Tag Archives: sport

Guest blog: Nadine Attewell on Refocusing the Gaze: Leisure, Power, and Women’s Work in Interwar Hong Kong

Posted on August 2, 2021 by Guest

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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Simon Drakeford on rugby in old Shanghai

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Guest

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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OOOOOlympics!

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

Here’s five historical images from China, for the Games:  

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