书香之家：【西方传教士与中国医学和教育图片】 - 由弓尒发表

杜布森（William Hervie Dobson，1870-1965）毕业于乔治·华盛顿大学和费城综合医院（医学博士），1897年，他作为第一位医疗传教士被美国长老会派往阳江。此后，杜布森一直在阳江从事传教、行医和教学工作，直到20世纪40年代初，在完成自己的使命后才光荣退休。

安庆，坐落于迎江寺内的振风塔。甘博/摄，约拍于1917-1919年之间。

河南开封，一对外国夫妻在中國。甘博/摄，约拍于1917-1919年之间。

天津，洋大夫给中国儿童看病。甘博/摄，约拍于1917-1919年之间。

天津，东马路青年会门前等待新人的马拉轿车。甘博/摄，约拍于1917-1919年之间。

老年妇女乞丐，怀里还揣着一个孩子。甘博/摄，约拍于1917-1919年之间。

杭州，雷峰塔，1924年倒塌。甘博/摄，约拍于1917-1919年之间。

北京颐和园昆明湖长堤上的玉带桥。甘博/摄，约拍于1917-1919年之间。

Sidney D. Gamble in China, 1908-1932

Photographs from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Curated by faculty, library staff and Duke students, this exhibition highlights sociologist Sidney D. Gamble as a photographer and provides an intimate view of China in the early years of the twentieth century. A companion documentary film will also be on view, created for this exhibit by Christopher Thomas, a graduate student in Duke’s MFA Program in Experimental and Documentary Arts.

https://library.duke.edu/exhibits/2015/gamble

Sidney D. Gamble (July 12, 1890 – 1968) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to David Berry and Mary Huggins Gamble; grandson of James Gamble, who, with William Procter, founded Procter & Gamble in 1837. in 1912 he graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Literature degree and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He visited China for four extended periods, 1908, 1917–1919, 1924–27, and 1931–1932, doing Christian social work for the Y.M.C.A and conducting social surveys. He is now best known for his remarkable and extensive photographs of Peking and North China.^[1]

Social survey and photography in China[edit]

Gamble first toured in 1908 accompanying his parents, then after graduating from Princeton in 1912, studied labor and industrial economics at University of California, Berkeley, spending six months on a fellowship working at a reform school for delinquent boys. At this time, he built the house which became known as the Sidney D. Gamble House.^[3]

In 1917, he joined the work of Princeton-in-Peking and the Peking YMCA where his Princeton friend John Stewart Burgessinvited him to do the surveys which resulted in Peking: A Social Survey, which included more than fifty photographs. In 1919 Gamble was on hand to capture dramatic photographs of the May Fourth student demonstrations. The motto of the May Fourth Movement, "To save China through science and democracy," and the missionary ideal of "Saving China through Christianity" for a time seemed to be united.^[4] When he returned with his bride, Elizabeth Lowe, to China in 1924, he used his family resources to hire a team of Chinese researchers to survey 283 families. The book was published in 1933 as How Chinese Families Live in Peiping (as Peking was then called). In 1926, Gamble traveled for three weeks in the Soviet Union with Sherwood Eddy, a longtime mentor.

As China became more and more inflamed by patriotic agitation and warlord fighting, he found hope in the Ting Hsien Experiment in Rural Reconstruction conducted by James Yen’s Mass Education Movement. In 1931-32 Gamble traveled to China for the fourth and final time to organize the surveys which he used for three more detailed volumes, Ting Hsien: A North China Rural Community (1954) and North China Villages (1963). Chinese Village Plays, published in 1970, after his death, give translations based on unique transcriptions of now lost village yang ko plays, which differ from the later dances.

Jonathan Spence concludes of Gamble that his "findings were open-minded, clear headed, methodologically intelligent (though not always beyond criticism by scholars of different views), startlingly imaginative, and -- when presented in photographic form -- vigorous, ebullient, unsentimental, and starkly, yet never cruelly, illustrative of the deep and real suffering that lay at the heart of China's long revolution." ^[5]

Later career[edit]

After his return to the United States, was elected member of the National Council of the YMCA, became Treasurer, Vice Chairman, Chairman, and President Emeritus of Church World Service; Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation; President and Honorary Chairman of Princeton-in-Asia.^[6]

西德尼·戴维·甘博（1890-1968）是美国社会经济学家，人道主义者和摄影家，中国城镇和乡村社会经济问题的调查和研究的终身致力者。

1908年-1932年间，甘博四次来到中国进行城镇和乡村调查，拍摄城市和农村生活，他的足迹遍布华北、华东、西南等地区。

1968年，甘博在纽约去世。但甘博的部分相片一直未被发现，1984年，他的后人在一个鞋盒内发现它们。1989年，这些相片首次在北美19个城市及中国内地13个城市巡回展出，引起巨大轰动。