A post by me on Visualising China on a find that wasn't a find

This panel discussion on 'Building Collections' is part of the exciting programme accompanying the 'Realms of Memory' exhibition at the Bristol Photo Festival at the The Royal Photographic Society this winter. Taking place at Historians @ Bristol at 3:30-5 on Oct 22 - come join us! Arts Matter Bristol Robert Bickers

Areas we're looking for include: history of any of the following: economy, technology, environment, science or medicine; complementing existing expertise in the Hong Kong History Centre and aligning with areas of international excellence within the department and wider faculty.

We had a great panel discussion yesterday on archive, speaking about the reaching out and gathering story from people, the skewed view of archives, the experience of connecting the people...

A very enjoyable History Salon in the stylish building of Royal Photographic Society@Paintworks last Saturday. Billys inspiring talk on his AI-assisted articulation of the images of Tiger Balm Mansion, followed by Kelvin’s contextualisation of Aw Boom Haw’s business empire.

A reminder: closing date for this post is 13 November. Please get in touch if you have any queries

A new post from YUTONG WANG Yutong Wang on informal settlements and policing in 1930s Shanghai visualisingchina.net/blog/2024/11/1…

In this post YUTONG WANG introduces some of the themes of her newly published Urban History article doi.org/10.1017/S09639…

First History Salon in 2025! Prof. John Carroll will share with us on his current research on “The Metropolis of the East”:  Tourism and Postwar Recovery in Hong Kong. Please register: tktp.as/ENQXPM

Steel was the ultimate prestige product for socialist states. For the transnational story of steel in Maoist China, check out this new multilingual study by Koji Hirata, now available on Cambridge Core. And it has footnotes rather than endnotes!! (big plus) cambridge.org/core/books/mak…

📢Out now on #firstview! Zardas Shuk-man Lee (Saint Mary's College) on 'The Indian National Army and the Making of Indian Nationalism in Japanese-Occupied Malaya' #India #Spiritual #Lectures #AntiColonial 🇮🇳🗨️ 👉Read open access: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Really looking forward to this panel discussion on HK and Modern Global History, featuring a paper by David Clayton of University of York History Department, and followed by responses by Historians @ Bristol 's Su Lin Lewis, Robert Bickers, and Simon Potter!

February theme: Maritime ⚓️🛳️ Island Pastimes: Two Royal Navy men rowing, Weihai (威海), 1932 FH01-066 Hagger, F. Collection hpcbristol.net/visual/FH01-066

If you would like to see more maritime related photographs, why not check out our Hagger, F. Collection? hpcbristol.net/collections/ha…

F. Hagger was an Electrical Artificer in the (British) Royal Navy in the 1930s, serving on H.M.S. Medway on the China Station. The well captioned photographs document the ship's trip out east and stopovers in Weihai, Hong Kong, Yantai and Shanghai ⛵ see hpcbristol.net/collections/ha…

February is a short month and there are lots of fascinating maritime themed photos in our collection. I've selected two running up photos to conclude this month 😁 FH01-176: Sampans in a typhoon shelter, Hong Kong JC01-48: A picturesque view of a junk with a setting sun, HK

Happy to see paperback of my book Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong 1900-45 is out. It's now only £29.99 (before the 20% discount)! Really pleased that the book's received positive reviews on various outlets,eg H-Diplo, AHR & Journal of Social History. #hkhist

My latest Archive pick for China Books Review is Peking Picnic, a 1930s novel of manners featuring evocative descriptions of Old Beijing and timeless observations about what it means to be an expat in China. Also smoking. Lots and lots of smoking.