Corpses stripped of clothing, Hanyang, Wuhan

Corpses stripped of clothing, Hanyang, Wuhan

Collection

Wheeler, Charles

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.

Location

Wuhan

Date

November 1911

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph