The Conference of Beijing following the Boxer War through the lens of Germany envoy in China Alfons Mumm von Schwarzenstein. 👨🤝📃
📸Alphons Mumm von Schwarzenstein, Ein Tagebuch in Bildern, [Berlin], [1902], p. 265.
📸Alphons Mumm von Schwarzenstein, Ein Tagebuch in Bildern, [Berlin], [1902], p. 265.
Since I wrote my Master's thesis about the role and agency of Belgium's representative Maurice Joostens (sixth from the left on the picture) during the negotiations, I couldn't help to write a short Wikipedia biography of him.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_J…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_J…
Have a look at Mumm von Schwarzenstein's other photos (over 500!) of China around 1900 over here: virtualshanghai.net/Texts/E-Librar…
From the Chinese side, the ‘negotiation with eleven nations’ was depicted in a very different way.
✏️Chen Kuilong(陳夔龍), Running Water and Hanging Clouds (hui-liu-yun-zai xuan-tu-ji; 水流云在轩图记; A pictorial illustration of the veranda with running water and hanging clouds)
✏️Chen Kuilong(陳夔龍), Running Water and Hanging Clouds (hui-liu-yun-zai xuan-tu-ji; 水流云在轩图记; A pictorial illustration of the veranda with running water and hanging clouds)
✏️via Qi Wang, The Autobiographical Self in Time and Culture. Oxford, New York: Oxford University
Press, 2013, p. 127. oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/a…
Press, 2013, p. 127. oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/a…
Restricted access to archives and planning rearrangements made me postpone (let's hope not cancel) an article about"Belgian-Chinese diplomacy in the Boxer War era" on which I was working. So for the time being, this is all I have to say about China folks!
