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Recent Posts
- Guest blog: Andrew Hillier on Armistice Day and its Aftermath in Treaty Port China
- Guest blog: Kaori Abe on the Abe Naoko Collection –– a glimpse of a Japanese family’s life in Shanghai, c.1927-c.1934
- Guest blog: Ghassan Moazzin on Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China
- Guest blog: Helena Lopes on A connected place: Macau in the Second World War
- Andrew Hillier on Bessie Pirkis: A Renaissance Woman in Peking Part 2
- Guest blog: Rachel Meller on Uncovering the story of Shanghai’s Second World War Jewish refugees
- Andrew Hillier on Bessie Pirkis: A Renaissance Woman in Peking
- Need and opportunity: the new HPC website
- Everything’s changed, but everything’s still the same: HPC update
- Location/Dislocation – Admiral Keppel, the Chinese Buddha at Sandringham and three key photographs
- The Forbidden City at War: Images of the Wartime Evacuation of the Imperial Art Collections
- A name, a photograph, and a history of global connections
- ‘Normal’ Lives Led in Abnormal Conditions
- Charles Frederick Moore’s photographs of the ruins of the European-style palaces (西洋楼) at the Yuanmingyuan (圆明园)
- Pieces of China in Bristol – cataloguing Historical Photographs of China material
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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham on poverty
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham who is our guest blogger this week, is a historian and writer based in Shanghai. Follow her on Twitter @mauracunningham. The Americans and Europeans who came to China in the first half of the twentieth century often … Continue reading
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Tagged beggars, children, poverty
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Verity Wilson on Fancy dress, far from home
Our guest blog this week comes from Verity Wilson, who teaches the history of design on the joint master’s course at the Royal College of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Prior to that, she worked for 25 years … Continue reading
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Paul French on Jessfield Park, Shanghai: A Brief, and Probably Mostly Apocryphal, History
In the first of our new series of guest blogs Paul French, writer and prolific blogger, reflects on on the history of what was formerly one of Shanghai’s largest parks. Most recently the author of a new Penguin China Special, Betrayal … Continue reading
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Tagged park, Shanghai
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Visualising China launched
Visualising China was launched yesterday at the “Treaty Ports in Modern China” conference held at the University of Bristol. The conference is organised by the Department of Historical Studies as part of an Economic and Social Research Council-funded project entitled “Colonialism … Continue reading
Posted in Digitisation
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Important new content and a pre-release peek at the website
Lots of news to report and lots of work still going on as we near the end of the project (end of March) and look forward to user interaction with the Visualising China website … We’re delighted that over 1700 … Continue reading
Posted in Digitisation
Tagged Hart, Needham, New photos
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Technical workshop on Cross-searching digital collections
On the 21st September, Visualising China held a very useful workshop in Bristol, looking at the problems of cross-searching multiple remote collections by providing users with a search over integrated data, harvested periodically from target sites/services. The workshop aimed to … Continue reading
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Report from User Engagement workshop
On 7th September we held a successful user engagement workshop to coincide with the British Association for Chinese Studies annual conference. The workshop was attended by eminent academics, postgraduates and researchers from half a dozen different countries and was extremely … Continue reading
New Project Landing Page and User Engagement Plans
This month we are launching the project “landing page”, designed to help people quickly understand the aims of the project, to sign up for project updates, and to offer input if they wish to. It is primarily aimed at researchers … Continue reading
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Plans to Cross Search Related Content
We held another very productive Steering Committee meeting last month with Malcolm Raggett joining us from SOAS. Malcolm gave really useful input drawn from SOAS experiences in offering content collections online and issues such as problems with the scalability of … Continue reading
Visualising China Demo at JISC Conference 2010
Earlier this month Simon Price and Nikki Rogers attended the JISC Conference 2010 in London. Nikki, the Visualising China project manager, was an invited panel member on a discussion session about maximising creativity of software developers and lessons learnt from … Continue reading
Posted in Image Annotation, Social Software and Web 2.0, Visualisation
Tagged #jiscec, jisc10
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