Treaty port China and its legacies, 1842-1999
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bristol
Department Name: School of Humanities
Abstract
This project surveys the 'treaty port' world, the network of outposts of foreign residence established in China in the aftermath of the 1842 Sino-British treaty of Nanjing, mostly dismantled after 1943, but surviving down to the 1990s in the shape of the territories of Hong Kong and Macao. The research will be based on the new archives still opening up in China, but also available internationally, collating them to complete a book, 'The Internationalisaiton of China'. The work will be located in, and will contribute to, developing debates revisiting questions of identity and community in the formal and informal world of British and other empire, and historical geographies of colonialism. It will also engage with debates surrounding the internationalisation of China, China's experience of what is still often conceived of uncritically as a century of 'national humiliation', and ambiguous attitudes in China today towards this cosmopolitan past.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Robert Bickers (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Bickers R
(2012)
THE CHALLENGER : HUGH HAMILTON LINDSAY AND THE RISE OF BRITISH ASIA, 1832-1865
in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
BICKERS R
(2013)
INFRASTRUCTURAL GLOBALIZATION: LIGHTING THE CHINA COAST, 1860s-1930s
in The Historical Journal
Bickers Robert
(2011)
The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914
Bickers Robert
(2017)
Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination
Bickers Robert
(2017)
Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination
Kunpeng Na (Author)
(2009)
'For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Sercret Formula of the World's Favourite Drink'.
Robert Bickers (Author)
A first word from Hong Kong: Hugh Hamilton Lindsay in 1829