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Recent Posts
- Guest blog: Yutong Wang on Policing urban ‘nuisance’: slum clearances in ‘semi-colonial’ Shanghai in the 1930s
- Some that got away
- Guest blog: Alex Thompson on British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China
- Guest blog: Andrew Hillier on Armistice Day and its Aftermath in Treaty Port China
- Guest blog: Kaori Abe on the Abe Naoko Collection –– a glimpse of a Japanese family’s life in Shanghai, c.1927-c.1934
- Guest blog: Ghassan Moazzin on Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China
- Guest blog: Helena Lopes on A connected place: Macau in the Second World War
- Andrew Hillier on Bessie Pirkis: A Renaissance Woman in Peking Part 2
- Guest blog: Rachel Meller on Uncovering the story of Shanghai’s Second World War Jewish refugees
- Andrew Hillier on Bessie Pirkis: A Renaissance Woman in Peking
- Need and opportunity: the new HPC website
- Everything’s changed, but everything’s still the same: HPC update
- Location/Dislocation – Admiral Keppel, the Chinese Buddha at Sandringham and three key photographs
- The Forbidden City at War: Images of the Wartime Evacuation of the Imperial Art Collections
- A name, a photograph, and a history of global connections
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Linking the Knowledge Base to External Content
The Visualising China demo now links to all the images, plus some metadata, in the Historical Photographs of China collection (which was first put online at http://chp.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/). One of the goals in this project is to allow end-users (researchers and … Continue reading
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Developing the branding concept for Visualising China
To complement the project developer team we have web designer Ben Hayes on board to help us develop our designs for the Visualising China tool. Stuart Church, our user experience consultant, gave invaluable help earlier in the project to develop … Continue reading
Early Demo and Discussion with Steering Committee Members
An excellent meeting took place yesterday, bringing together key players in the Visualising China project, including our mentor, Grant Young from the University of Cambridge. Grant is providing a very useful “critical friend” role on the project. Before Christmas the … Continue reading
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Visualising China at the JISC eContent Programme Meeting
Last month Simon Price and Nikki Rogers attended the first Programme Meeting for the 11 new projects funded by the new JISC e-Content Programme. We had several useful discussions with other projects such as those who like Visualising China are … Continue reading
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MockUp of the planned VisualisingChina online tool
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Visualising China – Cross-searching Photographs from British Collections in a Web 2.0 context
The Visualising China project starts next month (September 2009) and runs into 2011. It is a collaboration between the I.L.R.T at the University of Bristol and the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol, building on recent digitisation … Continue reading
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