Vaudine England's Blog

Lives Lived, Choices Made

By Vaudine England

It’s all very well having grand theories about Race and Empire and Gender and Class, but what of actual…


Historiography Vaudine England's Blog

Hong Kong Studies and Frank Dikotter’s Work on Race

By Vaudine England

If talking about race has been hard, how much harder has it been to accept that racism in statecraft has…


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Race and Hong Kong Studies

By Vaudine England

The thought behind a lot of these ruminations in this blog is that the subject of race in empire, specifically…


Historiography Uncategorized

Hong Kong Material in the FCO’s ‘Secret Archive’: Some Analysis

There are a fair few files relating to the history of Hong Kong among the large collection of Foreign and Colonial Office …


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In Honour of Dan Waters, 1920-2016

By Vaudine England

Since the death of Dan Waters, aged 95, in Hong Kong on 27 January this year, he has rightly been lauded …


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How and Why a Fresh Start to the Study of Hong Kong History Is Being Made

By Vaudine England.

A dear friend and colleague from a past journalistic life — educated, erudite and well-informed …


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Lethbridge Onward

By Vaudine England

Lethbridge’s article, ‘The Yellow Fever’, had concluded with an image of how the different,…


Studentships

Introducing Vivian Kong

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Vivian Kong moved to Bristol to take up the Hong Kong History Project Doctoral Studentship …


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On Henry Lethbridge (Part 2)

By Vaudine England

I’m still hoping to be proven wrong in claiming that just two serious articles were published in the…


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On Henry Lethbridge’s ‘The Yellow Fever’ & ‘The Best of Both Worlds?’

By Vaudine England

In my last blog I expressed a hope to be proven wrong in claiming that just two serious articles were published…


By Vaudine England

It’s all very well having grand theories about Race and Empire and Gender and Class, but what of actual…


By Vaudine England

If talking about race has been hard, how much harder has it been to accept that racism in statecraft has…


By Vaudine England

The thought behind a lot of these ruminations in this blog is that the subject of race in empire, specifically…


There are a fair few files relating to the history of Hong Kong among the large collection of Foreign and Colonial Office …


By Vaudine England

Since the death of Dan Waters, aged 95, in Hong Kong on 27 January this year, he has rightly been lauded …


By Vaudine England.

A dear friend and colleague from a past journalistic life — educated, erudite and well-informed …


By Vaudine England

Lethbridge’s article, ‘The Yellow Fever’, had concluded with an image of how the different,…


Born and raised in Hong Kong, Vivian Kong moved to Bristol to take up the Hong Kong History Project Doctoral Studentship …


By Vaudine England

I’m still hoping to be proven wrong in claiming that just two serious articles were published in the…


By Vaudine England

In my last blog I expressed a hope to be proven wrong in claiming that just two serious articles were published…