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Category: Historiography

On Henry Lethbridge (Part 2)

Administrator on 20 November 201522 December 2015

By Vaudine England

I’m still hoping to be proven wrong in claiming that just two serious articles were published in the 20th century on the subject of Eurasians in Hong Kong. The first was Sir Challoner Grenville Alabaster’s ‘Observations on …

Categories: Historiography, Vaudine England's Blog Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Empire, Ethnicity, Gender, Grenville Alabaster, Henry Lethbridge, Mixed Marriage

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

Administrator on 13 November 201522 December 2015

By Vaudine England

In my last blog I expressed a hope to be proven wrong in claiming that just two serious articles were published on the subject of Eurasians in Hong Kong in the 20th century. The first was Sir …

Categories: Historiography, Vaudine England's Blog Tags: 1960s, Colonialism, Empire, Ethnicity, Grenville Alabaster, Henry Lethbridge, Sociology

On Grenville Alabaster’s ‘Some Observations on Race Mixture in Hong Kong’

Administrator on 6 November 201522 December 2015

By Vaudine England

Just two serious articles were published on the subject of Eurasians in Hong Kong in the 20th century. A bold claim – and one on which I’d be delighted to be proven wrong!

The first came in …

Categories: Historiography, Vaudine England's Blog Tags: 20th Century, British Empire, Empire, Ethnicity, Grenville Alabaster, World War Two

East Meets West: Where Do Eurasians Come From?

Administrator on 11 September 201513 September 2015

By Vaudine England

For a place which has so often been so eulogised for being such a marvellous meeting of East and West, the detail of the most intimate connections between east and west is surprisingly uncovered. Fiction has largely …

Categories: Historiography, Vaudine England's Blog Tags: British Empire, Empire, Fiction, Memoirs, Race

Hong Kong History Project – First Acts

Administrator on 20 July 201513 September 2015

By Vaudine England

The Hong Kong History Project, born in January 2015, has earmarked PhD funding and support to a young student from Hong Kong, Vivian Kong Wai-yan, who will take up her researches into the pre-war British community of …

Categories: Historiography, Vaudine England's Blog, Workshops Tags: University of Bristol, University of Hong Kong

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