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Author Archives: Guest
Jon Chappell on burning opium in Nanning
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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Tagged Chinese Maritime Customs Service, Hedgeland, Nanning, opium, smoking
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David Woodbridge on Gulangyu and Xiamen
Our latest guest blog comes from David Woodbridge, who received his PhD from the University of Manchester. He was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow at Xiamen University, where he worked with the Gulangyu International Research Centre. He is currently working at … Continue reading
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Tagged Amoy, Bund, Butterfield & Swire, Gulangyu, treaty ports, Xiamen
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David Bellis on Warren Swire's Hong Kong, 1906-1940
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. David recently visited Bristol to discuss his work, and met the team. In this, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dockyard, Hong Kong, Swire
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Donna Brunero on the Maze Collection of Chinese Junk Models
Junks can be spotted in many of the photographs in our collections of harbours, coasts, and rivers. They attracted curious interest from residents and visitors, for they seemed ‘picturesque’, but they were also caught in snapshots simply because they were an integral … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese Maritime Customs Service, harbours, history, junks, museums, ports, rivers, shipping
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Robert Neild on Wuzhou, old and new.
Britain’s commercial forays into China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were not always popular at the local level. More than a hundred towns and cities, large and small, were identified as places of potentially profitable trade by … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Guangxi Province, Royal Navy, treaty ports, West River, Wuchow
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Paul French on The Metropole Hotel, Shanghai
Friend of the blog, author Paul French, ruminates on the Metropole Hotel, which the ‘Historical Photographs of China’ knows well. You can catch more of Paul’s discussions of Shanghai and other histories on his China Rhyming blog. Over at ‘Historic … Continue reading
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Tagged British Steel Archive, construction, Hotel, Shanghai
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Simon Drakeford on rugby in old Shanghai
Our Guest blogger this week is Simon Drakeford, whose book about rugby in Shanghai titled It’s a Rough Game But Good Sport has just been published. More details can be found at www.treatyportsport.com Given the importance and prevalence of the numerous sports played … Continue reading
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Tagged Drakeford, Police, policeman, Poole, rugby, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipal Police, sport
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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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