Author Archives: Guest

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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Josepha Richard on Documenting gardens of China through early photographs

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Guest

Josepha Richard is a PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield, specialised in Modern China and the gardens of 19th century Guangzhou. She holds an MA in Chinese studies (Leeds University) and Art History (Sorbonne Paris IV) and was recently … Continue reading →

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Report on 'Snapshots in Time: Photography and History in Modern China'

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Guest

Dr Sabrina Fairchild, who composed this blog, and who organised this workshop, completed her PhD at the University of Bristol in Spring 2016 with a thesis on ‘Fuzhou and Global Empires: Understanding the Treaty Ports of Modern China, 1850-1937.’ On … Continue reading →

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Talk: A Day at the Races: Shanghai, 1941

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Guest

Please join us for Professor James Carter’s discussion of photograph and its uses in studying modern Chinese history. Professor Carter will provide the keynote address of our postgraduate workshop, ‘Snapshots in Time: Photography and History in Modern China’, which is … Continue reading →

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Jon Chappell on burning opium in Nanning

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Guest

A guest blog from Jon Chappell, who recently secured his PhD at the University of Bristol, on ‘Foreign Intervention In China: Empires And International Law In The Taiping Civil War, 1853-64’. Jon is currently working on a British Inter-university China Centre … Continue reading →

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