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SUMMARY:The Chinese-Russian Plague Expedition (Summer 1911): A Photographi
 c Approach - Dr. Christos Lynteris (CRASSH\, University of Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:The visualization of the first Manchurian pneumonic plague epi
 demic (1910- 11) is commonly identified with the  spectacular grotesque of
  Russian depictions of the outbreak\, Chinese visual efforts to normalize 
 the event\, Japanese exercises in selfstaging South Manchuria as the seat 
 of scientific excellence\, but also\, beyond the three empires in control 
 of the area at the time\, with lay and missionary European and American so
 urces\, such as Richard P. Strong's lantern-slides. Examining what usually
  escapes historical attention\, that is the aftermath of the great epidemi
 c\, this paper focuses on two photographic albums produced by Wu Liande (
 伍連德) during the joint Chinese-Russian plague expedition to the Inner
  Asian steppes in the summer of 1911.\nFraming this visual production with
 in the epistemic conundrum faced by Wu in view of his inability to confirm
  the existence of plague in local hosts\, this seminar examines how photog
 raphy contributed to Chinese-Russian scientific competition\, whilst at th
 e same time rendering the environment on the Chinese-Russian frontier a sc
 ientifically\nknowable and actionable category.
LOCATION:Room 8 (ground floor) at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern 
 Studies (FAMES)
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