Donald Mennie was born in Scotland in 1875/6 and arrived in China around 1899. His atmospheric, classically composed photographs are in the Pictorialist style, well suited to publication in souvenir photobooks. Mennie became Managing Director of the pharmacy A.S. Watson and Co, in Shanghai. During the 1920s, he published his photographs in China by Land and Water; The Pageant of Peking; Glimpses of China; China, North and South; Picturesque China and The Grandeur of the Gorges. Mennie’s photographs illustrated My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard by Elizabeth Cooper (1914) and The Great River: The story of a voyage on the Yangtze Kiang by Gretchen Fitkin (1922). Mennie died in the Country Sanatorium for Lung Disease (Hongjiao Sanatorium), Shanghai on 10 Jan 1944, aged about 68, assumed to be in poor health. He had been interned by the Japanese at Lunghua Civilian Assembly Centre in March 1943.
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• Text from: www.hpcbristol.net
• Images from: Mennie, Donald, and Weale B. L. B. L. Putnam. The Pageant of Peking: Comprising Sixty-Six Vandyck Photogravures of Peking and Environs from Photographs. Shanghai: Watson, 1920.
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