Wu Chung hsin walking towards a sedan chair

Wu Chung hsin walking towards a sedan chair

1999.23.1.45.4 (Album Print black & white)

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Key Information

Photographer

H. Staunton ?

Collection

Harry Staunton

Date of Photo

1940

Named Person

Wu Chung hsin

Region

Lhasa Area

Accession number

1999.23.1.45.4

Image Dimensions

116 x 90 mm

Wu Chung hsin, Chairman of the Commission of Tibetan and Mongolian Affairs of the Nanking Government (second from left). He is wearing dark coloured silk robes and has glasses. There is a sedan chair on the right being carried by Chinese retainers.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print gelatin silver

Date Acquired

Donated 1999

Donated by

Diana Hughes

Expedition

H. Staunton

Photo also owned by

Diana Hughes

This Image also appears in another collection

1999.23.1.28.4

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - "Wu Chung-hsin a very smooth character" [Hugh Richardson in conversation with Roger Croston, detailed in H. Staunton undated Related Documents File, PRM Manuscript Collections]

Other Information - People


Other Information - People: Wu Chung-hsin, Chairman of the Commission of Tibetan and Mongolian Affairs of the Nanking Government, was in Lhasa in 1940. He had been sent by the Chinese government to "supervise" proceedings at the Installation of the Dalai Lama. Richardson discusses Wu's mission to Lhasa in Tibet and Its History , 1984 (2nd Ed.) Boston & London: Shambala, "In general, Wu's mission consolidated and improved the Chinese foothold at Lhasa by putting it on a regular basis; but, in spite of the grandiose designation attached to that office, he made no advance on the political front and no breach in Tibetan resisitence to Chinese claims to supremacy." (p. 157) "Wu also claimed that he personally conducted the enthronement and that, in gratitude, the Dalai Lama prostrated himself in the direction of Peking." (p. 154)

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Wu Chung hsin walking towards a sedan chair" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1999.23.1.45.4.html>.

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