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- Guest blog: Alex Thompson on British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China
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- 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
- ‘Normal’ Lives Led in Abnormal Conditions
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Guest blog: Alex Thompson on British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China
Our latest blog comes from Dr Alex Thompson who studied Chinese at the University of Leeds and in Beijing. He has worked for the British government in China and also as a legal professional in the UK. He obtained his … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs, New books
Tagged British in China, Consular Service, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipal Police, Sikhs
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Andrew Hillier on Bessie Pirkis: A Renaissance Woman in Peking Part 2
Concluding his overview of the recently digitised Pirkis Collection, Dr Andrew Hillier digs further into these 400 cartes de visite to consider what the collection tells us about the legation world and the European presence in Peking more generally during … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Family photography, History of photography in China
Tagged British in China, Cartes des Visite, Chinese Maritime Customs Service, Consular Service, Legation, Robert Hart
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Andrew Hillier on Bessie Pirkis: A Renaissance Woman in Peking
A recent approach to HPC revealed a treasure trove of material relating to life in the British Legation, Peking, in the 1870s and early 1880s, but, as Dr Andrew Hillier explains, making sense of the photographs can be a challenge. … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Family photography, History of photography in China
Tagged British in China, Cartes des Visite, Chinese Maritime Customs Service, Consular Service, Legation, Robert Hart
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‘Normal’ Lives Led in Abnormal Conditions
Dr Andrew Hillier shows how a recently- discovered collection of photographs shines a spotlight on the importance of family in treaty port China in the early twentieth century. On 12 April 1899, Edith Sarah Sharples and Walter James Clennell were … Continue reading
Posted in Family photography, New Collections
Tagged British in China, children, Consular Service, marriage
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