Tag Archives: diplomacy

Guest blog: Yorgos Moraitis on Robert Hart and his Loyalties, Neither Chinese Nor British

Posted on October 19, 2025 by Guest

Robert Hart is a key figure in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Chinese history, best known for building and expanding the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs (CIMC) during his nearly fifty years as Inspector General (1863-1910). Beyond overseeing tax collection on … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Qing Diplomats in the West

Posted on October 23, 2020 by Guest

Jenny Huangfu Day is the author of Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China(Cambridge University Press, 2018) and the editor of Letters from the Qing Legation in London [Wanqing Zhuying shiguan zhaohui dang’an] (Shanghai guji … Continue reading →

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Visualising China in a global war

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Helena F. S. Lopes

Dr Helena F. S. Lopes is currently a Senior Research Associate in the History of Hong Kong and a Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at the University of Bristol. She holds a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford. … Continue reading →

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Photographs of photographers: Warren Swire

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

Photographs of photographers with their cameras are not often found in their own albums of photographs.   So it was good to find a snap of Warren Swire with an unidentified woman wearing jodhpurs, taken by Ann Phipps (ph04-045).   Ann was … Continue reading →

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