Introduction
Periodicals
Annals of the Náprstek Museum
2018/39/1
A Family Portrait: Enrique Stanko Vráz and the Qing Aristocracy During the Boxer Rebellion
A Family Portrait: Enrique Stanko Vráz and the Qing Aristocracy During the Boxer Rebellion
Helena Heroldová, Jiřina Todorovová
| Pages | 51–74 |
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| DOI | 10.1515/anpm-2018-0005 |
| Keywords | Enrique Stanko Vráz, old photographs from China, Boxer Rebellion, Prince Su family |
| Type of Article | Materialia |
| Citation | HEROLDOVÁ, Helena a TODOROVOVÁ, Jiřina. A Family Portrait: Enrique Stanko Vráz and the Qing Aristocracy During the Boxer Rebellion. Annals of the Náprstek Museum. Prague: National Museum, 2018, 39(1), 51–74. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/anpm-2018-0005. ISSN 0231-844X (print), 2533-5685 (online). Also available from: https://publikace.nm.cz/en/periodicals/aotnpm/39-1/a-family-portrait-enrique-stanko-vraz-and-the-qing-aristocracy-during-the-boxer-rebellion |
The Czech traveller and photographer Enrique Stanko Vraz (1860–1932) spent three spring months in China during the Boxer Uprising in 1901. He was amongst the first travellers – photo-reporters. He preferred realistic photographs as the best proof of capturing the world around him. In Beijing, he took several hundred photographs including the Manchu aristocratic families. Among them, he photographed Prince Su (1866–1922), an important late Qing statesman, and his family. The study discusses Prince Su’s family photographs in relations to Vraz’s notes and travel books.
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