Category Archives: Guest blogs

Guest blog: A ‘Magic Weapon’ on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier

Posted on June 23, 2020 by Guest

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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New Perspective: Trinity Church and Treaty Port-Era Shanghai

Posted on June 12, 2020 by Guest

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 →

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Guest blog: It’s the End of the World as They Knew It

Posted on May 25, 2020 by Guest

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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Gina Tam on Dialect and Nationalism in China, and a grave in Amoy

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Guest

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 →

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Guest Blog: The Chile Pepper: Mao’s Little Red Spice

Posted on May 15, 2020 by Guest

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 →

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Trading Places, a photographic journey through China’s former Treaty Ports

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Guest

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 →

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A Banker and his Amanuensis

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Andrew Hillier

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 →

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Chris Courtney on Wuhan in the Time of Cholera

Posted on March 26, 2020 by Guest

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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Wuhan’s Yellow Crane Tower: Resistance and Resilience

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Guest

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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Chang Ning on Cultural translation: Gambling Cultures

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Guest

Dr. Ning Jennifer Chang is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. She has just published her first book, Cultural Translation: Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing and Jai Alai in Modern Shanghai (異國事物的轉譯：近代上海的跑馬、跑狗與回力球賽). Here she … Continue reading →

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