Historical Photographs of China

Commissioners viewing the ruins of mission houses at Huashan (华山), near Kucheng (Gutian)

Commissioners viewing the ruins of mission houses at Huashan (华山), near Kucheng (Gutian)

Collection

Oswald, John

Identifier

Os04-090

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Os04-090. 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 typed caption: ‘HWASHAN / Scene of massacre, taken Sept. 17, 1895’. 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’. This image was reproduced in an article entitled ‘The Martyrs of Ku-Cheng’ by Henry Mostyn, published in ‘The Wide World Magazine’, August-September 1899, page 80, and captioned: ‘Viewing the scene of the massacre’. See Os04-088 and Os04-089.

Caption in album or on mount

HWASHAN Scene of massacre, taken Sept. 17, 1895.

Location

Gutian

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London