Photography Show of Isabella Bird’s Footprints Held in SHNU

22 Apr 2011


SHNU: The Opening Ceremony of the Photography Show of “In the Footprints of Isabella Bird, Adventures in Twin Time Travel” was held in SHNU on April 20th, which was attended by 2 Vice Consuls of Japanese consulate in Shanghai, a professor from Japan Kyoto University, and directors from SHNU Museum, SHNU College of Humanities and Communication.
Hosted by SHNU and sponsored by Japan Kyoto University, Japan Tourism Agency, Japan Heibosha Publishing House, and Teikoku Shoin Publishing House, the show was supported by professor Kanasaka Kiyonori from Japan Kyoto University. Professor Kanasaka has devoted two decades to studying the reputed contemporary traveler Isabella Bird who toured around the world during the British Victorian Age, and thus promoted the development of tourism culture.
Themed Museum and Memory, the show would display about 100 photos and sketches of Isabella’s journey produced in the past 20 years of Kanasaka’s life experiences.
The show would last till June 30th
Isabella Bird (October 15, 1831 – October 7, 1904) was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, and a natural historian, who visited China twice in 1878 and 1894. Her essays vividly mirrored the events, landscapes, and characters of her times, and have significant research value to the development of regional history and modern geography.