TY  - BOOK
ED  - Mattelaer, Johan J.
ED  - Torck, Mathieu
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020//
TI  - Belgian passage to China (1870-1930): Belgian-Chinese historical relations (1870-1930) and the construction of the railway and the tramway network based on the personal documents and pictures of François Nuyens and Philippe & Adolphe Spruyt
PB  - Sterck & De Vreese
CY  - Gorredijk
KW  - Railroads
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Documentary photography
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - International relations
KW  - Diaries
KW  - Personal correspondence
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Relations
KW  - Belgium
AB  - A Belgian Passage to China (1870-1930) brings a forgotten episode of Belgium’s overseas history into the limelight. It highlights two projects. François Nuyens left Ghent for the city of Tianjin in 1905 where he built a power station and a tram network. In a well-documented diary Nuyens writes down his impressions of his stay in China between 1905 and 1908.  Brothers Philippe and Adolphe Spruyt, both of them doctors, travelled to China to oversee the medical service at the railway construction yards between Beijing and Hankou. They returned with suitcases full of Chinese antiquities. Their interesting correspondence and more than 1,200 photographic glass plates offer a unique glimpse into the daily life of China at the beginning of the 20th century
SN  - 9789056156442
LA  - English
N1  - Johan J. Mattelaer, Mathieu Torck eds.
ID  - 1755914717
ER  -