Author Archives: Guest

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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H.G.W. Woodhead – Opinionated and Prolific

Posted on August 1, 2019 by Guest

Paul French, the author of this guest blog, lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. French’s 2018 book ‘City of Devils’ was his much-anticipated second literary non-fiction book and was a Kirkus Book of the Year. Devils followed ‘Midnight … Continue reading →

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Guest blog: Melanie King on Harold Ivan Harding

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Guest

Our latest guest appearance is from author and historian Melanie King. While researching her latest book, The Lady is a Spy: The Tangled Lives of Stan Harding and Marguerite Harrison she found H.I. Harding, the brother of one of her subjects … Continue reading →

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Ian Gill on photographs and family history

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Guest

While reading journalist Ian Gill’s articles in the South China Morning Post on his search into the history of his China coast family, we were struck by the place of photographs in that story and invited him to tell us … Continue reading →

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French Men of War at Pagoda Anchorage, Foochow, 1884

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Guest

In this, the first of a series of posts by undergraduate finalists in history at the University of Bristol, Nicholas Barker reflects on a tense moment caught in a seemingly quiet image. The stillness of this photograph masks a brutal … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest blogs, Photograph of the day | Tagged Fuzhou, Navy, Oswald, Sino-French War, war, warship | Comments Off

Gregory Scott on Chinese Religious Spaces in the Historical Photographs of China collections

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Guest

Dr Gregory Adam Scott is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and from September 2017 will take up the post of Lecturer in Chinese Cultural History at the University of Manchester. For the most part, … Continue reading →

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David Bellis on Warren Swire’s third visit to Hong Kong, 1919-1920

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Guest

David Bellis runs Gwulo.com, an online community for anyone interested in Hong Kong’s history. It hosts over 20,000 pages of information, including over 10,000 photographs. This is his third exploration of Warren Swire’s photographs of his periodic visits to Hong … Continue reading →

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Liu Yuanyuan on Fu Bingchang and Beibei Northern Springs

Posted on August 12, 2016 by Guest

In the second of our blogs from participants in the ‘Snapshots in Time’ summer school we hear from Liu Yuanyuan, a second-year PhD student in Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh (Email: s1366067@sms.ed.ac.uk). Her research interests lie in the fields of landscape history … Continue reading →

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