Derelict house, Dalian
Artist/Photographer | Huddleston, Rob |
Country | China |
City | Dalian |
Subject Date | 1900 |
Image Date | 2012 |
View | Exterior |
Medium | Digital image |
Library Reference | RH Coast Timber House 2013 |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Colour |
Credit | Rob Huddleston / RIBA Collections |
Subject | Houses ; Timber construction |
NOTES: Following the first Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895, and the Treaty of Shimonoseki, and the intervention of France, Russia and Germany, Russia leased the Liadong peninsula from the then ruling Qing Dynasty. From 1898 Russia set about building a modern commercial port city at Dalian, chosen as it was one of the few in the region which didn't ice up. The Russians intent on creating a 'Paris of the East' renamed it 'Dal'niy'. This house which dates from that period has since been demolished to make way for new buildings.
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