Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wow, that's seriously scholarly work there :-) I presume the archive is in Taiwan rather than the mainland? All the Best and Good Luck! May your ink flow smoothly, and thanks for the kind words. On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:02 AM, K Landdeck <bamboozld at gmail.com> wrote: > Richard, > > Modern Chinese history, WW2 period (1937-1945). ?So the documents aren't > that old by historians' standards anyway, though they are written in > semi-classical (wenyanwen ???) and semi-colloquial (baihua ??) language. > ?The thesis is a detailed look at military service (conscription and > volunteer movements) under the Nationalists (KMT), as a way of getting at > state and nation-building during the war. ?Geographically the I'm staying > quite close to Chiang Kaishek's wartime capital, Chongqing (Chungking) and > the counties surrounding it, mainly because the records from there are just > so amazingly rich. ?I brought back about 12,000 pages of material -- all in > jpgs, shot with a Panasonic DMC-LX1 (with a Leica-designed lens!) as there > was no way I could bring back that many photocopies (too heavy and the risk > of physical loss was too great). > > I've noticed you do Chinese/Japanese calligraphy. ?I saw your Heart Sutra > photos -- very beautifully done! > > Kevin -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963