre.’ Eleven missionaries and Chinese Christians were killed on 1 August 1895 at these mission hill 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. ‘Kucheng massacre’. See Os04-089 and Os04-090.

Caption in album or on mount

HWA SHAN Ruins of foreign houses after massacre.

Location

Gutian

Estimated Date

August-September 1895

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London