Captain Plant Chongqing Legacy pollyshihbrandmeyer.com/2022/02/20/cap… Plant's home in Chongqing built in 1905 and preserved as a historical site by the Chinese government.

Sino-Western collaboration at its best. 101 years since the death of Captain Cornell Plant - the man who worked tirelessly with the Chinese to introduce commercial steamships to Upper Yangtze. Paying homage to the man who adopted my Chinese grandmother. #PlantMemorial #Yangtze

My book with Amsterdam Univ Press is out! It details how ethnic Chinese subjects negotiate their identities in an age of contemporary Chinese migration and China’s ascent. Will be grateful if you could recommend it to your libraries! #migration #mobility #race #chinese

In the lead-up to Remembrance Day this post commemorates the role of the Chinese Labour Corps during World War 1 and a rare survival in the collection @McrMuseum part of The University of Manchester: mmhellofuture.wordpress.com/2022/11/10/an-…

Wanted urgently: high resolution photograph of night sky showing Altair and Vega with Milky Way ideally in China about the time of the Double Seventh Festival. For reproduction in exhibition @McrMuseum Brian Cox About Manchester AstroBin.com

To mark #ChineseNewYear we're taking a look at just one of the items that was transferred to the @McrMuseum from the Derbyshire SLS collection for the development of their new Chinese Culture Gallery! ✨Mang-ao jacket, China✨ Manchester Museum reopens 18/02/23 🎉

🎉Manchester China Institute & Creative Manchester are soon launching the 5th annual edition of the #International #Photo #Competition!📸 📂 Open to 🇬🇧🇨🇳 residents 💸 +£,1000 cash prizes 🖼️ Top photos exhibited 👀Can you guess this year's competition #topic? Hint: related to @McrMuseum's reopening!

Kangxi birthday scroll from John Rylands Research Institute and Library with its very own feature wall in the new Lee Kai Hung Chinese culture gallery @McrMuseum

I find it secretly exciting to see the reviews coming in about projects I’m involved with ⁦@McrMuseum. You’re looking at my work but you have no idea 🤭 #museumlife Reopened Manchester Museum gives voice to south Asian diaspora theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/f…

OMG it’s full of stars! Not 2001 but 2023: new Lee Kai Hung Chinese Culture Gallery opens to the public @mcrmuseum part of The University of Manchester with support of Manchester China Institute Saturday 18th February. Looking forward to seeing visitors back in the galleries after our hello future redevelopment.

Does anyone know the origins of this flag and headdress? It was an image from an Upper Yangtze album c. 1900?

🥂 Celebrating the launch of the new #Chinese #Culture #Gallery @McrMuseum with our mutual friend and benefactor, Dr Lee Kai Hung. 👏 Director @ward_esme and her team have done incredible work revamping the museum as an inclusive space, where people and cultures come together.🌏

Early March '23, @McrMuseum team Hawwa, Maya, Fang, Bryan, Michelle, Alex & SAG co-curator Johnny Jay showed 50 Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) postgrad students Chinese Culture/Belonging/South Asia Galleries & Golden Mummies. We even saw talented #RhythmExchange rehearsing! (1/2)

Stranded in HK. It’s 1921. Half British/Half Chinese Adoptive Parents died en route to UK. Q: Knowing what we do now, would you send these 2 orphaned Eurasian girls to family in UK or a guardian in China? A: Butterfield & Swire escorted my grandmother & her sister to China.

🇬🇧🤝🇨🇳 This new gallery in #Manchester featuring hidden Chinese treasures is set to pique the interest of any sinophile in the #UK... @McrMuseum Bryan Manchester China Institute @ward_esme bit.ly/3PrI9mb

All wired and getting ready to tell the Manchester Museum story in the context of our core values of care,imagination and inclusion. I am on a panel discussion comprising of 4 Museum Lab 2023 fellows. We will share provocations on Museums of the future!

Fang Zong being interviewed by Guangdong Province TV in the new Lee Kai Hung Chinese Culture Gallery @McrMuseum The University of Manchester - Really gratifying to see so much interest being taken by Chinese media in the displays which aim to create better understanding between the UK and China.

Novel perspective on Lindow Man - displayed at @McrMuseum in 2008-9 - in today’s Observer Magazine, linking the bog body, discovered 40 years ago next year, with current fashion for grunge, bed rot and duvet days. @EvaWiseman invites us to embrace our innate rottenness.

An unprepossessing site in Athens is ‘one of the most significant places in the history of humanity’. At the Lykeion Aristotle taught Logic, Morality and Physics and Theophrastus wrote the 1st manuals of Botany…making it the origin of the Herbarium Manchester Museum Herbarium Manchester

The wonderful Dr Campbell Price from Manchester Museum is speaking about Ramesses II on BBC radio 4’s You’re Dead to Me RIGHT NOW. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09…