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Hong Kong to Britain: Transnational Families and Migration, c. 1950-1997
Lamia Lung’s project explores the experiences of Hong Kong diaspora in Britain from 1950 to 1997, examining the interplay between transnational family linkages, social mobility and identity construction. Hong …
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Ambiguous Nationality: British Subjects of Chinese Descent, c.1880-1962
Phyllis Chan’s research looks at the legal nationality of people of Chinese descent born in Hong Kong. Prior to the 1960s, English common law bestowed British subjecthood (which in turn conferred nationality …
on Seeking Home in the Colonial Port: Migration and Settlement of Chinese Workers in Hong Kong, c. 1900-1941
Alex Cheung’s research examines the daily life experience of working-class migrants in early twentieth-century Hong Kong when lower-class Chinese moved across Asian …
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Kelvin Chan is a historian of medicine and the British Empire, with a particular focus on colonial Hong Kong. His PhD research focuses on the history of psychiatry during the mid and late 20th centuries. It examines the transformation of …
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Allan Pang is a historian of Hong Kong, Chinese overseas, and Southeast Asia. His research engages with themes such as history education, popular culture, and decolonisation from a transregional perspective across East and Southeast Asia. He received his BA and …
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Ray Kin-man Yep is a historian specialising in the political economy of China’s reforms, late colonial governance of Hong Kong and contentious politics. He has published in leading peer-reviewed journals and has authored multiple books on Hong Kong studies. Ray …
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Vivian Kong is Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at the University of Bristol. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Vivian received her BA and MPhil from the University of Hong Kong, and completed her PhD at Bristol in 2019. …
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Robert Bickers is a historian of colonialism, in particular of the British Empire and its relations with China and the histories of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and modern Chinese history. He has authored eight books and countless articles on the British …
on One of the Centre’s missions is to nurture a new generation of Hong Kong historians.
An Early Career Scholar Network was created under the Hong Kong History Centre in June 2023. It is intended to help create a community of …
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Welcome to our latest quarterly round up. The staff of the Hong Kong History Centre are based in the complex of converted Victorian-era villas on Woodland Road, just northwest of Bristol’s historic city centre. It’s where our various events are …