Photography Executed Looter
Photography Executed Looter
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A black-and-white photograph showing a close-up of an executed robber lying face down on a Beijing street. Foreigners called one of the clashes between Nationalist revolutionaries and Beijing’s military leadership between February and March 1912 the Night of Terror. This year marked the end of the so-called Chinese Revolution (1911–1912), which overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) and created a new political order in China – the Republic was established on March 12, 1912.
The photograph is the 87th of 449 photographs of Beijing and its surroundings in the album of Ivan Skušek Jr., purchased during his stay in Beijing (1914–1920). In the handwritten inventory of the album, the photograph is referred to as Hingrichteter Plünderer. (DZ, MV)
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