Woodblock Print - Off to School · Imaginaries and Modernities Among West China Missionaries

Woodblock Print - Off to School

Title: Woodblock Print - Off to School
Caption: Off to School
Identifier: BMK_003
Description: A family consisting of a mother, two sons and a daughter walk alongside a stone wall. The oldest boy is wearing a scout uniform, an indication of his membership in the Guomindang youth club, while his younger brother wears the zhongshan suit first popularized by Sun Yatsen. The mother and daughter wear scholars' gowns, showing their status as "New Women," an image promoted by the GMD.
Creator: Beatrice McDowell Kitchen
Date Created: 1925 - 1947
Location: Chengdu, Sichuan
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1815286/chengdu.html
Original Format: Woodblock print
Source: Donald Willmott
Provenance: Self-published pdf compiled by Robert Kilborn and distributed to missionaries and mish kids at the Canadian School in West China annual reunion.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2025-04-03
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
Published In: Robert Kilborn, ed. n/d. Beatrice Kitchen: A Collection of Her Wood Block Prints and Other Prints which She Created for the Canadian Mission Press, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.