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Recent Posts
- Guest blog: Nadine Attewell on Refocusing the Gaze: Leisure, Power, and Women’s Work in Interwar Hong Kong
- HPC: A Change of Pace
- Guest blog: Claire Lowrie on ‘Travelling Servants and Moving Images: A Photographic History of Chinese Domestic Workers’
- Guest blog: The Cercle Sportif Français: Elite cosmopolitanism in Shanghai’s Former French Concession.
- Black and white Hong Kong transformed by ‘OldHKinColour’
- The Five Faces of Dr Walter Medhurst, D.D.
- Shanghai City Wall and Gates
- Visualizing Qing Diplomats in the West
- Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collection – part three
- Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collections – part two
- Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collections – part one
- Guest blog: Visualising china in China: life, labour and loss
- About scratching, they were never wrong, the old masters
- Guest blog: Sarah Yu on China’s war against the fly
- A round up of recent posts: internment, a church, a shipwreck, three missing Spanish diplomats, Wuhan
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Category Archives: Guest blogs
Guest post: Spaniards in the treaty ports: Archivo China-España and Juan Mencarini
Our latest post comes from Xavier Ortells-Nicolau, an adjunct professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona. His recent work has focused on images of China in late nineteenth and early twentieth century … Continue reading
Posted in cross-searching, Guest blogs, History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged Chinese Maritime Customs Service, Fuzhou, mandarin, Mencarini, Shanghai, Spanish
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Guest blog: A ‘Magic Weapon’ on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier
The author of our latest guest post is Benno Weiner, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. He is author of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (Cornell University Press, 2020) and co-editor of Conflicting … Continue reading
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Tagged China Inland Mission, missionaries, Qinghai, Tibet
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New Perspective: Trinity Church and Treaty Port-Era Shanghai
Cole Roskam is an Associate Professor of Architectural History in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. The author of Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937 (University of Washington Press, 2019), his research explores architecture’s role … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs, Heritage
Tagged architecture, Cathedral, church, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Kidner, Scott, Shanghai
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Guest blog: It’s the End of the World as They Knew It
James Carter is the author of the forthcoming Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai (W.W. Norton), which uses the events of 12 November 1941 at the Shanghai Race Club to tell the story of China on the eve of World … Continue reading
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Tagged horse, Pearl Harbor, racing, Second World War, Shanghai, Shanghai Race Club, Sino-Japanese War
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Gina Tam on Dialect and Nationalism in China, and a grave in Amoy
Our latest guest blogger is Gina Anne Tam. An assistant professor of Chinese history at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, Gina’s research and teaching interests include the history of nationalism, race and ethnicity, language, and foodways. She received her BA … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs
Tagged Amoy, cemeteries, Gulangyu, Kulangsu, missionaries, nationalism, new books, Xiamen
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Guest Blog: The Chile Pepper: Mao’s Little Red Spice
Brian Dott received a Master’s degree in Chinese Studies from the University of Michigan and his PhD in Chinese History from the University of Pittsburgh. He teaches in the History Department and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Program at Whitman … Continue reading
Trading Places, a photographic journey through China’s former Treaty Ports
Nicholas Kitto describes the project which culminated in the recent publication of his book ‘Trading Places, A Photographic Journey Through China’s Former Treaty Ports’ (Blacksmith Books) It was quite late on 16 December 1996, and I was walking along Racecourse … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs, Heritage, Photographers, Photographs in Books, Uncategorized
Tagged Kitto, photography, Treaty Port
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A Banker and his Amanuensis
Andrew Hillier draws on the Richard Family Collection in Historical Photographs of China to evoke the moving relationship between Guy Hillier and his young amanuensis, Ella Richard. Andrew’s book, Mediating Empire: An English Family in China, 1817-1927, is published this … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Family photography, Guest blogs
Tagged Beijing, Hillier, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Richard family collection
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Chris Courtney on Wuhan in the Time of Cholera
Our new blog is from Chris Courtney, Assistant Professor of Chinese History at the University of Durham. His research focusses on the city of Wuhan and its rural hinterland. He is the author of The Nature of Disaster in China: The … Continue reading
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Tagged cholera, Covid-19, plague, public health, Wuhan
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Wuhan’s Yellow Crane Tower: Resistance and Resilience
Our latest blog comes from Dr Yang Chan, Shanghai Jiaotong University. A graduate of Hunan University, Dr Yang was awarded her PhD at the University of Bristol in 2014, and then worked at Wuhan University, before moving in 2017 to … Continue reading
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Tagged Heritage, Sino-Japanese War, Wuhan
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