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Recent Posts
- HPC: A Change of Pace
- Guest blog: Claire Lowrie on ‘Travelling Servants and Moving Images: A Photographic History of Chinese Domestic Workers’
- Guest blog: The Cercle Sportif Français: Elite cosmopolitanism in Shanghai’s Former French Concession.
- Black and white Hong Kong transformed by ‘OldHKinColour’
- The Five Faces of Dr Walter Medhurst, D.D.
- Shanghai City Wall and Gates
- Visualizing Qing Diplomats in the West
- Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collection – part three
- Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collections – part two
- Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collections – part one
- Guest blog: Visualising china in China: life, labour and loss
- About scratching, they were never wrong, the old masters
- Guest blog: Sarah Yu on China’s war against the fly
- A round up of recent posts: internment, a church, a shipwreck, three missing Spanish diplomats, Wuhan
- ‘A Miniature World’: Photographs and Memories of Internment in China
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David Woodbridge on Gulangyu and Xiamen
Our latest guest blog comes from David Woodbridge, who received his PhD from the University of Manchester. He was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow at Xiamen University, where he worked with the Gulangyu International Research Centre. He is currently working at … Continue reading
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Tagged Amoy, Bund, Butterfield & Swire, Gulangyu, treaty ports, Xiamen
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Robert Nield on Wuzhou, old and new.
Britain’s commercial forays into China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were not always popular at the local level. More than a hundred towns and cities, large and small, were identified as places of potentially profitable trade by … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Guangxi Province, Royal Navy, treaty ports, West River, Wuchow
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