Polly Shih Brandmeyer
@yangtzerivernycSino-Western Yangtze River Family Stories, Upper Yangtze River, Steamships, Mixed-race heritage, China Missionaries, Hong Kong
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“It ought to be known that European women whose walk in life brought them into social contact with Chinese abroad, that to marry a Chinese and go back to his country with him was one of the most deplorable things a white woman could do.” - Missionary 1923 mmhellofuture.wordpress.com/2021/02/12/qia…
The Brooklyn Library invited Jewish & Chinese families who lived in Shanghai during WWII to lunch in 2019. My dad passed away months later. Thanks to the NY Phil & their new oratorio Emigré we reconnected to remember this remarkable cross-cultural story. youtu.be/v-yO-lP7pEQ?si…
These files are incredible sources of Chinese Genealogy and are fascinating to read. In my case, one ancestor had puzzling redactions by the US government.
Ancestry records released from era when U.S. banned Chinese immigrants washingtonpost.com/history/2023/0…
Ancestry records released from era when U.S. banned Chinese immigrants washingtonpost.com/history/2023/0…
Stranded in HK. It’s 1921. Half British/Half Chinese Adoptive Parents died en route to UK. Q: Knowing what we do now, would you send these 2 orphaned Eurasian girls to family in UK or a guardian in China? A: Butterfield & Swire escorted my grandmother & her sister to China.
Chengdu 1918. Commissioner of Foreign Affairs Qian Weishan 钱为善 and his English wife Adela Warburton with daughters, Elsie, Hilda and baby Isobel (my grandmother). Thanks to @ancestry DNA match, this photo was discovered from my long lost British relatives in Italy.
My step-grandmother, stage name: Ting Bao-Lin (丁宝麟) in Hong Kong photographed in her elaborate Chinese Opera costume. 1952. #ChinaFotoStudio #PekingOpera #OldHK
Does anyone know the origins of this flag and headdress? It was an image from an Upper Yangtze album c. 1900?
Meal time on the Upper Yangtze c. 1900. Trackers, whose shanties can be seen on shore in the background, fan out to pull junks uphill against rapids. “Hupeh men being considered the superior [trackers] hailed from the village of Huang-ling-miao.” #ThreeGorges #UpperYangtze
The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, 1982.
Chiang Ching-kuo 蒋经国and Belorussian wife Chiang Fang-liang蒋方良in Gannan(赣南). Chiang Ching-kuo was appointed as commissioner of Gannan Prefecture between 1939 and 1945.
The Royal Navy at Chongqing (c. 1900-1920). It was a big deal getting past the Yangzi gorges by steam alone... zoom in for a wave. digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-manageme…
#911Anniversary My life changed 21 years ago. I ran from the World Financial Center up to the Village, watched the towers collapse around my apartment building. The clean-up barge was located by my office building. 18-24months later, I battled cancer along with a work friend.
When Soong Mei-Ling, 10 years old, in the States, 1908. Later known as Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, first lady of the Republic of China.
Heat wave sweeping China. Yangtze River water level in Chongqing dropped to unprecedented levels, revealing ancient rock carvings of Buddha figures. twitter.com/CQing_CQNEWS/s…
People walking on what would ordinarily be the bed of the Yangtze River at Wuhan.
The salt wells of Leshan (乐山, then Jiading 嘉定 in Sichuan), in 1914. The Sichuan basin, an old inland sea, was rich in salt and gas (which was burned to evaporate the salt). tinyurl.com/y9cpexy8
East-West Family Divide. All four were born in China. After laying my father to rest next to his mother at Ferncliff - a western cemetery, we drove an hour to the Buddhist Chuang Yen Monastery to pay our respects to his father and step-mother at their eastern resting place.
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