Two executioners of the perpetrators of the ‘Kucheng massacre’, with their weapons, Fuzhou

Two executioners of the perpetrators of the ‘Kucheng massacre’, with their weapons, Fuzhou

Collection

Oswald, John

Identifier

Os04-086

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Os04-086. 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. See Ba01-076 and Ba01-077.

Location

Fuzhou

Estimated Date

September 1895

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London