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Introducing Loretta Lou

Loretta Lou is a sociocultural anthropologist with an interest in environment, health, and science, technology & society (STS) studies. She has recently received her DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford, where she now works as a Postdoctoral Researcher


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Introducing Nele Fabian

Nele Fabian is a PhD candidate in Chinese History at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Faculty of East Asian Studies, in Germany with a thesis on the “Social and Cultural Dimensions of Waste Treatment in Chinese Cities in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”.


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Introducing Katon Lee

This week we have Bristol’s very own Katon Lee sharing with us his journey into the fascinating world of suits and tailoring in Hong Kong. If you know anything about suit making/tailoring that you think Katon would be interested to


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HKHP Interviews: John Carroll, HKU

We are delighted to announce that our Blog is starting a new series! In this series, we ask the same set of six questions to scholars with a common interest in Hong Kong from different disciplines.

Our inaugural interviewee is …


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Introducing Nathan Kwan

This week we have Nathan Kwan, who’s in his second year of PhD study with the University of Hong Kong and King’s College, London. Nathan’s telling us in this post how he became interested in Hong Kong history, and


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Introducing Rodney So

Rodney So has just submitted his MPhil thesis to the History Department of the Lingnan University of Hong Kong. In this post, Rodney explains to us how he became interested in Hong Kong’s fight against corruption, and talks about the


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Introducing Gemma O’Neill

Gemma O’Neill started her PhD at the University of Bristol last September. Here’s Gemma telling us why she decided to put her career on hold to find out how manifestations of a political identity of Hong Kong emerged as early


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Introducing Zardas Shuk-man Lee

Our guest writer this week is Zardas Shuk-man Lee, PhD student at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Before her PhD, Zardas completed an MPhil degree with HKU. Her MPhil research was on film censorship in cold war Hong


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Introducing Chris Wemyss

This week we have another Bristolian to be a guest writer. Chris Wemyss is now in his second year of PhD at University of Bristol. Chris has been asked way too many times why he’s interested in Hong Kong (of


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Introducing Bobby Tam

In the spotlight this week is Bobby Tam, an MPhil at HKU’s History Department. Bobby’s research explores a ‘dark’ topic: death in early colonial Hong Kong! Here’s Bobby telling us about his very intriguing research:

During my undergraduate study …


Loretta Lou is a sociocultural anthropologist with an interest in environment, health, and science, technology & society (STS) studies. She has recently received her DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford, where she now works as a Postdoctoral Researcher


Nele Fabian is a PhD candidate in Chinese History at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Faculty of East Asian Studies, in Germany with a thesis on the “Social and Cultural Dimensions of Waste Treatment in Chinese Cities in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”.


This week we have Bristol’s very own Katon Lee sharing with us his journey into the fascinating world of suits and tailoring in Hong Kong. If you know anything about suit making/tailoring that you think Katon would be interested to


We are delighted to announce that our Blog is starting a new series! In this series, we ask the same set of six questions to scholars with a common interest in Hong Kong from different disciplines.

Our inaugural interviewee is …


This week we have Nathan Kwan, who’s in his second year of PhD study with the University of Hong Kong and King’s College, London. Nathan’s telling us in this post how he became interested in Hong Kong history, and


Rodney So has just submitted his MPhil thesis to the History Department of the Lingnan University of Hong Kong. In this post, Rodney explains to us how he became interested in Hong Kong’s fight against corruption, and talks about the


Gemma O’Neill started her PhD at the University of Bristol last September. Here’s Gemma telling us why she decided to put her career on hold to find out how manifestations of a political identity of Hong Kong emerged as early


Our guest writer this week is Zardas Shuk-man Lee, PhD student at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Before her PhD, Zardas completed an MPhil degree with HKU. Her MPhil research was on film censorship in cold war Hong


This week we have another Bristolian to be a guest writer. Chris Wemyss is now in his second year of PhD at University of Bristol. Chris has been asked way too many times why he’s interested in Hong Kong (of


In the spotlight this week is Bobby Tam, an MPhil at HKU’s History Department. Bobby’s research explores a ‘dark’ topic: death in early colonial Hong Kong! Here’s Bobby telling us about his very intriguing research:

During my undergraduate study …