High ranking Chinese and foreign officials, including the British Consul E.T.C. Werner

High ranking Chinese and foreign officials, including the British Consul E.T.C. Werner

Collection

Oswald, John

Identifier

Os05-163

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Os05-163. Photo from an album (UoB reference Os05) kept in the School of Oriental and African Studies Archives, London (SOAS reference MS 380 876/5). No caption in the album for this photograph. A large group of Chinese, Japanese and European officials, in formal diplomatic dress, posed in a garden. Probably late 19th century. The man seated in the front row, fifth from left, is British Consul E.T.C. Werner. On Werner see his autobiographical "Autumn leaves; an autobiography with a sheaf of papers, sociological and sinological, philosophical and metaphysical" (Shanghai, Kelly and Walsh, 1928), and Paul French, "Midnight in Peking" (Penguin, 2011), which addresses the 1937 murder of his adopted daughter, Pamela Werner.

Estimated Date

1890s

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London