These workmen, hired by the British government, took a moment to pose for this historic photograph after they completed the long and strenuous task of constructing the Turnabout Island Lighthouse in 1873 on an island that forms part of the boundary between the East China Sea and the South China Sea. In 1938, Japanese troops gained control of the lighthouse and the island. In June of 1942, Chinese forces attacked the island and managed to blow up the lighthouse. After the war, a new lighthouse was built that was rebuilt again in the 1980s. But the lighthouse shown here remains as only a photograph in the dusty pages of time, unknown by most, but kept alive through the pages of Lighthouse Digest. (© 2012 Felcity Somers Eve, courtesy Historical Photographs of China, University of Bristol, England. http://visualisingchina.net/ )
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