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 in China, and overseen numerous projects including the Hong Kong History Project and Historical Photographs of China. Robert Bickers is Professor of History at the University of Bristol and is currently working on a new research project covering the history of Hong Kong.
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. Since her PhD she has worked closely with Bristol’s Hong Kong History Project. Her research to-date has focused on Hong Kong and its transnational connections, and she has published on migration, identities, and civil society in interwar Hong Kong. Her first book, Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong 1910-45 (Cambridge University Press), explains the long history of engagement that the multiracial residents of Hong Kong have made with Britishness, and how this affects identity formation in the city today.
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 has held visiting positions in Bristol University, Peking University, University of Macau, Brookings Institution and Academia Sinica. He is also active in public service and has served in the Central Policy Unit, Advisory Council for Environment, and Strategy Subcommittee of Sustainable Development Council in Hong Kong.
Peter E. Hamilton is a historian of modern China and the World with particular interests in Chinese migration, the history of capitalism, and Sino-U.S. Relations. He is the author of Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization (Columbia University Press, 2021), which was recently translated into Chinese as 香港製造: 跨太平洋網絡與全球化新史 (季風帶文化, 2024). Born and raised in Kansas City, Dr. Hamilton received his undergraduate education at Yale University and then taught at The Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Yale-China Teaching Fellow. He then earned his M.A. (2011) and Ph.D. (2015) in History at the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Professor Madeline Y. Hsu. Before joining Bristol, Dr. Hamilton held fellowships and positions at Columbia University in New York, Tsinghua University’s Schwarzman College, Trinity College Dublin, and Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
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 MPhil from the University of Hong Kong and is completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge. His current research examines formal and informal history education across Chinese communities in Hong Kong, Malaya/Malaysia, and Singapore from the 1950s onwards. At the Hong Kong History Centre, Allan is also conducting a project on the history of Chinese popular music across Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History and the Historical Journal.
Samantha Barlow is Centre Manager of Hong Kong History Centre.
Yiuwa Chung is Senior Research Administrator of Hong Kong History Centre.
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 in China, and overseen numerous projects including the Hong Kong History Project and Historical Photographs of China. Robert Bickers is Professor of History at the University of Bristol and is currently working on a new research project covering the history of Hong Kong.
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. Since her PhD she has worked closely with Bristol’s Hong Kong History Project. Her research to-date has focused on Hong Kong and its transnational connections, and she has published on migration, identities, and civil society in interwar Hong Kong. Her first book, Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong 1910-45 (Cambridge University Press), explains the long history of engagement that the multiracial residents of Hong Kong have made with Britishness, and how this affects identity formation in the city today.
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 has held visiting positions in Bristol University, Peking University, University of Macau, Brookings Institution and Academia Sinica. He is also active in public service and has served in the Central Policy Unit, Advisory Council for Environment, and Strategy Subcommittee of Sustainable Development Council in Hong Kong.
Peter E. Hamilton is a historian of modern China and the World with particular interests in Chinese migration, the history of capitalism, and Sino-U.S. Relations. He is the author of Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization (Columbia University Press, 2021), which was recently translated into Chinese as 香港製造: 跨太平洋網絡與全球化新史 (季風帶文化, 2024). Born and raised in Kansas City, Dr. Hamilton received his undergraduate education at Yale University and then taught at The Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Yale-China Teaching Fellow. He then earned his M.A. (2011) and Ph.D. (2015) in History at the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Professor Madeline Y. Hsu. Before joining Bristol, Dr. Hamilton held fellowships and positions at Columbia University in New York, Tsinghua University’s Schwarzman College, Trinity College Dublin, and Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
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 MPhil from the University of Hong Kong and is completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge. His current research examines formal and informal history education across Chinese communities in Hong Kong, Malaya/Malaysia, and Singapore from the 1950s onwards. At the Hong Kong History Centre, Allan is also conducting a project on the history of Chinese popular music across Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History and the Historical Journal.
Samantha Barlow is Centre Manager of Hong Kong History Centre.
Yiuwa Chung is Senior Research Administrator of Hong Kong History Centre.