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Tag Archives: sport
Guest blog: Nadine Attewell on Refocusing the Gaze: Leisure, Power, and Women’s Work in Interwar Hong Kong
Our guest writer today is Nadine Attewell, Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies atSimon Fraser University, and director of the undergraduate program in Global Asia. She is the author of Better Britons: Reproduction, National Identity, and the Afterlife of Empire (2014), and is currently … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese Maritime Customs Service, gender, Hedgeland, Hong Kong, sport, women
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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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OOOOOlympics!
Here’s five historical images from China, for the Games:
Posted in Photograph of the day
Tagged rowing, shooting, sport, swimming, tennis, weight-lifting
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