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This photogravure postcard shows a Chinese doll maker at work outside the shop of Wun Man & Co. The doll maker was handmaking a doll with a needle. The caption on this postcard’s backside describes the doll maker as a ‘magician’. He ‘rubs the mixture’ of ‘a piece of flour and wax … with other matter of varied colour’. Then, the mixture ‘becomes a Chinese mannikin with comical pink head and a coloured kimono’.

A Chinese doll maker at Wun Man & Co.

SKU: BE001
  • c.1924-1925

Two Exhibitions between Two Strikes:

Exhibiting Hong Kong at the British Empire Exhibition 1924 and 1925

Principal investigator:

Dr. Gary Pui-fung Wong

Lecturer

School of Sociology and Social Policy

The University of Leeds

 

Contact methods: G.P.F.Wong@leeds.ac.uk

This project is funded by the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust. 

 

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