Corpses stripped of clothing, Hanyang, Wuhan
Collection
Identifier
Wr-s093
Notes
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Wr-s093. Corpses lay unattended on the battlefield after the revolutionaries had lost Hanyang to the Qing army. The clothes of the dead may have been scavenged by the poor in Hanyang or nearby villages. See 'The Birth of a Republic - Francis Stafford’s Photographs of China’s 1911 Revolution and Beyond' by Hanchao Lu (University of Washington Press, 2010), page 89, where this photograph is reproduced.
